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OpenKit to release open-source social mobile gaming services with no lock-in for developers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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openkit bigWhen Japan’s Gree announced during November that it would shut down its OpenFeint social gaming platform within it a few weeks, it was a disaster for developers who wanted stable code just before the big holiday app-downloading season. So Peter Relan, head of the social gaming incubator YouWeb that gave birth to OpenFeint and then sold it to Gree, sprang into action.

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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.