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Lycos Announces Dramatic Enhancements to GamesGuide; Casino Fun Play, Puzzle Challenges, Investment Competitions andClassic Board Games Now Available for Lycos Gamers
November 23, 1999 07:03 AM
WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 23, 1999--Lycos, Inc. LCOS , the fastest growing Internet portal and the world's largest online community, today announced major additions and enhancements to its rapidly growing portfolio of online games. Located at lycos.com, new co-branded sites and upgraded features from premier game content providers Abject.com, Interactive Gaming & Communications Corp. SBET , Maxinvest and Go2Net's GNET PlaySite are now available to Lycos users.
The new games are part of a larger Lycos effort to build the most attractive and comprehensive online gaming offerings. Separately today, Lycos announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gamesville.com, a leading interactive entertainment company and direct marketer and the second stickiest site on the Web according to Media Metrix.
New game content includes a mysterious puzzle-driven game called The Stone, from Abject.com. Users purchase a black stone pendant engraved with cryptic symbols, and use the Stone as a key into the online puzzle. The game requires players to search the Web, interacting with other players to locate and identify clues to solve the puzzle. Located at thestone.lycos.com this game will also be available for users to purchase through LYCOShop, Lycos' online shopping destination at shop.lycos.com.
"We are happy to present this exciting and challenging new interactive game content to our millions of monthly users," said Howie Snyder, senior product manager for Lycos, Inc. "We are especially pleased to offer games like The Stone to our users in connection with LYCOShop, the first online shopping destination to offer a complete shopping cycle, where users can actually purchase the required game piece online and begin playing parts of the game immediately without having to leave Lycos.com."
Also new in the Games Guide is PlayforFun , an array of online casino gambling games from Interactive Gaming & Communications Corp. (IGC), including blackjack, roulette, video poker, slot machines and sportsbooks. Users do not play with real money; instead they are given $20,000 in fun money to play the odds individually or against other users.
A major enhancement to the Lycos Investment Challenge Game , from Max's Investment World, now lets teachers, investment clubs and individual players, set up their own competitions, pitting friends and colleagues against each other in a test of investment savvy. Players are given $200,000 in mock dollars to invest in stocks and mutual funds, honing investment skills without the risk of losing real funds.
Lycos PlaySite , offering some of the Web's best multiplayer parlor games, now includes an upgraded version, developed and powered by Go2Net. Users no longer need to access PlaySite through their browser, rather serious gamers can now download onto their personal computers Lycos PlaySite's 13 classic board games like chess, checkers, and Backgammon along with traditional card games like Bridge, Hearts and Spades, quickly and easily, to speed up game play.
About Lycos
Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching one out of every two Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites that attracts a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web navigation resources, homepage building and other Web community services and a comprehensive shopping center. The Lycos Network is composed of premium sites: Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey, Suck.com, MyTime, Sonique and Quote.com. Lycos.com , "Your Personal Internet Guide," is dedicated to helping each individual user locate, retrieve and manage information tailored to his or her personal interests. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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CONTACT: Lycos, Inc. Kathy O'Reilly, 781/370-3454 koreilly@lycos.com or Schwartz Communications Ross Levanto, 781/684-0770 rlevanto@schwartz-pr.com
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