Acquires RIM BlackBerry Scoreloop To Create More Social Games

Research in Motion (RIM) has acquired Scoreloop social gaming company, which helps mobile game developers to add social features and in-app billing for their games.

Scoreloop social features have in the SDK is similar to that in OpenFeint (social mobile gaming company's most famous cross-platform), but the difference is that Scoreloop have hooks to purchase applications and secondary distribution systems.

Through her ​​blog, RIM said that Scoreloop would "bring expertise [her] in creating social gaming and collaborative toolkit for mobile developers to the BlackBerry platform."

Of the major smartphone platform, the BlackBerry has the most-developed gaming ecosystem. This means that until this announcement, Scoreloop not even have the SDK version of the BlackBerry, but it supports Windows Phone 7 and Samsung Bada.

Obviously, it will change. For its part, Scoreloop said that he would "continue the cross-platform approach. " The goal, apparently, will integrate social features of the SDK Scoreloop fuel directly into the Social Platform.

This step is considered the acquisition a smart move, just waiting for his time. Hopefully RIM and Scoreloop been in discussion long enough to have some aspects of the platform into a masterpiece. The promise of the BlackBerry Playbook grow dimmer every day, while Android and IOS continues to grow and so is Microsoft with Windows Phone game.

Source: Mashable