While our new website is being built, here's a bit of Monterosa News
BBC Sport commissions multi-player quiz pilot
24 Oct 2008
BBC Sport has commissioned Monterosa to build a realtime multi-player quiz game. Based on the ever popular Quizoo, the live quiz will be piloted in November with a broad set of sporting questions. If commissioned permanently, the full version will include social competition, video, and regular topical content. The game will be powered by our EnMasse participation platform.
2nd Run! moves into paid development with CBBC
17 Sep 2008
The first Run! event took place in March 2008, and broke new ground in cross-platform entertainment and gaming. Monterosa Formats, our sister company is now working with CBBC on a phase of development. Run creator Marc Diamond will be working with writer Al Maccuish to create an entirely new type of animated and live-action online drama, which sits inside a live online game tournament.
Pokerstars.tv uses Monterosa EnMasse to power high-volume live chat events
18 Sep 2008
Pokerstars.tv showcases major live poker events, and in conjunction with partner Videojuicer, they've launched a real-time chat facility around their massively popular streaming coverage. Powered by Monterosa's EnMasse participation platform, it handles the big spikes in traffic associated with live events.
telegraph.co.uk teams up with Monterosa to launch real-time Football Rating and Prediction Tools for fans
17 Sep 2008
We're proud to announce the launch of The Daily Telegraph's new Football Tools - two new applications for football fans to predict the score of matches and to rate players in all Premiership and lower league matches.
The Rater and Predictor respond to live in-match changes such as substitutions, and are powered by our EnMasse real-time platform.