QuizUp trivia game lets you issue challenges to others.
Plain Vanilla Games is launching QuizUp, an iPhone title that it calls the “biggest trivia game in the world.” It makes that claim because it has created more than 100,000 trivia questions in 300 categories.
It is the first title to blend human interaction between friends and strangers with gameplay in a seamless way. In QuizUp, players can play trivia games individually or asynchronously (where one player takes a turn at a time) against another player. Players can issue direct challenges to friends via Facebook connectivity or allow QuizUp to match them up with a similar opponent.
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