GREE Brings Taito's Spy Wars to Android, and Into China Via Tencent

Japanese mobile social game company GREE (TYO:3632) announced today that as a part of its partnership with Chinese Internet giant Tencent (HKG:0700), it will be bringing Taito Corporation’s popular SpyWars title to Android, and — via Tencent’s ‘Open Platform for Community’ for smartphones — will be making it available in China as well.

I’ve not played Spy Wars yet, but it does sound kind of addictive with ‘plot twists worthy of a spy novel, a variety of exciting spy tools, and thrilling battle.’ You can check out a few screenshots from the game below, and try it out if you’re interested. This will be Taito’s first social game on Tencent’s Open Platform for Community, which is standardized to be compatible with the GREE platform.

Readers may recognize Taito as the same company that recently helped bring western game developer PopCap (of Plants vs Zombies fame) to the GREE platform for the Japanese market.

It’s impressive to see how well GREE’s expanding network is allowing games to span geographical boundaries with what appears to be little effort so far.