is a portal and social network for games, owned by

DeNA Dena (in Luri and fa, ) is the name for a sub-range within the Zagros Mountains, Iran. Mount Dena, with length and average width, is situated on the boundary of the Isfahan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Prov ...

. The service had 30 million users, who largely play on

feature phone A feature phone (also spelled featurephone) is a type or class of mobile phone that retains the form factor of earlier generations of mobile telephones, typically with press-button based inputs and a small non-touch display. They tend to use an ...

s. On February 14, 2011, DeNA announced renaming Mobage Town service name to Mobage, which also merged the

Plus+ Plus+ was a social gaming network created by Ngmoco in June 2009. The network was similar to Xbox network (formerly Xbox Live), enabling users to play games with other players from around the world. The service was also similar to OpenFeint, AGO ...

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.

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*Mobage page
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DeNA Internet properties established in 2006 Online video game services Japanese social networking websites