ngmoco Brings the Ultimate Casino Experience to Mobage for Android

Mobage Blackjack, Texas Poker, Solitaire and Vegas: Strip City Deliver Deep Social Experiences Powered by the Mobage Social Gaming Platform

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mobile social games leader ngmoco, a DeNA Co. Ltd (2432.T) company, today announced that four casino-themed titles are slated to launch on Android via Mobage social gaming platform. Mobage Blackjack, a brand new game by Freeverse, Texas Poker from KAMAGAMES, Solitaire from MobilityWare and Vegas: Strip City from Astro Ape join a growing list of more than 100 titles, from the world’s best game studios, currently in development for Mobage.

“A game of cards is only as good as the people you’re sitting around the table with”

“A game of cards is only as good as the people you’re sitting around the table with,” said Simon Jeffery, Chief Publishing Officer, ngmoco. “ngmoco is excited to partner with the leaders in the field to raise the stakes for Mobile casino games by adding a whole new dimension of social interaction to the classic casino game experience via the Mobage social gaming platform. We’re thrilled to work with developers like KAMAGAMES, MobilityWare and Astro Ape to deliver the ultimate casino game experiences on Android.”

"We are excited to bring Texas Poker to Mobage to deliver the best poker experience possible to the huge audience of card game fans,” said Pavel Egorkin, CEO of KAMAGAMES. “We look forward to being part of the Mobage global community and taking advantage of the opportunities that offers."

“And we’re excited and grateful to be at the table with DeNA and ngmoco,” said John Libby, President, MobilityWare. “The Mobage social platform provides tremendous advantages for indie developers. We can’t wait to bring the rest of our titles to their platform.”

DeNA’s Mobage social entertainment network will give developers access to a suite of features to enhance their mobile and social games, including a shared currency, a virtual goods bank system, plus a payment API, advertising management and analytics tools.

For more information on ngmoco, please visit http://blog.ngmoco.com. Developers interested in developing for Mobage can download the free SDK and get more information at https://developer.mobage.com.

About ngmoco

ngmoco is a wholly owned subsidiary of DeNA Co., Ltd, the world's leading social mobile gaming company. Headquartered in San Francisco and with studios in New York and Portland, ngmoco creates and publishes games for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android in collaboration with the best and brightest game makers in the world. ngCore technology is patent pending. To find out more about Mobage Smartphone SDK visit https://developer.mobage.com. To witness the lives and minds of the ngmoco team at work on the future of social mobile gaming, visit http://www.ngmoco.com.

About DeNA

DeNA Co., Ltd. is a world-leading Web service company that operates the Mobage social gaming platform, social networking services and e-commerce websites. Drawing on its extensive community base and rapidly expanding developer line-up, Mobage currently serves over 27 million users in Japan with more than 1,000 game titles for smartphones, feature phones and PCs. The company generated annual sales of more than 1.3 billion U.S. dollars in fiscal year ended March 2011. To expand the Mobage platform globally, DeNA is building a presence in the US, Europe and in China. DeNA is listed on the Tokyo stock exchange (2432). For more information, please visit http://www.dena.jp/en.