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WALTHAM, Mass. - Dec. 17, 2008 - Lycos, Inc. today announced the debut of the all-new CatchUp CoverAll™ on Gamesville.com. CatchUp CoverAll is the first online massively multiplayer game to feature Community Cash Winnings: When one lucky player wins the progressive jackpot, up to four other players with the same "Lucky Ball" as the jackpot winner can each take home a bonus $25 cash prize... More
Lycos Debuts All-New Bingo Zone® To Celebrate Gamesville's 12th Anniversary WALTHAM, Mass. - June 23, 2008 - Lycos, Inc. today announced "the cash is back" in a new version of an old favorite with the all-new Bingo Zone® on Gamesville.com, one of the web's premier destinations for casual, massively multi-player online games and game shows. More
WALTHAM, Mass. - April 11, 2007 - Lycos, Inc. today announced the re-birth of Gamesville, the entertaining interactive games destination in the Lycos Network. In celebration of its 11th year, Gamesville returns to its roots as an entertainment gaming destination where the emphasis is on fun and community. More
FUN Technologies' SkillJam And Lycos Sign Comprehensive Online Casual-Gaming Deal LONDON, England - January 5, 2006 - FUN Technologies plc ("FUN"), one of the world's leading online casual gaming providers, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, SkillJam Technologies Corporation ("SkillJam"), has signed a comprehensive agreement to create a private-label casual-gaming platform for Lycos, Inc. SkillJam will develop, operate and support the pay-for-play casual gaming for Lycos Games, customizing the gaming platform for Gamesville.com (www.gamesville.com), Lycos' gaming channel. More
"Come On Down" To Lycos Gamesville And Play 'The Price Is Right'™ - Online! WALTHAM, Mass. - June 17, 2002- Terra Lycos today announced the launch of the online version of the popular game show The Price is Right™ on Lycos Gamesville. Lycos Gamesville, in conjunction with FremantleMedia, the production arm of the RTL Group owned by Bertelsmann, is the first and only site to host an online version of the game where users can play the game show favorite. More
Terra Lycos And BMG Direct Announce Music Match, Now Available On Lycos Gamesville WALTHAM, Mass. - February 21, 2001 - Terra Lycos today announced the launch of Music Match, sponsored by BMG Music Service, on Lycos Gamesville, the Web's premier free games destination in the Terra Lycos Network. More
Lycos Announces the Online Wedding of "Bingo Zone" Love Birds, Mike & Mary WALTHAM, Mass. - June 22, 2000 - Lycos, Inc., today announced the live online wedding of Mike and Mary, devoted gamers and devoted to each other. After meeting in the Bingo Zone of Lycos' Gamesville nearly four years ago, Mike and Mary carried their online romance offline, and will marry at their home in Virginia Beach, Va., on Saturday. More
Lycos Acquires Gamesville For $207 Million BOSTON, Mass. - November 23, 1999 - Lycos, Inc., the fastest growing Internet portal and world's largest online community, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gamesville.com, a leading interactive entertainment company and direct marketer. More
Gamesville.com Honored By CIO Magazine As One Of Top 50 Web Sites BOSTON, Mass. - July 1, 1999 - CIO magazine has named Gamesville.com, Inc., the Web's leading game show site and database marketing company, a 1999 CIO Web Business 50/50 winner for its online business excellence. More
Gamesville.com Introduces Quick-Draw Poker, the World's Biggest Poker Game BOSTON, Mass. - June 28, 1999 - Gamesville.com, the Internet's leading game show site and database marketing company, today introduced Quick-Draw Poker™, the latest entry in its roster of original, massively multi-player online game shows. More
Gamesville.com Receives Over $14 Million In First Round Of Financing From Premier Venture Firms BOSTON, Mass. - June 16, 1999 - Gamesville.com, Inc., the Web's leading game show site and database marketing company, today announced that it has received over $14 million in its first round of venture capital financing. Flatiron Partners was the lead investor and they were joined by SOFTBANK Technology Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and General Catalyst Internet Partners. More
Nineco Changes Name To Gamesville.com, Inc. BOSTON, Mass. - March 22, 1999 - nineCo, the Internet's leading online database marketing company, today announced that the Company has changed its name to Gamesville.com, Inc. The name change reflects the strong awareness of the Company's immensely popular Gamesville.com Web site. More
Win Prizes For Watching Movies BOSTON, Mass. - February 16, 1999 - Gamesville.com, the Internet's premier game show site and entertainment destination, today announced the commencement of the second annual Crystal Ball™ competition, the free online game show in which contestants compete to predict the outcome of the Academy Awards® for a Grand Prize of one year of entertainment. More
Gamesville.com Boasts Largest Single Real-Time Online Game Ever BOSTON, Mass. - January 18, 1999 - nineCo, Inc., announced today that their Web site, Gamesville.com, hosted the largest real-time online game ever. Two thousand eight hundred forty nine Internet users played against each other in the largest single Web game ever, competing for the coveted prize of $700 in the site's unique, free-to-play, bingo-style game Catchup Coverall™. More
BOSTON, Mass. - January 18, 1999 - nineCo, the premier online database marketing company, today introduced the first e-mercial™. Like TV commercials, e-mercials are full-screen advertisements shown during breaks in programming - the award-winning, massively-multiplayer Web game shows on nineCo's popular Gamesville.com site. More
Nineco Inc.'s Gamesville Debuts AceyDeucy: Internet's First Massively-Multiplayer Card Game BOSTON, Mass. - JUNE 22, 1998 - Award-winning online realtime marketing and game developer nineCo, Inc. has launched the new Web game show AceyDeucey™ on its hugely popular Gamesville web site. AceyDeucey is a fast, fun, free massively-multiplayer playing card game in which huge groups of players race in realtime to accumulate points by betting (points) on which card will be dealt next. AceyDeucey is the first and only card game on the Web in which literally hundreds and thousands of players play together in realtime (simultaneously) in a single game. More
Bingo Zone® Debuts on WWW: Internet's First Realtime Multi-User Game Is Easy, Fast, Fun BOSTON, Mass. - June 20, 1996 - Available 7 days a week, 365 days a year at http://www.bingozone.com, the Bingo Zone is "The Interactive Game Show" - an online bingo game where hundreds of players compete with one another simultaneously. Because it is advertiser supported, The Bingo Zone is always free to play (so isn't gambling) yet pays winners $5, $10 or $20 per game. Games begin every thirty minutes. More
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