CARLSBAD, Calif., April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — NTN Buzztime, Inc., a multi-point social interactive entertainment company, today announced the launch of two new interactive trivia games — “True, Half-True … or a Total Lie” and “Odd Couples.”
These games are now available in bars and restaurants across North America on the Buzztime® Network.
In “True, Half-True … or a Total Lie,” players are challenged to sniff out the correct answer and decide whether each of the statements in each category is (as one might guess) true, half true or a total lie. For example:
Question:
Queen Elizabeth II once misplaced the Koh-i-noor Diamond, the second largest diamond in the world. Luckily, a chambermaid found it in a bathtub.
Answer:
It is half-true! The Koh-i-noor Diamond is part of the royal crown jewels, but the Queen never misplaced it.
Next up is “Odd Couples.” The show challenges players to match seemingly unlikely couples to figure out if they have anything in common by guessing one of them, both of them or neither of them. For example:
Questions:
1. Dropped out of school: Paris Hilton or Bill Gates?
2. Had a tattoo on his bicep — Mr. Clean or Mr. Rogers?
Answers:
1. Both! Paris Hilton and Bill Gates are school dropouts.
2. Neither! Mr. Rogers and Mr. Clean never sported arm ink.
“These games are the next installments in an aggressive slate of new Buzztime programming planned for 2008. “Odd Couples” and “True, Half-True … or a Total Lie” are irreverent, funny and unique, and we hope our players have as much fun playing them as we had creating them,” said Jake Tauber, Buzztime’s Executive Vice President of Content and Marketing.
Played on televisions in each Buzztime subscriber location, the Buzztime network features original programming including predictive sports games, multiple genres of trivia games and casino-style card games. Like all Buzztime games, “True, Half True … or a Total Lie” and “Odd Couples” are free to play. They will air on Thursday nights beginning April 24, with encore presentations throughout the week.
About NTN Buzztime, Inc.
NTN Buzztime, Inc., a leader in multi-point social interactive entertainment for more than 20 years, is based in Carlsbad, CA. Buzztime is distributed in-home and out-of-home across broadband platforms including online, cable TV, satellite TV, and in approximately 3,800 restaurants, sports bars and pubs throughout North America and the United Kingdom. Buzztime entertainment is also available on electronic games and books. For more information, please visit http://www.buzztime.com.
Mobile World Congress, BARCELONA, February 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –Gameloft, the world leading mobile gaming company, remains at the forefront of technology by announcing the launch of games designed especially for touch screen mobile handsets. Gameloft is the first publisher to cater to this new generation of mobile phones.
Using the company’s expertise from developing stylus-based games for the Nintendo DS, Gameloft sought out ways to best utilize the touch screens, which transform gameplay into a more intuitive experience and remove the limitation of small keyboards.
“The hype for 2008 will focus on the emergence of these new handsets and Gameloft has already gotten a head start,” said Michel Guillemot, President and CEO of Gameloft. “This is a new step in terms of development, one that leads us to rethink how we approach our game controls so that players can interact directly with the screen and get a greater gaming experience. Touch screen games are perfect examples of how modern technology can advance the gaming industry.”
Gameloft already has more than 15 touch screen games in its catalogue, including Block Breaker Deluxe, Brain Challenge and Brain Challenge 2, Bubble Bash, Platinum Solitaire, Chessmaster, Miami Nights: Single in the City, Paris Hilton’s Diamond Quest, Sexy Poker Manga, Catchphrase, Deal or No Deal, Shrek the Third, Real Football: Manager Edition, and CSI Miami. These games were developed for the first touch screen mobile phones available on the market, including the LG Viewty, LG KS20, the HTC touch screen line, and the Samsung SGH-F700. Gameloft’s touch screen games were initially developed in Java, though some will also be developed on the Windows Mobile platform.
The creation of touch screen games is part of Gameloft’s overall effort to make all of its games accessible to every commercially-available phone model on the market, which today stands at 1,200 different models for 180 carriers throughout 80 countries.
You can test touch screen games at Gameloft’s kiosk: 2B114 Hall 2.
Gameloft’s videos are available on:
http://fr.youtube.com/user/GameloftVideos
For more information, visit http://www.gameloft.com.
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