Nine City announces investment in mobile gaming and platform company Aurora Feint

July 8 Afternoon News, the domestic network game developers and operators of the Nineth City (NASDAQ:NCTY) (hereinafter referred to as "nine cities"), announced today with the United States mobile gaming and Platform Company Aurorafeint Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "Aurora feint") to reach a final investment agreement,　　A strategic minority equity investment in Aurora Feint by nine cities. Aurorafeint, based in Burlingame, California, was founded to focus on the development of mobile gaming and subsequently developed and operated the OpenFeint gaming platform.　　OpenFeint is a world-leading mobile internet gaming platform and application (app) based on smartphone operating systems. On the OpenFeint platform, the function of cloud computing provides a range of online gaming services for all game products on the platform, such as the score list, game achievement, player social interaction, and daily game promotion.　　It provides game developers with a simple development tool (SDK), allowing developers to easily integrate the functions of these online games into mobile games, enhance the gameplay and provide opportunities to promote. The platform is already operating successfully on the iphone platform, with thousands of mobile game developers using OpenFeint's capabilities, while OpenFeint's free apps and platforms There are more than 28 million registered users and 2,200 balance games on Apple's App store. Aurora Feint announced that it will launch an upgraded version of the OpenFeint platform in 2010 Openfeintx, further providing more services including virtual prop trading management systems, helping mobile game developers to develop free games more easily and gain access to a wider range of users,　　And the virtual prop trade to obtain greater profits. Zhu, chairman and chief executive officer of the Kowloon City Board, said, "We are confident of the future of this gaming platform on the mobile Internet, and we believe it will play an important role in the development of the global mobile internet openfeint." The investment of the Nineth city in Aurorafeint company shows that the nine city has taken an important step in the process of establishing mobile gaming platform, and it is also an embodiment of the global strategy of the nine cities. ”