据venturebeat网站的报道，社交游戏公司Kabam日前正式对外宣称收购同业公司WonderHill。此次收购报价并没有对外公开。

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Kabam是由原应用程序开发公司Watercooler转型而来，该公司在去年11月起正式进入游戏研发领域。Kabam期望他们在社交游戏领域的努力能让他们具有像zynga或者playdom、playfish那样的行业影响力。

WonderHill创建于2008年，由James Currier和Stan Chudnovsky共同创建，获得来自Charles River Ventures、Shasta Ventures和Ooga Labs775万美元的风险投资。

WonderHill目前月活跃用户大概在200万左右，该公司曾因为Aquarium Life（水族馆生活）侵犯了Crowdstar现行的游戏Happy Aquarium （开心水族馆）而被Crowdstar发起过诉讼。

随着WonderHill收购案，Kabam将获得该公司25位成员的人力资源，达到200位员工的规模。

Kabam创建于2007年，获得Betfair和Canaan Partners两轮总额950万美元的风险投资，目前该公司首席执行官是Kevin Chou。

年初Kabam成员仅20名左右，随着Kingdoms of Camelot在facebook的成功（820万月活跃用户），公司规模也随着膨胀。（本文由游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译）

Kabam is hoping to build the next dynamite company in social games. Today, Kabam is announcing it has acquired social game developer WonderHill as part of a quest to build a powerhouse in next-generation social gaming.

The price wasn’t disclosed. Redwood City, Calif.-based Kabam is trying to build a high-end social game firm that could join the ranks of top companies such as Zynga, Disney-Playdom, EA-Playfish and CrowdStar. It has a ways to go in that respect, but the acquisition shows that Kabam has become a player in the space. The deal also shows that smaller developers are under pressure to get big fast as rivals such as Zynga grow bigger and bigger.

WonderHill was founded in 2008 by James Currier and Stan Chudnovsky. The company raised $7.75 million from Charles River Ventures, Shasta Ventures and Ooga Labs. The company created hit titles on MySpace such as Green Spot and it more recently moved to Facebook with titles such as Dragons of Atlantis.

WonderHill has 2 million monthly active users for its free-to-play games, where players can play for free and pay real money for virtual goods.

With the addition of 25 employees from San Francisco-based WonderHill, Kabam will now have about 200 employees, said Kaban chief executive Kevin Chou. Kabam was founded in 2007 as Watercooler. The company raised $9.5 million in two rounds of funding. Investors include Betfair and Canaan Partners.

At the beginning of the year, Kabam had just 20 employees, but it has grown quickly on the strength of games such as Kingdoms of Camelot, which has 8.2 million monthly active users across dozens of games on Facebook. The company got its start with online sports fan sites on Facebook.（source：venturebeat）