- AddictingGames
AddictingGames (previously trademarked as AddictingGames.com) is a gaming website that was started in
2002 by Ira Willey [http://www.freegamesnews.com/en/?p=1002 Interview with Ira Willey] . It was one of the first Flash game portals and helped popularize both the Flash platform and casual games. AddictingGames.com was acquired by Atom Shockwave and subsequentlyViacom in 2007 [http://www.atomentertainment.com/asw_pressrelease_080906.html Viacom's MTV Networks agrees to acquire Atom Entertainment] . It has been criticized for its misuse of the word 'addicting'.fact|date=September 2008 It is today part of theMTV Online Network, receiving over 10 million visitors a month. [http://www.atomentertainment.com/ Atom Entertainment]Games
The site offers a wide variety of flash games, of all genres. They have a system were you can submit your own flash game and so your game will appear on site. The number of games it gets a month are always different, due to how many companies wish to submit a game. It is according to Alexa the second most popular flash game website, the first being
Miniclip .fact|date=September 2008 This is arguable, however, as Miniclip hosts not onlyGames but alsoAnimations .History
The sites silly creator Ira Willey started the site in 2002 seeing the potential in internet flash games, after selling the site in 2005 he has since moved onto a new portal called OneMoreLevel which according to his interview on FreeGamesNews receives 100,000 visitors daily. Addictinggames.com is now one of the most popular flash game websites.
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* [http://www.addictinggames.com Offical site]
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