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PlayPhone offers a superior social gaming experience.

A leader in social gaming, PlayPhone has recently announced that in all regions where it operates, it reaches almost every mobile subscriber and this success has enabled the company to gain significant traction around the world, particularly outside of the United States, where mobile gaming growth is the most substantial.

The mobile social gaming network presently reaches more than 82 percent of the US mobile market.

In addition to the United States, PlayPhone has reached 99 percent of Brazil’s market and is accelerating and growing more dominant in South East Asia via exclusive deals it has made with Indonesia’s and Singapore’s biggest mobile operators. For Mobile operators and messaging app partners, integrating the PayPhone platform is quick and profitable, as it takes less than two months to become a part of the company’s mobile gaming environment.

Palyphone CMO Anders Evju said “Once PlayPhone lands in a region, it’s only a matter of time before we reach almost a hundred percent of mobile subscribers in that region.” He added that “Operator and messaging app partners are signing on at an accelerated rate.” Evju commented that the active deals the companies have in India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Australia, Europe and the Middle East, will enable them to cover more of the globe soon. “China alone will deliver more than a billion more potential gamers,” he said.

The gaming network’s advanced social gaming products for operators and messaging apps includes: cross-network virtual currency, an upcoming advertising platform, white-labeled social game stores and a game developer publishing platform that includes a proprietary software development kit (SDK).

PlayPhone’s technology takes mobile gaming to another level.

Mobile operators and messaging apps are utilizing the technology to provide their mobile customers with an improved social gaming experience with the benefit of broader mobile commerce options. One of the primary advantages of PlayPhone’s gaming ecosystem is its network currency known as “Playcredits”. Those who partner with the company enable their customers to make use of these Playcredits beyond mobile gaming, allowing them to buy mobile products, music, rewards programs and services. Thus, with PlayPhone’s offerings, the future of mobile gaming could be re-imagined.

The company’s mobile games have been played by over 400 million users.

Storm8 Inc., the California-based company and the leading developer of social games for Android and iOS, has seen an increase in its mobile gaming network, which has two times the amount of users it did in the previous year.

Storm8 is excited about mobile games and the future.

According to the company’s chief executive Perry Tam, “We’ve been around for five years, and I’ve been extremely excited about how we’ve done in the last year. We believe that is an exciting achievement, and we are excited about the future of mobile gaming.”

On average, Storm8 has approximately 50 million active users per month and offers 40 free-to-play mobile games. For over 20 quarters the company has been profitable and its high earnings have allowed it to maintain a workforce of over 250 people.

Its recent milestone has occurred despite the fact that Storm8 is not a huge name in the mobile gaming industry. It hasn’t produced any major titles like Candy Crush Saga developed by King or Clash of the Clans from Supercell. Nevertheless, even though it has not reached this fame quiet yet, Tam has said that six of the company’s games are always in the top 100-grossing games on iOS. He said that for April’s top-grossing ranks, Storm8 was among the top 10 of the biggest game publishers.

Storm8’s mobile gaming plans include launching 12 new games in 2014.

The company publishes one game per month and intends to release 12 titles this year. While they mostly produce casual games, they also develop games that cover a range of diverse genres. Some of Storm8’s more popular titles are Bubble Mania, Dragon Story, Bingo! and Jewel Mania.

Storm8 has been profitable since 2009 when it was first established by Tam and others who once worked for social media giant, Facebook. At no point during its existence has outside funding ever been raised by the social gaming company.

A large number of its customers are from the United States, Canada, Australia and Western Europe, but the majority of its customers are in Asia and in emerging markets. Tam commented that there are billions of mobile users and the company wants “to encapsulate as many of them as possible” by continuing to grow its mobile gaming network.