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Freeverse goes with ngmoco's Plus+ for iPhone social gaming
Freeverse has picked a partner in the ongoing dance of social gaming networks on the iPhone. They've joined up with ngmoco and their Plus+ system for all of their games, including Flick Bowling, Flick Fishing, and Moto Thunder. The first Freeverse game to use the system (which allows players to earn points across games, track friends' playing habits, and vie for the tops of leaderboards) will be an upcoming title called Warpgate, and then it'll be ported back to the already-released games as well.This is actually a fairly big shot across the board of other networks vying for players, including Aurora Feint's OpenFeint, Chillingo's Crystal SDK, Scoreloop, and a few other competing services. ngmoco had originally announced that their Plus+ service would be proprietary to the titles that they published, but the inclusion of Freeverse as a partner means they're likely headhunting for quality titles to add to the mix, much like everyone else.
To a certain extent, this is a behind-the-scenes battle -- consumers will likely choose games based on what they want to play, not necessarily on what social network they're hooked into. It's as if Microsoft, instead of having the overarching Xbox Live system, left it up to developers to award and track achievement points. But you have to think that one big player will emerge here, and then it'll be interesting to see what kinds of rewards the devs who connected with that system will reap.
[via TouchArcade]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Steven Fisher said 3:29PM on 7-31-2009
I know it's not terribly important, but Plus+ is a ridiculous name. (Which is kind of good, really.)
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Ir vin B. said 12:56AM on 8-01-2009
iPhones has been a soial gadget in the past year. Well, we all knew it was bound to happen – there is an iPhone virus floating around, at least reportedly. (And no, we do not mean the iPhone itself or its marketing.) An iPhone virus has begun circulating through a text message that will instantly hack your accounts that you access through the phone, and the iPhone SMS hack is being fingered for some identity thefts, and victims using payday loans to cover damage. There will be future iPhone hacks (besides Apple) to be sure, and the procedure is that if you get the fraudulent message, turn off your phone immediately. You don't want to need cash advances to cover damage done by the iPhone virus.
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zwilnik said 10:53AM on 8-01-2009
There wasn't an actual virus going around. just the potential for an SMS exploit. Which is a mute point as Apple released the 3.0.1 update to fix it before anyone actually used it.