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| 50,000th Games Cheat sent via SMS | - 02/09/04 | | LONDON – 1 September 2004 - AlienPants Ltd (www.alienpants.com) is pleased to announce that more than 50,000 cheat questions have been answered through the AlienPants white-label SMS Hints, Tips and Cheats service GTIP (www.gtip.co.uk).
The premium SMS service is available to anyone in the UK who has access to a mobile handset, allowing them to ask a dedicated Cheat Master for a Hint, Tip or Cheat for any computer game simply by sending a text message.
"Since launching in 2003, the GTIP service has proven itself to be extremely popular with game players," said Tom Gordon, CEO of AlienPants. "We recently added several new licensees, and have seen an increase in the number of people aware of and using the service. We have also seen a rise in the number of people who use the service regularly, with a customer retention rate close to 50%."
Once a question has been texted to a specific keyword and shortcode combination, an AlienPants Cheat Master then sends the answer directly to the customer’s mobile phone, typically within 5 to 10 minutes of receiving the question, allowing customers to get almost instant and timely help to game problems and requests.
"The beauty of the system is its simplicity." continues Tom. "As the service is a text service, customers are able to use the service from anywhere and from any phone that supports Short Messaging. They don’t need to connect to the Internet or call a telephone number. They just pause the game they are playing, send in their question, and the answer will come straight back to their phone. For our clients, the service is immediately revenue generating, as well as providing timely and relevant support for their customers, ensuring a higher level of customer satisfaction across all products and services."
The GTIP service is provided as a white-label customer support service for games publishers, magazines or any other company interested in providing hints, tips and cheats or a live customer support service to their customers. For more information about the GTIP service, please visit the GTIP website at www.gtip.co.uk. |  |
| AlienPants Powers Moby Goals Football Alerts | - 17/08/04 | | LONDON – 13 August 2004 - AlienPants Ltd (www.alienpants.com) has provided a bespoke software solution to provide support for the Moby Goals Premiership Football SMS Alerts service. The service provides live goal alerts and current club news straight to user’s mobile phones.
"When we were approached to provide the software, we were happy to take on the challenge of providing the registration and handling services for Moby Goals,” said Tom Gordon, CEO of AlienPants. "We worked closely with Moby Goals and MindMatics to rapidly develop and deploy the service ready for its launch today."
Fans interested in receiving news and goal alerts for their favourite club need only send a single text message and they will be automatically subscribed. As an example, texting GOAL START CPFC to 61177 will sign you up to receive live goal alerts when Crystal Palace is playing.
For more information on how to subscribe, visit the official website at www.mobygoals.com. | |
| 25,000th Games Cheat sent via SMS | - 20/07/04 | | LONDON – 20 July 2004 - AlienPants Ltd (www.alienpants.com) is pleased to announce that more than 25,000 cheat questions have been answered through the AlienPants white-label SMS Hints, Tips and Cheats service GTIP (www.gtip.co.uk).
The premium SMS service is available to anyone in the UK who has access to a mobile handset, allowing them to ask a dedicated Cheat Master for a Hint, Tip or Cheat for any computer game simply by sending a text message.
"Since launching in 2003, the GTIP service has proven itself to be extremely popular with game players," said Tom Gordon, CEO of AlienPants. "With the recent launch of the GP keyword for Game Player magazine, the GURUGOLD keyword for the Gamezville television program along with a number of other keywords for other customers, we have seen an increase in the number of people aware of and using the service, and we have also seen a rise in the number of people who use the service regularly, with more than 42% of all our users being regular customers."
Once a question has been texted to a specific keyword and shortcode combination, an AlienPants Cheat Master then sends the answer directly to the customer’s mobile phone.
"The beauty of the system is its simplicity." continues Tom. "As the service is a text service, customers are able to use the service from anywhere and from any phone that supports Short Messaging. They don’t need to connect to the Internet or call a telephone number. They just pause the game they are playing, send in their question, and the answer will come straight back to their phone."
The GTIP service is provided as a white-label customer support service for games publishers, magazines or any other company interested in providing a hints, tips and cheats or a live customer support service to their customers. For more information about the GTIP service, please visit the GTIP website at www.gtip.co.uk. | |
| ECTS 2004 SMS News Alerts | - 20/07/04 | | LONDON – 20 July 2004 - AlienPants Ltd (www.alienpants.com) is pleased to announce that visitors to this year’s ECTS show will be able to receive news headlines, press release information and news about the event via their mobile phones.
As with last year’s event, this year AlienPants will be providing a subscription-based SMS News Alerts service. Visitors to the show and anyone else interested in the event will be able to sign up to receive the latest news and press release information from the show direct to their mobile phone.
AlienPants will have a team of news gatherers at the show making sure that news and information is delivered as soon as it happens. All major Press Releases put out during ECTS will also be covered, allowing subscribers to be notified of the Press Release headline when it is made public.
AlienPants news staff will also be able to send news alerts from their own mobile handsets, giving the news team the ability to send out alerts to all subscribers as soon as news breaks, without the need to go back to the press office to upload the news.
“ECTS is one of the largest Computer Game trade shows in the world,” said Tom Gordon, CEO of AlienPants Ltd. “It’s often not possible to keep up with everything that’s happening during the show, and this service will allow people to find out news of interest as it breaks.”
To sign up to receive alerts during ECTS, visit www.alienpants.com/ects/. Subscribers can then select which categories of alerts they would like to receive, and in what volumes. These choices can be adjusted at any time via the website. | |
| GURUGOLD launches on Gamezville | - 15/06/04 | | Gamezville launched the GURUGOLD SMS cheat service today. The service, available by texting GURUGOLD and a question 86248, is run by the AlienPants GTIP team.
For more information, check out the Guru's web page! | |
| GTIP Licensed to Game Player Magazine | - 22/05/04 | | Game Player magazine has become the latest Playstation 2 magazine to license our GTIP SMS service.“Once we had decided that we wanted to offer a SMS cheats service, we approached AlienPants and outlined what we wanted. Within a very short space of time we were up and running with our chosen keyword and shortcode number,” said Russell Ware, Director of Papercut Ltd, who produce Game Player magazine on behalf of Revolution Media. “Even as “virgins” to this market, everything was clear and easy to understand, and more importantly, hassle free." You can read the full press release on News0r.com. | |
| New GTIP Website Launches | - 21/05/04 | | AlienPants has launched a brand new website for the GTIP premium SMS hints, tips and cheats service.
The website is available at two URLs: www.gtip.co.uk or www.smscheats.co.uk. | |
| Helsinki Seminar | - 06/05/04 | | The speech given by AlienPants CEO Tom Gordon has now been posted in full in his column on News0r.
If you would like a copy of the powerpoint slides that accompanied the presentation, please send an email to info@alienpants.com | |
| AlienPants Turns 3 | - 17/04/04 | | AlienPants is celebrating its third birthday today.
Incorporated on April 2, 2001, over the past three years the company has provided a diverse range of services to other companies within the games industry both in the UK and the US, from creating and managing a games service provider for British Telecom, to translating the Japanese editions of the Yu-Gi-Oh Rule Book and Card Catalogue for Prima Publishing, to creating and producing a unique games related television program, Game Guru.
AlienPants would like to thank everyone who has been involved in or worked with AlienPants over the past three years for contributing to our success. | |
| Online Gaming Seminar in Helsinki | - 17/04/04 | | AlienPants has been invited to participate in an upcoming seminar on mobile and online gaming being held at the British Embassy in Helsinki, on behalf of UK Trade and Investment.
The seminar is being held on the 20th of April. AlienPants CEO Tom Gordon will be speaking on opportunities in cross-platform mutliplayer gaming. The full text of the presentation will be made available after the event. | |
| ELSPA Conference Presentation | - 17/04/04 | | ELSPA's conference on profitable online gaming has finished, and the presentation given by AlienPants CEO Tom Gordon is now available for download.
The presentation is available for download as a ZIP file (about 300Kb).
Update: The presentation has been re-saved in an earlier version of Powerpoint. If you have been having trouble opening the presentation, please download the new version. | |
| ELSPA Conference on Online Games | - 17/04/04 | | AlienPants CEO Tom Gordon will be one of the guest speakers at ELSPA's one-day seminar on profitable online gaming, being held in London on the 3rd of February.
Tom will be speaking about the business justification for creating world-class community management and customer support services for online and massively multiplayer games.
More details of the conference can be found on ELSPA's Website. | |
| Freelance Writers Needed | - 17/04/04 | | Update: We have been overwhelmed with response, and we have filled all the freelance positions we had open.
AlienPants is currently in looking for a number of freelance writers to assist with a large project. We are looking for people who have good research and writing skills, and the ability to write good copy in English on a given subject to a deadline. The project is an ongoing one, and there is potential for a significant amount of freelance work.
For more information, please send an email to info@alienpants.com giving a brief description of your writing experience and a link to a sample of your writing. | |
| Digital Jesters Licenses GTIP | - 17/04/04 | | Digital Jesters is the latest UK publisher to sign up for the AlienPants GTIP service. The premium-SMS service is used to provide hints, tips and cheats for PC and console games, and can also be used to provide simple customer support and marketing services.
The service immediately support both games released by Digital Jesters in the UK today, TrackMania and Virtual Sailer 3, and will also support both Pro Rugby Manager 2004 and Savage: Battle for Newerth when they are released early next year.
We've posted the full press release here. You can find out more about the GTIP service and our Publisher Program by visiting our GTIP Information section. | |
| AlienPants Launches GTIP Affiliate Program | - 17/04/04 | | | AlienPants is pleased to announce the launch of it's GTIP affiliate program. This program aims to allow other companies and website owners to make use of the AlienPants premium SMS hints, tips and cheats service. For more information, please see our press release or the GTIP section of this website. | |
| | | AlienPants would like to welcome our newest Game Guru Sophie Blakemore. Sophie is joining veteran Game Guru Stuart "Stoo" McDonald in the cheatmaster's hotseat. For more information, please see our latest press release. | |
| ECTS News Alerts | - 17/04/04 | | | AlienPants is pleased to announce that as a Mobile Media Partner for this years ECTS, we will be providing SMS News Alerts to anyone visiting or interested in news from the show. For more information, please read our press release or visit the registration and information page for the service. | |
| 10,000 Game Cheats Sent via SMS | - 17/04/04 | | AlienPants has sent out a press release today announcing that they have answered more than 10,000 Hint, Tip and Cheat requests via their premium rate SMS cheats service. The service has been running since January this year, and has grown through word of mouth. The technology used to run the Cheats service has also been licensed for use in premium-rate SMS chat applications.
We have posted the full press release as well. | |
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