KONAMI's Dating Sim "Love Plus" becomes the social game in GREE

Love Plus series is KONAMI's popular Dating Sim for Nintendo DS. It attracted many Japanese men. Because virtual girlfriends were too attractive, there was the person who married her.



However, this becomes the social game in GREE. This is "Love Plus Collection".

Love Plus Collection is a game to simulate high school life like DS version. Users love a virtual girlfriend in high school life. The change of the season in the game links a real life season in Japan, and time-limited events about various seasons are held. It is most important that virtual girlfriend increased.

The choices of users increased, too. All of their character and data are different. Of course the scenario diverges what kind of action users take. If this is released, Japanese men who are in love with virtual girlfriend will increase than before.

Japanese social game developer Altplus and GREE performed a capital tie-up

Japanese social game developer Altplus and GREE performed a capital and business alliance for mobile contents development and established joint venture "Altdash". They are going to offer the first game in May and release 4 titles including this by the end of the year.

Altplus provides mobile social RPG "Bahamut Brave" in GREE and has more than 1 million users.

This is the popular game that won the grand prix in annual award "GREE Platform Award 2012". They were listed on the Stock Exchange in Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers on March 14.

In addition, they are going to release a mobile social game about popular Manga/Anime "Saint Seiya" in GREE.

They are very busy this year.

Japan overflows with "milestone" news

This week, Japan has a lot of big news of the social game.

Social RPG for smartphones "Puzzle & Dragons" of Gungho online entertainment broke through 10 million downloading at last. Because this made a hit, their stock prices rise. The stock prices of Gungho are more expensive now than GREE and Mobage.

Virtual world "LINE Play" of the japanese popular messaging apps for smartphones LINE broke through 6 million users. They released a global version at the end of last month. Then they got 2 million new users in two weeks.
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And NHN Japan announced that the total downloading number of game apps offering on a game platform of LINE "LINE GAME" exceeded 100 million. It is the 7th month in this month since LINE GAME starts. Game apps of LINE GAME are always located in the high rank of the free game ranking of JP App Store. It is LINE POP to be the most popular.

The tie-up apps of Domino's Pizza Japan and Hatsune Miku makes a hit, and the business is brisk

I wrote about Domino's Pizza Japan tie-up with Hatsune Miku.

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According to ITmedia, it gets big success.

The apps became the reputation, and pizzas sold at their greater-than-expected speed. Therefore the stock of packages of the  Hatsune Miku are short. The packages of the pizza function as AR marker. However, there were a lot of fans who collected them because illustrations were cute. Domino's Pizza Japan increases packages of the pizza at full speed now.

Tie-up special site

Earthquake, radioactivity and Nameko mushroom

Today, March 11 is the day that big earthquake and tsunami attacked Tohoku, Japan. 2 years passed from that. However, unfortunately only some restoration advance. The big reason is radioactive contamination.

I do agriculture with a family now in Akita(There is a part of Tohoku). Last week, I heard an interesting story by a seminar of the farm products processing. After 2011 Aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the farm products, the fish, meat of Tohoku were not able to sell at all. Of course the reason is radioactivity. Actually, those most were harmless, but  the people were confused and had fear. Therefore, the economy of Tohoku was delayed. However, only the sales of the Nameko mushroom were restored by awful force in a short term.

What happened in Nameko mushroom? Well, Nameko Saibai Kit(Mushroom Garden　a.k.a. Funghi Gardening Kit) was released in June, 2011.

It becomes popular in an instant, and it becomes the most popular mobile game now in Japan. And the people bought the real Nameko mushroom with Nameko goods(The Nameko mushroom is used as an ingredient of the miso soup).

Most of farming families of Tohoku are elderly people, so they do not know a lot about smartphone apps. They wondered it why only the sales of the Nameko mushroom were restored. However, they noticed it because popularity of Nameko spread among Japan and their grandchildren bought Nameko goods.

This is a small event in agriculture of Tohoku, but this has big significance. The game may occasionally save people.