Japanese social games dev Gree opens Osaka studio

Newsbrief: Just days after Japanese mobile developer and network operator Gree announced that it is preparing to move its U.S. headquarters to a newly-opened dev studio in San Francisco, the company has now opened a new studio in Japan. The new development studio will open in Osaka next month, reports Andriasang, and will be the company's first domestic development studio outside of Tokyo. The company did not state what genre of gaming this new studio will focus on. The company is also planning to open new development studios in other areas of Japan over the following years too, it said in a statement.