Ubisoft Creates New Social Gaming Experience on Facebook

July 21, 2009

UBISOFT CREATES ‘UBIFRIENDS,’ A
NEW SOCIAL GAMING EXPERIENCE ON FACEBOOK

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. The first game
available on UbiFriends is TickTockTM, a trivia game designed to test Facebook
users’ knowledge of their friends.

TickTock is a free application that
utilizes user-generated content from users’ 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’ Facebook friends in a meaningful way, and it’s the start of many more
Facebook gaming applications to come from Ubisoft. The game also reinforces the
importance of a user’s 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.

Ubisoft is committed to producing
high quality and engaging games that utilize 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’s leadership
and innovation in the gaming space. TickTock and the UbiFriends portal are the
first projects developed by a dedicated internal team at Ubisoft’s San Francisco
office.

"We’ve been a leader in the art of
making games for many years and we’re happy to bring the Ubisoft experience to
Facebook Platform,” said Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America. "Our
first application, TickTock, is about leveraging user generated content to
interact with your friends, and it’s the first of many applications that we’re
building for our UbiFriends portal.”

To begin playing TickTock, please
follow these steps:

• Sign-in or register for an account
on Facebook

• Visit the TickTock application
page:
http://apps.facebook.com/ticktockgame/
 

• Start playing!

For more information on TickTock and
Ubisoft’s UbiFriends portal on Facebook, please visit:

http://apps.facebook.com/ticktockgame/