Celador International and CMate launch Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

One on one multi-player mobile game on the way.

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Celador International, licensor and distributor of some of the world’s most popular television programmes and CMate, the connected mobile gaming specialist, announced today an agreement under which CMate will develop and launch a connected one-on-one version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”

Under the terms of the agreement CMate will exclusively develop and operate “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” connected mobile multiplayer games. By integrating with mobile operators, CMate’s unique gaming technology allows users to challenge each other to a real-time game of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” for either points or real money. Mobile users will be able to play against each other using JAVA or WAP.

Celador International’s interactive division includes an award-winning catalogue of applications across all platforms - facilitating the use of pioneering technology developed specifically to support on and off air formats.

David Chissick, Chairman of CMate said, “CMate is thrilled to exclusively offer ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ as a connected multi-player mobile game. CMate was selected to be the bearer of this outstanding format because of it’s unique technology enabling true multiplayer gaming regardless of handset type, communication protocol, network, country or language. We expect these games to be launched across the world in the near future.”

Bruce Vandenberg, Director of Interactive Media at Celador International said, ‘This is the ultimate challenge for ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ fans. Players can now compete for supremacy via their mobiles. We are delighted with the multiplayer application developed with CMate and look forward to the games’ certain success.’