GameWager Building New Virtual Goods Service for Competitive Gaming

So here’s a new use for virtual goods from GameWager that might seem familiar to some people. Remember the old school arcades and all those tickets that you could win for cheap plastic prizes? Well, GameWager is doing just that, but with virtual coins and sans lame gifts (in fact, the rewards are far from cheap as some include Alienware laptops). The whole idea is acquire users by offering rewards to players for, well, playing.

CEO and co-founder of GameWager Thomas Marriott describes the concept as such: “It’s kind of like Chuck E Cheese’s, only instead of playing Pac-Man you’re playing a game you spend hundreds of hours playing already – Counterstrike or World of Warcraft.

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