Messaging app Tango signs game developers from around the world

A messaging app is giving developers some help in the crowded mobile game market.

Tango has signed six developers from around the world as the first part of its $25 million Global Games Fund, including Planeto from Sweden, Falafel Games from the Middle East, and Shiny Shoe Games (which created match-three puzzle games based on the films Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Mummy) from San Francisco. This gives those developers support, but it also gives Tango a piece of the $16 billion mobile market and visibility inside the messaging app, giving huge exposure to some of these smaller studios from across the world.