How Japan’s Line became an unintentional gaming-platform giant (interview)
Line's Akira Morikawa isn't targeting his messaging service at gamers, but they're playing a ton of titles on his network. Will that make it bigger than Facebook?
Asia’s Line mobile messaging network crosses 150M users and 100M game downloads
Line has taken off in Japan and is moving to other territories.
Gree searches for the billion-dollar game from its swanky S.F. headquarters (interview)
With 450 people at its U.S. headquarters, Japan's Gree is chasing after the giant mobile game.
Japan’s Line mobile messaging app reaches 100M game downloads
Mobile messaging apps are turning out to be a great way to get games noticed.
What U.S. developers can glean from Asia’s mobile apps market
Asia’s mobile apps market can teach us a lot. At the close of last year, the Pew Research Center found that 87 percent of...