据CNN报道，美国手机游戏开发商Ngmoco近日宣布将打造另一个手机社交游戏平台“Mobage”，这也是Ngmoco被日本社交游戏公司DeNA收购后开发的第一个项目。

Mobage Town-logo

DeNA公司原先在日本已成功运营了一个拥有2000多万用户的手机社交网站Mobage Town，Mobage平台将成为Mobage Town在智能手机领域的业务延伸。

Ngmoco公司CEO尼尔扬（Neil Young）表示，Mobage平台允许用户匿名登录，“因为有时候你并不想让自己的朋友和家人知道，你每天都在玩某款游戏。”

社交游戏不光在美国市场很受追捧，在远东地区同样也不例外。DeNA宣称公司今年的总营收将达10亿美元，这一数据大大超过了任何美国社交游戏公司2010年的创收目标。尼尔扬认为，西方人很难想象社交游戏在日本的市场规模居然如此之大，从日本市场的发展现状中可以预见这一产业在当地的未来走向。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Godfinger developer Ngmoco to create mobile gaming social network

So, that’s what they’ve been up to. San Francisco-based mobile games developer Ngmoco revealed today its first major project since being bought out by Japanese social gaming company DeNA for $403 million: Mobage, CNN reports. Pronounced “Moe-ba-gay,”Mobage will be the smartphone extension of DeNA’s already successful Mobage Town mobile network in Japan, which is home to 20 million plus users.

We imagine Mobage will take advantage of the more powerful smartphones and according to Ngmoco CEO Neil Young (just a coincidence, folks), Mobage may allow for anonymity through user names. “Sometimes you don’t want your friends and family knowing that you’re playing these games every day,” Young said to CNN.

And if you thought social gaming was huge in the U.S., take a trip to the Far East and see how it’s fairing over there. DeNA claims that it might clear $1 billion in revenue this year alone, which would launch the company much farther than any American social games company in 2010. “It’s hard for people in the West to get their heads around how big it is in Japan,” Young said. “What’s happening in Japan is really a blueprint for what’s going to happen here.”（source:blog.games）