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Wed, June 16, 2010

Quepasa Is First Social Network to Bring Skill-Based Gaming to Their Users Through Partnership With Titan Gaming


Published on 2010-06-16 06:11:01 - Market Wire
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WEST PALM BEACH, FL--(Marketwire - June 16, 2010) - Quepasa Corporation (OTCBB: [ QPSA ]), owner of Quepasa.com, an online social network targeting the Latino community, has signed an agreement with Titan Gaming to integrate Titan's skill-based gaming technologies into Quepasa's Open Social Developer platform. This partnership will facilitate the availability and publishing of skill-based social games to Quepasa's registered user base of over 14 million Latinos. The partnership will drive the engagement and monetization of Quepasa's users and will continue to differentiate Quepasa's core offering.

"Game developers around the world are looking for better ways to monetize their games beyond ads and virtual currency. Titan's Platform enables game developers to add tournaments, leaderboards, skill-based matchmaking, and points and cash competitions (dependent upon the laws in each jurisdiction) to their portfolios of games," said John Maffei, CEO of Titan Gaming. "We are excited to partner with Quepasa due to their explosive user growth, comprehensive gaming strategy, and their singular focus on the rapidly-growing and sophisticated Latino user base."

"Quepasa is excited to partner with Titan Gaming, as we believe the availability of skill-based gaming titles will be a real differentiator for Quepasa as we start to market our Open Social Developer platform to the broader game developer community. We look forward to working with social game developers from across the globe to effectively drive the adoption and monetization of their titles to our rapidly growing Latino user base," said Quepasa CEO, John Abbott.

About Titan
Titan, based in Los Angeles, CA, was incorporated in 2006 and has invested over 100,000 hours in development with a team of 24 engineers to develop the Titan Platform. The Titan Platform offers gaming companies and content sites the most effective and complete gaming platform that enables skill-based matchmaking, tournaments and legal points or cash competitions. Titan utilizes gamers' natural competitive inclinations to help its partners and their game developers generate the highest lifetime value (LTV) for users of the platform in the video game industry. Developers, game publishers and content sites interested in utilizing the Titan Platform can visit [ www.TitanPlatform.com ] to learn more.

About Quepasa Corporation
Quepasa Corporation (OTCBB: [ QPSA ]), headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL with offices in Los Angeles, CA; São Paulo, Brazil; Scottsdale, AZ; Miami, FL; and Hermosillo, MX, owns Quepasa.com ([ www.Quepasa.com ]), one of the world's largest, trilingual, Latino social networks. Quepasa.com is an authentic Latino community that provides fun, interactive, and easy to use social tools, and rich multimedia content in English, Spanish and Portuguese to embrace Latinos everywhere, and empower them to connect online, compete in contests and games and share their interests, ideas, and activities.

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