is a portal and social network for games, owned by
DeNA. The service had 30 million users, who largely play on
feature phone
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s.
On February 14, 2011, DeNA announced renaming Mobage Town service name to Mobage, which also merged the
Plus+ network operated by
ngmoco under the new branding. Also that year, the service has been described as highly successful in academic research.
On December 19, 2014, ngmoco, LLC announced the renaming of Mobage to DeNA.
However, the Japanese site still operates under the mobage name.
On August 9, 2018, the English version of the website was reportedly shut down for unknown reasons.
References
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External links
*Mobage page
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DeNA
Internet properties established in 2006
Online video game services
Japanese social networking websites