据inside social games的消息，西雅图公司RealNetworks为了继续扩大他们在facebook游戏的影响力，收购了加拿大游戏开发者Backstage Technologies（加拿大总部并没有出售）。

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Family Feud（将近700万的月活跃用户和超过130万的日活跃用户）就是一款由Backstage和iwin共同开发的知名facebook社交游戏。据称RealNetworks本次收购Backstage主要是为旗下GameHouse做配合服务。GameHouse在目前已经有UNO™、SCRABBLE® Worldwide和COLLAPSE!等数款游戏，主要功能是协助开发者运营的的跨平台游戏门户。

RealNetworks并没有公开本次的收购价，但据称该收购价不会对RealNetworks2010年度的营收带来冲击，这也意味着说收购价格可能不会太高。

Seattle-based company RealNetworks is taking another tack in its efforts to succeed on Facebook. It announced today that it has bought Backstage Technologies, the Canadian developer that is most famous on Facebook for Family Feud, which was produced in partnership with iWin.

Backstage will work with RealNetworks’ own GameHouse, which makes UNO™, SCRABBLE® Worldwide, COLLAPSE! and a handful of other games. It also runs a Facebook app called GameHouse, a cross-platform portal to which it hopes to attract other developers.

The combination of the two companies (virtually, as Backstage will remain in its own Canada HQ) suggests a different sort of Facebook publisher. GameHouse’s own offerings have been branded board or card games, while Backstage makes simple arcade games like Scratch and Win and Action Sudoku. Neither company has ever made a Facebook game along the standard farm, pet or city lines.

Backstage’s reputation from working on Family Feud may be enough to secure RealNetworks more branded partnerships, a hot area right now with games like The Price is Right gaining millions of users.

RealNetworks didn’t disclose the purchase price, but it did say that it won’t impact 2010 earnings — which suggests a relatively low price, since Real is currently losing money as it restructures.（source：inside social games）