RUGBY CHALLENGE GAME ON MINICLIP
Scrum! World Cup Rugby Fans Have Free Access to World Class Rugby Game
London & New York – Aug 29, 2007 – Miniclip (www.miniclip.com) the Internet’s largest online games website, with 36 million game players, today announced the introduction of the new game for rugby fans around the world – Rugby Challenge – the very realistic and highly anticipated new game, which combines quality streaming gaming entertainment with scrum fun for multiple or single players.
Rugby Challenge http://www.miniclip.com/games/rugby-challenge/en/ allows gamers to point, click and time the meter to take realistic conversions, and use their mouse to aim the crosshair in the direction they want to kick the ball, while making sure to make allowances for wind factors.
“The 2007 Rugby World Cup is one of the largest sporting competitions in the world and this is a great event for Miniclip to showcase our realistic online gaming capability to a global audience, said Rob Small, CEO Miniclip. “More and more, companies and organizations have been opting to go the entertainment and advergaming route, which essentially allows game designers to create a tailored game around an event, product or brand and directly target an engaged audience.”
Companies who have taken the lead in advergaming on Miniclip include Unilever, BP, Coca Cola, Disney, Starburst, Gillette and Momentum Pictures – to name a few – and game players responded by racking up 80 million game plays for Gillette’s ‘Jet Ski’ game http://www.miniclip.com/jetski/jetski.htm making it the most successful advergame to date.
Miniclip.com is an all-in-one, high-quality entertainment destination to play online games, participate in virtual communities and watch cartoons. Miniclip.com is known by gamers ranging in ages from 13-29 around the world as being the place for quality, high bandwidth interactive entertainment.
About Miniclip.com
Miniclip.com www.miniclip.com is the world’s largest online games website with 36 million unique users per month (Google Analytics Dec 2006). Miniclip.com games are the most played online games and are syndicated across more websites than any others. Miniclip.com games are extremely popular because they are fun, free, easy to use and include the full range from casual games to hard-core massive multiplayer games. Miniclip.com is one of the Internet’s top broadband websites with 98% of its users on high bandwidth connections. Miniclip.com was launched in 2001, has experienced explosive growth and is the largest website in private hands. Miniclip also won the prestigious Webby Peoples Voice Award, the “Oscars of the Internet” for the Internet’s best game site for the past three consecutive years.
Contact:
Jo McKenna
VP Miniclip Communications
Tel: + 646 382 4291
jomckenna@miniclip.com
Jo McKenna
VP Communications, Miniclip
Tel: + 646 382 4291
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