AUSTRALIA \u2013 July 22, 2009 \u2013 Today Ubisoft stepped into the social gaming medium, unveiling UbiFriends, a new gaming portal on Facebook Platform. The portal will regularly offer new games and applications for Facebook users to share and have fun with their Facebook friends.\u00a0 The first game available on UbiFriends is TickTockTM, a trivia game designed to test Facebook users\u2019 knowledge of their friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TickTock is a free application that utilises user-generated content from users\u2019 Facebook friends via their status updates as a resource necessary to succeed in the game. TickTock is among the first games developed for Facebook Platform by a major publisher that leverages users\u2019 Facebook friends in a meaningful way, and it\u2019s the start of many more Facebook gaming applications to come from Ubisoft. The game also reinforces the importance of a user\u2019s social graph and provides another way for players to interact with their friends on Facebook. The more friends a user has on Facebook, the more successful that player may be at TickTock.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Ubisoft is committed to producing high quality and engaging games that utilise the best technologies available. The UbiFriends portal runs on Google App Engine, which makes web applications easy to build, scale and maintain. The UbiFriends portal embraces social media and the open technologies that power the web, highlighting Ubisoft\u2019s leadership and innovation in the gaming space. TickTock and the UbiFriends portal are the first projects developed by a dedicated internal team at Ubisoft\u2019s San Francisco office.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been a leader in the art of making games for many years and we\u2019re happy to bring the Ubisoft experience to Facebook Platform,\u201d said Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America. \u201cOur first application, TickTock, is about leveraging user generated content to interact with your friends, and it\u2019s the first of many applications that we\u2019re building for our UbiFriends portal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
To begin playing TickTock, please follow these steps:<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sign-in or register for an account on Facebook<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Visit the TickTock application page: http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/ticktockgame\/<\/a><\/p>\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Start playing!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n For more information on TickTock and Ubisoft\u2019s UbiFriends portal on Facebook, please visit: http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/ticktockgame\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n About Ubisoft<\/p>\n Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has grown considerably through a strong and diversified line-up of products and partnerships. Ubisoft is present in 28 countries and has sales in more than 55 countries around the globe. It is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge video game titles to consumers. For the 2008\u201309 fiscal year Ubisoft generated sales of 1.058 billion euros. To learn more, please visit www.ubisoftgroup.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a9 2009 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. UbiFriends, TickTock, Ubisoft, Ubi.com, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and\/or other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AUSTRALIA \u2013 July 22, 2009 \u2013 Today Ubisoft stepped into the social gaming medium, unveiling UbiFriends, a new gaming portal on Facebook Platform. The portal will regularly offer new games and applications for Facebook users to share and have fun with their Facebook friends.\u00a0 The first game available on UbiFriends is TickTockTM, a trivia game<\/p>\n