[asahi.com] DOCOMO and DeNA to Partner in Mobile Social Gaming

asahi.com 4/25/2011

NTT DOCOMO, INC. and DeNA Co., Ltd. announced today a business alliance to offer an enhanced mobile-based social-gaming platform in Japan and overseas, aiming to tap into the rapid growth of social gaming worldwide.

From May, Mobage, DeNA's highly popular social networking platform centered on gaming, will be directly linked to DOCOMO's i-mode mobile Web portal for feature phones and "docomo market" portal for smartphones. Linkage will enable DOCOMO customers - including more than 6 million smartphone users projected for the current fiscal year - to navigate easily to Mobage's social-gaming services.

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• Another mobile gaming platform, GREE announced in February to launch GREE Market partnering with KDDI in summer.