New Gaming Portal to Transform Social Gaming Experience for All Players and Developers
SAN FRANCISCO -- Feb. 15, 2008 The Social Gaming Network (SGN, http://www.socialgn.com), the world's largest social gaming network, today announced the launch of its social gaming hub. The revolutionary new platform, SGN Gaming Hub, will offer developers who qualify free installs for all their games through opening its advanced Application Programming Interfaces (API). Developers will have a dedicated cross promotional hub to elevate their games through the gaming graph's network effect. Developers can go to http://apps.facebook.com/sgndeveloper/ to submit their games to the network.
Social gaming is a nascent and fast growing genre in gaming and SGN is proud to have helped spawn it with Warbook and other new games. Asynchronous, turn-based games inside of social networks are helping create new opportunities for game developers, game designers and graphic artists. SGN's vision is to enable a whole social gaming economy where talented gaming developers can break free and become truly independent developers potentially making thousands of dollars in revenue from SGN's platform and burgeoning network of original social games.
"With thousands of games already launched it will get increasingly hard to get noticed in the crowd. SGN's mission is enable gamers easy access to all the best social games in one place and empower developers to leverage our gaming graph to grow their games across our network," said Shervin Pishevar, CEO and co-founder, SGN. "By opening our network and platform, we are allowing game designers and developers to leverage our large network and engagement features to benefit their own games. The development of this unique gaming platform will help developers take advantage of the 'gaming graph', elevating the opportunity for installation at no cost to the developer and placing them in a stable of the best, unique and engaging games on the network. The world's first "gaming graph" will cross link all SGN Gaming Hub games within our dynamic and fast growing network."
The SGN Gaming Hub gives users a tool to aggregate games and game feeds, which will be stored in the Hub on Facebook, giving users easy access to their favorite games and the their friends game profiles. The SGN Hub for developers is a welcome sign for designers of original content to create and share games, showing that innovation and not imitation is the future of this space.
Today, there is a totally different gaming experience within social networks- competing against friends or colleagues and comparing ranks in the broad social network is driving the enormous adoption of games like WarBook and Fight Club. SGN Gaming Hub will take this to the next level, allowing players to find a community of like minded gamers driving higher engagement. Users can go to http://apps.facebook.com/socialgn/home and download the hub.
"The SGN Gaming Hub will have tremendous impact in the social gaming industry," added Pishevar. "Next to email, games are the most popular online activity and at SGN we plan to optimize the evolution of the social Web by providing the best original content games available and giving developers and gamers a community to get the most out of their social gaming experience."
Since its launch in December 2007, SGN has generated more than three billion page views and currently receives more than half a billion page views per month.
About SGN
SGN is the largest developer of social networking games. SGN offers games and gaming environments that uniquely leverage people's social connections- transforming a typical gaming experience into one that is more relevant, more engaging, more competitive, and ultimately more enjoyable for the player. SGN games attract more than six million installs and are found on Facebook, Bebo, High-Five, and soon Myspace. SGN games include the most popular game Warbook, followed by FightClub, StreetRace, Herd-A-Word, World Conquest, Blocky, and Super Snake.