德国网页游戏公司InnoGames日前正式宣布进军社交游戏领域，其测试版将于数周之后面向玩家开放。

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InnoGames首席架构师Eike Klindworth表示社交游戏和网页游戏一样具有相当的发展前景，他们有足够的信心去开拓这个新兴的游戏市场。

在InnoGames公司的预想中，他们想在不同的社交网络平台同时施展手脚。目前为止InnoGames公司已经拥有了5000万的注册玩家，旗下的三大游戏Grepolis、the West和Tribal Wars在全球有超过20种语言使用用户。

今年5月InnoGames公司刚刚获得来自英国风险投资商Fidelity Growth Partners Europe的投资。InnoGames公司计划为此新增100名新成员。

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German browser game publisher InnoGames announced to enter the social gaming market. The company also announced the launch of a public beta version of its first Social Game within the next weeks.

“Social Games are booming just as browser based games do. We are convinced, we can reach new target groups in this market and thus enlarge our customer base”, explained Eike Klindworth, Chief Games Officer at InnoGames.

InnoGames plans to roll out their social games across different social networks. Additionally they will publish the game on an external address to give everyone access to the game “even without an account in a social network.” For the last few years InnoGames was steadily grew to over 50 million registered users . Their games “Grepolis”, “The West” and “Tribal Wars” are localized in over 20 languages. In May 2010 InnoGames received funding from British investor Fidelity Growth Partners Europe. The sum of the funding round was not disclosed. InnoGames plans to use the capital to hire 100 new employees and publish several new online games within the next twelve months.

Browser games are traditionally very strong in Germany. Apart from InnoGames, German rivals GameForge and Bigpoint have over 85 and over 100 million registered users. InnoGames’ rivals also already started to enter the social games market. BigPoint, for example, launched their success game “Dark Orbit” on MySpace. Gameforge launched their first social game “Funfari” on Facebook which has over 600.000 active users this April. It seemed like just a matter of time when InnoGames will join the trend. As they announced to do so now we are looking forward to the first beta.