CINCINNATI, May 16, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Games, Inc. (OTCBB:GMSI) has launched a new Local Search service that will provide complimentary individual and searchable websites to the 200,000 small businesses who are also currently lottery tickets retailers across the United States. A sample of this new service can be seen at http://sites.lottery.com/skywalkbaseball
"This is an obvious business extension for us," said Dennis G. Kennedy, President of the Lottery Division of Games, Inc. "We provide lottery content, we know the Local Search business and we have high-quality internal website development expertise. These small businesses have a need to display their wares on the Internet in a Searchable, cost-effective manner and we can provide that."
In exchange for the ability to sell advertising on these sites, Games, Inc. will provide lottery retailers with a free 2-page website that gives a brief description of their business, hours, pictures, location, etc., and up-to-date lottery information. If retailers choose to purchase additional options, they are available at a modest additional monthly charge, but there is no obligation to do so.
Games, Inc. has begun the launch of this new service in Ohio and Kentucky and will branch out across the U.S. this summer.
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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