KORG DS-10 Developer Dabbling In Social Networking Games

By Spencer . August 26, 2009 . 8:32am

KORG DS 10 Developer Dabbling In Social Networking Games AQ Interactive ambitiously started out as an Xbox 360 publisher with Tetris: The Grandmaster Ace before moving on to (relatively) bigger budget action games like Bullet Witch and Vampire Rain. They’ve scaled back since then, canceled Cry On, and went back to making mahjong games with anime licenses for the PSP.

 

Their new strategy includes making games for Mixi, Japan’s largest social networking service. AQ Interactive announced Browser Sangokushi for mixi, which might be analogous to a theoretical Sim Feudal Japan for Facebook. Not sure if this is a sign that AQ Interactive has fallen on hard times or if they spotted an opportunity ignored by other publishers. Square Enix started making MySpace games so the latter option is realistic.

 

How does this affect you? AQ Interactive is Xseed’s parent company…


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  • Hello_Hello

    Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down. Did you just call Sangokushi “Feudal Japan”? I can see why Zhuge Liang doesn't look very amused in that picture on the front page. =p

  • http://www.siliconera.com Spencer

    Maybe the analogy wasn't that good after all. I was trying to think of a way to explain the partnership Sim Romance of the The Three Kingdoms sounded too long so I dropped it. Heh.

  • Hello_Hello

    Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down. Did you just call Sangokushi “Feudal Japan”? I can see why Zhuge Liang doesn't look very amused in that picture on the front page. =p

  • http://www.siliconera.com Spencer

    Maybe the analogy wasn't that good after all. I was trying to think of a way to explain the partnership Sim Romance of the The Three Kingdoms sounded too long so I dropped it. Heh.

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