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The butterfly effect for Asia Pacific games market & Mobile Streams

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Mobile Streams, a global mobile content retailer, has teamed up with mobile game developers, butterfly-effected, to distribute content to the Asia Pacific market through Mobile Streams’ long established network operator relationships in the region.

The Asia Pacific vice president for Mobile Streams, Angela Mastrillo, said in an announcement today that it was important that the company maintained its position as one of the leading providers of mobile gaming content in the Asia Pacific region, and partnering with butterfly-effected would ensure the company could continue to offer new and interesting content.

“The content from butterfly-effected is exciting and fresh and we expect the games to be on our top download list very soon.”

Reiner Prohaska, CEO of butterfly-effected said mobile gamers in the Asia market were experienced and knowledgeable and expected the highest level of quality.  “We are delighted to be providing our games to this region and look forward to expanding our fan base.”

Prohaska said butterfly-effected has created a range of exciting games for mobile users including the ‘Dr Brain’ series for those who want to test their cleverness ‘on the go’.  “These games will be added to the Mobile Streams retail storefront and provided to both on-portal partners and direct to consumers via the mobile gaming portal: mobilegamer.mobi (powered by Ringtones.com).”

According to Prohaska, customers visiting mobilegamer.mobi can select from thousands of games for advanced as well as novice players, with users able to can and download popular games in a single-click through the sites ‘top download’ list.   Games were also available through the mobile retail superstore, Ringtones.com.