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25th August 2004 - Celador International, licensor
and distributor of some of the world’s most popular
television programmes and CMate, the connected mobile
gaming specialist, announced today an agreement under
which CMate will develop and launch a connected one-on-one
version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
Under the terms of the agreement CMate will exclusively
develop and operate “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
connected mobile multiplayer games. By integrating with
mobile operators, CMate’s unique gaming technology
allows users to challenge each other to a real-time
game of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” for
either points or real money. Mobile users will be able
to play against each other using JAVA or WAP.
Celador International’s interactive division includes
an award-winning catalogue of applications across all
platforms - facilitating the use of pioneering technology
developed specifically to support on and off air formats.
David Chissick, Chairman of CMate said, “CMate
is thrilled to exclusively offer ‘Who Wants To
Be A Millionaire?’ as a connected multi-player
mobile game. CMate was selected to be the bearer of
this outstanding format because of it’s unique
technology enabling true multiplayer gaming regardless
of handset type, communication protocol, network, country
or language. We expect these games to be launched across
the world in the near future.”
Bruce Vandenberg, Director of Interactive Media at
Celador International said, ‘This is the ultimate
challenge for ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’
fans. Players can now compete for supremacy via their
mobiles. We are delighted with the multiplayer application
developed with CMate and look forward to the games’
certain success.’
About CMate
CMate is a leading multi player mobile gaming provider
of wireless entertainment.
Since 2002 CMate’s technology has enables users
to play and challenge each other for fun or money, regardless
of handset type, communication protocol, network, country
or language. CMate has provided wireless operators and
their customers with the most advanced multi-player
gaming offering of Java, BREW, SMS, MMS and WAP games,
together with robust management, customer care, tracking
and billing modules.
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