" Yahoo " acquires a company specializing in the field of games " virtual worlds "

Acquired " Yahoo " on " Cloud Party " (Cloud Party), a company specializing in the field of games " virtual worlds " , in another deal , added to a series of acquisitions announced by the company recently .

The company provides " Cloud Party " , which was launched in 2011 , three-dimensional platform games with the possibility of multi- play , and can be run directly within your web browser without the need for additional components. The players can build their worlds and own avatars and explore different environments , along the lines of a " second life " (Second Life) , available on the Internet.

The Executive Director of the company, " Sam Thompson ," that these worlds , or at least the technology which it was built , it will become part of the company , " Yahoo " , where she will join his company to " Yahoo " as that will stop its services during the month of February next year.

For his part, the spokesman for the " Yahoo " the acquisition, without revealing the financial details of the deal .

It is noteworthy that this is not the first time that the " Yahoo " , which provides users with a site for online games , the acquisition of a company specializing in this area , where the company announced in May / May last year for the acquisition of a gaming platform , " Player Cycle " (PlayerScale) , which is a software platform that provides what is known as the services of " back end " of the thousands of game developers who have developed products play by 150 million users around the world , where scrape the idea of ​​the work platform to creating games programmatically to be supported by other platforms , such as " Android" or " iOS "or" Facebook " or " Xbox "and others.

It should also be noted that the company " Yahoo ," and since the " Marissa Mayer ," Executive Director of the Company in July 2012 , has been active in the acquisition of a lot of companies that may strengthen its position in the services market mobile devices , the latest being the acquisition of " Spark " (Sparq) competent in the field of marketing via mobile devices .