Slipknot cooperates with a Japanese smartphone game "Legion War"

I'm a huge metal fan. So, this news is very exciting. Ateam, the Japanese mobile social game developer cooperates with American metal band Slipknot in their latest "Legion War". They show the trailer movie which used Slipknot's "Sulfur" in theme song. It is very cool!


Legion War is the real-time battle RPG which assumed ancient civilization a motif. Players organize a party with a character and a monster and battle with other guild every day. They release it in App Store and Google Play of the whole world as well as Japan on August 8.

In addition, Ateam is known as a developer of popular smartphone game "Dark Summoner". It succeeds abroad than Japan(In particular, North America and Korea), and has already broken through 7 million downloading.

Dragon Quest becomes the Web browser game at last

Square Enix and Yahoo! JAPAN announced that they released a Web browser game of the Dragon Quest series in the end of this month. This is the first time that Dragon Quest becomes the Web browser game of F2P.

The title is "Dragon Quest: Monster Parade". General director is Yuji Horii, Character designer is Akira Toriyama, and BGM composer is Koichi Sugiyama. It is right Dragon Quest! The game system has not been yet revealed. However, they announce the game genre called "the real-time adventure parade". The player forms a carriage corps and has an adventure. Yahoo! Japan ID is necessary to play.

[Info] I go to Casual Connect USA held in , so the update of articles is delayed

I go to sonference event Casual Connect USA held in San Francisco, CA in July 30 - August 1, so the update of articles is delayed. In addition, I give priority to the update of the report articles of Casual Connect USA after having come back to Japan. Because I may not place press release. Sorry!
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SEGA does a haiku for a game

Haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry. It is comprised of words of the 5 sound/7 sound/5 sound, and got close to many people. However, most of modern youths do not assume it a hobby. Therefore SEGA started a project to make a haiku a game "project 575".

They promote the making of haiku of the youth by this project. For the first, they released game application UTA YOMI 575 for iOS.

UTA YOMI 575 is the apps that is made to speak a haiku by characters of the high school girl. Characters are 3D, voices are VOCALOID. Furthermore, users can post the movie of characters to the Japanese video sharing site Nico Nico Douga. This is new style of UGC.



SEGA releases music, manga, novel, anime, PlayStation Vita games and carries out cross-media development from now on.

Let's dance Bon festival dance with avatar at pedestrian scramble of Shibuya

pedestrian scramble of Shibuya is one of the sightseeing spots of Tokyo. Japanese tech giant Cyber Agent carries out an interesting project using their virtual world Ameba Pigg there.

It is Bon festival dance with avatars on huge screen.

Bon festival is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors, and Bon festival dance is a dance to cheer up souls of dead people. These are still summer big events in current Japan. Ameba Pigg reproduces this in real Shibuya.

When Ameba users input own Ameba ID in this page (PC/Smartphone). Their avatars come up on huge screen of Shibuya and dancing. Very simple! This event is held until July 31.

It is a schedule of the huge screen.

11:10～11:19/11:40～11:49/12:10～12:19/12:40～12:49/14:10～14:19/14:40～14:49
15:10～15:19/15:40～15:49/16:10～16:19/16:40～16:49/17:10～17:19/17:40～17:49