StarMedia and Mpath Announce Strategic Partnership

StarMedia and Mpath Announce Strategic Partnership is today’s industry move, and it is one more reminder that the games business is growing up fast, whether it is ready or not.

Mpath and StarMedia Network today announced a partnership to add new in-language Internet games with integrated voice chat to StarMedia.com, the leading global online community for Spanish and Portuguese speakers. Through the partnership agreement, StarMedia has licensed Mpath technology including the underlying technology for Mplayer.com, Mpath’s award-winning Internet games community, and HearMe.com, Mpath’s free voice chat community, to launch a new set of in-language premium games for Spanish and Portuguese-speaking consumers. The new StarMedia Juegos Multiplayer, is available today at www.starmedia.com/juegos for Spanish-speaking users.

It is business news, sure, but these moves shape what games get made, what stores carry them, and who is still standing next year.