Beyond.com Launches Online Games Emporium in AOL Online Games Store.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 1999-- Internet software superstore Beyond.com(TM) (Nasdaq: "BYND") today announced the launch of its Games Center in the AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Games Store. Beyond.com and AOL announced an agreement in March 1998 under which Beyond.com is the exclusive reseller of digitally-downloaded software in the AOL Games store, linked from the AOL Games Channel. The newly-launched Beyond.com online Games Center features 600 new gaming software titles, gaming guides and accessories for the Game Boy, Mac, Nintendo 64, PC, PlayStation and Sega Dreamcast systems in time for the holiday shopping season. The Games Center is also featured on the Beyond.com homepage located at http://www.beyond.com. In conjunction with its Games Center launch, Beyond.com also kicked off a Dreamcast Sweepstakes and announced special discount pricing on select Nintendo 64 and PlayStation games List of Playstation games can refer to:
"Jupiter Communications predicts that 35.3 percent of all software will be sold online by the year 2002, a greater percentage than any other retail category," said Brian Sroub, vice-president and general manager of the Consumer Division at Beyond.com. "This statistic, coupled with the Interactive Digital Software Association's prediction that online gaming See gaming. will reach 26.8 million users by 2002, indicates the potential for a sizable market for the Beyond.com Games Center." The Beyond.com Games Center features: -0-
-- More than 600 new products, including gaming titles such as
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, NFL Blitz 2000 and Final Fantasy
VIII, an expanded selection of game guides (both packaged and
digitally downloadable) as well as accessories.
-- A re-designed look with simplified navigation and improved search
capabilities. Products are categorized by system platform, a
design based on Beyond.com qualitative research including
internal focus groups with consumers.
-- Product reviews from CNET for select software gaming titles
including Driver, Kingpin: Life of Crime and Quake II.
-- Exclusive editorial content including articles from Beyond.com
feature writers about Dreamcast and the best video games of 1999
and the gaming month in review column by George Jones,
editor-in-chief of Computer Gaming World, a Ziff-Davis
publication.
-- An interview with Alexander J. Garden, founder and CEO of Relic
Entertainment, developers of the new PC game Homeworld.
-- Ratings from the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), an
independent board that has, with the support of the industry,
developed a standardized rating system for interactive
entertainment software products.
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About Beyond.com Beyond.com sells commercial, off-the-shelf software to the government, enterprise, corporate and consumer markets, offering its customers a better place to buy software. Visitors to the company's online store http://www.beyond.com enjoy a comprehensive selection of software backed by customer service and competitive pricing. Beyond.com offers more than 1.6 million software and other digital products, including software stock-keeping units (SKUs) for online purchase from such major publishers as Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Inc., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp., Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Inc. and Symantec Corp; hardware; computing devices; and digital images in different file formats, including jpeg, gif and mpf through a strategic marketing alliance with IMSI IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity IMSI International Microcomputer Software, Inc. IMSI International Mobile Station Identity (now International Mobile Subscriber Identity) IMSI Idaho Maximum Security Institution . The company has established strategic marketing alliances with America Online See AOL. Inc., CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Excite@Home, Microsoft Corp., Road Runner/ServiceCo, Yahoo! Inc. and ZDNet. Additionally, Beyond.com offers software publishers, hardware manufacturers and systems OEMs e-commerce solutions including publishers transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. , physical and electronic order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment , customer support, site design consultation, marketing support and reporting. The company has applied for federal registration of the marks BEYOND.COM and BEYOND DOT COM. Beyond.com Corporation trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "BYND". More information on the company can be found in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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