[Dingobloo]

Originally Posted by UHF

Blizzard announced last year they were developing a social gaming platform called Activate (think cross between Steam & Zynga). My guess is that it's finally ready.

"Some of the features available to developers with the Activate platform are friends lists, leader boards, achievements, invites, and cloud storage to allow players to access their saved games on multiple devices. Players will be able to log in from their Facebook accounts, and an Activate account will be required to utilize the online modes in all supported games."

That seems like a decent guess that I hadn't heard about, it also seems to be referenced on the leaked release slate: http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpr...ate-leaked.jpg

As BNET2 Third Parties

The only problem with this is, as the name implies it seems to be shared between Activision and Blizzard so why would Blizzard itself by hyping it, and sending invites to MMO press. Also it's apparently already launched as of the end of last year as the back end for some Activision mobile games, AND was already announced.