Aurora Feint Inc., developer of the award-winning social RPG puzzle games for the iPhone, announced the immediate availability of the new version of its social gaming platform, OpenFeint 2.4, to its 3000 iPhone developers and 7 million players.

“We have literally taken the type of promotional, community, and gaming features found on next-gen console gaming systems and translated them to the iPhone for every single developer to use” said Jason Citron, CEO & Founder of Aurora Feint. “My favorite feature is knowing when my friends are online. Just like on Xbox Live, there’s a little pop-up when a friend signs on or sends you an instant message. It’s going to increase player engagement in games like crazy.”

Openfeint 2.4 is a complete social gaming platform with leaderboards, geo-location leaderboards, achievements, cloud storage for save games, online presence & instant messaging, robust in-app forums, social discovery of games, friending, favorite games lists, Facebook connect integration with photo import and status updates, twitter integration, social challenges, push notifications, cross-promotion, a brand new beautiful user interface, social game recommendations, and much much more.

Adding OpenFeint to a title has been endorsed by the development community as a "30-minute" exercise, at no cost to developers and no server operations. More than 650 titles are live in the AppStore with more than 1000 games in development using OpenFeint, including megahits like Pocket God, Digital Chocolate’s RollerCoaster Rush, and Time Magazine’s #1 iPhone Game Of The Year geoDefense Swarm.

OpenFeint 2.4 Product Highlights:

Discovery has been completely revamped to look and feel more like the App Store but with a social twist. The entire third tab of the OpenFeint dashboard is dedicated to players finding and recommending games. Developers can run promotional campaigns in their games alongside customized game recommendations from a player’s friends, featured applications from the community, the OpenFeint Gold game of the month, and others.

Community is now brought right in the game with a robust Forum and Fan Club system. Instead of visiting a web site, players can now talk about levels, share tips, subscribe to threads, make and add friends, and get to know people like them from directly inside their games. Best of all, the developers can participate and speak directly to their player base through public conversations, stickied & locked announcements, and opt-in newsletters about new updates, feature changes, difficult levels, or whatever they want.

OpenFeint 2.4 includes over thirty new major features.

OpenFeint 2.4 Pricing and Availability:

OpenFeint is available immediately for download at http://www.openfeint.com/developers. OpenFeint continues to drive the industry towards frictionless adoption of social gaming on the iPhone with its Open and Free business model compared to closed platforms that require revenue shares and smaller social gaming "feature" oriented software services without the breadth of a true platform.