Only days after their acquisition by Japan's social gaming giant GREE, OpenFeint is already making their presence known in the East. How so? By powering The9 Game Zone for 800 million mobile users in China.
If you are a mobile games developer and are looking for funding, this is your lucky day. The9, a leading games publisher in China, has announced a new $100 million to invest in publishing mobile games. The9 is so wealthy because it was smart enough to publish Blizzard's World of Warcraft (WoW) in China. For those who don't know, WoW is quite popular in China. The problem is, The9 has lost the rights to publish WoW in China, so now it is flush with cash but without a cash cow.