TOKYO, JAPANand HANGZHOU, CHINA - Dec. 14, 2011 -DeNA Co., Ltd. and Alibaba Cloud Computing (AliCloud), a subsidiary of China's Alibaba Group, today announced that Shanghai Zongyou Network Technologies Co., Ltd., DeNA's Chinese subsidiary also known as DeNA China, and AliCloud have agreed to form a strategic alliance to provide DeNA Group's Mobage social gaming platform to consumers and developers in China. The two companies will closely collaborate to bring Mobage to Chinese consumers on Aliyun OS-based smartphones in early 2012. In addition, DeNA China will make the company's proprietary ngCore game engine available and easily accessible to Chinese game developers through AliCloud's cloud services.

Mobage China, DeNA's mobile social games platform for the Chinese market, will be pre-loaded exclusively on the K-touch W800 smartphone with the next version of Aliyun OS, which is AliCloud's cloud-based mobile operating system fully compatible with Android apps. K-touch W800 users will be able to enjoy high-quality Mobage games instantly by simply tapping the dedicated icon on the device's home screen. The K-touch W800 is scheduled to go on sale in early 2012.

For China-based game developers, AliCloud and DeNA will leverage mutual resources to provide ngCore, DeNA Group's cross-device mobile game development engine for Mobage, through AliCloud's cloud services. Using ngCore on the cloud will allow for high efficiency development through AliCloud's data centers in China.

"We believe our alliance with AliCloud will bring tremendous opportunities to both companies," said Isao Moriyasu, president and representative director of DeNA. "Through AliCloud's innovative mobile OS and cloud services, DeNA will be able to deliver Mobage to even larger user base in China, while also allowing promising Chinese developers to expand their reach to our global user base."

"AliCloud is excited to bring Mobage's high-quality mobile games from around the world to K-touch W800 users," said Wang Jian, president of Alibaba Cloud Computing. "We are looking forward to enriching the Chinese game market through Mobage China, while creating opportunities for Chinese developers to succeed around the world."