Games.com

WorldWinner Extends Skill-Based Online Games Deal with AOL

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 5, 2007 - 3:35pm.

Toronto, Canada - FUN Technologies announced on Thursday that its WorldWinner unit has renewed an agreement with AOL, to provide skill-based cash and prize tournaments on AOL Games and Games.com. Under the deal, Toronto-based WorldWinner will develop a co-branded site where AOL players can compete against each other, and others in the WorldWinner network in games like "Scrabble," "Luxor" and "Bejeweled 2."

Games.com Domain Purchased From Atari for $1.1 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 15, 2004 - 3:20am.

Cincinnati, Ohio -- Games, Inc., operator of a network of online games sites, announced on Thursday that it has purchased the Games.com domain name from video game publisher Atari for $1,125,000 in cash and stock. As part of the transaction, Games, Inc. will also acquire digital licenses to a number of board game titles, including "Monopoly," "Scrabble," "Risk," "Battleship," "Boggle" and "Yahtzee" in addition to several classic Atari games. Ohio-based Games, Inc. said it will enhance the Games.com site's functionality, adding chat and skill-based tournaments for prizes, with a re-launch scheduled in the spring. Games, Inc. also operates sites including Lottery.com and Cards.com.

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