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Games, Inc. Announces Lottery Corporation Spin-Off
Cincinnati Ohio- October 26, 2005 – Games Inc. (OTCBB:GMSI) The Board of Directors of Games, Inc. voted Tuesday to spin off the shares of Lottery Corporation to its shareholders, both to better recognize the value inherent in those shares and to unlock shareholder value.
The Lottery Corporation shares will be distributed as a stock dividend, with each Games Inc. shareholder receiving 1 share of Lottery for each 4 shares of Games Inc. held on the Record Date, rounded up to the nearest whole share. The Company will be setting the Record Date shortly and will communicate the date to all shareholders.
“With states now recognizing that they can generate an estimated 10% to 15% increase in total lottery revenues, providing badly needed funds for education, Lottery Online has become an active topic in most U.S. and Canadian lottery jurisdictions. We felt it was timely to allow current and future shareholders a way to invest directly in the expected future growth in this market,” said Roger Ach, CEO of Games, Inc. and Chairman of Lottery Corporation.
Lottery Corporation has developed a secure and extensive software application to allow consumers access to their own state lotteries. This Lottery Online market is the most rapidly growing segment of the Camelot National Lottery of the United Kingdom,www.national-lottery.co.uk; and has recently been successfully introduced in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada atwww.playsphere.ca.
“Lifestyles of the lottery playing public have changed in the past 10 years,” said Ach. “Virtually every state in the U.S. has given its citizens 24/7/365 access to all state services, from Licenses to Litigation at their convenience much the same way as Banking, Brokerage, Insurance, Investments and Mortgages have migrated to the Web.” The only state service not currently available in the U.S. is Lottery Online.
Cincinnati, Ohio based, Games, Inc. operates in the area of interactive entertainment primarily focused on Government Sponsored Lotteries and Internet Games. The Company's principal business owns and operates a portfolio of online portals focused on the delivery of interactive entertainment and content to consumers. The Company features two community-focused online game sites as well as proprietary games for purchase-and-download, conventional online play, peer-to-peer and tournament game play. Games, Inc. also features a digital greetings site and a site and proprietary back-end system for the online facilitation and reporting of state and provincially-sponsored Lotteries. Revenues are largely driven by lottery information services, online advertising and subscriptions along side merchandise and lottery-driven commissions. For more information, please visit the Company's corporate website,www.g amesinc.net, or their portfolio sites,www.gameland.com,www.skillmoney.com,www.lottery.com andwww.cards.com or contact Sue Craner atinvestorrelations@gamesinc.net.
CONTACT:
Sue Craner
Games, Inc.
425 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, OH
(513) 721-3900
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