LimeLife Releases Best Selling Hollywood Hangman Game for iPhone

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LimeLife Releases Best Selling Hollywood Hangman Game for iPhone - Published on 04/29/09

 

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LimeLife today announced that Hollywood Hangman 1.0 is now available on the Apple iTunes App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. A best-selling game on mobile phones, this new version of Hollywood Hangman is one of the first iPhone games to offer the social and multiplayer features enabled by Facebook Connect and multiplayer WiFi. Hollywood Hangman combines word puzzle fun with celebrity, movie, TV, and music trivia for an exciting twist on the classic Hangman game.

 

Menlo Park, CA - LimeLife, the leading women's cross-platform digital media company, today announced that Hollywood Hangman is now available on the Apple® iTunes® App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. A best-selling game on mobile phones, this new version of Hollywood Hangman is one of the first iPhone games to offer the social and multiplayer features enabled by Facebook Connect and multiplayer WiFi.

 

In this graphically rich game, Hollywood Hangman combines word puzzle fun with celebrity, movie, TV, and music trivia for an exciting twist on the classic Hangman game. Players move up in status, going from a "Hollywood Hopeful" to a "Celebrity A-Lister," by playing and solving Hangman word puzzles that prove their knowledge of showbiz and music.

 

"We're thrilled to launch Hollywood Hangman, the first of many in our portfolio of original IP mobile games, on the iPhone and iPod touch," said Kristin McDonnell, CEO of LimeLife. "The iPhone and Apple Store provide a robust platform and highly effective merchandising that are changing the way women discover and buy mobile content."

 

Hollywood Hangman is an innovative game that has been developed to take full advantage of iPhone and iPod touch features such as the accelerometer, Facebook Connect, and multiplayer WiFi. Hollywood Hangman's social features allow players to:

 

* Share their game status in Facebook

* Invite friends to play the game through Facebook and email

* Create their own user-generated Hangman puzzles

* Compete in multiplayer games over WiFi

 

Key Features:

* 1500 celebrity, movie, TV, and music puzzles

* User-generated puzzles in multiplayer WiFi mode

* Facebook Connect integration

* Breaking celebrity news from LimeLife's editorial team

 

Pricing and Availability

Hollywood Hangman Lite is available for free and Hollywood Hangman is available for $2.99 (USD). Both versions are listed in the Word and Puzzle sections of the Games category in the Apple App Store.

 

LimeLife: http://www.limelife.com

Hollywood Hangman 1.0: http://www.limelife.com/mobile.html?p=hollywoodhangman

Download Hollywood Hangman Premium: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=310066464&mt=8

Download Hollywood Hangman Lite: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=310091927&mt=8

 

 

LimeLife, Inc., a Red Herring Global 100 company based in San Francisco's Bay Area, is a digital media company focused on the women's market at the intersection of entertainment, community, and shopping. LimeLife is dedicated to creating fresh and smart experiences most relevant to 18-34 year old, media savvy women across multiple digital platforms. LimeLife can be accessed on the web at LimeLife.com and via mobile at m.LimeLife.com. LimeLife's premium mobile content - games, wallpapers, text alerts and applications - are available through the major U.S. wireless carriers and the Apple App Store. LimeLife's Hollywood Hangman game and MySnaps social shopping application are available on the iPhone. Copyright 2009 LimeLife, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

 

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Alon Sobol

GM, Product

650-292-5172

 

alon.sobol ( -at -) limelife.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

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