PopCap Games veteran spins PlayFab out of Uber Entertainment Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 1, 2014 2 min PlayFab will provide back-end services for mobile and online game studios. Continue Reading 2 min
OpenFeint successor OpenKit goes live with 10 developers building ‘truly social’ games Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 26, 2013 2 min Open source platform adds social features to mobile games. Now version 1.0 is live. Continue Reading 2 min
OpenKit hopes to head off Google with capable and open mobile social platform for games Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 10, 2013 3 min While platform owners like Google may move to build walled gardens, OpenKit will let social gamers roam free. Continue Reading 3 min
OpenKit launches its closed beta for open-source social-mobile platform Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 22, 2013 2 min First version of OpenKit is now going live, and a public beta could come in April. Continue Reading 2 min
Open-source social-mobile games platform OpenKit goes into closed-beta test Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 1, 2013 3 min This open-source effort appeared after Gree shut down the popular OpenFeint mobile social platform in December. Continue Reading 3 min
OpenKit to release open-source social mobile gaming services with no lock-in for developers Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 12, 2012 3 min Gree shut down OpenFeint. So OpenKit will replace it and allow developers to own the data associated with their games. Continue Reading 3 min