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The signs of a social game boom for the iPhone

Minination by DeNA has been released on the App Store.Royal Theif or Bandit Nation is also FREE and now #36 on the Japanese leaderboard. It’s gaining traction in other countries, I wonder how far it’ll go.

From April this year some free apps have started to appear in the top 10 on the App Store. Some of them are social battle games played in browsers.
The top positionwas taken by a Free app.

Zynga had Mafia Wars and other apps in the App Store but they didn’t sell. Pincus also bagged the App Store. But recently each of the apps has In-App purchasing being put into them and re-appearing on the App Store.

Vampires, MafiaWars, StreetRacing are being invested into.

fukushima | Blog | 2010/05/22

Our new interior for the Tokyo office.

Hi I’m Chiba, I joined Istpika just as it moved Tokyo offices.
Corporate planning secretary, application development, recruitment and general office work – I have been lucky to be able to experience all of these and now bring my talents to Istpika. I look forward to doing business with you!

Today, at last – our office interior was finished. Here are a few photos.

Our Tokyo Office moved from Shibuya to Shinjuku. It’s been 2 weeks already!
We’re very close from the station in 3 cho me Shinjuku, really handy.
From the office windows overlook the Ysukuni big gaurd.