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. 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 Code", VH1 Mobile's "I know the 80s", the highly rated Rally
Pro, MTV Europe Music Awards 2006 Quiz and casual game hit licenses
such as Slingo-2-Go and Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament
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"
"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 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, Brew, Symbian, Flash Lite, and
Windows Mobile.
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 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.