GREE’s Gaming Platform in Open Beta, as it Announces Another Key Gaming Partnership

Japanese social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) has announced that its new GREE Platform is now officially in Open Beta, and developers can download the new platform SDK as of today. The company acquired Open Feint last year, but will be abandoning that name and encouraging developers to migrate titles on Open Feint over to the GREE platform.

The company says in its announcement that the new platform will be available in both English and Japanese, and there will be over 60 games launched by September of this year.

GREE has been steadily expanding through partnerships and acquisitions over the past year, most notably with its recent pickup of social game developer Funzio for the sum of $210 million earlier this month. GREE claims that its ever-growing network now reaches over 230 million users around the world.

Even more mobile partnerships… #

Mind Candy & GREE (photo: mindcandy.com)

The company has also just announced that it will be partnering with entertainment company Mind Candy to bring the very popular Moshi Monsters kids’ game franchise onto mobile devices via the GREE Platform. The game lets children adopt and raise virtual pet monsters online.

The partnership will result in two Moshi Monsters titles being released in Q4 2012. Michael Acton Smith, the CEO and founder of Mind Candy noted:

Our fans love tablets and smartphones so we’re really excited to take our much loved characters and stories to these new platforms. […] GREE has achieved phenomenal success and we’re looking forward to working with them on these two games.

Moshi Monsters already claims over 60 million registered users in 150 territories around the world, and this tie-up with GREE will certainly help the game expand even further.