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OpenFeint hires new CEO, Jason Citron leaves

by Mike Schramm on Sep 15, 2011 • No Comments
It's the end of an era for one of iOS' biggest ventures -- OpenFeint has hired a new CEO, Naoki Aoyagi, which means company founder Jason Citron is leaving the company to head elsewhere. OpenFeint, you'll remember, has its roots in an iPhone gam...
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The first Atari Joystick I’ve wanted in 20 years…

by Seth Weintraub on Sep 5, 2011 • No Comments
Coming soon to DiscoveryBayGames, a new Atari controller that will go head to head with the popular iCade box.  The appliance was discovered in the Atari’s Greatest Hits update by MacRumors. What’s New in Version 1.3 Hello Atari fans! We’ve been paying close attention to your feedback and have made a ton of improvements: • New and improved control...
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OpenFeint Gets Bought For $104 Million By Japanese Mobile Social Network Gree

by Graham Spencer on Apr 22, 2011 • No Comments
Japanese company Gree which runs a mobile gaming social network yesterday revealed that it had purchased OpenFeint, which runs a very similar social network, for $104 million. The deal follows the $403 million acquisition of Ngmoco by another Japanese firm, DeNa, last October. However unlike that deal, Gree and OpenFeint will not be merging their...
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GREE buys OpenFeint for $104 million

by Chris Rawson on Apr 21, 2011 • No Comments
Before Game Center, OpenFeint and similar third-party platforms carried the weight of the iOS platform when it came to social networking in gaming. Even after Game Center debuted with its leaderboards and achievements, OpenFeint still saw plenty of ...
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OpenFeint Connect Promises Cross-Platform Integration, But No Simultaneous Play

by Federico Viticci on Feb 17, 2011 • No Comments
It looks like mobile gaming OpenFeint has no intention on leaving all the fun to Apple’s Game Center. In fact, OpenFeint has become more than a simple alternative to the Game Center with cross-platform integration (OpenFeint works on Android devices, too) and in-app purchasable content that’s not tied to App Store approval. The service sports 65 million...
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OpenFeint sees giant spike in Christmas users and downloads

by Mike Schramm on Dec 31, 2010 • No Comments
Here's some more evidence that the App Store had a really amazing holiday weekend last week. OpenFeint has announced that it saw a 184% spike in new users on Christmas Day last week, the largest single day in the service's history for new users. Over t...
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OpenFeint’s promotional app now called Game Channel

by Mike Schramm on Dec 17, 2010 • No Comments
Social gaming network OpenFeint has had its own app for a while now, offering up news and information for players playing games with the technology built-in. But the app recently underwent a re-branding of sorts -- it's now called Game Channel (not to...
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OpenFeint announces in-app content service, infrastructure to support freemium games

by Mike Schramm on Dec 1, 2010 • No Comments
Social gaming network OpenFeint has finally unveiled its OpenFeint X service, which will allow developers on the App Store (and a few other mobile platforms) to add cloud-based microtransaction content to their games on top of Apple's own in-app purch...
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TUAW’s Daily App: Cookie Rush

by Mike Schramm on Nov 29, 2010 • No Comments
Cookie Rush is an interesting title. The goal is to keep some villagers away from a giant rolling cookie, but instead of guiding them directly, you control them by placing jump arrows in their way -- it's kind of like a group Canabalt where you're con...
CultOfMac / Publishers

OpenFeint Is Thriving, Despite Direct Competition With Game Center

by John Brownlee on Nov 24, 2010 • No Comments
Back when Apple first announced iOS game matchmaking service, Game Center, everyone thought it was going to be the death of the existing services like OpenFeint. It wasn’t. With its founder openly laughing “bring it on” in the face of GameCenter, OpenFeint reassessed its strengths:...
Publishers / TUAW

OpenFeint has doubled community since Game Center’s launch

by Mike Schramm on Nov 23, 2010 • No Comments
When Game Center was first announced way back in April, the first question everyone had was about all of the third-party networks that had already built up in the space. OpenFeint was the biggest of these, and founder Jason Citron had no apparent worr...
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Deal documents show Ngmoco’s 50 million downloads, $10m losses in 2009

by Mike Schramm on Oct 13, 2010 • No Comments
Stuart Dredge of MobileEntertainment did some digging into the paperwork behind the Ngmoco sale, and came back with some interesting figures about the company's financials. Turns out that rumored $403 million purchase price is true -- kind of. The dea...

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