Beeline Interactive, Capcom's mobile social brand responsible for such mega-hits as Smurfs' Village, Zombie Cafe, and Lil' Pirates, has this morning announced a partnership with Peanuts Worldwide to bring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the whole Peanuts gang to mobile phones this fall in yet another freemium social release.
Since its release late last fall, Smurfs' Village has become a staple of the freemium games scene on the App Store. It seems that iOS gamers just can't get enough of the little blue eighties throwbacks, regardless of how obnoxious their cartoon was. Now as those very same gamers gear up to go to the beach this summer, they'll be able to let their Smurfs do the same in the game's latest free update, Smurf's Up!
If you'd asked me a year ago who the big players in mobile social gaming would be, Capcom would have been the furthest thing from my mind. But low and behold, the last six months have proven that the traditional gaming giant could easily make a sizable footprint in the smartphone social gaming scene. Now the publisher is giving these games a home of their own through the creation of a new publishing sub-brand, Beeline.