OpenFeint and The9 have formed a little partnership to help indie developers in bringing their games to Android from other platforms. We all know OpenFeint have been helping the indie scene for quite some time now and The9 is a Chinese game publisher that happens to have a $100 million dollar fund set up.
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AT&T seems to want to make things a little better for their Android users and are currently developing a social-gaming network they just announced today. Working with the crew over at OpenFeint, AT&T is developing a social-gaming community in which gamers will be able to against other people, keep track of high scores and more.
OpenFeint’s Spotlight app has been pretty handy when trying to find new games that have OpenFeint integrated into it. Now with this new version that the team has put out onto the market, they hope that it will help game developers with OpenFeint gain better visibility through social features.
To help spread the holiday spirit this season and to follow what is quickly becoming a pattern of great games being released this holiday, OpenFeint has yet another wave of games set to land on the Android Market starting today. 11 in total to be exact and with some of the big name Android gaming veterans once again in the line up.
OpenFeint is planning to release an interesting new feature to their line-up of awesomeness. This feature will be a Groupon-like feature that will offer discounts and sales on games, a neat voting type of feature and even a Free game-of-the-day for everyone. While it generally said for mobile games, we got in contact with AuroraFeint for a bit of clarification.
A new game is out and is being dubbed the first ‘Picnic Defense’ simulator by the developers, Mediatonic. This game is like Angry Birds but the birds are the bad guys and instead of pigs, you use Nomster, a kirby looking creature to defend your picnic from the greedy birds who are trying to nabbed all the good stuff.
Another wave of Android games with OpenFeint is set to be unleashed onto the Android Market today. While not as big as previous waves, this one has a total of 8 games, officially, set to land on the market today. I say officially because usually there are a few more developers who time their games with OpenFeint to come out during these waves.
In the midst of the new wave of games coming with OpenFeint support today and the rest of the week, one such game called Cows Don’t Fly comes from Hyperbees, developered by Kiork. This is an original game with some great graphics, smooth animations, unique gameplay and good music to keep you playing it for quite some time.
It seems as though releasing games in these waves is becoming a trend with OpenFeint and it seems to be working. A press release today states that some developers are seeing big increases in game sales thanks to integrating OpenFeint into their games, some as large as 39% which is what SpeedX 3D saw in increased sales with another 9% across the board on their other games.
Aurora Feint, developers of OpenFeint, seems to have gotten a new investor and as the title suggests it is ‘sort of’ Intel. Actually it is Intel Capital, which is the the investment branch of the Intel corporation similar to that of Google Ventures. This investment will help Aurora Feint push more great games and content to more mobile devices including Android.