"Our players are looking for increasingly sophisticated games, " said Jim Greer, CEO and co-founder of Kongregate.
ENGADGET: Kongregate breaks free of the browser, serves up downloadable games
Game retailer GameStop ( GME), meanwhile, made its own play Tuesday for Kongregate, an online distributor of games.
Kongregate's free-to-play downloadable games will also be integrated into some of the popular social elements Kongregate users are familiar with.
ENGADGET: Kongregate breaks free of the browser, serves up downloadable games
Some sites, such sas Kongregate, rely on developers to contribute online games and share online ad revenues with game developers.
GameStop has also linked PowerUp Rewards with Kongregate Arcade 2.0 to leverage the gaming app amongst its 13 million PowerUp Rewards members.
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Media Alert, November 30, 2012: Kongregate, the leading platform for free to play online games, has expanded its catalog to include free downloadable games.
ENGADGET: Kongregate breaks free of the browser, serves up downloadable games
Also now live on Kongregate is SmashMuck Champions from Kiz Studios.
ENGADGET: Kongregate breaks free of the browser, serves up downloadable games
Already a top destination for free to play browser games, adding downloadable games expands the types of free games available to Kongregate's 15 million monthly unique visitors.
ENGADGET: Kongregate breaks free of the browser, serves up downloadable games
The first three titles, Super Monday Night Combat from Uber Entertainment, Smashmuck Champions from Kiz Studios, and Bomb Buddies from Balanced Worlds, are now available to play from Kongregate.com.
ENGADGET: Kongregate breaks free of the browser, serves up downloadable games
With free-to-play titles like Clash of the Dragons and Legacy of Heroes spanning platforms from Facebook to Kongregate, 5th Planet has been quick to capitalize on online CCG space.
Android tablets purchased at GameStop come loaded with valuable extras including a hand-picked selection of free games, like Sonic CD and Riptide, the Kongregate Arcade gaming app and a free issue of Game Informer Digital.
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If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab -- not to mention the millions of other sites on the web -- I'll be out of luck.
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Gamestop has been making big moves in the digital arena lately, including the seemingly smart decision to pick up flash game site Kongregate and the seemingly less smart decision to start selling DLC from their stores.
Indeed, while flashy, shoot 'em up adventures such as "Halo 3" require years of development time and enormous budgets, many of the developers at the show were more excited about Web sites such as Kongregate, which encourage users to build much less ambitious games.
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