Here you can find interesting startup news from Japan, not only from its capital, Tokyo, but also other startup hubs like Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, and many more.
(1) AT&T and mobile social games company ngmoco, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DeNA Co., Ltd., announced an agreement to bring the Mobage social gaming platform to AT&T customers. Mobage will serve as a hub for AT&T Android users to discover and play games, as well as connect and communicate with other players around the world.
(2) Mig33 recently launched a developer program, which allows mobile game developers to make revenue by developing games on a platform which is compatible with Gree’s. As of this writing, 12 developers from 7 countries have been participating in the program, which may cause keener competition in developing mobile gaming apps because more developers not only in Japan but also from foreign countries will be forced to sharpen swords on the common international arena, in publishing best-selling apps.
(3) Voltage company has begun to offer “Koi ni Ochita Kaizoku Ou,” one of their popular games from the “Koibito Game” series on their official website, in an English version intended for overseas applications on iPhone and Android as “PIRATES IN LOVE”.
(4) Gakufu Camera (gakufu = music score) is an iPhone app released by music instrument vendor Kawai. The camera application lets you scan music score by camera, recognize musical notes in real-time, and play the recognized notes.
(5) The world’s biggest social game Cityville just launched in Japanese, available exclusively to the Facebook platform. This is the first time a localized version of a US Zynga game has been launched in Japan since their entry into the Japanese market.
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