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| Publisher(s) | Intermedia Labs |
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| Genre(s) | Trivia game |
HQ was a mobile trivia game developed by Intermedia Labs for iOS, Android, iPadOS, and tvOS. First released in 2017, the HQ app allowed users to participate in daily, live, trivia games in which they could win or split prize money. HQ was developed by Vine creators Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll and credited as a production of Intermedia Labs.[1]
The app's original game was HQ Trivia, in which players have 10 seconds to answer multiple-choice questions that increase in difficulty.[1][2][3][4] Additional games, such as HQ Words and HQ Tunes, were later added. The last HQ games were supposed to be hosted once a week, with a prize pot of $1,500, and typically saw about 15,000 players each.
On February 14, 2020, Intermedia Labs Trivia sent a memo to staff stating the company would "cease operations and move to dissolution".[5] However, four days later, Yusupov said he had a tentative deal in place with another company to purchase the HQ franchise and keep it operational.[6] On March 29, HQ Trivia resumed its daily games.[7]
While HQ never officially announced a shutdown, it has not had a game since November 17, 2022. The app was removed from both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store on August 5, 2023.
- ^ a b Castillo, Michelle (November 20, 2017). "Vine's Creators Want You to Win Free Money with Their New Trivia App". CNBC. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
- ^ Price, Emily (December 28, 2017). "More Than 730,000 People Played HQ Trivia on Christmas Day". Fortune. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
- ^ Kumparak, Greg (December 6, 2017). "Looks like HQ Trivia is coming to Android". TechCrunch. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
- ^ Hager, Ryne (December 31, 2017). "HQ Trivia Is Now Out on Android". Android Police. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
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liveonwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Yusupov, Rus [@rus] (March 29, 2020). "Bringing @hqtrivia back tonight with @mattwasfunny!! 9p ET on the HQ app" (Tweet) – via Twitter.