Apple has approved a rival gaming portal to Game Center from EA Games. The Pogo app adds the EA Games roster of PC browser based causal gaming service to the iPhone, including Poppit!, Word Whomp, Turbo 21, Mahjong Safari, and Sweet Tooth 2.
The Game Center rival app is called Pogo. It’s free, and comes with five games, and for £1.79 you can go ad-free. If you’re a paid up member of Club Pogo though, you’ll be able to sign in for ad free gaming and a bunch of other bits and bobs.
There’s no figures for Apple’s Game Center yet, as it only arrived in September, but it’s surprising that Apple has approved Pogo, given that in the past it has banned apps that cross over with native iOS apps and functionality. Pogo works a lot like Game Center, running as a portal to gaming, with leaderboards, rewards and challenges.
Michael Marchetti, senior vice president for Pogo said that EA would be adding new games on a regular basis, as well as bulking out other aspects of the app functionality.
Club Pogo costs $40 to subscribe for a year, and that gets you, along with an ad free app, member discounts, extra mini games, and over 40 puzzle games. There’s 1.5 million people who subscribe to Club Pogo.
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[via FT]
