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Game Developers Encouraged to Submit Flash Games for New Armor Games Contest

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Game Developers Encouraged to Submit Flash Games for New Armor Games Contest











(PRWEB) April 4, 2007

Irvine, CA (PRWeb) April 3, 2007 – Armor Games is looking for new, innovative flash games and is calling on game developers to submit their entries to its latest contest, Armor Gaming Challenge #5. The contest, which runs through May 15, is awarding the top 10 games with substantial prize money.

“We’re looking for new ideas in the gaming world,” says Daniel McNeely of Armor Games, and we’re willing to pay for it. Our mission is to protect the world from being bored. That means we have to be on the cutting edge by bringing people the most entertaining games out there.”

The Armor Gaming contest rules are straight forward:

The game must be a new, unique flash game or a new sequel

Games must be completely original

Games may not use copyrighted material (i.e. Nintendo, Sony, Lord of the Rings, King Arthur, etc.)

Games may not use copyrighted music from any artist, group or soundtrack

Include the words “ArmorGames.com” in the pre-loader of the game along with a “Armor Games” intro animation. Intro animation can also be downloaded at: http://www.armorgames.com/images.html

Include a “Visit ArmorGames.com” or “Play more Games” link on the menu of the game. The link must open “ArmorGames.com” in a new window when clicked on. Also include a “Visit ArmorGames.com” or “Play more Games” on the “Game Over” menu

E-mail the link to the game on NewGrounds.com to contest (at) ArmorGames.com. Armor Games will keep track of the game name, author, NewGrounds score, and its current ranking in the contest. The game will then be judged for one week by the users of NewGrounds before the final score is locked in.

“The judging for Armor Gaming Challenge #5 will happen at NewGrounds.com, one of the largest flash portals on the web,” says Daniel McNeely. “My hat’s off to Tom Fulp, owner of NewGrounds, ’cause he has revolutionized flash games. NewGrounds visitors will pick the game winners by scoring the games on a scale of 1 to 5.”

Prizes will be awarded June 10th by check or PayPal. The prizes are as follows:

1st place – $ 8,000

2nd place – $ 5,000

3rd place – $ 4,000

4th place – $ 3,000

5th place – $ 2,000

6th place – $ 1,000

7th through 10th places – $ 500 each

Additional prizes are also being awarded. If a game makes the front page of NewGrounds, the game developer will win $ 150. In addition, the top three games during the month of April will win $ 500. Miscellaneous prizes will be given to all entries that qualify, even if they don’t make the top 10, so everyone has a chance to win.

Armor Game’s staff is not allowed to submit entries to the Armor Gaming Challenge. All rights for submitted entries belong jointly to ArmorGames.com and the game’s developer. ArmorGames reserves the right to submit these games to flash based websites. ArmorGames will never claim production credit on developers’ games nor will they sell developers’ games. Games submitted for prizes can still be entered in other contests as long as they remained unchanged and contain the Armor Games’ logos and links.

About Armor Games

Armor Games is a professional, large-scaled website that has been promoting flash games and flash in general for over a year. The company is able to do so by running the Armor Gaming Challenge and sponsoring many games (over 100 games at the moment) by a variety of very good flash artists and game developers all over the internet. ArmorGames believes in letting the developer keep all of the rights to his/her work. “We never take credit over stuff we haven’t made directly, and we put you, the flasher, right in the center.” For more information, please check out http://www.armorgames.com/.

Contact:

Daniel McNeely

949-387-5009

daniel @ armorgames.com

http://www.armorgames.com

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S-Network Global Gaming Index Announces New Index That Tracks World?s Gaming Stocks

Posted by on July 15, 2011 1 comment

S-Network Global Gaming Index Announces New Index That Tracks World’s Gaming Stocks












(PRWEB) January 18, 2008

The S-Network Global Gaming Index (Ticker: WAGR) of 69 global gaming industry stocks has commenced real-time price dissemination. Data is available through most data vendors. S&P Custom Indexes serves as calculation agent for the indexes.

WAGR is the world’s only global gaming industry index. Says Joseph LaCorte, Chairman of the Gaming Index Committee, “Over the past decade, gaming has moved to the center of worldwide leisure time activities and is big business around the world. A global index is the best way to capture the full breadth of opportunity.”

The capitalization weighted, float-adjusted index incorporates companies engaged in five primary gaming sectors: casinos and resorts; equipment and technologies; sports and race wagering; online gaming and horse racing.

The S-Network Global Gaming Index was designed to serve as a fair, impartial and transparent measure of the performance of the global gaming industry. It includes stocks from over 19 countries. Companies included in the index must generate at least 50% of their total revenues from gaming or related activities, such as the manufacture of gaming equipment.

Says LaCorte, “The continued growth of existing gaming operations, the development of the online gaming industry and the emergence of Macau as a major global gaming center all demonstrate the growing significance of the industry worldwide. WAGR is the bell-weather for industry performance.”

The S-Network Global Gaming Index has been licensed to financial services firms, who plan to offer listed investment and risk management products, including ETFs, on the index.

Detailed information, including constituent data, rules and price information, on the S-Network Global Gaming Index is available at http://www.snetgamingindex.com.

Contact:

Joseph LaCorte, CFA

S-Network Global Indexes, LLC

646-467-7927

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Rivet Games Raises Series B Financing for Next Gen Web, Social and Mobile Games

Posted by on June 29, 2011 1 comment

Rivet Games Raises Series B Financing for Next Gen Web, Social and Mobile Games

Rivet Games

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 20, 2011

Rivet Games, developer and publisher of the next generation of web, social and mobile games, announced it closed a Series B funding from existing investors Softbank Capital, Baseline Ventures, and Floodgate, also joined by new investor Outpoint Capital. Rivet Games has now raised a total of $ 15 million.

Rivet Games is led by former Playdom Executive, Jesse Janosov, who joined as CEO in August 2010. The company, formerly known as FooMojo, was rebranded Rivet Games in conjunction with the closing of the Series B financing.

“The nine months since I became CEO have seen the company evolve from its roots as the developer of virtual pet site, FooPets.com, toward a next generation, multi-platform game company. To reflect this evolution we have rebranded to Rivet Games,” said Jesse Janosov, CEO. “Going forward, we are leveraging the new DNA of the company to deliver core games to core gamers, across a variety of platforms. Combining the gaming experience with state of the art analytics and modern marketing, we aim to change how games are built and delivered.”

“Facebook, mobile, open web, PC and even console games are on a collision course where gamers will have multiple views of their data that are ultimately platform and channel appropriate,” Janosov added. “Our coming product launches take new and creative approaches to gaming on these platforms and our methods of marketing games to a games audience will set a new standard. This is a very exciting time for the games industry and we are only at the beginning of the creative disruption led by companies like Rivet Games.”

“Social gaming is an area of investment focus for Softbank and we believe that Rivet has the opportunity to deliver a highly differentiated game experience. This additional round of funding will enable Rivet to bring exciting new games to market,” said Ron Fisher, managing partner of Softbank Capital, who serves on the Board of Directors of Rivet Games.

About Rivet Games

Rivet Games is a mix of traditional, casual, and social game industry veterans, obsessively working to take gaming and entertainment to the next level. Our goal is to build the most fun games, and put them wherever you want to play them. Rivet Games is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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GarageGames Announces Speakers and Sessions for IndieGamesCon 2005

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GarageGames Announces Speakers and Sessions for IndieGamesCon 2005










Eugene, OR (PRWEB) August 23, 2005

GarageGames has announced the session highlights and speakers for the fourth annual Independent Games Conference. IndieGamesCon ’05 (IGC) runs October 7-9, 2005. This year’s conference is a fun, informal and informative gathering of independent game developers featuring a keynote address, “The State of the Revolution”, by Mark Frohnmayer, GarageGames President. If you’ve caught the incurable desire to make games commercially, or even as a hobbyist, this is a community gathering of like-minded individuals you will not want to miss.

IGC provides connections and content for programmers, artists and indie entrepreneurs. Planned presentations include Melv May on 2D game design, Ill Clan on machinima, John Welsh and Dave Nixon on the casual gaming industry, Thomas Buscaglia on legal issues, Ageia on the future of game physics, Ryan Gordon on Mac OS X game development, Microsoft on Xbox development and many more industry veterans.

IGC 2005 presents a great platform for the independent game development community to show off their creations, while learning about next-generation technologies and helpful topics for game developers spread out over five different break-out tracks. The break-out tracks cover topics such as animation and lighting for artists, marketing and legal issues for the business side of gaming, and development techniques from seasoned game programmers.

GarageGames has been hosting IGC in a response to the recognition that the Game Developers Conference is too big and too expensive for many people. “Game Developers want to get back to their roots of talking about game development,” said Jeff Tunnell, GarageGames Founder, “Since the beginning, IGC has always been about meeting the needs of the small, self-funded indie game developer.”

Early registration is online and costs $ 195 for a three-day pass, including sessions, t-shirt, food, LAN parties and beverage of choice (“beer”) for those registering before September 16th. Space is limited, so reservations will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registrations after September 16th will be $ 250. More information is available at http://www.indiegamescon.com.

About GarageGames:

GarageGames mission is to change the way games are made and played. GarageGames provides the technology, community and market to empower game makers to build commercial quality multiplatform games. Known for bringing the Torque Game Engine to independent developers for $ 100, GarageGames is located in Eugene, Oregon and on the web at http://www.garagegames.com. GarageGames is also the presenter of the annual IndieGamesCon.

About IndieGamesCon:

IndieGamesCon (IGC) is a fun, informal and informative gathering of independent game developers from around the world. IGC is designed to be a summit meeting of like-minded developers with the shared goal to focus on collaboration and building community. Along with sessions on game art, technology, tools and business. The event has a central ShowOFF center open to developers to play-test and showcase current prototypes, demos and newly released games.

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Fupa Games Launches New Dressup Games on Social Game Site

Posted by on April 11, 2011 1 comment

Fupa Games Launches New Dressup Games on Social Game Site

Free Dressup Games

Santa Cruz, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) April 14, 2011

Fupa today announced the addition of 100 new games on it’s free online gaming site including cheerleader themed Dressup Games Cheerleader Olivia, Cheerleader Hannah and Cheerleader Madison.

Online Dress-Up games are experiencing global success and it’s no wonder. According to recent statistics, 42% of all gamers are female, girls and women, finding entertainment through practicing fashion and style while mixing and matching outfits, colors and accessories. Fupa recognizes that girls and women are an important market and has found success with its Caribbean Fashion Swimsuit, Dress-Up the World and Glamour Dress-Up Supreme games.

With more than 48,000 free multi-player, classic arcade and board games, kids, sports, flash, action and puzzle games Fupa has one of the largest collections of games on the web with 100,000 daily users. The launch is part of Fupa’s on-going commitment to offer free gaming experiences to players of all ages and gender while enhancing each users overall experience. Fupa’s Cheerleader series allows players to dress up their cheerleader in school colors with different uniforms and a variety of shirts, skirts, shoes, hair styles, and skin tones for the best school spirit in town.

“My Two Daughters and I love to spend quality time playing dressup Games on Fupa.com”, Says Lars Mapstead President of Fupa Games Inc.

About Fupa Games Inc.

Fupa, headquartered in Santa Cruz, California is a casual social video game developer with more than Three million monthly active users playing their games. There are fifteen different categories of free online games! Each of the categories is loaded with hundreds and thousands of Girl Games, puzzle games, dressup games, strategy games, sports games, action games, adventure games, flash games and many more. Our over fifty thousand games makes Fupa Games one of the largest sources of free internet games! Fupa games are available on several platforms including the Web, Facebook and Android. For more information, visit Fupa Games

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ArmorGames, Now Largest Source of Casual Flash Game Development on the Web

Posted by on March 30, 2011 1 comment

ArmorGames, Now Largest Source of Casual Flash Game Development on the Web












(PRWEB) January 25, 2008 –

For ArmorGames (http://armorgames.com/)], 2008 marks a major milestone. Not only is ArmorGames the largest single source of flash game development of the web, but this is the fourth year the company has supported flash game development for the casual gaming enthusiast.

“We are proud of the pivotal role ArmorGames has played in the flash gaming movement,” said Daniel McNeely, founder of ArmorGames. “Countless talented developers have started by designing games for our site. We are proud of the careers we have helped launch.”

Flash has emerged as a leading platform for developing sophisticated interactive entertainment. And ArmorGames is at the forefront of flash gaming for casual gaming. Since 2004, ArmorGames has spent over $ 300,000 to fund and support more than 500 games on the journey from developers’ minds to the Internet. Playing flash games requires only a PC and flash-enabled browser. Available to include the kaleidoscope of game types, flash games are addictive little games known to keep office workers and engaged when they should be working.

“Each day, games funded by ArmorGames are played more than 10 million times on more than 5,000 different Web sites,” McNeely said. “We readily acknowledge the role Newgrounds.com’ and the owner ‘Tom Fulp’ has played funding flash game development.

“While 2008 will be a year of many exciting challenges, it’s good to look back and take stock of all that we have accomplished to revolutionize the casual gaming market.”

About ArmorGames

ArmorGames is a free Web site devoted to presenting the vast panoply of flash games. With an emphasis on fun, ArmorGames houses more than 500 of the best quality flash games, available by category or though an advanced tagging system. Users can interact on the site through a web forum. Visit http://armorgames.com/.

Contact

Daniel McNeely

Armor Games Inc

949-872-2740

press(at)armorgames.com

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Pi Eye Games Lines Up Five Days of Fun on GameDuJour.com

Posted by on February 21, 2011 1 comment

Pi Eye Games Lines Up Five Days of Fun on GameDuJour.com











Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) July 9, 2007

Pi Eye Games, a top UK-based developer of downloadable casual game titles, will feature five of its top game titles in five straight days beginning on July 9 at http://www.GameDuJour.com. The company is looking forward to spreading more fun around the globe by showcasing and discounting its games on the world’s first and only “one deal a day” site for casual PC games.

“Showcasing our captivating games on Game du Jour is a great new avenue for exposing more casual game players to our products,” says George Allan, president of Pi Eye Games. “Getting attention in a market crowded with game developers is one of the biggest challenges we face, and Game du Jour offers an innovative way for game developers to reach consumers who are looking both for a good deal and a good time.”

Since it was first introduced late last year, Game du Jour has showcased one deeply discounted game per day—just one bargain game a day. Pi Eye Games is offering five of its most popular titles for Windows PCs during its stretch on GameDuJour.com, each at 50% off the regular price.

Pi Eye Game titles that will be featured during this week include:

Monday, Word Juice: “A new word forming game in which players slide letter tiles around a grid to form longer words. This game is perfect for Boggle or Scrabble aficionados.”
Tuesday, Circulate: “In this twist on puzzle games, players circulate spheres through 100 levels by spinning left and right.”
Wednesday, GridLines: “An absorbing square-forming puzzle game, players take turns drawing one line at a time on the game grid attempting to complete a square and earn points, while challenged to avoid giving away too many squares to their opponent.”
Thursday, Cubology: “An exciting arcade/puzzle game featuring true 3D gameplay. Players must clear incoming mineral cubes in the hectic arcade mode or solve problem levels in the challenging puzzle mode.”
Friday, Odd Box: “A game viewed through the eyes of a robot in a mining colony, this exciting game features mineral cubes which have come alive and are resorting themselves, switching types, and multiplying.”

About Game du Jour

Game du Jour, launched in December 2006, is the first company in the world to offer one deal a day in the indie and casual PC games market. While the company aims to be best known for its daily deals, Game du Jour is at its core a marketing partner to game developers, giving those companies the opportunity for a rush of sales and heightened brand exposure during their products’ 24-hour lifecycle at http://www.GameDuJour.com. For more information about Game du Jour, visit http://www.GameDuJour.com/about-us.

Press contact:

Kevin Doel

TalonPR, Inc.

785-273-9660

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Fupa Games, a Leader in Social Gaming, Launches New Car Driving Game Portal

Posted by on January 29, 2011 1 comment

Fupa Games, a Leader in Social Gaming, Launches New Car Driving Game Portal











Race Car Games


Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) May 31, 2011

Fupa today announced the launch for its new Car Driving Games website. Featuring all new car driving games, bike games, truck games, and racing games.

Car Games are a great hit socially among young men and women. Whether they are on the race track or smashing cars in demolition derby, Fupa’s games offer hours of free entertainment and exciting action.

With more than 40,000 free multi-player, race games,racing games, truck games, dirt bike games, 18 wheeler truck games, cool truck gamesl, semi truck games, parking games, 3d car games, car racing games, street racing games, bike racing games, flash, action and puzzle games Fupa has one of the largest collections of driving games on the web. The launch is part of Fupa’s on-going commitment to offer free gaming experiences to players of all ages and gender while enhancing each users overall experience.

Social Gaming offers a great way to interact with friends and family from across the globe. Relatives can compete with each other to find out who the best race driver in the family is.

“Car Driving games allow family members to interact socially with each other from around the globe”, says Lars Mapstead President of Fupa Games Inc.

Fupa, headquartered in Santa Cruz, California is a casual social game developer with more than Three million monthly active users playing online games. With fifteen different categories of free online games ! Each of the categories is loaded with hundreds and thousands of car driving games, Girl Games , puzzle games, dressup games, strategy games, sports games, action games, adventure games, flash games and Cooking Games. Our over fifty thousand games makes Fupa Games one of the largest sources of free online games! Fupa games are available on several platforms including the Web, Facebook and Android. For more information visit Fupa Games.

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Social Gaming Blog FacebookGamesNow.com Announces Official Launch

Posted by on January 20, 2011 1 comment

Social Gaming Blog FacebookGamesNow.com Announces Official Launch











Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) October 22, 2010

FacebookGamesNow.com, a social network gaming review site, officially launched today. The blog offers reviews, information and recommendations for Facebook games and other gaming concepts. In its infancy, FacebookGamesNow.com has reviewed popular Facebook games like FarmVille, Ninja Wars and MyTown.

In addition to Facebook game reviews, the blog offers interesting articles about what goes on behind the scenes of Facebook games. Developers, game enthusiasts and web designers can expect to find technical articles that describe the technical and methodological aspects behind social network games.

Wayne Rothschild, the blogger behind FacebookGamesNow.com, says that many Facebook game enthusiasts are interested in learning more about the games they enjoy. “When you get into a certain game, whether on Facebook or another platform, you develop a desire to learn more and get deeper into the game,” said Rothschild. “FacebookGamesNow.com allows Facebook gamers to get closer to the games they love.”

Facebook games continue to be an increasingly used aspect of the social network. With popular games like Mafia Wars, FarmVille and Sorority Life, Facebook users can extend their social interaction with friends and online acquaintances. Many games offer incentives for users to play, creating a type of gaming platform that hasn’t typically been available until now.

“The popularity of Facebook games, in my opinion, is based largely on the idea that you can play directly with people you know,” said Rothschild. “With other online games, you might be playing someone across the country, or even in a different country. Facebook games create a personalized experience that isn’t available anywhere else.”

To see reviews of Facebook games and learn more about social network games, visit http://www.FacebookGamesNow.com.

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Fupa Games Launches New Cooking Games on Free Games Website

Posted by on January 1, 2011 1 comment

Fupa Games Launches New Cooking Games on Free Games Website

Fupa Cooking Games

Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) May 11, 2011

Fupa today announced the launch for it’s new Cooking Games website.

Featuring hundreds of cooking games including Baking games, Chef Games, Cake Games, Bakery Games, and Cupcake Games.

Cooking games are experiencing global success and it’s no wonder.

According to recent statistics, 42% of all gamers are female, girls and women, finding entertainment through practicing Cooking style while matching colors and decorations. Fupa recognizes that girls and women are an important market and has found success with its Wedding Cake Games, Cooking Games, and Baking Games.

With more than 40,000 free multi-player, classic arcade and board games, kids, sports, flash, action and puzzle games Fupa has one of the largest collections of cooking games on the web. The launch is part of Fupa’s on-going commitment to offer free gaming experiences to players of all ages and gender while enhancing each users overall experience.

Fupa’s Cooking games allow women of all ages to learn skills such as asset and time management. As well as managerial Skills all while play fun free online games. These games also allow people to explore different interests like in cooking like running their own sandwich shop, bakery, or deli.

“I especially enjoy the cake decorating games because I have two young daughters who really love decorating cakes and playing the Cooking Games.”, says Lars Mapstead President of Fupa Games Inc.

Fupa, headquartered in Santa Cruz, California is a casual social video game developer with more than Three million monthly active users playing online games. With fifteen different categories of free online games ! Each of the categories is loaded with hundreds and thousands of Girl Games puzzle games, dressup games, strategy games, sports games, action games, adventure games, flash games and Cooking Games. Our over fifty thousand games makes Fupa Games one of the largest sources of free online games! Fupa games are available on several platforms including the Web, Facebook and Android. For more information, visit http://www.fupa.com

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