Multiplatform social gaming arrives

Social gaming firm OpenFeint is releasing OpenFeint Connect, a service to sync user's accounts, friends, leaderboards, and achievements across multiple mobile platforms, says Pocket Gamer.

As the new API gets released into private beta, developers can release their games on iOS, Android, Bada, Windows Phone 7, PC, Mac App Store, and more, and sync the users' OpenFeint data across all platforms.

“We believe games should connect people, regardless of what device or mobile OS they own.” says Jason Citron, founder and CEO of OpenFeint.

“With the release of OpenFeint Connect, we give game developers the flexibility they need to take their games and game data to players everywhere.”

According to Games OnDeck, OpenFeint is planning to build a much larger bridge to solve the problem.

The publication says, while the system, based on RestFul APIs, will not support cross-platform play, users will be able to compare scores on a centralised leader board and find new friends regardless of the system they use.

Developers, meanwhile, will be able to send a single widespread message to players of their games to alert them to updates, it says.

Currently boasting more than 65 million users, OpenFeint is quickly becoming one of the biggest social gaming networks out there, reports GameZebo

The publication says it is surprised that OpenFeint has not been snapped up by another company, whether it DENA in its quest for social gaming domination, or some other wealthy party with an interest in mobile social success.

The fact that OpenFeint can now connect players not only across mobile devices, but across desktops, makes this a coup for the growing social network.

If it can get PC developers on board as successfully as it has mobile developers, one should expect to see those 65 million users double in a only a matter of weeks following OpenFeint Connect's public release, it says.