X-Life Games surpasses 2,000 registered gamers!

X-Life Games is pleased to announce that we have now surpassed 2,000 registered gamers from all around the world! Our registered gamers represent 99 different countries and many more different cultures.

Here’s a list of the Top 5 countries and gamers representing X-Life Games:

1. Egypt 438


2. Indonesia 323


3. USA 214


4. Lebanon 131


5. Jordan 110

We are thrilled about the support from all of our fans from around the world after just 6 months. X-Life Games launched in March 2009 as a pilot project for the U.S. Department of State. It is a free mobile phone game designed and developed by MetroStar Systems' New Media Technology team and X-Life Games LLC. The game features role-playing, trivia challenges, and adventures around the world. Our mission is to encourage understanding between different cultures in a fun and engaging way. Visit http://www.xlifegames.com for more info and to download the free mobile games.

You can also keep in touch with the X-Life Games community through our Facebook Fanpage (http://www.facebook.com/xlifegames.community) and follow us on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/xlifegames).

The "Who Am I?" Poetry Contest

The "Who Am I?" Poetry Contest has started! You could win an Apple iTouch and $1,000.00 donated to the charity of your choice!

The Who Am I? Poetry Contest allows you to use poetry to describe yourself on a global level and share ideas of tolerance and respect for other cultures, societies, and environments around the world. Simply compose a poem and submit it to our Facebook fan page! After our VIP Judging Panel selects the finalists, we are letting the FANS vote for the winners!

For complete info & to enter visit:

http://www.facebook.com/xlifegames.community

We will be accepting poetry submissions until Sunday October 4 so get started on writing your poem now!

"Who Am I?" Poetry Contest

X-Life Games presents the "Who Am I?" Poetry Contest

The "Who Am I?" Poetry Contest is launching soon! You could win an Apple iTouch and $1,000.00 donated to the charity of your choice!

The Who Am I? Poetry Contest allows you to use poetry to describe yourself on a global level and share ideas of tolerance and respect for other cultures, societies, and environments around the world. Simply compose a poem and submit it to our Facebook fan page! After our VIP Judging Panel selects the finalists, were letting the FANS vote for the winners!

More details will be announced on Monday, September 14th.

In the meantime, you could get started on writing your poem. Tip: The poem must be 500 characters (not words) or less. Good luck!

What Would You Do With An Extra Life? X-Life Games promo video

The X-Life Games team went out to Washington D.C. to ask “What would you do with an X-tra Life?” People had some pretty creative and interesting answers!

Become part of the X-Life Games Community and leave a comment or your thoughts on our Facebook fan page. Become a fan! http://www.facebook.com/xlifegames.community

You can also follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/xlifegames

Thanks!

X-Life Games sweepstakes contest

Enter the X-Life Games sweepstakes contest!

To enter, just visit our fan page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/xlifegames.community

The prize is a free iPod Shuffle. Enter the contest and become a Fan of X-Life Games Fan page for a chance to win.

And please invite all of your friends too :)

Thanks,
Daniel

X-Life Games surpasses 1,000 registered gamers!

MetroStar Systems is pleased to announce that our X-Life Games project has surpassed 1,000 registered gamers from over 85 different countries around the world!

X-Life Games launched in March 2009 as a pilot project for the U.S. Department of State. It is a free mobile phone game designed and developed by MetroStar Systems' New Media Technology team and X-Life Games LLC. The game features role-playing, trivia challenges, and adventures around the world. Our mission is to encourage understanding between different cultures and to provide an English language learning tool. I know that sounds pretty deep for a mobile phone game, but we think it is a positive and fun way to engage with the youth around the world; plus it is FREE for anyone who wants to play.

Micah L. Sifry and Andrew Rasiej (both from the Personal Democracy Forum) wrote an article for Politico.com entitled "P2P2G: The rise of e-diplomacy" that features a blurb about X-Life Games as one example of the State Department's diplomacy initiatives associated with Secretary of State Clinton's "21st Century Statecraft" theme:

Total views of State Department content on YouTube are up more than 400 percent since Obama’s Inauguration. ExchangesConnect, a cultural exchange social networking site (built on the free Ning.com platform) that focuses on foreign exchange students, recently registered its 10,000th member. And State has even launched an English-language learning game called X-Life, for cell phone users, designed to give users a sense of American life and culture.

In other news, the Wall Street Journal's Technology section recently published a special "All Things Digital" section. William M. Bulkeley offered a quiz entitled "How Well Do You Know...The Wireless World" and X-Life Games was highlighted in Question #10:

10) The U.S. State Department spent $415,000 to develop a mobile game called X-Life to improve perceptions of the U.S. in what country or region?

A. Venezuela B. The Middle East C. Russia D. France

ANSWER: B. MetroStar Systems Inc., a Reston, Va., company, created X-Life as a State Department pilot project to see whether e-diplomacy might spread cross-cultural understanding. The game has two role-playing choices: In one, the user’s avatar is a student studying abroad in the U.S.; in the other, the avatar is a musician in a rock band. (Grammy-winning band Ozomatli contributed a song for the game.)

Do you know the wireless world well? You can read the complete quiz here: Wall Street Journal Quiz

For complete info, news, and free game downloads, please visit http://www.xlifegames.com

ABC News features X-Life Games and MetroStar Systems' CEO

ABC NEWS interviewed MetroStar Systems' CEO, Ali Manouchehri, about X-Life Games last week. It is great that ABC News is interested in Diplomacy 2.0 and giving X-Life Games some quality airtime! You can view the video here:


http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7293394


Get info and download the game for free at http://www.xlifegames.com


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