Tempora Studio turns a newsroom's own journalism into daily HTML5 games, puzzles and quizzes, generated and fact-checked by a multi-model AI pipeline and published every morning inside the publisher's site. Readers stop arriving by accident and start arriving by habit.
Google search referrals to publisher sites, Nov 2024 → Nov 2025 (−38% in the US).
Chartbeat, via Reuters Institute, Trends & Predictions 2026of news-related Google searches end without a single click to a publisher, up from 56% before AI Overviews.
Similarweb, May 2025further drop in search traffic that news leaders expect over the next three years.
Reuters Institute survey of 280 media leaders, 51 countriesFor twenty years news sites lived on borrowed traffic: search and social sent the reader, the article earned the impression. That arrangement is ending, and it is ending fastest for the evergreen and utility content that used to pay the bills.
AI Overviews and chat assistants summarise the story on the results page. The reporting still happens; the visit does not.
Platforms deprioritise links and keep users in-feed. Referral traffic that once rescued a slow news day is no longer there.
Fewer sessions, shorter visits and lower ad yield squeeze the newsroom at the same time it is asked to do more.
Games are the most proven habit format in news: the publishers that invested early now count puzzles among their strongest reasons to visit and to subscribe. Until now, building that took a dedicated puzzle desk. Tempora Studio makes it a product any newsroom can switch on.
The engine reads what the newsroom already publishes and turns it into games that feel native to that brand, in that language, about that audience's world.
Connect an RSS feed, sitemap or CMS API. Articles, archives, results and fixtures become a structured knowledge base the engine can draw from.
An LLM pipeline drafts crosswords, quizzes, "who said it", timelines and prediction games, with clues written in the publication's voice.
A second model fact-checks every clue against the source article; deterministic validators check every grid and answer. Editors approve with one click, or let trusted formats auto-publish.
Games go live at 06:00 in a white-label, mobile-first hub on the publisher's domain, with ad slots, sponsorship and analytics built in.
Tempora Studio is software, not a production agency. Publishers subscribe to the modules they need and run them from one dashboard.
Crosswords and word games generated ahead of time from your own coverage, validated and scheduled months in advance.
Turn the week's stories into a news quiz, a "this day in history" game or an embeddable quiz under any article.
A mobile-first games section on your own domain: discovery home page, game pages, favourites, leaderboards, daily missions.
Ad formats designed for games rather than squeezed into them, managed from the same dashboard.
Streaks, XP and leaderboards give readers a reason to sign in, the first step toward newsletters and subscriptions.
Be the source answer engines cite. Every game and archive page ships pre-rendered, structured and machine-readable.
Publish the same daily games in several languages. Wordplay is rebuilt for each language by the model, not translated word for word.
Ready-made formats for sports, finance, culture and local news: prediction games on match day, market quizzes, neighbourhood trivia.
See which topics readers actually know, miss or love. Quiz answers become a signal for the newsroom's next story.
Every game Tempora Studio publishes passes through several language models, each picked for the job it does best. A unified, model-agnostic API lets us route each step to the right model, compare quality and cost on real output, and fall back automatically so the 06:00 edition never misses.
Every clue cites the publisher's own article. No source, no question.
Models write; code validates grids, answers and schedules before anything ships.
Swap or combine models as quality and pricing change, with no rewrite and no lock-in.
Tempora Studio grew out of a live, mobile-first sports games hub built for a national sports publication's audience. The core of the platform is already in production; the AI pipeline is how we scale it from one publisher to many.
Subscription software with an optional revenue share on game ad inventory, so our incentives match the publisher's.
30 days · one section of your site
Single title · full platform
Media groups · many titles
A small product team working where newsrooms, game design and applied AI meet.
Every clue is drawn from and checked against a specific article you published, by a second, independent model, and grids and answers are verified by code. Editors can review everything before it goes live, or approve trusted formats to auto-publish.
Yes. The hub is white-label and runs on your domain or sub-domain, so the traffic, the SEO value and the first-party data are yours.
A pilot needs a content feed (RSS, sitemap or CMS API) and a DNS record. Most of the work is on our side; a newsroom can be live within days.
Progress is stored on the reader's device until they choose to sign in. Personalised advertising only runs with consent, and article content is processed without any reader data.
No. Tempora Studio is a software platform. Publishers subscribe and run it themselves; the engine produces the games, not a team of freelancers.
Adult news readers on the publisher's own site. The games are built around current affairs, sport and culture coverage for a general adult audience; they are not designed for or marketed to children.
We are onboarding a small group of pilot publishers. Tell us about your newsroom and we will send a sample puzzle built from last week's coverage.
