Cut the Rope’s new partner reinforces the power of chat apps in Asia’s mobile-gaming market

One of the companies that is helping Western developers release their games in China is now expanding to other Asian countries.

Mobile publisher Yodo1 is revealing today that it is working with studio ZeptoLab to bring its Cut the Rope 2 physics-based puzzlers to the KakaoTalk platform in Asia. KakaoTalk, which has millions of users around the world, is one of the primary ways that new games break out in territories like South Korea and Japan. Yodo1 also plans to release ZeptoLab’s full library of Cut the Rope mobile titles in China, which is a market that generated $1.8 billion in mobile spending last year. China, Japan, and Korea are especially important markets for developer making smartphone and tablet games, as these countries produce a significant amount of spending that is comparable with the United States.