Eindhoven, the Netherlands - 19 November 2009
Game Entertainment Europe, publisher of Online games and Eximion, developer of the Kalydo 3D browser game platform have signed an agreement to bring downloadable MMO games to Social Networks such as Facebook and Netlog.
Therefore, existing downloadable MMO games will be seamlessly ported so users can start and play these games in a Web browser. When ready the online games will be offered to millions of users in Social Networks using Kalydo. With this cooperation both companies follow the success of other Social Games like Restaurant City, Mafia Wars and Farm Ville, where users don’t have to register, download and install games. Also it is very easy to share the game and their game results with many of their friends.
The first game that will be launched is Hovorun (www.hovorun.com), a casual multi player racing game based in the Mario Kart theme. The planning is to launch the first browser version of this game to social networks such as Hyves and Netlog.
“For this cooperation GEE will focus on the selection of the best Online Games from the enormous offering of downloadable MMO games we have. We will localize and promote the games but we can leave the transformation to a browser based game and the distribution to the Social Networks to Eximion. An excellent combination.” according to Richard van Barneveld, CEO of Game Entertainment Europe.
“We want to show the world its now perfectly possible to run large MMO games from the browser. Combining smart engineering, bleeding edge technology such as cloud computing we bring these games to the browser, omitting the need of a large download and installation. Together with Game Entertainment Europe we make the first MMO games widely accessible to a huge group of people on the social networks.” says Doki Tops – CEO at Kalydo
About Kalydo (www.kalydo.com)
Eximion is the visionary company behind Kalydo, a powerful open platform for developing, publishing and monetizing console quality browser games. Working on the bleeding edge of innovation, Kalydo is 100% OpenSocial compatible, offers limitless scalability (Google App Engine) and is smartly streamlined to bring consumers a singularly top quality gaming experience without the need of a large installation.
With its seamless integration into the well-known social networks, Kalydo offers a direct stepping stone to a gigantic online audience, and by combining state of the art technology (including the use of cloud computing) and smart engineering, consumers will be able to play MMO games seamlessly in every browser on the planet.
Based in the Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Eximion has been nominated for several innovation awards such as the MKB Innovation Top 100 and the Fast Fifty of the Quote 500 magazine next to successfully partnering with Netlog (social network of 50+ million users) and Game Entertainment Europe. Plans for the future include cross-platform releases such as the Wii Ware and iPhone.
Follow Kalydo on twitter: www.twitter.com/kalydo
About Game Entertainment Europe (www.ge-eu.com)
Game Entertainment Europe is the leading Pan European publisher for MMO Games. To offer the best game experience all the games are localized for European territory. Game Entertainment Europe organizes promotion, hosting, billing, game mastering and support services. Game Entertainment Europe has earned its rank as one of Europe’s most popular free to play MMOG communities with more than 1.000.000 registered gamers on their game platform www.gamersoxygen.com . The company has offices in Switzerland, Amsterdam and Seoul. Game Entertainment Europe is shareholder in Games Factory Online (www.gamesfactoryonline.com), WZZRD game café’s (www.wzzrd.nl) and Lots Interactive, a game development studio from Korea.
