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Yahoo has launched a Yahoo Games Studio to develop video games for mobile phones.

The studio has developed games for Verizon Wireless. The games will be available for other carriers eventually.

"Casual games like dominoes and hearts are extremely popular in the emerging mobile entertainment market - they are just the right format for today's mobile devices and the broad range of users who like to play them," said Geoff Graber, general manager of Yahoo! Games. "As casual games continue to grow in popularity, our leadership in this area on the web allows us to readily extend our reach beyond the PC onto mobile phones."

According to Mobile Entertainment Alalyst,

Further enhancing the mobile experience for consumers, Yahoo! has acquired Stadeon, Inc., whose flagship product, Carousel, enables multiplayer cross-device connectivity. Through the integration of Stadeon's technology, Yahoo! Games' users, playing on their mobile devices, will be able to play against the hundreds of thousands of people who are online at any time of the day or night on the Yahoo! Games website to play a game, such as Chess, Poker, Literati?, or another of the entertaining mobile games that Yahoo! makes available in the upcoming months.

As part of the acquisition, founder and CEO of Stadeon, John Cahill, will now lead Yahoo!'s expanding mobile games business as part of his new role as director, games operations. He is also responsible for exploring new platforms beyond the PC, building the existing cross-platform multiplayer game business and evangelizing the technology/market opportunity.

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