Oberon is also working with developer partners to test our new Social SDK that further leverages this new functionality and will continue to introduce these capabilities to global developer partners in the next quarter. Players can take advantage of these features in City Sights: Hello Seattle and Paradise Quest, both published by I-play, Oberon Media’s publishing division.įollowing this initial release, Oberon will optimize a platform experience that will be rolled out to our Game Center partners and allow for creation of “premium social” games. The connected social features allow players to link to their social network through Facebook Connect, see friends who are also playing the game, suggest the game to others and share achievements as they are earned in-game. This builds on the success the company has gained leveraging social features in Smartphone and online games and highlights Oberon’s aggressive push to bring social connectivity to game experiences on every platform as part of their 2010 strategy. NEW YORK – Ma– Oberon Media, the world’s leading multi-platform casual games company, announced that it has continued its efforts to bring social functionality features to casual games by launching connected social features in download games. Oberon Media Expands on Social Connectivity StrategiesĬasual Game Leader Brings Connected Social Features to Premium Downloadable Games, Builds on Smartphone Success One OM game which I’m reviewing now, ArtistColong also makes use of social media.Ĭheck out the press release below for Oberon Media’s upcoming Social Media initiatives: This feature can be seen in their games such as City Sights and Paradise Quest.
While mobile based social networks like OpenFeint were create to address the needs and demands of mobile games, traditional social media sites (I never thought I would use traditional to describe something related to social media) like Facebook are seeing increased exposure on such games.Ĭompanies like Oberon Media are now expanding on their social media connectivity when it comes to their games and now with Facebook Connect, they bring their games to mainstream social media exposure.
There’s a social media wave going on and even games for smartphones like the iPhone can’t escape it.