As part of its continued push to add deeper social media integration into the applications that run on its BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, Research In Motion has acquired Scoreloop, a Germany-based company that specialises in weaving elements of social media into mobile games.
Financial terms of the deal were not revealed.
?We look forward to working with the team at Scoreloop to provide tools that will further enable our developer community to take gaming to a new level of social integration on the BlackBerry platform,? RIM said in a statement.
Scoreloop chief executive Marc Gumpinger said the Ontario-based RIM has the ?ambition to build the best platform for mobile games. So we?ve joined forces to help make this a reality.? Scoreloop provides software developers with toolkits to add social elements to games and ways to generate revenue such as in-application purchases and virtual currency.
Scoreloop, which was founded in 2008 and has its headquarters in Munich, works on multiple platforms including Apple?s iOS, Google?s Android and Windows Phone 7. Gumpinger said on the Scoreloop website that the company will ?continue our cross platform approach, but you?ll see that our BlackBerry solution will be unparalleled.?
Last September at its developer conference in San Francisco, RIM unveiled plans to open its BlackBerry Messenger up to other developers, allowing the makers of games and other software for BlackBerry devices to integrate elements of RIM?s popular instant messaging platform into their creations.