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AddictingGames Come to iPhone

Posted August 25, 2009 by James Brightman

Nickelodeon announced today that it's making some of its AddictingGames titles available on the iPhone. The games are free to play at AddictingGames.com (which has 15 million unique visitors) but will sell for 99 cents on the Apple iTunes store. 

iPark It!, World Wars, and 50 States are "the first of several games" planned for the iPhone and these titles will help kick off the AddictingGames iNetwork, "a cross-promotion publishing network on which game developers can tap into AddictingGames.com's promotional reach, upsell capabilities and social gaming features." Nickelodeon said that more titles based on properties from Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV and other divisions of MTV Networks will be added to the AddictingGames iNetwork "in coming months."

Companies like Chillingo and ngmoco believe they have the iPhone's "answer to Xbox Live," but Nickelodeon hopes developers find its AddictingGames iNetwork equally compelling. The iNetwork offers developers who sign up "access to the AddictingGames suite of game community services such as high scores, level builders, Facebook Connect integration, player matching, and more in exchange for a revenue share of their titles."  These titles on the iNetwork will also get support in the form of "iPhone Game of the Week" spotlights on AddictingGames.com and Shockwave.com, in addition to promotions across select MTV Networks. On AddictingGames.com specifically, some titles will be given  "Download now on iPhone" promotions.

"These apps pull from some of our hottest titles developed by our talented developers who continuously pump out entertaining content for teens and adults," said Dave Williams, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Games Group. "As the online gaming market continues to mature, people want to play games wherever they are, and we will be there with the AddictingGames iNetwork."

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James Brightman has been covering the games industry since 2003 and has been an avid gamer ever since the days of Atari and Intellivision. He was previously the EIC of GameDaily Biz.