AZTEQ mobile is a leading provider of advanced, console-class gaming solution and services for mobile devices and Acrodea, Inc. is a leader in the mobile middleware space providing products such as VIVID UI, a dynamic user interface and X-Forge, a mobile game engine and SDK, now supporting OpenKODE™.
OpenKODE is a royalty-free, cross-platform standard that combines a set of native APIs into a comprehensive media stack specification for accelerating rich media and graphics applications. Developed by the Khronos™ Group, OpenKODE aims to make advanced media capabilities consistently available across multiple devices for increased native source portability and reduced mobile platform fragmentation.
Acrodea continues to play a leading role in the development of the OpenKODE specification while AZTEQ, as a new member of Khronos Group, will bring its deep insight of game service deployment, and extensive content developer relationships to accelerate the industry adoption of OpenKODE.
Through this collaboration, AZTEQ will utilize the OpenKODE solution provided by Acrodea on its AZMA handset client software. AZMA is a complete, pre-integrated and tested software offering for mobile gaming. This collaboration will enable popular, console-class game titles to be offered on mobile devices with significantly lowered porting costs and an accelerated time to market.
"We already have a strong partnership with Acrodea on its industry leading game development environment", commented Mr. Hiroyuki Kumasaki, GM of AZTEQ Mobile Japan LLC. "We now look to further strengthen our relationship and to accelerate industry deployment of OpenKODE on mobile devices to bring compelling 3D content to end users."
Mr. Junya Tsutsumi, CEO and president of Acrodea commented, "I am pleased to deliver our OpenKODE Core Implementation to AZTEQ mobile, a company with advanced know-how in the development and deployment of mobile game solutions and services. Such an agreement for Acrodea is a significant move towards the first commercial implementations of OpenKODE based handsets."
"Acrodea and AZTEQ are industry-leaders in providing advanced mobile gaming, user interface and media solutions and so I am delighted that their alliance is being accelerated by the new OpenKODE standard. This will further strengthen the OpenKODE ecosystem and rapidly enable more new OpenKODE-based products in the marketplace for the benefit of content providers, handset OEMs, carriers and end-users," commented Neil Trevett, president of Khronos group and chairman of the OpenKODE working group.
AZTEQ, headquartered in the U.S., is a complete mobile gaming solution and service provider. The solution consists of a complete, pre-integrated mobile device client, hardware and software SDK for game developers and a secure delivery solution. The company's mission is to enable advanced, console-class gaming on mobile devices. AZTEQ has put together an ecosystem of leading chipset providers, game engine and user interface providers and game developers. AZTEQ has offices in the U.S and a large presence in Japan through its subsidiary, AZTEQ Mobile Japan LLC. For more information, please visit http://www.azteqmobile.com
Acrodea, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a software company focused on middleware technology for mobile terminals. The company is particularly concentrated on interface technologies connecting the user and terminal, and currently provides user interface technologies and messaging enhancement technologies to the market. Acrodea's efforts are a continual commitment to superior products and improving technology, for which the company has received recognition worldwide. In addition to Japan and Korea, Acrodea is engaged in business on a global scale, including China, Europe, and North America.
The company listed publicly on Mothers Exchange of TSE on Oct. 19, 2006, just two years and three months after its establishment in July 2004. The company has offices in Seoul, Korea; and Espoo, Finland. For more information, please visit ttp://www.acrodea.co.jp.
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