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Gaming a big part of family life: study!

Posted by: shaila11 on: August 28, 2008

Nine of 10 Canadian households now has a computer, and four of 10 have some sort of video game console, according to brand new statistics from the Entertainment Software Association of Canada. The results will be published in an annual booklet scheduled for release next month. The new stats show that seven of 10 Canadians [...]

Mobile Games: Consumers Don’t Pay to Play

Posted by: shaila11 on: August 28, 2008

DUBLIN, Ireland- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/723772/mobile_games_cons) has announced the addition of eMarketer’s new report “Mobile Games: Consumers Don’t Pay to Play” to their offering. Mobile gaming is tricky ground for marketers. On one hand, games have some of the best engagement metrics among mobile content categories. On the other hand, that engagement is not translating [...]

U.K. Gambling Commission Contracts with Atos Origin

Posted by: shaila11 on: August 28, 2008

International IT provider Atos Origin has won a new contract with the UK Gambling Commission to implement systems that support the Commission’s licensing and compliance work for arcades, betting shops, bingo halls, casinos, gaming machine suppliers and lotteries, as well as British-based gambling websites. The company will implement Siebel 8.0 to provide the Commission with [...]

Men are Still Underestimating Female Poker Players

Posted by: shaila11 on: August 25, 2008

LAS VEGAS • Siobhan Grennan learned how to play poker to please a man. She was then just old enough to count the pennies from her paper route, and the man – her brother, three years her senior – was sufficiently bored that he was prepared to spend a few hours with his sis. But [...]

Spin3 Mobile Casino got Wap Biling via Payforit

Posted by: shaila11 on: August 22, 2008

When we talk about “mobile payment” we understand that its something related with mobile web payment or WAP billing that means you are paying money through a mobile device. Mobile payment has two primary models of payment: Premium SMS based transactional payments Mobile web payments (WAP) The Wap payments has many advantages over the sms [...]

PC Gaming Industry – Weedy Growth 07-08

Posted by: shaila11 on: August 21, 2008

PC games are created by one or more game developers, often in conjunction with other specialists (such as game artists) and either published independently or through a third party publisher. They may then be distributed on physical media such as DVDs and CDs, as Internet-downloadable shareware, or through online delivery services such as Direct2Drive and [...]

TVC’s making no impact – Gambling Commission UK

Posted by: shaila11 on: August 20, 2008

Advertising is the life of almost every trade and is the key component in any business operation. When legislation was passed last September to allow companies to advertise their product on television the thought was that the online community would feel the effects. Study done by the Gambling Commission in the UK has found that [...]

Apple’s I-phone proved its potential as a gaming platform

Posted by: shaila11 on: August 14, 2008

I don’t play a lot of games (although I am on bodog 3 or 4 times a week) but I found myself waiting in a pizza hut the other day playing games as well. Playing games on a mobile phone isn’t new, and I can remember way off into my commuting past, playing Snake and [...]

A New Site enables Game Players to be Game Designers

Posted by: shaila11 on: July 31, 2008

SimsCarnival.com,  a new online community and gaming experience from The Sims (Now a Universal Gaming & Cultural Phenomenon) that makes game creation and sharing more accessible and fun than ever before. The introduction of this new creative endeavor from The Sims is designed to convert millions of players into game designers, with no programming skills [...]


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