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Zynga Opens Japanese Studio

Game Mania — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:29:56 +0000

Zynga has partnered with telecommunications and media firm Softbank to develop and distribute social games across Japan. The new joint venture, Zynga Japan, was officially announced as Softbank completed a $150 million investment in the San Francisco headquartered Farmville maker

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Nintendo Platforms Lead Japanese Sales

Game Mania — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:47:11 +0000

Nintendo platforms dominated hardware sales in Japan during the week ended June 11. Despite a weekly sales decline DSi LL remained the clear frontrunner, while Wii jumped ahead of PSP, no doubt aided by Wii Party ‘s chart topping opening week performance .

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No More Heroes 2 finally coming to Japan with deluxe edition

Game Mania — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:01:00 +0000

Marvelous has finally gotten around to announcing a Japanese release date for No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle .

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67% Of Japanese Consumers Don’t Plan To Buy 3D TVs

Game Mania — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:18:35 +0000

Over two thirds of Japanese consumers say they aren’t planning to buy a 3D TV for their home, according to a recent survey of 8,957 punters. The 67.4 per cent in question said they were turned off by 3D glasses, the high cost of televisions and a lack of content, Kakaku.com found (via Reuters ).

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Xbox 360 Monster Hunter Leads Japanese Chart

Game Mania — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:54:52 +0000

Xbox 360 title Monster Hunter Frontier Online debuted atop the Japanese software chart during the week ended June 27. A port of 2007′s PC MMO, the subscription-based game moved 93,000 units in its first week, according to sales data from Media Create (via Andriasang )

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E32010: 3DS Allows Software Installs – Report

Game Mania — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:01:12 +0000

The 3DS will allow users to copy multiple games to its internal memory, according to Japanese financial paper Nikkei.

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CESA: 5.2 million illegal downloads of Dissidia: Final Fantasy in Japan

Game Mania — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:30:00 +0000

Siliconera has some more insight on those Consumer Entertainment Software Association piracy figures , and while the “money lost” totals are still a little inflated (it’s very hard to agree with the sentiment that all pirated software would otherwise have been purchased legitimately at full price if not for piracy), the actual downloads are pretty surprising. Dissidia: Final Fantasy is the big winner (loser?), with over 5.2 million illegal downloads onto Japanese PSPs.

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News: Handheld piracy cost industry $29m over five years

Game Mania — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:46:00 +0000

Piracy on the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP formats costs the industry an estimated £28.9 million ($41.6m / ¥3.816tn) over five years, according to research by Japan’s Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association. The group, which organises the Tokyo Game Show, conducted the research between June 2004 to 2009, in cooperation with Tokyo University’s Baba Lab.

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News: Super Mario Galaxy 2 shines in Japanese chart

Game Mania — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:56:00 +0000

Super Mario Galaxy 2 has entered the Japanese sales chart at number one, outpacing the debut of its immediate predecessor by 90,000 units. With 339,901 units sold in its first week Super Mario Galaxy 2 has become the fastest-selling 3D Super Mario game on any format. However, the game still trails significantly behind the 2D iterations in the series, with New Super Mario Bros

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Ex-Hudson President Forms MonkeyPaw Games

Game Mania — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:05:06 +0000

Former Hudson Entertainment president John Greiner has established MonkeyPaw Games, a new publisher focused on bringing “real Japanese games” to western markets. Greiner is a 20 year industry veteran who previously oversaw the US launch of the TurboGrafx-16 platform, in the process bringing over Japanese titles like Adventure Island , Military Madness and Bomberman . read more

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