August 13, 2012 04:28 pm GMT
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Deutsche Telekom Ups Its Game As New Global Publisher For Browser-Based Asterix Game
Earlier this year, Deutsche Telekom took a step into mobile gaming with a 2 million investment in Flaregames. Today, it's expanding its in-house online gaming business. The carrier, which owns mobile operator T-Mobile, has announced that a worldwide license to create a browser-based game based on the popular Asterix Belgian comic books, as part of a larger expansion of its gaming activities.The deal will see Deutsche Telekom work with SEE Games(a division of the licensing house SEE Global Entertainment); Asterix book publisherLes ditions Albert Ren; and the games developers Sproing,to create an Asterix game that will become the "flagship" brand for the carrier in its new push intobrowser-based games. That push will also involve "significant" (but unspecified) investments into gaming software development and marketing, Deutsche Telekom says.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LttB26KUb9k/
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