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Heyzap debuts leaderboards to show who dominates mobile games among your friends

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 28, 2012
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Heyzap has launched leaderboards, a much-needed feature to the company’s mobile platform, which started as a check-in service for games and is now evolving into something like a social network. This will pick up where OpenFeint, which is being shut down by its owner Gree, left off.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.