Goodgame Studios partners with Onebip to offer gamers simple and fast mobile payments
Top games “Empire”, “Big Farm” and “Shadow Kings” to include option to pay via mobile carrier billing with Onebip
London, UK 28 July 2014: Onebip by Neomobile, the global mobile payments service, has today announced that it has partnered with Goodgame Studios, the successful publisher of browser and mobile games including Goodgame Empire, to offer Onebip mobile payments for its games in key markets in Europe and Latin America including Spain, Italy, Turkey, Taiwan and Argentina.
Players of existing games including Goodgame Big Farm and Goodgame Empire and brand new game Shadow Kings will be able to use Onebip’s mobile payment service to purchase additional Rubies and Gold in the Goodgame shop with minimum interruption to their play. Purchases are simple, fast and secure to make due to Onebip’s optimised user experience and next generation billing technology. One-time purchases are charged directly to the gamer’s mobile phone bill using carrier billing technology.
Hamburg based Goodgame Studios have players from over 200 nations and regions with 77 million registered users playing Goodgame Empire and 27 million Goodgame Big Farm registered users. The successful publisher of browser and mobile games will be releasing the new title, Shadow Kings, in August which is a free MMO building and strategy game in a popular fantasy setting.
Dr. Christian Wawrzinek, COO and co-founder of Goodgame Studios: “With our player base growing steadily worldwide, we’re keen to offer our customers a simple and secure way of paying for their purchases in our stores to ensure the best user experience. We’re happy to partner with Onebip to offer our customers an easy-to-use global mobile payment solution so they can now pay via the convenience of their mobile phone bill.”
“We’re very excited to be working with such a successful global publisher of browser and mobile games such as Goodgame Studios that registered its 200 millionth player in June 2014. The partnership between Onebip and Goodgame Studios will allow players of Goodgame Empire, Goodgame Big Farm and Shadow Kings to pay for their purchases using Onebip’s advanced mobile billing technology with minimum interruption to their play,” said Massimiliano Silenzi, Head of Onebip by Neomobile.
About Onebip
Onebip, by Neomobile, is a global mobile payment service that offers the best user experience and the most advanced billing technology for our partners. With over 5 billion users connected to 250+ carriers in 70 countries, Onebip enables merchants to seamlessly monetize digital goods and services to their users on a global scale. It also provides users with a simple, secure and fast way of paying for their purchases via mobile without the need of a credit card or bank account. Onebip’s deep integration with carriers and expertise in mobile direct billing enables our partners to experience the next generation of mobile payments in just one click.
Onebip started in 2005 as the first mobile payment service in the world. Today it is the mobile payment service of global mobile commerce group, Neomobile, which has offices in Rome, London, San Francisco, Mexico City, São Paulo, Madrid, Reus, Köln, Paris, Milan, Bogota, Belgrade, Istanbul and Mumbai.
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About Goodgame Studios
Goodgame Studios was founded in June 2009 in Hamburg. The company, which develops and publishes online and mobile games, has since grown to comprise more than 900 staff. Over 200 million registered users worldwide play their social games online. This rapid growth has been recognized with numerous awards, including Entrepreneur of the Year 2011. The game Goodgame Empire received both the “European Games Award” and the “BÄM! Award” in 2012. Goodgame Studios won three “MMO of the Year 2013” Audience Awards in the categories “Best Portal”, “Best Strategy Browser MMO” and “Best Casual Browser MMO”.
For more information: www.goodgamestudios.com
