MNC Wireless And Snout Enters Into Strategic Partnership For Online Mobile Games

Online, October 19, 2010 (Newswire.com) - MNC Wireless Berhad ("MNC"), a Malaysian based mobile and digital solutions company announced a strategic partnership with Snout Sdn. Bhd. ("Snout"), the Malaysian subsidiary of leading mobile social game developer Snout Corporation of Japan. Under the partnership, Snout will be providing a series of flash games for MNC's mobile social networking platform, Mobby.Me.

"The partnership provides a solid foundation for MNC and Snout to work together to bring fun and exciting social gaming experience for mobile phones users. We are very impressed with Snout's capabilities in mobile social gaming in Japan especially in developing games for one of the world's largest mobile social networking company GREE and for Japan's largest mobile phone game site, Mobage. We are proud to collaborate with them to give mobile users the ability to enjoy greater gaming experience," said MNC's Chief Executive Officer, Mr Chung Jaan Hao.

"We believe this collaboration is a perfect match for our strategic direction and I am excited by the potential of this partnership. The partnership will further strengthen our strategy to expand our high-quality and innovative game content to more gamers in the mobile social gaming platform," said Snout's Managing Director, Mr. Junichi Mitsuda.

With the partnership, MNC and Snout will work closely together to explore opportunities in introducing innovative gaming features on the mobile social gaming service site, Mobby.Me and at the same time serve as an excellent opportunity for Snout to expand their global business development on the rapidly-growing mobile social networking market.

"We believe there are tremendous opportunities in the social gaming industry. As gaming and entertainment moves towards mobility and interaction, this may also create a significant opportunity for Mobby.Me to be a potential platform for advertisers and games developers to reach their target audience," added Jaan Hao.

Mobby.Me, a made for mobile social gaming services site created by MNC supports a comprehensive range of social gaming services that are specially designed for mobile users. With the collaboration, Mobby.Me members can choose from a wide variety of online flash games to download or play on the Mobby.Me site for free.

Both the network and mobile industry have undergone enormous evolution and significant technical improvements in recent years. To encourage the adoption of mobile internet for online mobile gaming, MNC has signed an agreement with one of the main mobile telecommunication services provider in Malaysia, Maxis Communications Bhd to waive the data charges for all Maxis users on the Mobby.me site.

The gaming industry is a highly innovative and growing business domain with the ability to attract a wide audience especially adults of age 20s to 30s. DFC intelligence has forecasted that by 2014 mobile gaming industry will grow to USD11.7 Million with mobile platforms will be seeing the major growth.

Through the partnership, both companies shall look forward to leveraging on their capabilities and synergies for the provision of high quality content to more users around the world.

Mobby.Me is a mobile social gaming services site that offers a combination of entertainment and social networking services through personal mobile homepages. Mobby.Me supports the RPG WAP game, Lords of the Street, a crime genre mobile social game that is filled with action-packed fun and entertainment features such as multiple profiles, questing, player vs player, character leveling and progression in the gameplay. Other features in Mobby.Me includes Mobby Shop where users can purchase and download mobile applications using Mobby coins, Avatar and personal photo and video gallery where users can upload via MMS and WAP. To experience Mobby.Me, go to http://mobby.me on your phone browser.