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Live Gamer Selected to Integrate Player-to-Player Trading Marketplace Within Icarus Studios’ Virtual World and MMO Game Platform

Live Gamer Inc™ (www.livegamer.com), the $24 million venture-backed developer of the world’s premiere publisher-supported virtual marketplace, today announced it has been selected by Icarus Studios (www.icarusstudios.com) to provide a marketplace for the Icarus virtual world and MMO game publishing platform. The Live Gamer Exchange™ marketplace will be pre-integrated into the platform, enabling Icarus and its multitude of media/publishing partners to seamlessly and easily enable safe and secure real-money-trading (RMT) of characters, coin and items within their MMO games and virtual worlds' titles.

Live Gamer to Launch Player-to-Player Exchanges for Acclaim Games, GoPets® and IAC’s InstantAction.com

Live Gamer Inc™ (www.livegamer.com), the $24 million venture-backed developer of the world’s premiere publisher-supported virtual marketplace, today announced Acclaim Games, GoPets and IAC’s Instant Action.com will begin launching player-to-player virtual marketplaces for the real-money-trading (RMT) of virtual goods. The announcement coincides with Live Gamer’s unveiling of its newly upgraded Live Gamer Exchange™ platform, the most advanced, safe and secure platform for RMT of characters, coin and items.

Noted Virtual Economist Vili Lehdonvirta Joins Live Gamer Advisory Board

Live Gamer, the premier operator of a publisher-supported marketplace for real money trading (RMT) of virtual items, today announced the addition of preeminent virtual economy authority, Vili Lehdonvirta, to the company’s advisory board. Lehdonvirta is a respected expert on virtual consumerism, defined as the phenomenon where people spend significant sums of real money on virtual property, such as game items.

Live Gamer Exchange™ - Station Exchange® Transition FAQ

Live Gamer is the leading provider for publisher-supported virtual item trading. Live Gamer legitimizes the rampant illegitimacy of the current trading of virtual goods caused by gold farming, predators, hackers and other fraudulent activities. Working in tandem with publishers and content owners, Live Gamer allows all the participants in the virtual economy to benefit from secure, transparent and convenient transactions, while facilitating a safe and authenticated experience for millions of consumers around the world.

Live Gamer Named to the Red Herring 100 North America

Virtual Item Trading Marketplace Provider Among the 100 “Most Promising” Companies Driving the Future of Technology

Red Herring today announced that Live Gamer, the premier operator of a publisher-supported marketplace for real money trading of virtual items, is a recipient of the Red Herring 100 North America, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the region.

Live Gamer Adds Interzone Games as Partner

Live Gamer to Power Transaction-based Game Play in Interzone Game Titles

Live Gamer, the leading provider of the publisher-supported, secure marketplaces for real money trading of virtual items, today announced a partnership with Interzone Games, to serve as the exclusive platform provider for secondary market real money trading (RMT) for Interzone’s upcoming massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) title.

Sony Online Entertainment and Live Gamer Expand Transaction-based Game Play to Additional Titles

Live Gamer Exchange to Power RMT in The Agency and Free Realms

Live Gamer, the premier operator of a publisher-supported marketplace for real money trading of virtual items, has announced it has entered into an agreement with Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) to offer real money trading (RMT) in the upcoming titles published by SOE - The Agency™ and Free Realms™. The two companies are leading the evolution of the gaming industry into transaction-based business models that open emergent game play styles for gamers and opportunities for publishers.

True Games Interactive Signs Live Gamer As Exclusive Secondary Trading Partner

Live Gamer To Provide Virtual Goods Transactions for True Games Products

True Games Interactive (www.truegamesinteractive.com), a new global online game publisher, announced today that it has signed a deal with publisher-supported secondary trading marketplace provider, Live Gamer. The two companies will partner on the online game publisher’s upcoming products that support real money trading (RMT), the first of which is scheduled to launch in Q3 of 2008.

Live Gamer Hires Gaming Vet, Kurtis Buckmaster, as VP Product Marketing

Former Pro Gamer Brings Deep MMOG and Marketing Experience to Executive Team

Live Gamer, the premier operator of a publisher-supported marketplace for real money trading of virtual items, has brought on gaming and marketing expert, Kurtis Buckmaster, as Vice President of Product Marketing. Buckmaster brings rich professional and personal gaming expertise to Live Gamer, including deep product marketing, promotions, and online community experience.

Live Gamer Expands Management Team

Industry Veterans Join All-Star Management Team for Secure Virtual Trading Provider

Live Gamer, the premier provider of a publisher-supported, secure platform for real money trading of virtual property, today announced the addition of seasoned gaming and financial industry executives to its management team.

InstantAction.com Partners with Live Gamer, Inc. to Power Secure Real Money Marketplace

Exclusive Partnership with InstantAction.com, a new platform developed by GarageGames and IAC, Gives A New Category of Gamers Worldwide Access to the Live Gamer Exchange™ Service.

InstantAction, the web-based gaming platform launching in 2008 and Live Gamer, the premier provider of the publisher-supported, secure platform for real money trading of virtual property, today announced an exclusive partnership to bring commerce to the live action gaming community. Terms of the partnership were not disclosed.

Live Gamer Incorporates Sony Online Entertainment’s Pioneering Station Exchange™ Technology to Create the New “Live Gamer Exchange”

SOE’s popular MMORPG EverQuest® II to be enabled with Live Gamer Exchange.

Live Gamer, the premier operator of a publisher-supported marketplace for real money trading of virtual items, has entered into an agreement to utilize Sony Online Entertainment’s (SOE) Station Exchange™ technology, the industry’s first proven, fully legitimate platform for secure buying and selling of virtual items. The resulting new, independent service, called Live Gamer Exchange, combines the Web-based accessibility of Station Exchange™ with Live Gamer’s proprietary Wall-Street-developed in-game application, giving players a flexible and convenient way to access the virtual marketplace anytime, anywhere.

Live Gamer Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner

Recognized for game-changing strategies in advertising, marketing, and promotion.

Live Gamer, the leading provider of legitimate, secure marketplaces for player-to-player trading of virtual items, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies major developments in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, and advertising, branding, and public relation campaigns. Live Gamer was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.