Biography of MySpace's former CEO Deworf into social gaming

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Beijing Time November 2 morning news, according to foreign media reports, several sources revealed that former MySpace CEO Chris Deworf (Chris DeWolfe) is interested in the field of social gaming, may buy more than the smaller social gaming companies, Challenge the lead position of Zynga, the Facebook gaming developer.

At the end of July, Deworf was in talks with several private-equity firms to raise at least 100 million dollars, but did not disclose which industry Deworf was seeking to enter.

Another source said that Deworf's pioneering partner was the Aber Whitkambo of MySpace Co-founder and chief technology officer Aber Whitcomb, who left office at the end of September. It is unclear how the Deworf is raising funds, the name of the new company it plans to set up and what small companies it plans to buy.

A few of the former MySpace executives who want to dabble in social gaming have "witnessed" the great development of social gaming. Jason Oberfest, a former MySpace executive, has left Jason Oberfist to join the social-gaming start-up Ngmoco.

Ngmoco is too expensive for Deworf to buy a small social-game development company that has a few resources, or has had a certain success but is currently sluggish, a source said.

During the reign of Deworf, MySpace had reached a game platform agreement with Oberon, a casual gaming development company, but the agreement had now been repealed. Owen Van Nata (Owen Van Natta) as CEO, MySpace attaches more importance to music business, the game has "relegated to the second line."

Social gaming companies such as Playfish and Playdom are also quite large, of course, still smaller than Zynga. There are rumours that EA will be involved in social gaming through acquisitions. Insiders point out that entering a "strong leader" area is not easy, and the current economic situation means that private-equity firms will not easily "hand over huge sums of money to Deworf".