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Softbank + Zynga: Japan is about to get Farmville'd?
[as posted on Japanator] I don't see Farmville or any of Zynga's other properties appealing to the Japanese public, but I guess I didn't see them appealing to me either. I'll admit that I'm addicted to Frontierville, Zynga's newest Facebook-based social game. Don't ask why -- I'm not even sure myself. Zynga has definitely conquered the U.S., but now it looks like they're prepared to be "big in Japan" with a new partnership between Japanese mobile company Softbank and Zynga. Zynga will develop and distribute social games there, armed with the $150 million that Softbank pumped into the American company. It sounds like the plan is to bring their brand of addictive, time-wasting games to Japanese mobile devices. Perfect for the train ride. Hey, maybe they could make a game using Softbank's talking dog mascot, Otousan! A press release was just sent out and a press conference will take place in Tokyo later today. We'll keep you posted on any new developments. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)5:00 PM on 02.17.2011 Jon Blow: Social games are evilIndie developer Jon Blow, who hates being quoted, has been quoted as saying that social games like Farmville are evil and intentionally degrade the quality of a player's life. "There's no other word for it except evil,"...
11:40 AM on 11.17.2010 Zynga spreads to Yahoo this week with FarmVilleFarmVille and its evil cousins, FrontierVille and Mafia Wars, are everywhere you look these days, but now they're set to pop up in even more places as Zynga will launch some of their properties on Yahoo, says Next Gen. I...
12:20 PM on 09.09.2010 Zynga boss allegedly hates innovation, loves evilA former Zynga employee has spilled the beans on boss Mark Pincus, alleging that he encourages the theft of ideas and going so far as to call the FarmVille developer evil. The ex-worker claims that Pincus said these exa...
2:00 PM on 08.06.2010 The Jimquisition: Why you're dumber than casual gamersThis week's Jimquisition was recorded in an apartment with busted air conditioning during a record-breaking heatwave. Yeah, that blazer was a mistake. Fortunately, the video doesn't pick up the intense amounts of leaking sal...
9:30 AM on 07.30.2010 Bethesda dev doesn't 'get' Facebook gamesFacebook games are frighteningly popular and able to make huge amounts of money for very little investment. Nevertheless, major developers have thus far expressed a total disinterest in it, the latest being Bethesda's Todd Ho...
4:00 PM on 07.27.2010 Destructoid vs. Frontierville: Talking sh*tThe fine editors of Destructoid are hard-hitting journalists dedicated to giving you, the hardcore gamer, all the facts fit to flaunt. This is why, for the past several days, we have been clobbering snakes, scaring bears, and...
5:00 PM on 07.21.2010 Destructoid vs. FrontierVille: The great chicken scandalThe fine editors of Destructoid are hard-hitting journalists dedicating to giving you, the hardcore gamer, all the facts fit to flaunt. This is why, for the past several days, we have been clobbering snakes, scaring bears, a...
4:00 PM on 07.18.2010 Destructoid vs. FrontierVille: Neighbor FAILThe fine editors of Destructoid are hard-hitting journalists dedicating to giving you, the hardcore gamer, all the facts fit to flaunt. This is why, for the past several days, we have been clobbering snakes, scaring bears, an...
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