Japanese social game giant Gree sues Dena claims 14 million USD

The Japanese social game giant Gree said in Monday that it had filed a lawsuit against rival Dena, the Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of November 21.　　Gree that Dena is setting hurdles for developers who launch games on two corporate platforms. In this lawsuit, Gree claimed 1.05 billion yen (about $14 million) from Dena and asked Dena to stop the improper practice.　　At present, Gree and Dena are expanding to the Japanese foreign market to enlarge the user base. Earlier this year, Gree acquired OpenFeint, the AOL game developer, and Dena bought mobile gaming company Ngmoco last year.　　Dena announced in August this year that a partnership agreement with AT&T will serve the Android handsets that At&t operates. Gree that Dena prevented Japanese online game developers from joining Gree's network and threatened to delete the developers ' games on the company's platform.　　And although Japanese government authorities issued an executive order earlier this year, Dena has not made any changes. In June this year, the Japan Fair Trade Commission said Dena prevented some developers from releasing the game.　　The committee asked Dena to stop such practices and to develop policies to avoid the same problems in the future. Gree and Japanese operator KDDI jointly filed the lawsuit. KDDI also claims to Dena because Gree provides services through the operator's network. Dena said in a statement later in Monday that it had not yet seen the content of the lawsuit and declined to comment on the news. (Lili)