SAN FRANCISCO, CA and BEIJING — (Marketwired) — 07/25/13 — Yodo1 (), a leading publisher of Western smartphone games to China-s 500 million iOS/Android market, today officially announced the appointment of Jung Suh, former co-founder of GameFly and 15 year game veteran who-s held management roles at Activision, Walt Disney, and Electronic Arts, to lead a new division. More details will be announced immediately after Casual Connect in San Francisco (July 30th to August 1st).
Jung joins the team as Yodo1 rockets past 50 million active users in the China market, only 12 months after launching their publishing platform, driven by its proprietary technologies such as the Kryptanium Games-as-a-Service community SDK, which is going into open beta soon. (.). Yodo1 has published over 40 hit titles in China including Chinese editions of Cut the Rope: Time Travel from Zeptolab and Ski Safari from Defiant Development, which now rank among China-s top app charts. (, under “Hits & Featured Games”.)
“We-ve learned a lot about the China market and our technology has helped us grow at a tremendous rate, earning 50 million gamers in the past year,” as CEO Henry Fong puts it. “Now we need a game industry pro who can help us level up from there.”
A game industry veteran since 1995, Jung is credited on numerous multi-platform hits, including MechWarrior 2 and Zork Nemesis from Activision. At Electronic Arts, he was Director of Content at EA.COM, and went on to co-found GameFly, a leading online game rental service, where he was VP of Content & Strategic Partnership. Most recently he was co-founder and CEO of mobile game studio Red Rocket Games (a Yodo1 studio partner based in Shanghai), leading development on three top 100 global iOS hits: Hank Hazard, Mevo & the Grooveriders, and Little Runner. .
“It-s a great time to be involved in mobile games everywhere,” says Suh. “We-re very excited to announce Yodo1-s new plans, and think both our existing development community and gamers of all kinds will love what we-re about to do.”
Yodo1 is a leading publishing platform which helps Western game developers successfully gain traction and monetize in the China mobile game market. Staffed by a team of experienced mobile developers, creative artists, game designers and China market experts, Yodo1 helps game developers quickly adapt, publish and monetize their games in China with its Kryptanium platform. Yodo1 has partnered with leading Western game developers to successfully enter and grow in China, including Zeptolab (Russia), Robot Entertainment (Texas), XMG Studio (Toronto), Defiant Development (Australia), and HandyGames (Germany). Founded in 2011, Yodo1 is based in Beijing with a presence in San Francisco. For more information, please visit and follow Yodo1 on Twitter at
Vanessa Camones
theMIX agency for Yodo1
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