LONDON, 15th March 2016 – BBC Worldwide has partnered with award winning games developer Exient Limited, to create Dancing With The Stars: The Official Game for mobile platforms. The iOS and Android app allows fans to play as their own celebrity on Dancing With The Stars, inhabiting a glamorous celebrity world brimming with drama and excitement, while training to become the top dancer each week. Combining popular match-3 gameplay with innovative social features, Dancing With The Stars: The Official Game will give fans the dancing experience they’ve been waiting for.

One of BBC Worldwide’s most popular global brands, Dancing with the Stars has been licensed to 52 countries, and a version of the show has been seen in over 75 countries, with over 250 series aired around the world to date.  Local versions of Dancing with the Stars air in countries as diverse as Lebanon, India and Russia. The brand has also extended into live events, gaming and digital properties.

Dave Hawkins, CEO, said, “We’re extremely excited and honoured to become a part of the massive success story that is Dancing With The Stars and our partnership with the BBC has resulted in a game that will break new boundaries in Match 3.  By taking DWTS into the mobile space, we aim to showcase the talent, spectacle, fashion, drama and pure joy that is a night of glam and glitz in the palm of your hands.”

Harriet Frost, Brand Manager for Dancing with the Stars, added “We’re thrilled to have an exciting and entertaining Dancing with the Stars mobile game to introduce to all our passionate fans around the world. As one of the world’s biggest entertainment brands, Dancing with the Stars is inventive, creative, glamorous and exciting and these values are all represented in our new mobile game.  We’re delighted by how the game is developing and hope it will provide our fans with a new fun way to interact with the Dancing with the Stars brand and engage, excite and entertain our fantastic community across the globe.”

Dancing With The Stars: The Official Game and will launch on the App Store and Google Play in September 2016, to hear more about the game, follow the below social media accounts:

US

Twitter: @dwtsthegame

Instagram: @dwtsthegame

Facebook: Dancing With The Stars: The Official Game

UK

Twitter: @strictlythegame

Instagram: @strictlygame

Facebook: Strictly Come Dancing: The Official Game

Casual connect is a conference held in Amsterdam gathering industry professionals to talk about their experiences developing games and apps for the mobile and games as a service digital industry.  This year our very own Adam Wells joined Rovio’s  Wilhelm Taht to talk about Exient Developed – Angry Birds Transformers.

In this video you can see our Leamington Studios awesome video log of the games development.

Please note that the music is silenced because of licensing restrictions.

click here to see the video on youtube

Rovio have pulled together a fun info-graphic of Angry Birds Go! Statistics, how far has been travelled by the world? How many ultimate racers are out there?  I what is the record number of boosts used in one race??

https://www.angrybirds.com/blog/friday-fun-facts–infographic-one-year-of-angry-birds-go

By Kirk Mckeand, Contributing Writer, http://www.pocketgamer.biz/

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Pocketgamer have interviewed the developers behind Angry Birds Go! Our Lead Artist Rich Jones, Lead Designer Nic Cusworth and Sound Designer Joe Greig talk about their experience creating one of casual gamings best racing experiences ever.

Pocket game have featured a set of behind the scenes articles exploring Exient’s pre-visualisation work during the development of Angry Birds Go!

http://hubs.pocketgamer.co.uk/angry-birds-go/features/58493/check-out-this-concept-art-for-environments-and-tracks-in-angry-birds-go

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