Microsoft sourcing Social Game developer Crownstar

Beijing time February 11 afternoon news, according to foreign media reports, two sources said that Microsoft is with the game developers Crowdstar to start the acquisition negotiations.　　Crownstar, which has developed games for Facebook, including "Happy Aquarium" (Happy Aquarium), also has other suitors. $200 million a person who declined to be identified said Crownstar could accept private-equity investments to keep the company independent, and the decision to sell could be made in a few weeks.　　Another source said Crownstar's valuation is expected to be around 200 million dollars. Last year, the Facebook games soared in the US, prompting EA to spend 400 million of dollars on a developer Playfish The Pet Society (pet powering) and the "Restaurant City" (Restaurant Cit). According to Appdata.com's survey, Crownstar is currently the fourth-largest Facebook app developer, with more than 50.8 million active subscribers a month.　　Appdata.com, a website that tracks Facebook users ' usage habits, crownstar spokesman Peter Brooks Peter Brooks and Microsoft Windows Game Group director Maik Ibara declined to comment on the takeover rumours. According to ThinkEquity's study, the market for social gaming in the US is expected to grow by more than three times times, to $2 billion trillion by 2012.　　The group said that the total game sales of the three home gaming platforms (Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox360 and Sony PS3) in the U.S. game market this year were down 9.8% from last year.　　Increased competition Microsoft's MSN Gaming Department has now launched more than 1000 online games, including "Bejeweled", "Mah Jong Tiles" and "spades". Last year, Jessi Dinici Jesse Divnich, analyst at Electronic Entertainment Design &research, said EA's purchase price for Playfish basically determines the value of a game developer like Zynga.　　The head of the capital markets department, a technology-focused investment bank, says Zynga should go public and it could be worth 1 billion of dollars. This month, Zygna the "FarmVille" game on the Microsoft Gaming website.　　AppData survey data show that the number of active users zygna monthly more than 232 million.　　Currently, social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace offer free games, and the main revenue from game developers is selling virtual items in games. Last July, Fille Spencer, the vice president of Microsoft's gaming studio, told the outside world that Microsoft was developing more online community games, while the Xbox Live online gaming service had about 23 million users, players who passed the Xbox Live can also keep in touch with your Facebook friends without using a computer. (Chaya)