--Organizes Contest around its "Football Euro Challenge" Game
French interactive TV games company, Visiware, has launched a game
called "Tweezle Lab" on its ITV games channel, Playin'TV. According
to the company, the new game, which features rich graphics and
animation, places players in a "crazy universe" where a mad scientist is
cloning extra-terrestrials. Players must then "link up the two sides of
the matrix to supply the clone generator with energy, thereby
accumulating a maximum number of aliens," Visiware explains. The
game becomes progressively more difficult as players advance, and
features three different modes--Tutorial, Adventure and Arcade--in
order to enable players to familiarize themselves with its rules and
functionality. According to Visiware, the new game can be played on
multiple platforms (TV, PC/Internet, and the Archos Generation 5
portable multimedia WiFi player), and players can begin playing a
game on one platform and pick up the same game on one of the other
platforms. The game is expected to be rolled out progressively on all
platforms that carry Playin'TV, including DISH Network (US); Bell
ExpressVu (Canada); Canalsat, TPS and Numericable (France); Sky
Italia (Italy); Sky TV (New Zealand); Dish TV (India); StarHub
(Singapore); and Austar and Foxtel (Australia).
In other Visiware news: To mark the 2008 European Football
Championship, the company recently held a promotional contest
around its "Football Euro Challenge" ITV game. Players could send in
their scores via their set-top box, the Internet or SMS (note: real-time
leaderboards were displayed on the Playin'TV Web site, so that players
could check their scores), for the chance to win such prizes as iPods,
laptop computers and digital camcorders.
