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WildTangent Unveils Virtual Gaming Console for Toshiba Notebooks
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Thursday, 11 May 2006
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WildTangent Unveils Virtual Gaming Console for Toshiba Notebooks WildTangent announced launch of Toshiba Games, a virtual gaming console application and an online casual game portal it developed and will manage for Toshiba.

Toshiba will pre-install the console and five top selling casual games on select models of its Satellite(R) notebook computers. In addition, the console will link to the Toshiba Games portal, a web site that was developed and is maintained by WildTangent.

Toshiba Games is now available at http://toshiba.wildgames.com and gives Toshiba's mobile computing customers access to more than 250 of the best casual and family games, including blockbuster titles like Polar Bowler, FATE, and BlasterBall 2: Revolution, as well as third party titles like Diner Dash, Family Feud and Bejeweled 2. Toshiba's Desktop Gaming Console was developed to seamlessly download and install visually rich 3-D console quality games using WildTangent's compression software, and is designed to deliver high-quality graphic games over any connection type in a very short time. Toshiba's customers will also benefit from WildCoins, the revolutionary gaming payment system from WildTangent, which allows consumers to pay for and play games as if the consumer were in an arcade.

With WildTangent overseeing Toshiba Games, Toshiba's customers will have access to the most popular games from leading developers, including PopCap, iWin, Big Fish, and PlayFirst. This direct-to-notebook solution will provide Toshiba's customers with a gaming experience that, until now, was only available on standalone game console devices.

Representing one of the fastest growing segments in the gaming industry, IDC predicts that online gaming market will skyrocket from $500 million in 2004 to over $2.1 billion in 2008. The WildTangent Games Network boasted more than 500 million game plays in 2005 and expects that to rise substantially in 2006. The downloadable games market caters to a surprisingly broad audience, from young kids and adults to mainstream and hard core gamers alike, and the WildTangent multi-genre online games are designed for players of all levels of experience, all ages and all interests.

WildTangent branded consoles are now bundled on over 60 percent of all new PCs in North America. The company has signed distribution deals with the top PC Manufacturers, in addition to signing agreements with leading game developers to publish some of the Web's best downloadable games.

 
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