by Stacy Jones on Jul 21, 2010
Like it or not microtransactions are continuing to grow in popularity with developers and many players. Heading up the business of providing reliable microtransaction service for games is Live Gamer, who this week picked up another client in the growing microtransaction gaming market with GameHouse, a division of RealNetworks to power its cross-platform virtual economy for the new GameHouse Fusion social gaming platform.
From Casual Connect Seattle, Live Gamer, the trusted total commerce solution for interactive entertainment, today announced that it has been selected by GameHouse®, a division of RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK) to power its advanced, cross-platform virtual economy for the new GameHouse Fusion social gaming platform. The centralized virtual economy functions across GameHouse Fusions thousands of socially connected games across social networks and mobile devices, and scales to hundreds of millions of players.
Live Gamer has been powering microtransactions since 2001 and has already signed deals with high profile companies like Sony Online Entertainment, Funcom, and more recently THQ as well as many others.