Disney's Club Penguin is an massively multiplayer online game involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities. Using cartoon penguins as avatars, players waddle around, chat, play minigames and participate in other activities with one another in a snow-covered virtual world. Club Penguin is a huge online community with over 12 million user accounts.
NCsoft Corporation is one of the world's leading developers and publishers of online games. Founded in 1997, NCsoft is home to Lineage, the world's most successful online role playing game and also to Lineage II, City of Heroes and City of Villains, Guild Wars, Guild Wars Factions, Guild Wars Nightfall and Auto Assault. In the coming months, NCsoft is poised to launch other massively multi player titles in addition to various casual games via its game portal, PlayNC.
Jagex are the makers of RuneScape, a fantasy based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). The game has millions of members and is the world's most popular free MMORPG.
In addition to RuneScape, Jagex have also launched FunOrb, a Java mini-games website. Like Runescape, these games are played directly in the web browser and appeal to a broad audience.
Miniclip.com is the world's largest web site dedicated to playing online games with 34 million unique users per month - source, Google Analytics, December 2006. Miniclip.com games are extremely popular because they are fun, free, high quality and easy to use. They include the full range from casual games to hard-core massive multi player games.
Miniclip.com is one of the world's top broadband web sites with 98% of its users on high bandwidth connections.
Xat is a fun chat-based social networking site with over 7 million users. Users can also challenge other chatters to online games. Moreover, users can include xat chat easily in their MySpace profiles by adding the xat chat application.