CINCINNATI , July 5, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Games Inc., (OTCBB:GMSI) conducted a survey of the visitors to its websites and found that a majority of current lottery players have great interest in purchasing lottery tickets over the Internet.
With the introduction of legislation in Georgia and Illinois to permit the sales of lottery tickets Online, Games, Inc. felt it was timely to determine public interest in this option.
Results indicate that many lottery players often find it inconvenient to purchase tickets at conventional retailers and that they would be very interested in buying tickets on line. A sample of the survey results are as follows:(a)
(a) Random sampling of Lottery.com visitors. Each visitor could only fill out the survey one time.
-- 67.1% of those surveyed purchase lottery tickets at least
once a week.
-- 64.8% purchase Powerball or MegaMillions tickets
-- 66.7% sometimes find it inconvenient to get to a conventional
retailer
-- 55.2% would be interested in purchasing tickets over the Internet
Games, Inc. has developed a secure platform for the sale of Lottery products over the Internet; and will be making application to become a Lottery Retailer to state and provincial government lotteries that choose to offer this option to their players.
Cincinnati, Ohio-based, Games, Inc. operates in the area of interactive entertainment primarily focused on Government Sponsored Lotteries and Internet Games. The Company's principal business owns and operates a portfolio of online portals focused on the delivery of interactive entertainment and content to consumers. The Company features two community-focused online game sites as well as proprietary games for purchase-and-download, conventional online play, peer-to-peer and tournament game play. Games, Inc. also features a digital greetings site and a site and proprietary back-end system for the online facilitation and reporting of state and provincially-sponsored Lotteries. Revenues are largely driven by lottery information services, online advertising and subscriptions; however proprietary content delivery and decremented payment systems will enable software licensing to become a component of the revenue mix along side merchandise and lottery-driven commissions. For more information, please visit the Company's corporate website, www.gamesinc.net, or their portfolio sites, www.gameland.com, www.skillmoney.com, www.lottery.com and www.cards.com or contact Sue Craner at investorrelations@gamesinc.net.
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