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X-Life Games surpasses 2,000 registered gamers!
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MetroStar Systems is pleased to announce that our X-Life Games project has now surpassed 2,000 registered gamers from all around the world! Our registered gamers represent 99 different countries and many more different cultures.
Here’s a list of the Top 5 countries and gamers representing X-Life Games:
- Egypt 438
- Indonesia 323
- USA 214
- Lebanon 131
- Jordan 110
We are thrilled about the support from all of our fans from around the world after just 6 months. X-Life Games launched in March 2009 as a pilot project for the U.S. Department of State. It is a free mobile phone game designed and developed by MetroStar Systems’ New Media Technology team and X-Life Games LLC. The game features role-playing, trivia challenges, and adventures around the world. Our mission is to encourage understanding between different cultures in a fun and engaging way. Visit http://www.xlifegames.com for more info and to download the free mobile games.
You can also keep in touch with the X-Life Games community through our Facebook Fanpage (http://www.facebook.com/xlifegames.community) and follow us on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/xlifegames).
X-Life Games presents the “Who Am I?” Poetry Contest
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Today, X-Life Games launches the “Who Am I?” Poetry Contest. The contest encourages you to use poetry to describe yourself on a global level while sharing ideas of tolerance and respect for other cultures, societies, and environments around the world.
“X-Life Games has been such a fun and educational experience thus far for everybody involved, and we wanted to figure out a way to celebrate this success,” said Daniel Nguyen, Community Manager of X-Life Games. “By coordinating the Poetry Contest, we reward our fans with a challenge that yields fun and exciting prizes, as well as continues promoting cultural unification and understanding through the X-Life Games modules.”
Submissions for the contest will be accepted until midnight on Sunday October 4th. The VIP Judging panel, featuring MetroStar Systems executives and two professors from Georgetown University, will select finalists. Then there will be a public voting period beginning Tuesday, October 13 that will ultimately decide the winners.
Prizes:
- 1st Prize: Apple iTouch for 1st place winner & $1,000.00 USD donated on behalf of the winner to a charity of the winner’s choice*
- 2nd Prize: Apple iPod Nano for 2nd place winner & $500.00 USD donated on behalf of the winner to a charity of the winner’s choice*
- 3rd Prize: Apple iPod Shuffle for 3rd place winner & $250.00 USD donated on behalf of the winner to a charity of the winner’s choice*
*MetroStar Systems will provide a list of acceptable charities that the winners can select from to have the respective prize donation donated on the winner’s behalf
The contest will use Wildfire App’s Promotions application and will be hosted on the X-Life Games fanpage on Facebook. Please visit http://www.facebook.com/xlifegames.community for complete details, rules, and to enter the contest.
X-Life Games surpasses 1,000 registered gamers!
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MetroStar Systems is pleased to announce that our X-Life Games project has surpassed 1,000 registered gamers from all around the world. As of today, we have 1,112 gamers registered from 85 different countries! Surprisingly, Egypt has the most X-Life gamers at 226.
Here’s a list of the top 5 countries representing X-Life Games:
- Egypt 226
- USA 185
- Indonesia 78
- Saudi Arabia 73
- Lebanon 49
X-Life Games launched in March 2009 as a pilot project for the U.S. Department of State. It is a free mobile phone game designed and developed by MetroStar Systems’ New Media Technology team and X-Life Games LLC. The game features role-playing, trivia challenges, and adventures around the world. Our mission is to encourage understanding between different cultures and to provide an English language learning tool. I know that sounds pretty deep for a mobile phone game, but we think it is a positive and fun way to engage with the youth around the world; plus it is FREE for anyone who wants to play.
Micah L. Sifry and Andrew Rasiej (both from the Personal Democracy Forum) wrote an article for Politico.com entitled “P2P2G: The rise of e-diplomacy” that features a blurb about X-Life Games as one example of the State Department’s diplomacy initiatives associated with Secretary of State Clinton’s “21st Century Statecraft” theme:
Total views of State Department content on YouTube are up more than 400 percent since Obama’s Inauguration. ExchangesConnect, a cultural exchange social networking site (built on the free Ning.com platform) that focuses on foreign exchange students, recently registered its 10,000th member. And State has even launched an English-language learning game called X-Life, for cell phone users, designed to give users a sense of American life and culture.
In other news, the Wall Street Journal’s Technology section recently published a special “All Things Digital” section. William M. Bulkeley offered a quiz entitled “How Well Do You Know…The Wireless World” and X-Life Games was highlighted in Question #10:
10) The U.S. State Department spent $415,000 to develop a mobile game called X-Life to improve perceptions of the U.S. in what country or region?
A. Venezuela B. The Middle East C. Russia D. France
ANSWER: B. MetroStar Systems Inc., a Reston, Va., company, created X-Life as a State Department pilot project to see whether e-diplomacy might spread cross-cultural understanding. The game has two role-playing choices: In one, the user’s avatar is a student studying abroad in the U.S.; in the other, the avatar is a musician in a rock band. (Grammy-winning band Ozomatli contributed a song for the game.)
Do you know the wireless world well? You can read the complete quiz here: Wall Street Journal Quiz
For complete info, news, and free game downloads, please visit http://www.xlifegames.com
