TIGA,the trade association representing the UK games industry, today announced Stick
Sports as its newest member. Stick
Sports provide interactive, online, free to play sports games.
Started in 2004 Stick
Sports is an Anglo Australian company with offices in London and Sydney. The company’s immensely popular games include
Stick Football, Stick Tennis and Stick
Baseball. However their biggest title is their global hit Stick Cricket.
Stick Cricket is the world’s most popular online cricket
game offering a series of free-to-play batting games. With approximately two million unique
visitors every month the game has been played by over 85 million people.
Stick Sports have
recently launched a brand new Cricket World Cup game for iPad, iPhone and iPod
Touch which is now bundled with the upgrade for the Stick Cricket App on the Apple App Store. Within weeks the new game has hit number one
in all the major cricketing nations and was selected by The Sunday Times as one
of the top 500 apps in the world. The
game boasts lots of additional features including 14 new levels of World
Domination and the option to challenge any user to a head-to-head via Bluetooth
or local WiFi network.
Paul Collins, CEO,
explains the company’s reasons for joining TIGA:
“With
the expansion of Stick Sports we are keen to develop new connections and
networks within the games industry and joining TIGA was an excellent way of
doing so. The TIGA community and TIGA
events provide valuable opportunities for networking and creative discussion
with industry peers.””
Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO, states:
“Stick
Sports have made a name for themselves across the world with their hugely
popular games and the company is a great example of our successful and
dynamic games developers here in the UK.
At TIGA
we are passionate about fostering greater collaboration between games
businesses and with the UK’s other creative industries and we look forward to
working with Stick Sports in this regard.””
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Notes to editors:
About TIGA:
TIGA is the trade association representing the UK’s games industry.The
majority of our members are either independent games developers or in-house
publisher owned developers.We also have games publishers, outsourcing
companies, technology businesses and universities amongst our membership. TIGA
was awarded ‘Trade Association of the Year’ and the ‘Member Recruitment Award’
at the Trade Association Forum Best Practice Awards 2010. TIGA has also been
named as a finalist in the 2010 Chartered Management Institute (CMI) National
Management and Leadership Awards in the category of ‘The Outstanding
Organisation of the Year Award (SME)’. TIGA is an Investors in People
organisation.
TIGA’s vision is to
make the UK the best place in the world to do games business. We focus on
three sets of activities: political representation, generating media coverage
and developing services that enhance the competitiveness of our members.
This means that TIGA members are effectively represented in the corridors of
power, their voice is heard in the media and they receive benefits that make a
material difference to their businesses, including a reduction in costs and
improved commercial opportunities.
For further information, please contact Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO on
07875939643: or email richard.wilson@tiga.org; or contact David Hodges on
02070911653