DOCOMO and DeNA create socio-game cross-platform

The Japanese company NTT DOCOMO and DeNA announced a business alliance, which will result in the creation of mobile social gaming platform in Japan and abroad, in order to connect to the rapidly growing market of social games around the world.

Shall be based on the popular social networking platform derived from Mobage DeNA, which will be directly connected with the mobile web i-mode portal DOCOMO, designed for highly functional phones (not smartphones), as well as «docomo market» - a portal for smartphones.

Part of the application will DeNA preinstalled on certain models of smartphones to be released by DOCOMO shortly. In this case, subscribers of the operator will have some benefits in the form of more early access to exclusive content.

DOCOMO and DeNA plan to promote the platform Mobage outside of Japan, from Europe and Asia in cooperation with operators and third-party developers.