Ready for the World

DeNA partners up with Samsung to release their Mobage mobile social gaming platform on millions of handsets worldwide. Articles and anlysis from:

InsideSocialGames ” DeNA’s profit center in Japan is Mobage Town, a mobile gaming network with 22 million members. With Ngmoco’s Plus+ network as a starting point, DeNA will take Mobage to the international market. Samsung will be an initial equipment partner, with its Android smartphones, while developers like PlayFirst, SGN, Square Enix and Take-Two have also signed up.”

The Wall Street Journal ” DeNA–Japan’s biggest mobile social-gaming platform by revenue–said Samsung’s Android-based smartphones sold outside Japan will carry a platform called Mobage, operated by ngmoco LLC, a San Francisco-based company DeNA acquired last month. ”  

VentureBeat ” As it expands worldwide, DeNA will be bound to run into a variety of competitors, including Zynga, Scoreloop, PapayaMobile, and OpenFeint. Partners in the private beta test include game companies such as Hudson, Square Enix, Take-Two Interactive, Nexon, SGN, Gamevil, RockYou, PlayFirst, Mochi Media, Gameview Studios, Flipside 5, Nimblebit, Lumos Labs, Playforge, Ricochet Labs and Bolt Creative.”
 

Marvelous Team Up: Samsung meets Scoreloop

Scoreloop partners up with hardware giant Samsung to bring its Social Gaming SDK to a network of approximately 3,000 developers. Let the Games Begin!

TechCrunch ” The native Scoreloop bada SDK will allow developers to integrate with social networks like MySpace and Facebook, include engaging features like online leaderboards, cross promotions and player challenges, and monetize through in-game currency purchases.”

VentureBeat ” Scoreloop has more than 3,000 developers using its SDK already. It competes with Aurora Feint’s OpenFeint platform, as well as Ngmoco’s Plus+, Papaya Mobile, and Mocospace.”

PocketGamer.biz interviews Scoreloop CEO Marc Gumpinger