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ApexWebGaming Opens Forum for Game Owners

Pete — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:00:28 +0000

After a few months of building good relationships with game owners, ApexWebGaming has opened a forum where game owners can come and discuss problems, successes about running a game.

The forum is aimed at the small, browser based game owner community, who list their games on the ApexWebGaming directory. Currently, there has not been anywhere available for game owners to go and talk about their games, and share ideas, but now ApexWebGaming is offering this service.

Within a few days, almost 50 game owners signed up for the forums, and have started posting.

The forum is closed to non-game owners, only verified games that are published on ApexWebGaming are allowed to join the forums. This means that the forum is exclusive to game owners, meaning it is just for them, with no distractions.

Commenting on the forum, Peter Zaborszky, ApexWebGaming owner said “We have built this forum for two reasons, the first is that it is a great way for us to establish a good connection with game owners, and secondly because many game owners do not have anyone to turn to about their issues, whether success or problem.”

Renegade Games Buys ApexWebGaming

Pete — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:54:12 +0000

Renegade Games has acquired one of the highest quality game top lists, ApexWebGaming. This will be an easy platform for them to advertise their games.
ApexWebGaming is one of the older game top lists out there, and is known in the gaming community for sending quality traffic to games. The principle of the website is that games send their players to vote on ApexWebGaming, and so a top-list of games is assembled from the votes.

The website has tens of thousands of visitors each day.

It was bought from the initial developer, who did not have the time to maintain the website. The website was already being auctioned, however following discussions that started before the auction started, Renegade Games managed to snatch the website away from other bidders.

Commenting on the acquisition, Renegade Games director Peter Zaborszky said: “ApexWebGaming is a terrific acquisition for us, not only is it profitable in itself, it is a good platform for us to launch and market our own games.”

Renegade Games Buys Planetarion

Pete — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:44:24 +0000

One of the first browser based games has been acquired by Renegade Games, a UK online gaming start-up backed by private equity from Fubra Ltd.

Planetarion is a game originally started in 2000 by Norwegian developers. It was the very first text-based browser game in the space field. It defined the genre of space based, spaceship building, asteroid mining gaming, and many other games have copied its format.

The game has had thousands of constant players ever since 2000.

It was bought from OMAC Ltd, who acquired the previous owner, Jolt Gaming. Planetarion was acquired for an undisclosed five figure sum. There were other bidders also looking to buy it, but Renegade Games came out as the winner.

The game will be further developed by Renegade Games at a later stage. The game was a fantastic purchase for a startup, given its iconic status as a classic space game.

Commenting on the acquisition, Peter Zaborszky, founder of Renegade Games said “This is a great game with a strong history, and it will be a great addition to our portflio.”

Notes for Editors:

Detailed information about Planetarion can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarion