Japan first (World first?) social game magazine "Appli-Style"

On December 2nd, Japan first social game magazine "Appli-Style"[J] has been released. Costs 680 JPY (about 8USD). It's sold at bookstores and convenience stores.

The main contents are japanese social games of mixi, MobageTown Yahoo! Mobage, GREE, and Colopl(Location-based mobile social game) introductions. The most are social games for Japanese mobile.

The volume of contents are almost the same as the console game magazine! And I thought in this way. The movement of open platform in Japan was delayed from foreign countries one year or more. mixi became a social platform in August, 2009.After that, social game magazine is released in this way. What such a lot of social games can play "only in Japanese mobile" is abnormal.

If all of these Japanese social games become multilingual and can play with Facebook or smartphone, revolution will happen for a social game business.

Bungaku flea market

I went to coterie magazine spot sale "Bungaku flea market"[J] the day before yesterday. "Bungaku flea market" is n event of literature literary coterie magazine. A lot of amateur writers were selling a handmade book. It was so fun! Interestingly, there were a lot of iPad, iPhone and Kindle! :) It is the first time to see such a lot of gadgets in the coterie magazine spot sale event! :)

Japanese coterie magazine writers are doing the attempt to make coterie magazine by using Twitter. It's interesting.Moreover, a lot of Japanese coterie magazine writers make works e-book and are selling it.

This might still be movement only of the novel coterie magazine. But, it might be infected with the comic coterie magazine at once.

Visual-Kei portal site "Ame-visu"

アメびじゅ｜ビジュアル系ならAmeba Visual via kwout

Cyber Agent opened Japanese Visual-Kei portal site "Ame-visu"(omit "Ameba Visual").

What is Visual-kei? (via Wiki)

CyberAgent might be known as a developer of AmebaPigg and AmebaPico in foreign countries. But they are originally Internet advertising agencies, and administer the maximum blog portal site "Ameba Blog" in Japan.

You can check Japanese Visual-Kei artist's official blog, photos, news, AmebaPigg avatar and virtual goods in "Ame-visu".

You can change the site to an English by the Google translation. But it is not correct. (Even if anyone uses any kind of translation site, it is impossible to translate Japanese precisely...)

GANBATTE!

AWESOME! Japanese motion device!

I discovered a splendid motion device on Web today.

Copyright © 2009-2010 REAL All rights reserved.

http://www.itazura.biz/virtual.html

I's sex game motion device.

*User's movement and CG synchronize.
*The hole inside sensor senses speed and depth.

This is announced before this year. I think that this is the invention that is more splendid than Kinect.

Big news for Second Life users in Japan!

It's big news! Second Life documentary film "LIFE 2.0" is introduced by Japanese TV program "松嶋x町山の未公開映画を観るTV(Matsushima & Machiyama's TV which watches unscreened movies in japan)" on December 3rd & 10th 23:30~!


This TV program introduces excellent movies which is not screened in Japan. Perhaps, this is the first time this movie is introduced by the television program of the ground wave.

There are a lot of people who still say "Second Life is suck!" in Japan. I wish this program to change the such recognition.

Bar android becomes the topic!

Last week, I wrote the article of "Bar android" that opened in Shibuya,Tokyo. It became a topic very much!

Bar Android a Tokyo(Italian)
http://gadget.wired.it/blog/otaku_news/tokyo-bar-android.html

L’Android Bar existe, il est à Tokyo(French)
http://www.frandroid.com/48756/landroid-bar-existe-il-est-a-tokyo/

Bar Android(Thai)
http://networkedblogs.com/aUdc4

Japanese media
ASIAJIN(*My article!)
http://asiajin.com/blog/2010/11/17/the-bar-android-opens-in-shibuya-tokyo/

SHIBUYA KEIZAI SHIMBUN
http://www.shibukei.com/headline.php/7338/

ITPro
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20101124/354484/

Therefore, a lot of people gathered in Bar android this week. Bartenders seemed to be very busy!

This is new Android mobile "IS03" of  KDDI au. It's not yet release, but a samples were offered to Bar android in particular.
Bar android raises companies developing Android mobile. About the Android mobile of your company, do you want to hear an opinion of developers?

Bar android Twitter
http://twitter.com/barandroid

Bar android Facebook fanpage
http://www.facebook.com/barandroid

These are written only in Japanese at present, but English support is available.

Coba-U in Second Life

Tonight, Japanese singer Coba-U broadcast the Ustream program while logging in Second Life.

See Also:
シンガーCoba-U（コバユー）さんのUstream番組「オトナコドモラボ」にてSecond Life特集
レゲエ・ドール「Coba-U」がセカンドライフに挑戦


Coba-U administers the Ustream program which is specialized in her on every Wednesday. And she seems to have known Second Life recently. Then, she introduced the Inworld of Second Life by the program today.


Coba-U area in Second Life.








It's public viewing! :)




Let's play all!






Coba-U's Second Life avatar


There were some users who saw Ustream and logged in Second Life.