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September 27th, 2009 PHILADELPHIA - - Purchasers can buy as often as they like. Get a coupon for future purchases equal to 50% of the purchased game price - Register to win one of two gaming PCs from Vigor Gaming pcGAMESTORE.com announced the beginning of a promotional campaign to provide purchasers of games with a coupon valued at 50% of the cost of each game purchased to be used on a future purchase.

September 14th, 2009 VIENNA, Austria - - Casual Gaming, User-Generated Content and a Showcase for Game Developers Casual gaming and the creative dynamism of social networking are finally united at Platogo.com. Gamers now have a free-to-use platform with simple yet catchy games they can play, create levels for and share, whereas developers have a new showcase for their games and new revenue opportunities.

August 17th, 2009 TAMPA, Florida - - PlayFirst, Inc., Alawar and Last Day of Work join GameStreamer's game catalog. GameStreamer, Inc.

July 21st, 2009 SEATTLE - - Individual developers already outshining 'Super Talents' by being featured on thousands of websites and played over 100 million times CASUAL CONNECT CONFERENCE -- In a presentation to Casual Connect (seattle.casualconnect.org/index.html), the annual conference of the casual games industry, King.com's VP of Games Acquisitions and Advertising Sales, Alex Norstrom, announced the results of the company's global quest to discover and promote games development talent directly from individual developers, alongside 3rd party studios and their in-house team. In the six months since King.com (www.king.com), the world's leading online skill games company, started scouring the world for developers who can create high-quality games that could be promoted via their distribution network, over 40 games have been created and released, which have been played over 100 million times on 7,000 websites.

July 15th, 2009 LOS ANGELES and LONDON - - 20 Games Now Available for Feature Phones, More to Come Every Month King.com (www.king.com), the world's leading online skill games company, today announced the release of 20 games - including Midas Miner, GoGo21, Jungle Bubble or Word Battle - for the most popular feature phones. Following the release of its first-ever games for the iPhone, these new releases make King.com's award-winning skill games available to the vast majority of mobile consumers.

July 12th, 2009 DUBLIN, Ireland - - New "Social" Iteration of PopCap's #2 Franchise Enables Friendly Zuma Competition Via Facebook Connect PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced the beta launch of Zuma(R) Web Connect, a "social" version of its massively popular action puzzle game Zuma. Available only on PopCap.com, Zuma Web Connect combines the familiar fun of Zuma with the power of Facebook's social interaction, challenging players to score as many points as possible to earn medals and outscore their friends.

July 7th, 2009 SEATTLE, Washington and DUBLIN - PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced the immediate availability of ten all-new World of Warcraft-themed Peggle(TM) levels - available for free at www.popcap.com/promos/pegglewow. This all-new WoW-themed Peggle mash-up is a stand-alone version of Peggle, available for free and combining the sights, sounds and storyline of World of Warcraft with the rainbows and unicorns of everyone's favorite peg-popping pastime.

June 21st, 2009 DUBLIN - Casual Games Leader's First Foray into "Social Gaming," Attracts 5 Million Monthly Users After 6 Months as Public Beta PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced that Bejeweled(R) Blitz, the 1-minute version of its mega-hit franchise Bejeweled for Facebook, has officially launched and is now out of beta. Relying entirely on its own merits, the "social" version of Bejeweled has become a Facebook phenomenon, attracting more than 5 million monthly users after quietly debuting in beta form in late December of 2008.

May 11th, 2009 DUBLIN - Custom Adaptation of Peg-Popping Classic Now Available on iPhone and iPod(R) Touch PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced the launch of Peggle(TM) for the iPhone(TM) and iPod(R) touch. The game is available now from Apple's App Store on iPhone and iPod touch, or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.

May 4th, 2009 DUBLIN - Casual Games Leader's Take on the "Zombie Survival" Genre Pits You and Your Front Yard Against Legions of Lovably Laughable Undead DUBLIN, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced the immediate availability of Plants vs. Zombies(TM), a humorous action-strategy game suitable for all ages.

May 19th, 2009 HYDERABAD - 7Seas Technologies Limited, a Hyderabad-based independent IP-based games development company, today announced the launch of its new casual online game on Swine Flu - a pandemic that wrecked havoc across the globe killing hundreds of people in Mexico - Swine Flue Killer.The game is available in its online gaming portal www.onlinerealgames.com. To play this game, all a gamer needs to do is vaccinate as many patients as possible in time, kill the virus, save patients and become a Swine Flu Killer.

September 2nd, 2009 CHENNAI - Former Tamil Nadu chief minister and the current Leader of the Opposition J. Jayalalithaa has demanded regularisation of 1,600 casual workers at Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd (TNPL), the country's second largest paper maker.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has proposed to substantially enhance the allocations for the Commonwealth Games 2010 from Rs. 2,112 crore in the interim budget to Rs.

June 17th, 2009 NJ casino fined in brew-haha over mislabeled beerATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Ever wonder what the difference is between "tastes great" and "less filling?" In one Atlantic City casino, it's $5,000.

May 14th, 2009 RANCHI - The Jharkhand Olympic Association (JOA) Thursday said the 34th National Games will be held from Nov 21 to Dec 5. JOA president R.K.

June 9th, 2009 Developer of Chili's restaurant chain Brinker diesDALLAS — Norman Brinker, a restaurant mogul who popularized the salad bar and built a worldwide casual dining empire that includes Chili's Grill & Bar, died Tuesday at age 78. Brinker died at a hospital in Colorado, said Robin Rymer at Swan-Law Funeral Home in Colorado Springs.

August 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) in Delhi went on mass casual leave on Tuesday protesting disparities in pay. Earlier, professors at IIT-Madras went on a mass causal leave on Friday, while their colleagues in IIT-Bombay boycotted classes on Monday.

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President Suresh Kalmadi has said that the executive board of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) expressed satisfaction with the games infrastructure coming up in the city. "As you are all aware the CGF was here for the whole of last week.

August 27th, 2009 For Kennedy burial, 'Taps' and a rifle saluteWASHINGTON — With a bugler playing taps, a rifle squad firing 21 volleys and pallbearers representing each branch of the military, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be laid to rest in a private funeral at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - 'Think, plan and act' is the mantra of Funskool's new range of strategic games that have been conceptualized by the IIT-Mumbai students and promise to improve your logical abilities. Industrial Design Centre (IDC) of IIT-Bombay has designed these games and Chennai-based toy and game manufacturer Funskool is producing and marketing them.