LINE sells a charity sticker for typhoon damage of Philippines

LINE sells a charity sticker for typhoon damage of Philippines in global region. The patterns are eight kinds, and the price is 100yen for JPY(It's about 1USD. It should be sold at a similar price level in other countries). LINE donates all sales except the settlement fee to the Philippine Red Cross. The sale period until December 31. At first they sell this with an Android version, and begin it in iOS version in a few days, too.

Angry Birds is not angry in Puzzle and Dragons

GungHo showed part of images about collaboration of Puzzle & Dragons and Angry Birds. They start a collaboration event from next week.

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News Flash:Japanese mobile game Puzzle & Dragons cooperates with Angry Birds

They are never angry! Rather they laugh. Cute :)

When Puzzle & Dragons performs collaboration with other contents, some design arrangement is added to it usually. For example, characters of Clash of Clans were drawn cutely again.

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Angry Birds did not have it, but they became the smile. Probably, because the character of the angry face is not accepted in Japan.

Escape from Japan: GungHo may move the head office to Finland

According to The Wall Street Journal JP ver, Taizo Son, the chairperson of Japanese game company GungHo(Developer of Puzzle and Dragons) is going to let their head office move to Finland. They have already pushed forward preliminary investigation about it.
GungHo and SoftBank purchased Supercell last month, and Collaboration of Puzzle and Dragons and Angry Birds begins from next week.

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News Flash:Japanese mobile game Puzzle & Dragons cooperates with Angry Birds

However, the reason is not only them. They pay attention to the lower corporation tax in Finland and excellent entrepreneurship.

This is the fact that is not known very much, Japanese IT industry, contents industry and game industry do not receive help from the Japanese Government at all. Rather the Japanese Government are causing trouble for them. Politicians smash up innovation by regulation. "Envy is the companion of honour". Most of the Japanese politicians are stupid old men(Japan slips further to 105th in gender equality ranking. Ha! :P). They can understand neither the technology nor the POP culture nor the innovation. It is “Complete Gacha” (Kompu Gacha) to be new in memory in their worthless regulation.

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A lot of Japanese mobile social game companies lost profit for this worthless regulation. Though a mobile social game is business growing up most in Japan, politicians cannot understand it.

Then why do Japanese companies not run away from Japan? There are many reasons, but the first problem is language ability. Japanese people are poor at a foreign language somehow. However, there is no reason why we must shut ourself up in Japan if we can overcome even it first of all.

I support examination of GungHo.

News Flash: Nintendo acquired stocks of Dwango which ran video sharing site Nico Nico Dougaico Douga

Nintendo does not yet go into social games and mobile games at all. In the first place, they seem to be weak in "Social". Probably because of it, the profit of Nintendo gradually descends, and the deficits increase, too. Therefore they announced this morning that they acquired 612,200 stocks of Dwango. It is equivalent to 1.5% of issued stock total number.

Dwango is known as a company running Japanese popular video sharing site Nico Nico Douga. Their business may not have the connection. However, they make collaboration many times so far. Nintendo broadcasts original program Nintendo direct in Nico Niko live streaming, became a sponsor of Dwango's real event Nico Nico super meeting2(ニコニコ超会議2), and provided free video software for Wii U Nico Nico. They each bring each other's business know-how and will plan further reinforcement of relationships in future.

SEGA's mobile game "Puyo puyo Quest" became the arcade game

SEGA released an arcade version of their popular mobile game Puyo puyo Quest. This is the game apps that added the element of the RPG to their popular puzzle game Puyo puyo...well, It's a method of puzzle & Dragons. However, it makes a big hit in Japan and has already broken through 5 million downloading.

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They develop this in not only the smartphone but also the game arcade.

An interesting point of this is to be F2P though it is an arcade game. This is the first time that an arcade machine of F2P is released in Japan. Players play a game while using game point "Genki(Stamina)" in Puyo puyo Quest arcade. Genki is restored by progress at time, but players must charge coins when they play in succession. Furthermore, this copes with an online play, players can play a game with other players in Japan. This is a system of the social game definitely. SEGA seems to want to scatter Puyo puyo Quest to the people who do not have a smartphone(For example, small children and elderly people).

In addition, KONAMI did the thing like this in Doragon Collection, too.

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