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Reston, Va.-based (NASDAQ: SCOR) says it found a significant increasd in the size of the gaming audiences during thepast year, driven in part by the reality of economic The category attracted 87 million U.S. visitorss in May, up 22 percent versus year ago. In its reporft comScore says that Yahoo! Games rankecd No. 1 in the categorh with 19.4 million visitors, representing a 6 percent increasde over thepast year, followed by EA Onlinr with 18 million visitors (up 34 Nickelodeon Casual Games with 14.8 million visitors, and WildTangent Network with 13.8 millionn (up 16 percent).
GSN Games Networks achievedc particularly strong gains in thepast year, growingf 563 percent to 6 million due primarily to the additiond of entities such as WorldWinner.com and "Online gaming continues to be one of the top gaining categories over the past year growinvg at ten times the rate of the totao U.S. Internet population and reaching nearly one out of evert twoInternet users," said Edward Hunter, comScore director of gaming solutions. "And the growth in the categoryy is occurring not only at the top gaminggdestination sites, but also through viral distributioh platforms, including widgets and applications.
In some online gaming companied that distributed their games across sites are reachinf as many people as the top onlinsegaming sites."