Hudson Soft Partners with OpenFeint To Promote Five iDevice Games

Hudson Soft and Aurora Feint today announced that they have partnered to feature five games on OpenFeint's Free Game of the Day promotion on the iDevices. All featured games are OpenFeint-enabled and incorporate key components of OpenFeint's online gaming services, including global leaderboards and achievements that are fully compatible with Game Center. Hudson Soft is another legendary console maker that is jumping into social gaming: they created the NES smash Adventure Island. OpenFeint has been unveiling a lot of news recently and is attempting to become the leading social gaming network for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. They have 22 million users and 1,800 games live in the App Store, and seem to be fighting extra hard to be in a good place when Apple unveils its Apple Game Center. Not many details are known about that game center, but surely OpenFeint must have some plan to either coexist with that platform or battle it, although I doubt they'd want to battle Apple on Apple's own console. By bringing in as many game developers as they can and offering a great deal, perhaps they are attempting to build something that can live in parallel to the game network. Many OpenFeint services, like leaderboards and achievements, are still an open question when it comes to the Apple Game Center, and if those features aren't developed by Apple, OpenFeint is in a great place. Regarding the deal with OpenFeint, Hudson had this to say: "OpenFeint has great online gaming services that are important to the player experience," said Masato Shibata, Smartphone Business Division President of Hudson Soft. "However, we chose to feature our titles on OpenFeint because it has amazing social gaming and cross promotion features. This is an exciting opportunity to reach millions of engaged, connected game players." The Hudson Soft titles will be featured from April through June and include World RPS, Shooting Watch, Catch the Egg, Aqua Forest 2, and Haunted Pics. "Hudson Soft develops great games and we're excited to help promote their games to our players," said Jason Citron, CEO and founder of Aurora Feint. "We've developed a bevy of effective promotional channels like Free Game of the Day that help games stand out in a crowded app store. Discovery will only get easier as we deploy more social gaming features that help games get discovered virally as part of our OpenFeint X platform."

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Hudson Soft Partners with OpenFeint To Promote Five iDevice Games

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