Pairing up today’s earlier news of the GREE social gaming platform going worldwide in an open beta that has launched today, GREE has also partnered up with Mind Candy, developers of the Moshi Monsters game to start bringing those games to mobile devices worldwide.
The Moshi Monster games have a huge following already with 60 million registered users already. That number will increase greatly when the games start going worldwide. In the beginning there will be two Moshi Monster games offered up to Android gamers with more to come after. Mind Candy isn’t stopping there either with their push into mobile as they are hiring an in-house team of developers solely focus on partnership and mobile game development.
For those of you unfamiliar with Moshi Monsters, the franchise is built around the online casual social game Moshi Monsters where players can pick a monster as a pet, grow it and train it while completing things like daily puzzles, playing games, solving Super Moshi Missions, personalizing their room, showing off artwork, reading stories and communicating with friends in a safe environment.
No word just yet on what the first two games will be but we do know that they will arrive in Q4 2012. Full press release below for your reading pleasure.
Developer Websites: Mind Candy | Moshi Monsters
MOSHI MONSTERS AND GREE IN MOBILE PARTNERSHIP
Mind Candy Partners with Gaming Giant, GREE, to Bring
Moshi Monsters to Mobile
London and San Francisco – May 23, 2012 – Mind Candy (www.mindcandy.com), the company behind global family brand Moshi Monsters™ (www.MoshiMonsters.com), and GREE (www.gree-corp.com), a leader in mobile social gaming, have joined forces to take Moshi Monsters™ to mobile devices worldwide. The partnership will kick off with the launch of two new Moshi Monsters mobile games on the GREE Platform, set for release in Q4 2012.
The partnership will bring Mind Candy’s popular family brand Moshi Monsters to GREE’s 230 million worldwide users, while introducing the GREE Platform to an active community of more than 60 million registered Moshi Monsters users globally. The partnership will also expand upon Moshi Monster’s cross-continent success by delivering fully localized mobile games in multiple languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and more.
“Our fans love tablets and smartphones so we’re really excited to take our much loved characters and stories to these new platforms,” said Michael Acton Smith, Founder and CEO of Mind Candy. “GREE has achieved phenomenal success and we’re looking forward to working with them on these two games.”
“We’re really excited to work with Mind Candy to bring Moshi Monsters to our global mobile community and to the GREE Platform,” said Yoshikazu Tanaka, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GREE, Inc. “Moshi Monsters is a leader in the online industry and has built a great and loyal following. GREE is delighted to be a part of the franchise’s move to mobile and believes the relationship is a great opportunity to further illustrate GREE’s on-going commitment to bringing quality content for all gamers to the new platform.”
GREE is dedicated to building a global social mobile gaming community for players and developers alike. The GREE Platform features unique and high-quality content bringing gamers a robust social gaming experience.
As part of its move into the mobile gaming industry Mind Candy is building an in-house team to handle mobile partnerships and the internal development of all mobile titles, including several games and apps set for release throughout 2012.
