In what its parent company DeNA describes as the first stage of a global rollout, developer ngmoco has announced that its social mobile gaming platform for Android, called Mobage, has been released today for a host of English-speaking countries around the world, as well as China.

Mobage's user population in Japan already exceeds 30 million.

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Mobile internet company DeNa just signed some heavy-hitting developers to create new games for its social network, Mobage, in what it's calling the "Super Creators project." According to Japanese news site 4Gamer, the roster of five developers is fairly impressive, and in a couple of cases, the developers will be bringing established franchises to the mobile platform. Suda 51, for example, has indicated he'll be working on a new No More Heroes title.

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