GEE and Kalydo bring MMO's to Social Networks

Eindhoven, the Netherlands - 19 November 2009

Game Entertainment Europe, publisher of Online games and Eximion, developer of the Kalydo 3D browser game platform have signed an agreement to bring downloadable MMO games to Social Networks such as Facebook and Netlog.

Therefore, existing downloadable MMO games will be seamlessly ported so users can start and play these games in a Web browser. When ready the online games will be offered to millions of users in Social Networks using Kalydo. With this cooperation both companies follow the success of other Social Games like Restaurant City, Mafia Wars and Farm Ville, where users don’t have to register, download and install games. Also it is very easy to share the game and their game results with many of their friends.


The first game that will be launched is Hovorun (www.hovorun.com), a casual multi player racing game based in the Mario Kart theme. The planning is to launch the first browser version of this game to social networks such as Hyves and Netlog.



“For this cooperation GEE will focus on the selection of the best Online Games from the enormous offering of downloadable MMO games we have. We will localize and promote the games but we can leave the transformation to a browser based game and the distribution to the Social Networks to Eximion. An excellent combination.” according to Richard van Barneveld, CEO of Game Entertainment Europe.

“We want to show the world its now perfectly possible to run large MMO games from the browser. Combining smart engineering, bleeding edge technology such as cloud computing we bring these games to the browser, omitting the need of a large download and installation. Together with Game Entertainment Europe we make the first MMO games widely accessible to a huge group of people on the social networks.” says Doki Tops – CEO at Kalydo


About Kalydo (www.kalydo.com)
Eximion is the visionary company behind Kalydo, a powerful open platform for developing, publishing and monetizing console quality browser games. Working on the bleeding edge of innovation, Kalydo is 100% OpenSocial compatible, offers limitless scalability (Google App Engine) and is smartly streamlined to bring consumers a singularly top quality gaming experience without the need of a large installation.

With its seamless integration into the well-known social networks, Kalydo offers a direct stepping stone to a gigantic online audience, and by combining state of the art technology (including the use of cloud computing) and smart engineering, consumers will be able to play MMO games seamlessly in every browser on the planet.

Based in the Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Eximion has been nominated for several innovation awards such as the MKB Innovation Top 100 and the Fast Fifty of the Quote 500 magazine next to successfully partnering with Netlog (social network of 50+ million users) and Game Entertainment Europe. Plans for the future include cross-platform releases such as the Wii Ware and iPhone.
Follow Kalydo on twitter: www.twitter.com/kalydo



About Game Entertainment Europe (www.ge-eu.com)
Game Entertainment Europe is the leading Pan European publisher for MMO Games. To offer the best game experience all the games are localized for European territory. Game Entertainment Europe organizes promotion, hosting, billing, game mastering and support services. Game Entertainment Europe has earned its rank as one of Europe’s most popular free to play MMOG communities with more than 1.000.000 registered gamers on their game platform www.gamersoxygen.com . The company has offices in Switzerland, Amsterdam and Seoul. Game Entertainment Europe is shareholder in Games Factory Online (www.gamesfactoryonline.com), WZZRD game café’s (www.wzzrd.nl) and Lots Interactive, a game development studio from Korea.

Kalydo upgrades to 3.0 - Important notice

We are upgrading the Kalydo Player, the software which runs our 3D browser games, to its new version 3.0 between 5 and 10 november.

Everyone will be prompted to re-install the Kalydo Player upon playing a game. This is an automatic, mandatory update. The previous version will no longer work. After installing the new Kalydo Player you will be able to play all of our games again, now and in the future.

Downtime during the transition
Between 5 and 10 November it is possible we will experience a few hours of downtime. We apologize for the inconvenience.


New features in the Kalydo Player v3

The Kalydo Player has been improved with the following key features:

• Up to 3 times shorter loading times
• Better stability and browser support (IE 6, 7, 8, Firefox, Chrome)
• Improved options panel with full screen and audio options
• Extensive scalability with future MMO support
• Automated localisation support (more languages coming soon)


Faster loading times
The most noticable improvement is the extremely optimized loading times of the games. All the games on the Kalydo Platform now load up to 3 times faster than before.

Extensive scalability, security and the future
The Kalydo Platform is growing bigger and bigger and more games are coming your way. In the near future these new games will include multiplayer games and MMO games.

To support this type of games the Kalydo Player has been made ready to seamlessly provide these games in the web browser. Soon you will be able to play MMO’s directly from your web browser, without the need of a large download.


Questions ?

If you encounter any problems with the new Kalydo Player let us know. Please contact us at support@kalydo.com with all your questions.

New Kalydo website design

Hello everyone,

Probably you have noticed that the Kalydo website has gotten a new look. So why have we changed the website design?



The past months the number of partner websites that work with Kalydo has increased dramatically. While we really liked the previous website with the green tabs on the side, we needed something that was more fitting for all our partners. The redesign is a combination of design and technical decisions.



Most of our partners have limited space on their website so there was a demand for a smaller 'console'. On top of this we felt that the Kalydo console needed to be even simpler to use so we took out every small thing that was not really neccesary. One of the main new features is that there's now a customizable skin around the Kalydo console which can be different for all our partners. So expect some wonderful cool game artwork to enjoy every time you visit us!

We hope you enjoy the new look of the website. We will miss the old one a little bit as well but that's life! Mahjong Mountain is coming out soon, that's why the new skin is all dressed up and in Mahjong Mountain style. We hope you like it when its out!

regards,

the Kalydo team.

Winners contest Konstrukt Invasion

The past few months the great music community Tribe of Noise held a contest together with us. In this music contest professional and non-professional musicians were invited to make new music for our shooter game Konstrukt Invasion.

Within the first day there were already over 30 submissions, which grew to a whopping 160 submissions during the course of the contest. The quality was exceptionally high, ranging from classical pieces to rock and electronica.

The contest quickly aquired national and international acclaim, got featured on several reknowned websites and got airplay on the Dutch national radio (BNNToday).

The prize of the concest ofcourse is getting your music featured in our game Konstrukt Invasion. And that's what we have done for you. The two winners (we couldn't decide hehe) are now permanently part of the game on our website and our partners (Netlog, BBGsite).


THE WINNERS


Forest scene
Author: Vincent Webb aka. VinceTheWebb

This music is being used as the new main level theme.

"I found this track needed to be rewarded with the number one position.In my opinion, it's the result of a very original approach on how to create game music. Different music styles are smoothly merged together, led by a futuristic,suitable dose of rhythm. Also, according to me the nature of 'Forest Scene' fitted the style and setting of Konstrukt Invasion best of all challenging tracks."

Remmelt Kuiken - Audio Designer at Kalydo (original author of the Konstrukt Invasion music and sound)


Main theme
Author: Pascal van Stekelenburg aka. NightShader

This song is being used as the new menu music.

"This piece of work proves the composer masters the creation of quality (electronic) music. A very epic track which one can't listen to without being affected by it's imposing gleam. Certainly very good and suitable as menu music but in my opinion a little less original as the winning track."

Remmelt Kuiken - Audio Designer at Kalydo (original author of the Konstrukt Invasion music and sound)

We like to thank everyone for participating in this great event. We had a great time listening to all your music. Good luck to everyone with their musical career.

Downtime due to maintenance

Hello,

We are doing maintenance to the Kalydo platform. We will experience a short period of downtime either today or tomorrow due to major updates to the system.

Thank you for your understanding.

Kalydo team.