Japanese social gaming giant Gree has shuttered its Osaka office, resulting in the loss of 200 jobs.
]]>X-Men: Battle of the Atom is the "next-generation card game" coming to mobile courtesy of Marvel and GREE.
]]>International mobile and social publisher Gree has closed its UK development and business teams, issuing a statement casting serious doubt on the Amsterdam office's future.
]]>GREE - one of Japan's leading social and mobile developers - has released its third-quarter financial results. For the quarter ended March 31, the company's profit has slumped, prompting a change in strategy moving forward.
]]>Social and mobile publisher Gree has confirmed a series of lay-offs, with reports suggesting as many as 30 staff were made redundant.
]]>Mobile publisher Gree and Yahoo Japan have teamed up to open a new developer of social and mobile games, GxYz Inc. GamesIndustry reports the two companies began laying the foundation for the new developer in November 2012, and have fronted ¥200 million ($2.1 million) in capital. Gree holds 51% of shares in the new company, while Yahoo holds the remaining 49%. The board of directors is composed of two members of each company, and Gree's Tomoyuki Isaka will act as CEO. Social network provider Gree is a major force in mobile gaming in Japan and is expanding operations in the west. It's responsible for Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops.
]]>GREE knows mobile. After all it makes a lot of money in the sector worldwide, and SVP of studio operations Anil Dharni has stated that the company isn't the only one reaping the rewards of the sector. He has stated in an interview that top mobile studios are raking in four times as much as it did this time last year.
]]>GDC organizers have announced more programming and design sessions for GDC 2013. The first focuses on programming AI and NPCs in Hitman: Absolution, and will be hosted by IO Interactive's Mika Vehkala and Maurizio De Pascale. A design track from BioWare's Dave Feltham will discuss bringing narrative to Mass Effect 3, and finally, GREE's Aaron Bannin will host a postmortem on Kingdom Age where he will discuss the use of data for "numbers, analytics," and more. GDC 2013 runs March 25-29 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
]]>Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops developer GREE has announced fantasy RPG Knights & Dragons: Rise of the Dark Prince for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It's out now and completely free. Get more details, download links and screens below.
]]>Mobile giant GREE closed game achievement and social network OpenFeint last month and with it, has let go of 25 staff, and forced developers using the tool to look elsewhere for an alternative. Get the details below.
]]>OpenFeint - the smartphone equivalent of Xbox Live - is to close in December according to current owner GREE. Developers currently using the service in their games will have to look elsewhere for achievement, friends list and leaderboard support. For the record, that's a lot of games.
]]>Final Fantasy x GREE and The World Ends With You LIVE Remix are heading to iOS devices in Japan. The first game is a card battler that pulls together the span of Final Fantasy history, while the latter is a touch screen battle game that features music fromt the DS original.
]]>GREE has added four North American indie developers to its mobile social platform.
]]>Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops developer GREE delivered the keynote address at this year's Tokyo Games Show, along with the message that the lines between PCs and smartphones are blurring, before laying out its vision of the industry's future.
]]>Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops is the new sneaking & card battling smartphone game from GREE that sees players battling it out using cards from across the game's history. Watch Snake and Ocelot do battle in Konami's official TGS trailer.
]]>Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops has been trailered by Konami and developer GREE, showing off new gameplay that sees Metal Gear Solid 3's Snake sneaking around the Russian jungle, and Peace Walker's older Snake surprising guards in South America. There are also card battle game elements that span the entire Metal Gear Solid series.
]]>Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops developer GREE is to deliver the opening keynote session of TGS 2012.
]]>Kojima productions gave a first look at the next Metal Gear game during the franchise's 25th anniversary celebrations - Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes.
]]>The Entertainment Software Association has announced Gree, the Japanese mobile/social developer, MadCatz, and online Chinese game company NetDragon Websoft Inc.have joined the trade body's roster. This brings its total members to 34. "These new members are leaders in the breathtaking number of business models that exist to excite and reach today's entertainment consumers," said Michael D. Gallagher, president and CEO of ESA. "We look forward to learning from them, and protecting their future success in critical areas such as e-commerce regulation, privacy, and intellectual property protection." Thanks, GI International.
]]>Japanese social firm Gree's going to make an appearance at gamescom, GI's reporting.
]]>Although DeNA and ngmoco might seem like Gree's obvious rivals as the Japanese mobile publisher makes a push for the west, International CEO Naoki Aoyagi has other competitors in mind.
]]>Following an investigation, the Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency has issued a ban on "kompu gacha" style online social games.
]]>The Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency is cracking down on free to play social games which offer random rewards in return for micro-payments.
]]>GREE has bought iOS developer Funzio for $210 million. The studio said it shared the vision of the Japanese social games company in that it can exist in "a mobile world where people can play together wherever and whenever they are,” according to Funzio CEO Ken Chiu.
]]>Ubisoft's announced it's to bring an all-new Assassin's Creed installment to social gaming platform Gree in Q2 this year. The game, which will come in English and Japanese with "other languages to follow," will be "a new and innovative social gaming experience for the franchise."
]]>GREE is setting up shop in San Francisco in order to facilitate the launch of its global platform during Q4 this year. The Japanese network operator, and social and mobile game developer, plans to use the time before launch to build relationships with local developers and publishers. Titles are to be offered through the firm's existing service, along with that of OpenFeint - its most recent acquisition - and the first two will go live next month. It's Japanese service boasts 190 million registered users, and it expects to its fiscal year-end sale to reach $2.1-$2.5 billion. Currently, the service offers over 7,500 games from more than 20,000 partners, and has its own internal development studio. Other offices for the firm are located in Beijing, Dubai, London, Sao Paulo, and Seoul. Thanks, Gamasutra.
]]>Siliconera has gotten to the bottom of a Square trademark it uncovered this morning called Rebellion Overdrive, and turns out its a new episode for the Japanese, GREE social game, Knights of the Crystals. The North American version on Facebook ends on February 29. So much for hoping it was one of Square's Unreal Engine 3 games.
]]>Keji Inafune has announced his first game since leaving Capcom, and it's called The Island of Dr. Momo. The game was announced during a press conference held by GREE, Index, Atlus' parent company and Inafune's Comcept. The Island of Dr. Momo is a social game for GREE mobile's social gaming service. You play as mad scientist who loves cute things, and so you combine critters together to "make the world's cutest thing." The game will be playable on iOS and Android devices this fall, and will make use of microtransactions like most GREE games. Thanks, Andriasang.
]]>While a lot of folks feel they've been kicked in the neck over this PSN business and have seen loads of reports on the situation, other stuff happened in the world of games as well. Below, you will find that other stuff.
]]>A collection of dainty amuse-bouche dishes to warm you up to the meat of the news.
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