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WASHINGTON, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Washington, DC student Thomas Draper and his NJ-based partner Sam Masling lead the field of 200 4(th)-8(th) graders competing for the $10,000 top prize at the 2013 National School SCRABBLE( )Championship. Masling and Draper are 3-0 with a +488 point spread. They are followed by Calvin Wagner and Sam Radack from Deal Middle School in DC. Rounding out the top three, also 3-0 with a +389 point spread, are North Carolina brothers Eric and Kenny...
NEW YORK, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProGaming Platforms Corp. (OTCBB: PPTF ), developer of a commercial multiplayer online gaming and reward processing platform, today announced that it received a midterm update from its JV partner, Zenetek. The Company previously announced on February 15, 2013, that it had entered into a JV Agreement with Zenetek to market the Company's online gaming services in the $600,000,000 Southeast Asia Gaming Market. The Company has received...
HOUSTON, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. (OTCBB:TRCH) is pleased to announce the executed contract for the AFE on the Johnson #2 well in the Marcelina Creek project in Wilson County, TX. The permit has been issued, and the drill site is being prepared. The previous Buda well drilled in the project was a vertical test and that well is currently producing. However, based upon the recent successes of companies like Dan Hughes, Sage, Crimson, Goodrich, and...
Download and Play the Most Anticipated Free MMORPG of 2013 REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Perfect World Entertainment Inc. and Cryptic Studios are proud to announce that the most anticipated free MMORPG of 2013, Dungeons & Dragons® Neverwinter, is officially in Open Beta. Free to download and play, Neverwinter is built for gamers who crave more action, combat, adventure and glory out of MMOs. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release,...
Station Casinos and Nevada lead the gaming industry into the regulated online gaming market LAS VEGAS, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultimate Gaming, a majority-owned subsidiary of Station Casinos LLC, has launched real money online poker at UltimatePoker.com, making history as the first company in the United States to offer legal and secure online poker. Ultimate Poker is the exclusive online gaming partner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC ®). Ultimate Poker brings...
LONDON, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Costa Bingo is giving away a host of garden prizes in its Garden Giveaway promotion, in which players can play 75 ball bingo for the chance to win outdoor furniture, a gas barbeque, lawn mower, Homebase vouchers and more. The Garden Giveaway promotion at Costa Bingo is running right now and will continue until Sunday 5(th) May. Players simply need to play in the 75 ball bingo games at Costa during the promotional period and bingo on the Flower...
The Sports Fan Playground announces that the online store is now beginning to take preorders on the upcoming Xbox 360 Halo 4 Special Edition Console, which will be released in November. Detroit, Michigan (PRWEB) April 27, 2013 SportsFanPlayground.com announced on Saturday that the store will begin offering markdowns on the various Xbox 360 consoles incluidng the Halo 4 Xbox 360 Limited Edition Bundle. The bundle comes with the Halo 4 standard edition game, a customized Xbox 360 exterior...
LOS ANGELES, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Will a California hometown hero take the crown in the quest to find golf's next great player? (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130426/DA02718LOGO) As the nationwide King of the Fairway tournament hits center stage many will look to the California region to catch a glimpse at the next rising star in the world of golf. With the creation of the first ever non-professional, nationwide high-stakes tournament, King of the Fairway...
NEW YORK, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in the history of golf, a nationwide tournament sets sail to provide the average Joe a larger than average chance at winning a much more than average prize. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130426/DA02707LOGO) With the creation of the first ever non-professional, nationwide high-stakes tournament, King of the Fairway (www.KingoftheFairway.com) is hitting the USA and captivating the attention of the nation's golfers....
BEIJING, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Perfect World Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: PWRD) ("Perfect World" or the "Company"), a leading online game developer and operator based in China, today announced its recent business developments as of April 26, 2013. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/CNTH023LOGO ) WEB GAMES Launch of "Touch" On March 25, 2013, Perfect World launched its 3D dancing web game "Touch" in China. In addition to the high quality graphics typical of games...
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The Bally Astrocade is a video game console and simple computer combination manufactured by Midway. The original name was the Bally Home Library Computer released in 1977 by mail order only, but shipments were delayed and the system was renamed the Bally Professional Arcade. In 1979 Bally sold the Consumer Product Division and a partnership was formed and in 1981 the system was released as the Bally Computer System. In 1982 the name was changed to the Bally Astrocade and production of the...
The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES for short, is an 8-bit video game console that was released in 1983 in Japan, 1985 in North America, 1986 in Europe, and 1987 in Australia. It was manufactured by Nintendo, originally called Famicom. The initial plans of the Famicom was to be a 16-bit computer with keyboard and floppy disc drive, but Nintendo president decided to build a cartridge-based game console instead. The Famicom was released on July 15, 1983 with Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong...
The Dreamcast is a video game console released by Sega in November 1998 in Japan, September 1999 in North America, October 1999 in Europe, and November 1999 in Australia. In the first 24 hours of release 225,132 units were sold and a total of 500,000 in the first two weeks. On January 31, 2001, Sega announced it would discontinue the production of the Dreamcast in March 2001 and concentrate solely on software. Even though the console production was discontinued, Sega of Japan still...
The Eurasian Hobby, a small slim falcon, belongs to a rather close knit group of similar falcons. Adults are grey on top with a dark crown and two short black stripes. The throat is white, the thighs and under tail coverts are a reddish-brown color, and the rest of the under parts are whitish with black streaks. The younger birds of this species are generally much browner, with scaled upper parts and streaked buffy thighs and under tail coverts. There is currently two subspecies recognized....
Dilophosaurus, meaning "two-crested lizard", was a theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period (Pliensbachian stage). It was first described 1954, but it did not recieve its current genus name until years later. It is one of the earliest known theropods, and one of the least understood as well. It was discovered by Sam Welles in the summer of 1942 and brought to Berkeley for cleaning and mounting. It was given the name Megalosaurus wetherilli. Welles returned to the dig site about ten...
