Ngmoco Partners With Glu Mobile To Bring Gun Bros To Mobage
11/01/2012 |
Following its November partnership with TinyCo, socialgames outfitngmoco(now a DeNA-owned company) is partnering with game publisher Glu Mobile, Inc. The deal will brings Glu’s popular Gun Brosgame to ngmoco’s Mobage gaming platform for Android.
No word yet on whether the rest of Glu’s titles – many of which are more well-known than Gun Bros – will port over as well.
Mobage arrived in an English versionpost-DeNA's December acquisitionof ngmoco for $400 million. The...
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