CINCINNATI, Aug. 19, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Games, Inc. (OTCBB:GMSI) announced today that it will distribute over One Million Dollars in virtual quarters to visitors to their websites over the next week. These free $10 Rolls of Quarters(tm) can be used at Games, Inc.'s newest website, WWW.GAMES.ORG., to enter Skill-Based Tournaments where players can compete for cash prizes.
Games, Inc. is offering this promotion as a method to demonstrate their new tournament system on their current games, prior to announcing a wide variety of new "branded" content between now and year-end.
"We will be adding a lot of new subscription-based and tournament-based multi-player "branded" content to GameLand.com over the next few weeks," said Roger W. Ach, II, President and CEO of Games, Inc., "and wanted to give our current members an opportunity to take a look at how the system works. We believe that people will be very excited about the unique product offerings that we will introduce on GameLand.com in the very near future."
As Games.org continues to build over the next few months, visitors to the site will be able to use the "Roll of Quarters(tm)" as their website currency to purchase subscriptions, tournament entries and branded merchandise from the GAMES.ORG Store.
About Games, Inc. (OTCBB:GMSI)
Cincinnati, Ohio based, Games, Inc. 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 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.games.org, 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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