Tag archive: Ralph Rivera

AOL has relaunched its online gaming site Games.com offering new in-game community features and—part and parcel of AOL's makeover into an online advertising company—substantially revved-up integrated advertising. “The newly relaunched Games.com is the ideal portal for advertisers to target an engaged audience,” said vie president of AOL Games Ralph Rivera, in a statement.. “The site's current and… Read More

Always thought you have what it takes to “go pro”—as a video gamer? AOL's Gamedaily site is hoping you'll at least check into it, teaming up with Major League Gaming to offer a co-branded MLG site offering highlights from the MLG Pro Circuit TV series, gamer profiles and blogs, as well as online game tournaments. “AOL recognizes that gaming has become a mainstream form of entertainment and a compelling… Read More

As part of its transition to a free, advertising-based community of Internet services, AOL is targeting the U.S. Hispanic market with AOL Latino, a new Spanish-language portal while offers a wide range of AOL's core Internet services—email, instant messaging, antivirus, spam controls, blogs, photo sharing, calendars, and more—as well as Spanish-language content and original online programming. "U.S. Hispanic Internet… Read More

AOL continued its latest acquisition spree today, announcing it has acquired video game Web site GameDaily from Gigex, Inc., for an undisclosed sum. According to Gigex, GameDaily is one of the top three most-visited video gaming sites on the Web, and reaches numerous industry figures and gaming enthusiasts with its GameDaily Biz newsletter, which it claims is the most widely read video game trade publication. AOL will also acquire certain… Read More

In advance of this week's E3 video game conference, a new Associated Press/AOL Games poll reveals some interesting tidbits about online gaming across different populations. Survey results were gathered for these two organizations during mid to late April. The AP/AOL Games poll, said AOL Games, shows urbanities that play video or computer games are more likely to play online then those who live in more outlying areas. Another major… Read More