Gree International boss says game makers should consider bundling and unbundling strategies Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 8, 2017 2 min Andrew Sheppard, CEO of Gree International, the overseas arm of Japan’s Gree, gave the opening talk at Casual Connect Europe in Berlin. He talked... Continue Reading 2 min
Gree International buys mobile role-playing game Dragon Soul Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 6, 2016 2 min Gree said today that it has acquired the Dragon Soul mobile game as part of an expansion into mobile role-playing games. The announcement was made... Continue Reading 2 min
Japan’s Gree lays off 30% of Western staff [update] Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 21, 2015 2 min Larger numbers of staff have been let go in San Francisco, according to reports on social media. Continue Reading 2 min
Gree’s Andrew Sheppard is placing his bets to take original mobile games higher Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 23, 2015 15 min Sheppard told us that mobile game companies need to scale up their efforts to compete on a global level. Continue Reading 15 min
Gree launches its ridiculous fighting game Flop Fu, born from its G-Labs experiment Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 28, 2014 3 min The title is one of the first to come out of the experimental G-Lab at Gree. Continue Reading 3 min
Free-to-play publishers & game developers throw down at GDC Posted byby GamesBeat March 26, 2013 3 min Publishers got the money. Game devs got the IP. and GDC has this epic showdown between heavyweights in each category. Continue Reading 3 min
The DeanBeat: How fast will the shift to huge growth for mobile games happen? Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 3, 2012 4 min With the console market looking a little shaky and Facebook starting to slow down, mobile stands before the gaming industry as a potential savior. Continue Reading 4 min
A leader on Facebook, Germany’s Wooga makes its move into mobile games Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 30, 2012 13 min Jens Begemann still believes in Facebook, but the CEO of Wooga is also expanding into mobile social games. Continue Reading 13 min
17 reasons to go to GamesBeat 2012 Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 9, 2012 5 min We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2012. But here’s a summary of why we think this is the... Continue Reading 5 min