The Beijing-based 3D gaming platform E-City Sky has been acquired by the major Chinese gaming portal Duowan. That’s according to Clement Song, co-founder and CEO of the four-year old startup – but it hasn’t been confirmed by Duowan and no financial details have been revealed.
E-City Sky’s main product is a free and social 3D web game called GameXiu (pictured above), which could well represent the kind of know-how that Duowan was after with the acquisition. In it, users create virtual characters that they themselves can design, or use their own photos for the characters’ faces, and then buy virtual items such as clothing and home furnishings. You can even play simple games with buddies whilst in the game, which is pretty meta (see the video below).
When we heard the CEO of Duowan, David Li, talk last year, he said that his portal and gaming community has “220 million users” registered, where they play MMO and browser-based games that also utilize the conference-chat features of Duowan’s parent company, YY.
One of E-City Sky’s investors is Chris Evdemon, who’s a partner at Li Kaifu’s early-stage startup incubator, Innovation Works.
[Source: Technode CN - article in Chinese]
Here’s what life looks like inside E-City Sky’s GameXiu world:
