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Gamesville
Type Subsidiary of Lycos
Founded 1996
Headquarters Waltham, MA, United States
Industry Online Games Developer/Portal
Products Various, visit website for full product listing. A subsidiary, in business matters is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity Lycos is a search engine and web portal centered around broadband entertainment content For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need
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Website http://www.gamesville.com

Gamesville is a casual gaming portal founded in 1995 in Boston, Massachusetts by Steven Kane, Stuart Roseman and John Furse. In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services In financial and business Accounting, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT is a measure of a firm's profitability that excludes interest and income tax expenses Net income is equal to the Income that a firm has after subtracting costs and Expenses from the total Revenue. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A casual game is a Video game targeted at a mass audience of Casual gamers Casual games can have any type of gameplay and fit in any genre Steven Kane (born June 5 1980 in Newtownards, County Down) is a Northern Irish racing driver [1] Gamesville was acquired in 1999 by Web portal Lycos for $232 million in stock. Lycos is a search engine and web portal centered around broadband entertainment content [2] Gamesville’s tagline is "Wasting your time since 1996".

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History

Founded on a minimal capital base, Gamesville operated not just as a games provider but as a targeted marketing operation, offering free games and prizes to members as a way to attract large numbers of users while tailoring their proprietary games to meet the demands of advertisers. [3] To play, members must provide demographic information; in turn, members would receive targeted ads based on the demographics provided. Gamesville pioneered the use of interstitial advertising as a method of monetizing game players. [4]

Gamesville's first game, The Bingo Zone, enabled hundreds of people to compete against one another in real time, for free, and win up to $20 by getting a bingo. Initially, Kane was skeptical of launching a free online bingo game because bingo is traditionally associated with the elderly rather than the prized demographics most advertisers seek. However, on the day Gamesville. com launched in April 1996, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about Gen Xers playing bingo in bars, and Kane is quoted as saying, "It was as if God had whispered to us. " [5]

Over the years, additional free games with cash prizes were added, including card, trivia, puzzle, and several bingo variants. This approach attracted many visitors: In August 1999, Gamesville. com was the "stickiest" site on the Internet with eBay in second place. eBay Inc is an American Internet company that manages eBaycom an Online auction and shopping Website in which people and businesses buy and [6]

Lycos

In November 1999, internet portal Lycos announced that it would spend $270 million in stock to acquire Gamesville. Lycos is a search engine and web portal centered around broadband entertainment content com, which at that time had approximately 2. 2 million registered users. [7]

Gamesville leveraged its relationship with Lycos to obtain the rights to produce the first (and to date, the only) online version of the popular television game show The Price Is Right in 2002 [8] although the license was dropped after one year. Widely Known Facts The Price Is Right is an American Television Game show that is currently owned by the FremantleMedia

In 2002, Monster.com profiled Gamesville's Rewards Manager, Josh Yeager, citing him as holding one of the Top 10 Coolest Jobs on the Internet. Monstercom is an Employment website owned by Monster Worldwide. [9] Yeager estimated that he sent out between 1,000 to 2,500 prize checks weekly, indicating that "some days I feel like the Bob Barker of the Internet, other days like Santa Claus himself. Robert William Barker (Born December 12 1923) is a nineteen-time Emmy Award -winning former American Television Game show "[10] There is in fact more truth to this statement than at first glance, as Gamesville, for a brief time in 2002, had hosted the exclusive Internet game rights to The Price Is Right. The Price Is Right is an five time Emmy Award-winning American Game show centering on contestants guessing the retail prices of featured prizes

Over the years, Gamesville developed several games without prizes including a multiplayer online version of Spite and Malice and an online version of Spider Solitaire. Spite and Malice is a Card game for two or more players it is a form of competitive Solitaire. Spider is a type of Solitaire Card game. It is one of the more popular two-deck solitaire games

Drifting away from its focus on prizes caused the number of visitors to Gamesville. com to slowly but steadily decline[11].

Skilljam

Screenshot of the new Gamesville.com as of April 2007
Screenshot of the new Gamesville. com as of April 2007

In an attempt to reinvigorate the Gamesville site, Lycos entered into ayear-long integration with Skilljam starting in 2006; purportedly the integration was designed to provide premium "best in class skill and casual free games for cash prizes, combined with exclusive games content not available anywhere else"[12] to Gamesville players. However, instead, the integration with Skilljam only hastened the decline in traffic to Gamesville.

In April 2007, Lycos issued a public apology[13], announcing an end to the Skilljam partnership and a promise to return the site to its roots. The relaunch of the site included new premium games from WorldWinner and new download games provided by Oberon Media. A casual game is a Video game targeted at a mass audience of Casual gamers Casual games can have any type of gameplay and fit in any genre A Tripod blog was also integrated into the site under the title "The Gamesville Blog".

After the relaunch of Gamesville, traffic to the site steadily increased, although not to its former heights. [14]

Notable products

Screenshot of the Gamesville Avatar Creator
Screenshot of the Gamesville Avatar Creator

In March 2007, Gamesville launched Magic 21, a variant of blackjack, where multiple players compete to win a cash jackpot worth up to $4,999. [14] The game is notable because it is the first proprietary jackpot game developed by Lycos/Gamesville since 2002's "The Price Is Right".

In July 2007, Gamesville launched a new avatar system enabling users to create 2D representations of themselves for use in Gamesville games. Avatar or Avatara (अवतार IAST Avatāra) is often inaccurately translated into English as incarnation [15] Gamesville currently holds "best avatar" contests in the Gamesville Blog. [15]

On May 28, 2008, Gamesville relaunched Bingo Zone with a new design, a chat game called Dickie's Bonus Balls, and progressive cash prizes. [16]

Notable intellectual property

Gamesville has several trademarks and patents in its portfolio, most notably US Patent 6,012,984, “Systems for providing large arena games over computer networks”. [17]

See also

References

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  6. ^ The Importance of Being Sticky. Media Life Magazine (1997). Retrieved on 2007-09-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul
  7. ^ Lycos Bets $270M On Gamesville.com. E-Commerce Times. Retrieved on 2007-09-10. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
  8. ^ 'The Price Is Right' For Online Casinos. Casinomeister. Retrieved on 2007-09-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the
  9. ^ Top 10 Coolest Jobs on the Internet. Monster. com. Retrieved on 2007-09-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the
  10. ^ Top 10 Coolest Jobs on the Internet. Monster. com. Retrieved on 2007-09-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the
  11. ^ 5 Year Traffic Graph For Gamesville.com. Alexa. org. Retrieved on 2007-09-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the
  12. ^ Lycos Goes Casual. Game Daily. Retrieved on 2007-09-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the
  13. ^ Lycos Apologises, Restores Gamesville To Old Look. EFY Enterprises. Retrieved on 2007-09-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the
  14. ^ a b 3 Year Traffic Graph For Gamesville.com. Alexa. org. Retrieved on 2007-09-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the
  15. ^ a b Express Yourself With Avatars. Gamesville. Retrieved on 2007-09-13. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September
  16. ^ Introducing The Bingo Zone. Gamesville. Retrieved on 2008-05-31. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great (19th dynasty becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
  17. ^ Systems for providing large arena games over computer networks. U. S. Patent Office. Retrieved on 2007-09-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul

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