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Monday, August 13, 2007

Digital Chocolate Buys Gaming Studios In India and Spain

Mobile gaming company Digital Chocolate has bought operations and studios in Bangalore, India, and Barcelona, Spain, from Small Device Mobile Technologies and Microjocs Mobile, respectively. These buys will give the company expertise to develop localized content for consumers in southern Europe and Asia, it said. The terms were not disclosed.

Small Devices is a mobile apps porting expert, and will be merged with DigiChoc’s Catapult porting technology. Microjocs is a mobile games production studio. DigiChoc is based in San Mateo, CA and was founded in 2003 by EA founder Trip Hawkins. More here.

Labels: acquisition, dchoc

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Monday, August 06, 2007

DChoc Café

Digital Chocolate has launched its DChoc Café series of socially networked mobile games across a raft of channels.

Titles are already available on 3, AT&T and T-Mobile, with Alltel, Nokia (including the new N-Gage platform), O2, Orange, Telefonica, SFR, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, Telecom New Zealand, Telstra, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone all set to come online in the coming weeks.

DChoc Café games allow players to create personalised characters, form exclusive cafés for friends and earn points to unlock bonus items for their characters - players are rewarded for playing well, and cafés can compete against each other.

The series build on themes touched on by DChoc CEO Trip Hawkins at GDC earlier this year - specifically the need to use social networking to entice and keep more people playing mobile games.

In light of this, DChoc Café also has a cross-selling function that enables players to purchase new titles in the series from within an existing game.

The first five games available in the DChoc Café Series include DChoc Café Sudoku, DChoc Café Kakuro, DChoc Café Hold’em Poker, DChoc Café Mahjong and DChoc Café Solitaire.

source: http://www.mobile-ent.biz

Labels: dchoc, mobile games