RE:RE:RE:GameTree TV Expansion With a New Pivotal European PartnershiOk i know this is older news..however this sums up TNG and many of their major past deals very well,just like to share...and for sure many other deals to follow.....
In two separate announcements, Toronto-based TransGaming Inc. has launched partnerships with Toshiba Europe GmbH and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., to bring its GameTree TV service to the respective manufacturers' lines of smart TVs.
GameTree TV is a cloud-based software distribution service, which gives users access to a library of casual game titles from familiar brands such as Hasbro, Taito, World Poker Tour and Tetris.
Addressable Audience
TransGaming is one of those Canadian success stories that nobody seems to notice. Without taking into account its latest CES announcements, the company reports that GameTree TV has "a total addressable market of over 60 million households worldwide across multiple service operators."
That sizable number becomes quite credible when you start to tally up the various deals that TransGaming has been forging with hardware manufacturers and service providers over the past few years.
The company has done particularly well in signing up TV providers around the world. GameTree TV is currently available in North America via the DISH Network and DirecTV; in Europe via FREE; in the Middle East via SelecTV; and in Asia via Air Tel and Reliance.
GameTree TV has also been expanding into the hospitality market with Select-TV, delivering interactive entertainment in the Asia-Pacific and Middle-East regions.
In addition to these set-top box implementations, GameTree TV has been making its way onto a growing number of smart TV devices. In June of 2013, TransGaming announced a deal with Panasonic to put the service on VIERA Connect-enabled devices, including TVs, Blu-ray players and home theater systems.
In September, TransGaming launched a similar arrangement for TP Vision's line of Philips smart TVs. This was noted as the first deployment of the HTML5 version of the technology.
Earlier, in April, 2013, TransGaming announced an agreement with Roku. And in February, it launched on the Opera TV store, which at the time was available on Sony Bravia TVs and Blu-ray players, and was expected to launch shortly on Humax, TCL and Mediatek devices.
The company was previously best known as developer of the Cider Portability Engine, a software ‘wrapper' that allows Windows games to be quickly reworked for the Macintosh.
Cider has been used by all the major game publishers, including EA, Ubisoft and Activision. The kind of know-how that went into Cider would be invaluable in helping developers get games up on TransGaming's own GameTree TV platform. (It also developed Cedega, a version of the Wine Windows compatibility software for GNU/Linux, optimized for running Windows games.)
TransGaming has been quietly building its casual-games empire for several years. It has the technical chops to make it work, and, as we can see from this week's announcements, the business acumen to get the service deployed via major services and hardware brands.
TransGaming's progress has not gone entirely unnoticed. In November, the company was ranked by Deloitte Technology at number 26 in its Fast 50 awards for innovation, entrepreneurship and revenue growth. It seems TransGaming revenues by a comfortable 288% from 2008 to 2012.
It might be time to start paying closer attention to this company.
GameTree TV is on display in the following locations at CES 2014: