Raptr, the social network for people who like to play and discover games, is partnering with several big-name gaming companies to license and distribute games and spread its reach. The Raptr Partners Program includes Sony Online Entertainment, NHN USA, Gala-Net as well as hardware companies Razer and Bigfoot Networks. Raptr says that its reach could potentially exceed over 10 million players with these relationships.
Users interact with Raptr just as they would on a social network like Facebook, except everything revolves around playing games. They get the ability to know when and what games their friends are playing across various gaming platforms as well as the ability to instant message with their friends. Users can also share their stats, rankings, achievements, and characters with friends. And they can automatically broadcast their gaming activity to their friends on Raptr and other social sites including Facebook and Twitter. Raptr Partners Program will give Raptr access to deeper data and content and will allow partner companies to work with Raptr APIs as well. The deeper data creates a better experience for users and for gaming companies. The partnerships will also allow Raptr to distribute co-branded games to users and will offer partners a way to access Raptr’s social gaming platform and potentially have their games be broadcast over several social networks.
Raptr has the potential to not only associate with some big gaming brands but to also extend its reach as a popular gaming platform. Raptr will work with Sony to add a number of titles from Sony’s catalog of subscription-based and free-to-play PC games. Gala-Net will distribute Raptr to players of its games on its gPotato portal and GamesCampus will work to distribute Raptr on games hosted at its sports-focused portal. Raptr will also be bundled with the Bigfoot Network’s Killer NIC gaming network cards.
As we wrote in our review of Raptr last year, Raptr is positioning itself as a central hub for social networking and gaming to integrate into one platform. And these partnerships should only help the network add more compelling games and reach more gamers. But we also wonder whether gamers will take the time to actually interact with the social networking features and create a profile on the network.
Seems like they have their strategy cut out. Any numbers of what size their current network is?
You, there ya go:
http://siteanal....com/?metric=uv
One look at Steam and I think we can all understand how a gaming centric social network would be a good idea!
All about the partners, so good luck!
Gaming social network is a great idea…these guys should do well
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The second paragraph reads like a press release!
Just the 2nd paragraph ?
Like what they’re doing though.
“Raptr Partners Program will give Raptr access to deeper data and content and will allow partner companies to work with Raptr APIs as well. The deeper data creates a better experience for users and for gaming companies.”
I know these are mostly English words, but they seem to be strung together at random. What is TC trying to say?
I am totally agreed with Peter Urban, it seems like they have their strategy cut out.
I personally believe in above statement made!
I just signed up for this network, very cool, loads great, layout is awesome, people seem to be really nice, well done! Looking forward to getting to know the community!
From an educator’s perspective I think that teachers should take advantage of this kind of a site to promote the use of learning games. Any engaging game has numerous skills and much knowledge to teach.
at last a Social Gamers Network!!!
It’s a smart move, but by what measure are they popular? They actually publish their numbers on Quantcast: http://www.quan...t.com/raptr.com
61K uniques.
This has great potential! I would sign in, if I had mutual games of interests to play with my friends.
Don’t know if it’s worth joining for looking for new gaming buddies.
Basicaly, every MMORPG has it’s built in friend list.
$12m in funding, and ‘raptor.com’ is for sale with an asking price of $175k on sedo. Come on, just buy it so you don’t sound stupid with your dropped vowels.