April 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »
While nobody expected this to happen, Apple announced a social gaming network of their own last night called Game Center. Aurora Feint is a long time player in this field and responded directly.
According to the company, their OpenFeint X platform will not compete but integrate and expand the possibilities of Apple’s Game Center. Next to continuing the investments in the network and the SDK, the company shall start to migrate all 19 million OpenFeint accounts to OpenFeint X.
“OpenFeint X is currently built on top of OpenFeint and in the future it will also sit on Apple’s Game Center social graph, achievements and leaderboards so developers and gamers don’t miss a step,” said Jason Citron, CEO of Aurora Feint. “Apple is a key partner and we are delighted that they have validated the first half of the OpenFeint vision and we can now fulfill the second half: OpenFeint X and Virtual Goods based Social Games. Our developers can be 100 percent assured that we will continue to invest in OpenFeint so our 1500 live games, 2000 games in development and 19M players have a flawless experience with OpenFeint and Game Center.”
