Portalarium Announces Commercial Launch
of its First Game, Sweet @$! Poker, on Facebook
Texas Hold ‘Em card game rising in popularity; marks company’s initial offering in fast growing social media space
AUSTIN, Texas, March 10, 2010 — With the declaration of its formation as a company less than a month old, officials with Portalarium™, Inc., announced today that its first game, Sweet @$! Poker™, is now in commercial launch. The game is available on Facebook® and during its short beta cycle of only five weeks has already zoomed to become the 12th most popular poker app on Facebook (out of 47 total) and the 32nd most popular Facebook card game overall (out of 200+ total).
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Texas Hold ‘Em card game rising in popularity; marks company’s initial offering in fast growing social media space
AUSTIN, Texas, March 10, 2010 — With the declaration of its formation as a company less than a month old, officials with Portalarium™, Inc., announced today that its first game, Sweet @$! Poker™, is now in commercial launch. The game is available on Facebook® and during its short beta cycle of only five weeks has already zoomed to become the 12th most popular poker app on Facebook (out of 47 total) and the 32nd most popular Facebook card game overall (out of 200+ total).
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Official post to Business Wire
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Portalarium Player Bridges Gap Between
Premium Games and Social Networks
Unique web-browser plug-in brings better performance and higher graphic quality to exploding gaming sector
AUSTIN, Texas, March 9, 2010 — Portalarium™, a new game developer and publisher startup is wasting little time in making its mark on the fast growing social network gaming space. Led by game design pioneer Richard Garriott and a team of fellow ORIGIN and NCsoft veterans, the Austin, Texas based company is quickly rolling out its innovative web browser plug-in, The Portalarium Player™, to game developers looking to create premium game experiences on social network platforms such as Facebook® and MySpace®.
(MORE - read entire news release here)
Unique web-browser plug-in brings better performance and higher graphic quality to exploding gaming sector
AUSTIN, Texas, March 9, 2010 — Portalarium™, a new game developer and publisher startup is wasting little time in making its mark on the fast growing social network gaming space. Led by game design pioneer Richard Garriott and a team of fellow ORIGIN and NCsoft veterans, the Austin, Texas based company is quickly rolling out its innovative web browser plug-in, The Portalarium Player™, to game developers looking to create premium game experiences on social network platforms such as Facebook® and MySpace®.
(MORE - read entire news release here)
Official post to Business Wire
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Astronaut and Hall-of-Fame Game Designer,
Richard Garriott, Returns to Gaming
With New Social Media Company: Portalarium
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 17, 2010 – After a two-year hiatus to travel to the International Space Station, work on a film documentary, ignite a personal rapid transit initiative, and wrap up post-flight experiments and speaking engagements, veteran game designer, Richard Garriott, is returning to the video game industry where he has been a fixture for more than 30 years – this time with a broad-based new social media company called Portalarium™. Garriott is best known for his award-winning Ultima Series (ORIGIN/Electronic Arts) of fantasy role playing games and Ultima Online, the first commercially successful massively multiplayer online game released in 1997 and still operating today.
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Portalarium co-founder Richard Garriott with Laetitia Pichot de Cayeux
on the Red Carpet at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas on February 18, 2010
just prior to presenting the award for "Achievement In Online Play" to Zynga
for Farmville at the 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards.