RealNetworks Acquires Backstage to Bolster GameHouse Division

Seattle-based company RealNetworks is taking another tack in its efforts to succeed on Facebook. It announced today that it has bought Backstage Technologies, the Canadian developer that is most famous on Facebook for Family Feud, which was produced in partnership with iWin.

Backstage will work with RealNetworks’ own GameHouse, which makes UNO™, SCRABBLE® Worldwide, COLLAPSE! and a handful of other games. It also runs a Facebook app called GameHouse, a cross-platform portal to which it hopes

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