4T2 - News

Industry must take responsibility for IAP in kids' games

All

18.04.2013

4T2 director Mike Hawkyard has been addressing a games industry conference on the ethics of In App Purchases aimed at children

LEGO Ninjago battles to top of iOS charts

Games

09.04.2013

Ranked #1 overall iPAD app in 43 countries, our latest mobile game title continues to battle its way to top spots around the world.

The Sun gives our LEGO Hero Factory game the thumbs up

Games

02.04.2013

We're delighted to have received a 4.5 / 5 review score in The Sun's games section on Easter Friday

Launch of BBC Wizards vs Aliens game

Games

23.11.2012

Cast spells and defeat magic-eating aliens in CBBC's latest creation: Wizards vs Aliens: Wizard Wipeout! Developed and produced by 4T2.

4T2 heads to Game Connection Europe

Staff Adventures

19.11.2012

Next week 4T2's Mike Hawkyard will be in Paris representing the company at the legendary Game Connection Europe event.

Patisserie Valerie feed 4T2 treats in aid of Movember

Staff Adventures

15.11.2012

Marvin's Mos would like to say a big thank you to Patisserie Valerie for their scrumptious contribution to our Movember fundraising.

Exploring gaming in Korea

Staff Adventures

12.11.2012

It's been an interesting week for 4T2's Mike Hawkyard and Garry Junkuhn who have been discovering more about Korea's online gaming market.

4T2 nominated for BIMA award

Awards & Chart News

11.11.2012

We're delighted that our LEGO® Hero Factory project has been nominated for a BIMA award in the games category

4T2 wins DADI award for LEGO game

Awards & Chart News

09.11.2012

Another cause for celebration in the office today after our LEGO® Hero Factory Breakout game won a DADI award.

Supporting Movember at 4T2

Staff Adventures

05.11.2012

Here at 4T2, we don't often say 'mo' to a good cause. Except this month.

BAFTA nomination for 4T2

Awards & Chart News

26.10.2012

We are very proud to announce that 4T2 has been nominated for a BAFTA Children's Award for Best Independent Production Company.

We're hiring - Game Developer

Games

01.08.2012

4T2 are recruiting an experienced game coder to work on a number of high profile Unity game developments.

4T2 win Grand Prix NMA Award for LEGO game

Awards & Chart News

09.07.2012

4T2 Multimedia is celebrating winning two major UK marketing awards for its LEGO game "Hero Factory Breakout".

4T2 helps NDCS tackle deaf teenagers' isolation

Websites

14.05.2012

4T2 is delighted to have helped the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) with its new campaign to help deaf and hearing teenagers communicate with each other.

2 Million Visits in Month 1 for Breakout Game

Awards & Chart News

21.02.2012

4T2 today announced that 'Hero Factory Breakout', created for The LEGO Group, received more than 2 million visits in its first month.

TIGA Casual Games Meet Up

Games

20.01.2012

Mike Hawkyard, Chairman of the TIGA Casual Games Committee invites you to join him on Friday 27th January 2012 for the Second TIGA Casual Games Meet Up.

Acing the Viral Charts

Awards & Chart News

29.11.2011

LEGO Star Wars Ace Assault II has topped the ViralChart.com.

Tracy Beaker triumphs over Potter and DiCaprio

Awards & Chart News

28.06.2011

4T2 and CBBC are delighted to have won the Best Entertainment Campaign in the 2011 NMA Effectiveness Awards.

Play target met six months ahead of schedule

Awards & Chart News

14.06.2011

LEGO®Star Wars(TM) Ace Assault has achieved its annual play target of 10 million visits thirty weeks ahead of schedule. The campaign has also overachieved on return rate and average playtime goals.

The Sun's Bizarre are burning rubber!

Games

13.06.2011

Mobil 1 sponsor The Sun's Bizarre Grand Prix, Silverstone 2011

4T2 row to victory for Naomi House

Staff Adventures

02.06.2011

Our sixteen hardy rowers and a drummer, paddled their way to two wins out of three, in aid of Naomi House children's hospice.

4T2 shortlisted for NMA Award

Awards & Chart News

23.05.2011

We are delighted to announce that 4T2 has been shortlisted as a finalist for an NMA Effectiveness Award 2011.

4T2 prepare for battle

Staff Adventures

12.04.2011

4T2 will be battling it out in a Dragon Boat race in aid of Naomi House children's hospice on 30 May at Sherborne Castle.

Mike Hawkyard heads TIGA's Casual Game Group

Games

01.04.2011

Our New Business Director, Mike Hawkyard, is leading an initiative by TIGA.org to help UK casual game development companies standout in a global marketplace.

4T2 at Game Connection (GDC)

Games

02.03.2011

Welcome to sunny San Francisco

Fastest Time Wins 2 is LIVE on air

Games

04.10.2010

BBC Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra kick off gaming week with 12 new DJ racers and 3 new tracks. Its FTW2 for the win!

Race against Lewis Hamilton & Jenson Button!

Games

13.05.2010

Two people you might have heard of have now recorded laps for you to challenge on our new game for Mobil 1.

Beakerising the Nation

Awards & Chart News

12.05.2010

Featuring on TV and topping the Viral Charts, 4T2's latest game release takes off.

4T2 Gaming Experience Live on BBC Radio 1

Games

03.11.2009

BBC Radio 1 launched a week of gaming-themed content with an exclusive online campaign.

Robot Chronicles is #1 and BIMA nominated

Awards & Chart News

03.11.2009

The LEGO Company's first cross branded game topped the Christmas Viral Charts in 2009.

Toxicmag.co.uk breaks new ground

Websites

02.11.2009

Egmont's TOXIC Magazine readership growth (12 percent year-on-year) was the largest in the pre-teen boys' market in 2008.

CIPR Pride Award 2009 Winners

Awards & Chart News

02.11.2009

The CIPR PRide Awards recognise excellence in PR and communications across the UK. The IET won the 'Best Use of Social Media' in November.

The Best Game 4T2 Have Ever Built?

Games

29.07.2009

The Robot Chronicles online game is the first time The LEGO Company has used a single digital campaign to promote several distinct product brands.

'Build It' All!

Games

29.05.2009

'Build It' is an interactive puzzle game targeted towards six year olds. It is relatively simple to play, yet highly addictive due to a collecting element.

E-Consultancy Innovation Award 2008 Winners

Awards & Chart News

04.12.2008

4T2 celebrate in style as our client 'GAME Stores Group' win the E-consultancy innovation award for online acquisition. 4T2 produced the advergame Console Wars' as part of GAME's Christmas marketing campaign. Within weeks of release, the number of plays rocketed to over 25,000 per day.

'Crazy Sleigh' features on Channel 4's site

Games

02.12.2008

Created back in 2003, 4T2 produced an original game called 'Crazy Sleigh' for Comet's Christmas marketing campaign. Following over 3,500,000 plays throughout the festive period, Comet commissioned a second game 'Crazy Sleigh 2'.

Will Advergaming be the next big thing?

Games

03.11.2008

Brand Strategy Magazine invited Mike Hawkyard, co-founder of 4T2 Multimedia to represent the positive view on the future of advergaming.

New levels for LEGO Mars Mission

Games

23.09.2008

We are pleased to announce the arrival of 4 new levels to our award winning Mars Mission - Crystalien Conflict game.

GMTV kids at 4T2

Websites

02.09.2008

4T2 would like to express our thanks to the children who came into our head office in Bournemouth and helped test a number of our online games.

4T2 Win NMA Effectiveness Award

Awards & Chart News

27.06.2008

4T2 Celebrate winning the 'Greatest Prize in New Media' with a New Media Age Effectiveness Award in the Games Category.

4T2 Complete the Three Peaks Challenge

Staff Adventures

24.06.2008

The 4T2 Team braved 90mph winds and rain to raise over £2,500 for the Youth Cancer Trust, climbing Britain's three highest mountains in 24 hours.

Competition winners at 4T2

Games

22.04.2008

Jack Hardy and Thomas Lea, both 11 years old, win a competition to design the new levels for the LEGO Mars Mission - CrystAlien Conflict game.

Do you think they like it?

Games

18.03.2008

The new LEGO Phantoka Chirox game has been receiving rave reviews from the games target audience since its release.

4T2 hosts Jeremy Heath Smith

Games

05.03.2008

Jeremy Heath-Smith, formerly MD of Core Design and Global Head of Development at Eidos, was a recent guest speaker at a 4T2 training session.

Picture perfect

Games

22.01.2008

The new LEGO City Police models have adverts for the "Time To Build" game in their instructions.

Command the Mahri!

Games

02.11.2007

The LEGO BIONICLE 07 "Mahri" campaign has now been visited over 12 million times in the last four months.

Mars Mission is a go!!!!

Games

25.10.2007

LEGO Mars Mission is 4T2s most advanced online game yet.

New site for the Borough of Poole Council

Websites

31.08.2007

Poole's most visited website has had an overhaul. Developed by 4T2 and re-launched this month, the Borough of Poole's new-look website builds on its reputation as one of the best local authority websites in the country.

Brutal Deluxe is born

Staff Adventures

15.06.2007

4T2 are proud to announce the creation of their first ever football team for a charity 5-a-side competiton to raise money for Naomi House.

Spam seeks the holy grail of UK awards

Awards & Chart News

24.05.2007

Our Spam campaign is a finalist for the NMA Effectiveness awards this year.

Spam attack!

Games

22.03.2007

Our SPAM campaign has received over one million visits in sixteen days.

Toonattik hits 30,000,000 page impressions

Websites

05.07.2006

GMTV's Toonattik.TV website hit the 30 million page impression mark at the end of June. That equates to 250,000 pages served every single day since launch, a fantastic success.

Award winning presentations

Awards & Chart News

09.03.2006

An award with a cheque? Surely not!

Girls : computer game masters? It's official

Games

08.02.2006

For the second week in a row the girls team has scored more points than the boys and won the Twizzler Trophy on Toonattik's new website.

Corsa game on TV!

Games

05.01.2006

4T2 are celebrating their first game to be advertised on TV.

Borough of Poole website success

Awards & Chart News

05.01.2006

Boroughofpoole.com has been rated as the top unitary authority site in the country by the Society of IT Managers (SOCITM).

4T2 deal Party Poker a winning hand

Games

16.12.2005

PartyGaming plc, owner of the world's largest online poker room, has this week launched a viral marketing campaign developed by, well, us!

Vauxhall break speed record

Games

15.04.2005

VXR Racer has become the fastest spreading game 4T2 have ever produced.

4T2 website wins Guardian praise

Websites

24.01.2005

When it comes to pleasing an online audience, the media can be tough to satisfy.

Crazy Sleigh still tops UK charts

Awards & Chart News

20.01.2005

Four weeks after Christmas and Crazy Sleigh is still the most popular game on the Channel 4 website.

Crazy Sleigh 2

Games

06.12.2004

Comet's new online game, Crazy Sleigh 2, has already been played 100,000 since going live one week ago.

Digit cover disk

Games

21.09.2004

September's issue of Digit magazine features a lead article on viral marketing with many comments and pieces of advice from industry leaders including 4T2.

boroughofpoole.com tops the charts

Awards & Chart News

24.03.2004

4T2 are delighted to announce that boroughofpoole.com has been listed as one of the top 20 Local Authority sites by SOCITM.

Not so Crazy after all

Games

15.02.2004

Congratulations to Huw Morgan and Andy Carter for winning a Sony PS2 each in Comets Christmas viral marketing campaign, Crazy Sleigh.

Aiwa goes underground

Games

01.12.2003

It has now become virtually impossible to visit London and not bump into a seven foot high Sonics character that are being used as part of their re-launch.

It's a Crazy World

Games

01.12.2003

4T2's latest viral campaign, Crazy Sleigh for the Comet Group PLC, is starting to appear all over the world.

Nowdate now sold

Websites

08.09.2003

The Internet dating website NowDate.com created by 4T2 has been sold by owner Gary Hudson after only one year of trading for an undisclosed sum.

Chasing up the Charts

Awards & Chart News

29.07.2003

X-Chase is currently the second most popular campaign on the Lycos Viral Charts helping Exchange & Mart generate new visitors to their website.

4T2 race ahead with TimeGate technology

Games

02.07.2003

4T2 are proud to announce the launch of our new TimeGate technology with the release of X-Chase for Exchange & Mart.

Sumo Penguin - World's first!

Games

25.11.2002

Sumo Penguin: The World's first realtime multiplayer game in an email - created by Bournemouth's 4T2 Multimedia Ltd.

4ORCE unveiled

Websites

01.06.1999

4 Online Resource Control Elements (4ORCE) combine to create the powerhouse behind the 4T2 website success phenomena.

4T2 Multimedia Launched

Websites

16.07.1998

New media company 4T2 Multimedia launched; promising to deliver high quality digital media solutions for businesses.