OpenFeint and nine cities to release 60 games in China

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of August 10, according to the U.S. Science and Technology blog TechCrunch, Mobile social gaming platform OpenFeint announced earlier this year with one of its investors, China gaming company Nine city Cooperation, the game developers to attract the Android platform. OpenFeint and nine city announced at the time, the two sides will use China Mobile Internet Development Fund FUND9 100 million U.S. dollars, funding game developers through the OpenFeint platform to develop Chinese games.　　Just three months later, the nine city version of openfeint--Nine City Games Center (Game Zone) has been released by 30 app stores in China 60 games. OpenFeint and Nine city also announced that the two sides have selected the first batch of five FUND9 Achievement Fund-supported games through the Android Transplant program (Android Hard-or). With funding from the FUND9 Foundation, developers can transplant popular iOS games onto Android platforms and sell them globally.　　The city will then localize the game and publish it in the Chinese market. These sponsored games were selected by two companies based on three criteria, such as quality, downloads and developer capabilities, including Bulkypix's Pix ' n Love Rush, fishing cactus shift!2, Deullo games　　, Binary Mill's "Mini Motor Racing" and Bulkypix's "Babel Dr.". OpenFeint is not the only foreign game developer trying to make money from the potentially huge Chinese gaming market. Zynga has also worked with Tencent to boost its influence in China by launching the "Zynga City" game Beta (the popular game "CityVille", the Chinese version). (OAK)