Cheat and Smack Talk Your Way to a Gold 'Medal'
Summer Games Trivia at Yahoo! Sports Tests Your Olympic Mettle
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, August 7, 2008 - Summer Games Trivia, a newly minted online application from Newzwag, a subsidiary of Agence France-Presse (AFP), is available on Yahoo! Sports throughout the month of August. The new game synthesizes news stories and photos from the AFP's media machine into a challenging, entertaining and addictive game focused on Olympic sports and athletes, both past and present.
Newzwag's Summer Games Trivia on Yahoo! Sports makes the news engagement application about the Olympics available to the Internet's largest audience of sports fans. The game resides on Yahoo! Sports' newly launched website dedicated to covering the Summer Games at http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/trivia.
Summer Games Trivia has many appealing features that enhance community and social interaction. You earn cheats to get ahead on the leader board and you can smack talk your friends about your ranking. The game is free to anyone who wants to play, with no strings attached (you don't have to buy anything or get spammed after playing). The content is updated in real time, so no trivia stone goes unturned throughout the run of the Games. You can invite your friends to play or compete with complete strangers, all the while gaining critical Olympic knowledge you can insert into any conversation or bring up at family gatherings.
As Newzwag's first large-scale foray into the social media space, Summer Games Trivia is just a taste of what is to come, with more applications being introduced over the next year related to relevant cultural events and themes.
About Newzwag
Newzwag is a subsidiary of Agence France-Presse (AFP). The company develops technologies and ideas that bring one of the world's richest news resources to the rapidly evolving world of social media. For more information, check out www.newzwag.com.
About Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Agence France-Presse is a global media company providing real-time news coverage 24/7 with a worldwide network of more than 3,000 journalists and stringers spanning 165 countries. AFP covers the full spectrum of world events, from politics and general news to sports, business, entertainment, health and science. For more information, visit www.afp.com.
Olympic, Olympiad, the Olympic rings, Beijing 2008 and related marks are owned by the International Olympics Committee, the Chinese Olympic Committee, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, or their related entities. AFP, Newzwag, Yahoo! and Summer Games Trivia are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the Olympic entities.
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