The iOS market is booming and the amount of new content is making it difficult for developers to stand out. Mobile gaming network OpenFeint is offering assistance to developers to better help them market their games and the results are great; mobile developer Halfbrick increased downloads for Monster Dash by 123% using OpenFeint cross promotion.
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Aurora Feint, the company behind the OpenFeint mobile gaming platform recently announced the arrival of OpenFeint 2.5 beta. The new version set to release will include a number of changes and upgrades to the OpenFeint SDK. The team has already surpassed 25 million registered users and seems to be optimistic about the future despite the inevitable launch of Apple’s GameCenter.
Hudson Soft and Aurora Feint today announced that they have partnered to feature five games on OpenFeint’s Free Game of the Day promotion on the iDevices. All featured games are OpenFeint-enabled and incorporate key components of OpenFeint’s online gaming services, including global leaderboards and achievements that are fully compatible with Game Center. Hudson Soft is another legendary console maker that is jumping into social gaming: they created the NES smash Adventure Island.
OpenFeint, a company which many rapidly claimed was dead following Apple’s iPhone game center announcement yesterday, has shot back stating that OpenFeint “will also sit on Apple’s Game Center social graph”. For those less aware of what OpenFeint is, it’s a social network within iPhone, iPad, and iTouch games, currently reaching over 19 million users. Now rather than focusing on just the in-games social network, the company is launching the OpenFeint X virtual goods social gaming platform.
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AuroraFeint announced today the release of OpenFeint X, a platform which enables developers to create free-to-play games that include virtual goods and microtransactions. The service, which launched in Beta form today, is being offered to all OpenFeint developers who want to offer upgrades and virtual goods to their game players, and emulate the success of companies like Zynga, Crowdstar and Playfish.
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Taito Corporation – legendary creators of the famous Space Invaders and more recently, publishers of the Space Invaders Infinity Gene iPhone port – have entered into an agreement with Aurora Feint Corporation to utilize OpenFeint technology to power social integration in Taito’s iPhone games.
