Nine City Investment mobile gaming platform

Liu Fangyuan July 8 afternoon, online gaming company Nineth City (NASDAQ:NCTY) announced to the United States mobile gaming and Platform company Aurora Feint Inc.　　(hereinafter referred to as "Aurora Feint") reached a final investment agreement, from nine city to Aurora feint strategic minority equity investment. According to the reporter understand, Aurora feint early had obtained from Japan Dena Company 3.5 million U.S. dollars strategic investment.　　Industry insiders speculate that the nine-city stake in the capital than before the number is probably in the tens of millions of dollars. Aurora Feint, based in Burlingame, California, was founded to focus on the development of mobile gaming, followed by the development and operation of the OpenFeint gaming platform.　　OpenFeint is mainly targeted at smartphones, offering dedicated mobile internet gaming social platforms and apps.　　Nineth City Vice president Shen told reporters that the current OpenFeint platform has been successfully operating on the iphone, there are thousands of mobile game developers to use OpenFeint provided by the function. "In the world of mobile game development, there are many good small developers or individual developers, but many do not have the resources and energy to build servers to provide users with the platform to communicate."　　Shen said the OpenFeint platform could help developers solve the problem. In Apple's app Stroe, the biggest number is game apps. With the growing number of developers, a large number of small and medium-sized developers, as well as the latter because of low rankings, its application is easily submerged in the ocean.　　Earn little or no income every day. Shen says OpenFeint's SNS attributes allow developers to accumulate their own user base and provide promotional opportunities.　　For example, as long as simple access to openfeint simple development tools, developers can provide their users with the points list, game achievement, player social interaction and daily game promotion and other services. The revenue model of the platform is divided into the game developers of OpenFeint and access platform.　　It is reported that Aurora Feint will launch a new version this year to further provide more services, including virtual prop trading management system, in the future with virtual prop trading to gain greater profits.　　The data show that OpenFeint's free apps and platforms now have more than 28 million registered users and 2,200 balance games on Apple's App store. Shen that the development of mobile Internet-related applications is one of the directions of the new business in nine cities, and the future will be developed rapidly in applications, business models, operating systems and terminal occupancy. At the same time, this is also the nine cities after Red5, accelerate the overseas layout of another move.