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Verizon, SCI Release Free Online Gaming Service

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Verizon, SCI Release Free Online Gaming Service

SuperComputer International Inc (SCI), along with investor Verizon, have released PlayLinc, a free online game service that combines co-branded gaming with voice messaging, IM, and other tools, alongside Verizon’s launch of the Verizon Game Network website. The site features PlayLinc services, alongside forums, game FAQ’s, blogs, news, and other related media. Verizon hopes the new site will build relationships with casual and hardcore gamers and open up new business opportunities like digital distribution of games, in-game advertising, and promote existing Verizon services like FiOS and DSL broadband.

“PC gamers have long been held hostage, having to rent expensive servers to host games with their friends, or having to take their chances on public servers with ill-matched players of varying skills,” said Colson Hillier, Verizon’s director of new product development in a statement.

The PlayLinc software, created by SuperComputer International, integrates messaging tools like AOL’s AIM and gaming tools that allow gamers to host games on their own servers, as well as the ability to create “gaming clubs.” Online gamers have had these capabilities for a while through multiple pieces of software, but PlayLinc combines them all into one. “Today, gamers are forced to log on to public servers and surf the net to play different games. It is time consuming and a real crapshoot. Primarily because of bandwidth requirements, there’s no way to control the experience unless you pay about $100 a month to lease your own game server in someone’s datacenter,” added SCI CEO Jesper Jensen. In addition to the Verizon-branded PlayLinc, SCI is also developing versions of the software for AOL, GameDaily, Intel, Americas Army, and the Cyberathlete Leagues.

Tags: AIM, AOL, gaming and Verizon

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