CINCINNATI, OHIO, Oct. 13, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Games, Inc. (OTCBB:GMSI) has a monopoly on the "On-Line City in a Box(TM) games and announces the first of this series with the debut of NewYork In A Box(TM) on its www.Games.org and www.Gameland.com websites. The Game can be viewed at www.gamesinc.net/newyork.
"This family-friendly, fun way to play a classic board game will keep casual game players entertained for hours, visiting the Empire State Building, Little Italy and Greenwich Village," said Roger W. Ach, II, Games, Inc. Chairman and CEO.
Games, Inc. has licensed the on-line rights to the "City In A Box(TM)" series from Cincinnati-based Late For the Sky Production Co. and will be announcing On-Line versions of other titles such as SanFrancisco In A Box(TM), New Orleans in a Box(TM) and Boston In A Box(TM) over the next several months.
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 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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