By: Ben Robinson, IntoMobile Sunday, September 28th, 2008 at 12:46 PM
FremantleMedia Enterprises has partnered exclusively with Studio X, and granted them the Mobile rights to the America’s Got Talent brand. This effectively means that Studio X will have rights for US and Canada for the game, which is being rolled out across Operators.
Of course, you might be wondering who are Studio X:
Studio X is the content division of mobile media company Player X creating both TV & Video propositions as well as mobile games. It delivers award winning mobile TV channels based on its wealth of licensed Video On Demand properties working with TV, movie and animation studios to bring exclusive, edgy and exciting content to mobile. Its games team works with the best third party developers to publish a small but focussed roadmap creating exciting new IP as well as games based on licensed IP
We know and love Player X, so this has got to be a good move! In fact, Player X has worked with Freemantly before on games such as Family Fortunes, The Price is Right (classic!), Sale of the Century, and Blockbusters (again, classic!).
If you want to check out more about Player X titles, you can go here.
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when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to
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