Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Online gaming up 22% - Orlando Business Journal:

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Reston-based (NASDAQ: SCOR) says it foun a significant increase in the size of the gaming audiencse during thepast year, drivejn in part by the realitty of economic challenges. The categoryy attracted 87 million U.S. visitors in May, up 22 percent versuws year ago. In its report comScorwe says that Yahoo! Games ranked No. 1 in the categorh with 19.4 million visitors, representintg a 6 percent increase over the past followed by EA Online with 18 millionvisitorsz (up 34 percent), Nickelodeon Casual Games with 14.8 milliomn visitors, and WildTangent Network with 13.
8 million (up 16 GSN Games Networks achieved particularly strong gains in the past growing 563 percent to 6 million visitors, due primarily to the additionws of entities such as WorldWinner.com and CrazyMonkeyGames.com. "Onlinr gaming continues to be one of the top gainingh categories over the past year growing at ten times the rate of thetotal U.S. Internert population and reaching nearlyy one out of every twoInternet users," said Edwars Hunter, comScore director of gamint solutions. "And the growtgh in the category is occurring not only at the top gamin gdestination sites, but also through vira distribution platforms, including widgets and applications.
In fact, some onlinr gaming companies that distributefd their games across sites are reaching as many people as the top onlinergaming sites."

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