OpenFeint, a comprehensive mobile social gaming Aurora Feint, a team of investors in the recent past and the Chinese gaming company The9 is a joint initiative to game developers in the Android platform. Basically, OpenFeint and The9 will use $ 100 million Fund9, a China-based mobile Internet development fund, the fund game development.
As I wrote earlier, OpenFeint made a cross-platform approach to the social gaming platform for the first launch of iPhone, Android game developers, and recently added to the rapidly growing community, the path to the plug and play the social game developers in the development of the public in a few weeks ago. The startup, which is more than 68 million players, 250 games have helped launch the Android platform.
OpenFeint and The9 will review and select the best games and the port will fund the integration of the Android and OpenFeint. The companies will also expand into select games in China and facilitate the naturalization. The companies say that the games will be chosen based on the quality of experience, past performance with other app download store and a real talent as a developer.
Fund9 $ 100 million in a Chinese-based development fund that invests in mobile application, game engine, platform and technology developers. Announced last December, the fund is a collaboration amongThe9, China Rock Capital Management, Chengwei Ventures, K2 and China Renaissance Ventures.
OpenFeint multiplatform strategy important since, as the company faces competition from Apple GameCenter. The Android platform is growing fast, and can be a wise bet for the company.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/openfeint-and-the9-team-up-to-bring-game-developers-to-android-platform/
