Oberon Media Bolsters Mobile Games Position: Acquires Blaze Mobile Entertainment.Blaze to Enhance Oberon's Global Distribution for Mobile Games and to Provide Additional Content and Technology, Furthering Oberon's Push into Mobile Games NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Oberon Media, a leading casual games solution provider, announced today the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Blaze, a premier provider of mobile games and technologies with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. . Blaze including former Synergenix will augment Oberon's mobile game distribution network with more than 100 powerful mobile distributor relationships worldwide including Vodafone, 3, Orange, Vivo and Telefonica. Additionally, Blaze will provide Oberon with a dynamic portfolio of single player, multiplayer, and 3D mobile games such as: "The Da Vinci da Vinci Surgery A surgical robot for performing certain surgeries–eg, mitral valve repair and laparoscopic procedures–eg, cholecystectomy and gastric ulcer repair. See Laparoscopic surgery, Robotics, Surgical robot. Code", VH1 Mobile's "I know the 80s", the highly rated Rally Pro, MTV Europe Music Awards The MTV Europe Music Awards were established in 1994 by MTV Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe. Originally beginning as an alternative to the American MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Europe Music Awards is today a popular celebration of what MTV viewers 2006 Quiz and casual game hit licenses such as Slingo-2-Go and Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament The Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament is a series of no limit Texas hold 'em poker tournaments. The first season is available on NTSC DVD. It airs on Fox Sports Net in the United States, Rogers Sportsnet in Canada and ftn in the United Kingdom. The new combined entity will offer mobile operators a strong full-service casual games offering with mobile, web, and downloadable PC games. Examples from the new games portfolio include casual hit games like Bricks of Egypt and Magic Match. "Oberon is thrilled to welcome Blaze with its extensive relationships and distribution partners into the Oberon family. Blaze experience will help us to scale and execute our strategy to provide the best casual games experience across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. " "Oberon is committed to growing the mobile casual games category. Over the past year we have been developing great games, innovative platforms to boost sales and grow mobile casual gamer Casual gamer is a term used to describe a type of video game player whose time or interest in playing games is limited compared with a hardcore gamer. They can be found playing games across all genres and of varying levels of complexity and difficulty. communities. We look forward to work with our new partners on expanding their reach and offering to consumers," says Ofer Leidner, Co-Founder and Head of Business Development for Oberon. Martin Forsling, GM of Blaze Europe states, "Oberon has a strong vision and a proven track record of successful execution, we are very happy to now be a part of this family. As the mobile games market consolidates, it will be crucial to focus the effort and with Oberon we can gain an enormous leverage from their casual games knowledge on the web and PC side." Adding Blaze's deployment capabilities and strong mobile game pedigree, Oberon is poised to offer a broad selection of mobile games across platforms including J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition) A version of Java 2 for cellphones, PDAs and consumer appliances. J2ME uses the K Virtual Machine (KVM), a specialized Java interpreter for devices with limited memory. , Brew, Symbian, Flash Lite, and Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. . About Oberon Media Oberon Media (http://www.oberon-media.com) is the world's leading casual games solution provider. The Oberon Game Center platform is the industry standard and has been adopted by some of the world's largest corporations. The platform combines casual game content, merchandizing and features to fulfill each partner's specific needs. Oberon Media's publishing arm works with the industry's best, award-winning game developers to produce the top-selling casual games, which can be played in more than a dozen languages on PC, web-based, mobile and console platforms. Oberon Media was founded in 2003 and has offices in New York, Seattle, London, Cyprus, Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest and Singapore. About Blaze Blaze, formerly Kayak Interactive, is a global mobile games publisher headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in Stockholm Sweden. The company has worldwide distribution with top tier mobile operators in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Blaze publishes a wide portfolio of products targeting mass market consumers and based on leading branded media properties. The company's portfolio encompasses connected community games and single player games, and is available on Java, Brew, and Symbian devices from all leading mobile handset manufacturers. In 2005 Blaze acquired both Synergenix, a leading mobile games publisher in Europe and owner of the industry's best multi OS mobile game development middleware, mophun[TM], and Chasma, a mobile games publisher in the US. |
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