Filed under: Farmville Known around the world for their hit social game FarmVille , Zynga 's flagship property has made the journey across the Pacific to Japan. The second Zynga game to be...
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No Heroes Allowed: strategia e divertimento su PSN
Avete presente il titolo che uscì a Dicembre 2007 in Giappone (per poi approdare in Europa soltanto due anni dopo) Why Did I Do To Deserve This My Lord?! , un titolo di ...
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Godfinger developer Ngmoco to create mobile gaming social network
Filed under: Other Games So, that's what they've been up to. San Francisco-based mobile games developer Ngmoco revealed today its first major project since being bought out by Japanese social gaming company DeNA...
GT5 Release Announcement
Good Afternoon Everybody ‘Chotto Matte’ is a Japanese expression for ‘wait a little’ and it’s a phrase that we have had to express a few times in relation to Gran Turismo over the...
Social City: Historic Downtown Buildings add that ‘Old City’ charm
Filed under: Social City While you might have the sprawling metropolis of your dreams in Social City , have you stopped to think about what might have made your city great ?
Bejeweled-creator Popcap to launch social games hub in Japan, U.S. release coming?
Filed under: Bejeweled Blitz , Other Games Seattle-based PopCap , or the Zynga of casual games as I like to call them, is launching a social gaming hub in Japan called Pop Tower...
Social City Update honors Japanese architecture of all ages
Filed under: Social City The Japanese have been behind some of mankind's weirdest-but-greatest innovations such as creepily realistic robotics, high-speed public transportation and some of the most hilarious YouTube videos in existence. But...
GRANDIA Is Coming To PlayStation Store
Hello PlayStation fans! Have you been waiting for GRANDIA to come out on the EU PlayStation Network ? Guess what: Your wait is finally over! GRANDIA will become available for download for PlayStation3...
Zynga versus DeNa : A new challenger approaches, ready… fight!
Filed under: Other Games While Zynga has been the king of the social gaming ring in the U.S.
Facebook and Apple better watch out for Nintendo 3DS’ social features
Filed under: Other Games Nintendo has been the most successful of the Big Three--the others being Sony and Microsoft--this time around in both gaming consoles and handhelds , but the company claims that...
Square Enix brings Final Fantasy to Facebook with two social games
Filed under: Other Games If there's one thing Facebook was missing, it was crystals and giant ostrich-chicken hybrids. It's about time that Square Enix fill that chicken-less void with Chocobo's Crystal Tower and...
Square Enix brings Final Fantasy to Facebook with two new games
Filed under: Other Games If there's one thing missing in Facebook games, it's crystals and giant ostrich-chicken hybrids.
EA buys Angry Birds publisher, could lead to Playfish games on mobile
Filed under: Other Games It looks like Electronic Arts' (EA) next target might be the mobile social games space after today's purchase of Chillingo , the publisher behind iPhone hits like Angry Birds...
Rumor: Intel ogling Open Feint, looking to invest in social gaming
Filed under: Other Games According to speculation by Business Insider , Intel's mysterious investment in mobile gaming announced today will be in Aurora Feint's Open Feint platform .
Nintendo claims ‘no connection between social games and DS games,’ someone sounds scared
Filed under: Other Games In a recent attempt to calm the nerves of investors, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata provided detailed infographics defending his claim that there is no connection between the sales of...
Japanese social gaming company buys Ngmoco, mobile social games are a big deal
DeNa , Japan's most successful social gaming company, has bought Ngmoco for $400 million, putting DeNa in prime position to become the largest mobile social games company in the world. The creator of...
GodFinger developer joins Japan-based DeNa, mobile social games now a big deal
DeNa , Japan's most successful social gaming company, has bought Ngmoco for $400 million, putting DeNa in prime position to become the largest mobile social games company in the world. The creator of...
CrowdStar’s rapid growth leads to mobile Facebook games aplenty
In a recent press release , it was announced that CrowdStar's recent explosive growth has led the studio to release two of its games, Happy Aquarium and Happy Island , on the Yahoo!...
Happy Aquarium creator CrowdStar plans to take its games mobile
In a recent press release , it was announced that CrowdStar's recent explosive growth has led the studio to release two of its games, Happy Aquarium and Happy Island , on Yahoo! Japan...
California investor claims, ‘augmented reality will enhance mobile social games’
Osuke Honda, a partner with Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture capital firm DCM , just invested $12 million in a Japanese augmented reality company Tonchidot . The company develops software that smartphones like an...
Annunciato Patapon 3
Sin dalla sua comparsa su PSP, avvenuta in Europa nel Febbraio 2008, la serie di Patapon ha riscosso un successo incredibile.
Introducing Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes
It’s Rich from Capcom here today to talk to you about the next Capcom title, Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes . This will be released on 15 October. Hopefully you will have already heard...
15 Years Of PlayStation Memories
The global PlayStation family is celebrating a very special birthday this September. On 29 September, 1995, the original PlayStation console launched across Europe with games likes Ridge Racer and WipEout. That’s 15 years...
Zynga expands to new global headquarters in San Francisco: More jobs incoming?
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced today that social gaming colossus Zynga has signed a 7-year lease on a new location for their imperial stronghold global headquarters. Located at 8th and Townsend Streets...
Zynga Germany rises from acquisition of German game company Dextrose
In the next phase of the Zynga Dominion Initiative (kidding, sort of), the social gaming titan behind FarmVille has acquired Dextrose , a Mainz-based German gaming technology company that developed the Aves engine,...
Castlevania: Lord Of Shadow Interview
The game’s producer Dave Cox speaks to the PlayStation Blog about the upcoming Castlevania revamp. By now, quite a few PlayStation 3 owners will have had the chance to try out the Castlevania:...
Digital Comics Store Update (22nd September 2010)
Hello and welcome to this week’s comic update ! Dragon Age is back with issue #3 today! After a family tragedy, Gleam and her two brothers go on the road to find the...
DmC: Devil May Cry for PS3 Revealed in New Trailer
Sweet, sweet Tokyo: the succulent ramen, the unparalleled electronics district, the red-hot video game rebirths . If you’ve been following our Twitter , you know about Capcom’s biggest Tokyo Game Show announcement.
Treasure Isle Secret Japan Isles unlocked, plus Monkey Ninjas!
Filed under: Treasure Isle Treasure Isle has opened up a new chain of Islands called Secret Japan. The official post on the Treasure Isle forums says the following about these isles: "Discover the...