The Japanese giant GREE plans to release several mobile applications based on popular console and PC games. Including under such brands as Lineage, Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy. 

Last Friday, GREE announced that its OpenFeint service will cease to function on December 14. 

The operating profit of the Japanese company for the last quarter fell significantly compared to last year. GREE attributes the drop to large expansion costs. 

The Japanese gaming giant will allow web application developers to publish projects on their own gaming platform.

The price for installation in the Land of the Rising Sun is much higher than in the United States, said one of the vice-presidents of the Japanese company GREE.  

Yesterday came the news about the acquisition by the Japanese social giant GREE of the Pokelabo game studio. 

Yesterday, Gree introduced an open source tool that allows you to develop Unity and HTML5 applications with Flash content. 

News from the Japanese giant GREE has been coming more than regularly lately. So today the company announced a significant expansion of language support in its social-mobile-gaming GREE Platform.

As part of its current strategy of active penetration into Western markets, which we wrote about no later than yesterday, the Japanese giant GREE is launching a new program under the slogan GREE Loves Indies. Its target audience is independent mobile game developers from the United States.

The growth of the mobile gaming industry weakens the demand for social and casual PC games, Cowen reports & Company. 

Japanese social gaming giant GREE is buying up Western studios, assembling teams in San Francisco, Vancouver and London, and now it is also establishing partnerships with indie developers.

The Japanese giant of the social mobile games industry GREE has made another step in the development of Western markets. The company acquired a studio from San Francisco – App Ant Studios.

The “Farmer” company began publishing collectible card games, previously considered the territory of Japanese companies. 

The vice president of GREE, in his somewhat arrogant manner, told why social games are so successful in Japan, how a similar result can be achieved in the American market and what the mobile games market will be in three years. 

The giant of the mobile games industry, GREE, has announced the conclusion of distribution agreements with four independent developer studios – Gamenauts, InfiniDy, Oceanside Interactive and SkyVu Entertainment.

The Japanese giant has signed distribution agreements with four independent American studios, thereby significantly expanding the portfolio of the eponymous mobile social platform. 

A little over a week ago, John Jordan, editor of the notorious PocketGamer resource, told in a post with a telling title – “Why 2D battlers will be defeated in the West, but PvP games will succeed”, about what exactly awaits the mobile games industry in the future. We decided to share his vision. 

The revenue of the American studio that developed Zombie Jombie and the iPad version of Modern War for the last two quarters amounted to $29 million. Moreover, only the second quarter accounted for more than $16 million.

The number of downloads of DeNA’s box office hit – the card “butler” Rage of Bahamut – exceeded 3 million only outside the Japanese market, according to the game developers from Cygames.