TriplePoint Newsroom

Year: 2014

  • WIRED Magazine and Federated Media Founder John Battelle Joins Chute’s Board of Directors

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    Chute Introduces the Visual Content Engine for Brands

    SAN FRANCISCO – July 30, 2014 – Chute, a visual marketing automation company, today announced the addition of John Battelle, founder of WIRED Magazine, Federated Media and, most recently, sovrn and NewCo, to its board of directors. In addition, the company launched its Visual Content Engine for brands, which provides marketers with automated tools to acquire permission to use fan photos and videos, publish this visual media across all of their marketing channels and obtain real-time analytics on performance. Chute also opened its New York office led by David Bear, former global agency director for Microsoft.

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  • Chartboost Partners with Chukong Technologies to Expand Their Global Footprint and Level Up the Mobile Game Market

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    Industry-leading Revenue Platform Looks to Support Rapidly Growing Asian App Market

    SAN FRANCISCO and BEIJING – July 30, 2014 – Chartboost, the largest revenue platform for mobile games, and international mobile games company Chukong Technologies today announced a strategic partnership to bring Chartboost’s powerful monetization and advertising technology to the Chinese mobile market. As one of China’s largest mobile entertainment companies, Chukong will provide the local expertise necessary to share Chartboost’s technology with the local developer community. The partnership will empower developers to find new players and monetize their games through higher retention, increased advertising revenue and greater transparency and control of their campaigns. (more…)

  • OUYA EVERYWHERE BRINGS 870+ GAMES TO THE WIKIPAD MOBILE GAMING EXPERIENCE WITH ATTACHABLE GAMEPAD CONTROLLER

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    The Wikipad Android Gaming Tablet Will Offer Users All Current and Upcoming Content on OUYA

    SANTA MONICA, CA. – July 28, 2014 –Wikipad, a leader in mobile gaming tablets and maker of the GameVice gamepad controller, and OUYA announced today their global partnership to bring OUYA game content to current and future Wikipad devices. The partnership between OUYA and Wikipad will offer gamers with a comprehensive portable console gaming experience through the Wikipad Android tablet and attachable gamepad controller. OUYA’s library of nearly 900 games, including recently-released titles Toto Temple Deluxe and So Many Me, will be available through Wikipad. (more…)

  • Storm8 Launches Best-of-Breed Simulation Game on iOS with Fantasy Forest Story

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    Collect, Hatch, Battle and Evolve a Mythical Menagerie of Curious Creatures

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – July 24, 2014 – Mobile social gaming leader Storm8 today launched Fantasy Forest Story – the latest free-to-play game from TeamLava, the Storm8 brand behind such casual hits as Dragon Story and Farm Story 2. The game features never-before-seen fantasy and mythology themes in the breeding simulation genre on mobile.

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  • Get The Goat! Juicy Beast’s Toto Temple Deluxe Now Available Exclusively on OUYA

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    New Competitive Local Multiplayer Party Game Out Now on OUYA

    SANTA MONICA, Calif. – July 24, 2014 – Toto Temple Deluxe, the fast paced smash-and-dash title from Juicy Beast, is now available exclusively on OUYA for $9.99. Juicy Beast previously developed the hit platformer Knightmare Tower, and has brought the same quirky art style to the local multiplayer genre with Toto Temple Deluxe’s outlandish take on a game of keep-away. Acclaimed as one of Yahoo Tech’s Top 10 Family-Friendly Games, Toto Temple Deluxe is a must-have for anyone with a penchant for party games. To get a glimpse of the goat-play firsthand, check out the launch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXoVesBXP94&feature=youtu.be.

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  • Hit Noir Puzzler Third Eye Crime Sneaks onto PC

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    AAA-turned-indie developers Moonshot Games and indie publisher Gameblyr announce PC release on Steam

    BOSTON – July 23, 2014 – Moonshot Games and Gameblyr today announced that the hit stealth puzzle game Third Eye Crime is now available on PC platforms. Created by AAA-turned-indie talent from Bungie with years of design expertise on titles including the Halo series, Third Eye Crime features gorgeous visuals in noir stylings and a soulful jazz score to deliver a stylistically immersive, fully independent gameplay experience.

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  • Who Let the Monsters Out?! “Monsu” Trailer Released Today From Boomlagoon

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    Trailer gives first glimpse of gameplay, ally characters and monstrous abilities for upcoming action-platformer

    HELSINKI, FINLAND – July 23, 2014 – Boomlagoon has just released the trailer for Monsu, their upcoming second game that’s packed with high-speed platform action. The trailer gives a sneak peak of the world of Monsu, the cartoony green hero, as he dashes off to recover his wizard friend’s glittering treasure. The pudgy, lovable beast has no choice but to wreck everything in his path, from wishing wells to castle ramparts to unruly villagers. Nothing can stop the mighty Monsu… except an inopportune spear-point! The free game is slated for release later this summer.

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  • DoubleDutch Partners with Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) to Power Annual Leadership Meeting

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    Mobile Technology to Help Spur Discussion Among Advocates for Women in Business and Identify Key Policy Topics for Elected Officials

    SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, DC – July 23, 2014 – DoubleDutch, the leading developer of mobile event technology systems, today announced it is powering the Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) Annual Leadership Meeting, occurring July 23-24 in Washington, D.C. The DoubleDutch app will help attendees engage in conversation around policy issues and empower them to share those conversations with their congressional representatives. (more…)

  • Ready, Set, Goat! Juicy Beast’s Toto Temple Deluxe Coming to OUYA July 24th

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    Fast-paced Multiplayer Keep-away Available Exclusively on OUYA this Summer

    SANTA MONICA, Calif. – July 21, 2014 – OUYA today announced that Toto Temple Deluxe, a local multiplayer party game in which players must dash and smash into their friends to get ahold of a priceless egg-laying goat, will be released this Thursday. Produced by Juicy Beast, the Montreal-based creators of smash-hit high-jumping platform game Knightmare Tower, Toto Temple Deluxe will be available exclusively on OUYA on July 24th. (more…)

  • Livescribe 3 Smartpen Takes Gold in Eighth Annual International Design Awards

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    Livescribe’s Latest Model Comes Out On Top in Prestigious Worldwide Design Competition

    OAKLAND, Calif. – July 17, 2014 – Smartpen manufacturer Livescribe, Inc., together with design partner Whipsaw Inc., today announced that the Livescribe 3 smartpen has been honored with a First Place Gold award from the 8th Annual International Design Awards (IDA) Competition in the Media and Home Electronics category. (more…)

  • Defense Grid 2 Kicks Off Steam Pre-orders

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    The highly anticipated sequel to the definitive tower defense game offers pre-purchase incentives in advance of fall 2014 release

    WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. – July 17, 2014 – Defense Grid 2, the sequel to the hit 2008 tower defense game, today kicked off its Steam pre-order in advance of the game’s September 2014 launch. In addition to receiving ten percent off of the launch price, consumers who pre-purchase Defense Grid 2 now will receive immediate access to the beta (currently only for Windows users). As more people pre-order, additional incentive tiers will be unlocked, including the original Defense Grid digital art book, a free copy of the Containment expansion to Defense Grid: The Awakening*, and much more.

    A special edition of Defense Grid 2 will be available for purchase that includes all unlocked pre-order incentive items, an exclusive digital Defense Grid 2 art book and the e-book, The Making of Defense Grid 2: The Complete Story Behind the Game, by Russ Pitts.

    Pre-order Defense Grid 2 here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/221540

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