Excite Lets You Be a Player with Excite Games
Excite Games Channel Explodes by Partnering with Leading Online Game Providers
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Friday night and nothing to do? Excite now lets all users online meet at the Excite Games Channel and play typical parlor and card games with others around the web, Excite, Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT - news) announced today with its greatly expanded Games Channel. Now offering one of the largest and comprehensive games areas online, the channel expansion lets users of all levels play interactively with others around the Web and participate in ongoing tournaments. Partnering with five premiere games and content providers including Total Entertainment [OTC BB:TTLN - news] Network, mplayer.com, Simutronics, GameStorm and Games.Net, Excite Gaming Channel now offers an excellent destination for game players of all levels.
Meet me at Excite for a Game
The online play area in Excite Games Channel at www.excite.com features a games area where Internet users can meet up with their friends and family to play their favorite traditional games, compete with those at their level and chat about it as they play. This area offers free ''classic'' games like hearts, spades, euchre, crossword puzzles, checkers, chess and word games in an online multi-player setting. With the addition of TEN's proprietary service, individuals participating in these classic games can receive rankings based on their gaming performance. In addition, users can send instant messages to their friends to invite them to compete in an online tournament.
''The expansion of Excite's Games Channel gives users worldwide a place on the Internet to meet with their gaming buddies or faraway relatives for a classic game challenge,'' said Joe Kraus, senior vice-president and co-founder, Excite. ''By partnering with such highly respected companies in the gaming community, Excite Games Channel is ready to rumble.''
Serious Gamers Take on Excite with Multi-Player Games
For serious gamers, Excite's gaming hub will also provide access to some of the most popular multiplayer games and games communities on the Web. Many of the games are free. Some are free of charge for a limited time only.
Popular games on the Excite Games Channel:
* GameStorm's massively multiplayer Godzilla(TM) Online and Jack Nicklaus
Online Golf
* Gemstone III, DragonRealms, and Hercules & Xena: Alliance of Heroes from
Simutronics
* Quake, MechCommander, Scrabble, Links LS '98 Golf and more than 80 games
from mplayer.com
Channel to Expand Further
Excite Games will soon introduce the latest gaming reviews, cheats and software downloads supplied by Games.Net, the IDG Games Network.
Games.Net, which incorporates all of IDG's hugely popular games-related content from PC Games, GamePro, PC World and TipWorld, is the primary authority for hard-core game players and offers the industry's most comprehensive multiple platform content. By partnering with IDG, Excite will be able to deliver the games community the most timely and accurate news, reviews, previews, interviews, demos and features available on the Web.
About Excite, Inc.
Founded in 1994, Excite, Inc. is a global media company offering consumers a personalized Web start page on www.excite.com and a ''back to basics'' Web search service on www.webcrawler.com, and advertisers the best one-to-one marketing services available online. The Excite Network consists of two of the largest brands on the Web, Excite (www.excite.com) and WebCrawler (www.webcrawler.com), and its subsidiaries; Classifieds2000, MatchLogic, Inc., Excite Japan Co., Ltd. and Excite UK, Ltd. Localized versions of Excite are available in France, Germany, the UK, The Netherlands, Sweden, Japan and Australia. Based in Redwood City, Calif., Excite, Inc. has strategic relationships with America Online, Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., CUC Investments Inc., Intuit Inc., Netscape Communications Corp., Prodigy Internet and Tribune Company.
SOURCE: Excite, Inc.
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