Out Of This World Prizes For Skill Games
Published: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
OUT OF THIS WORLD PRIZES FOR SKILL GAMERS
Here's one for the high fliers!
Media reports just in are suggesting that the ultimate grand prize in cross marketing
could be coming from Virgin Games as a result of its parent group's involvement
with a private spaceship venture.
A journey into Space would normally cost out at a cool $20 million for the man
in the street, but sometime in the next month or two, Texas-based SpaceShot and
the British Virgin Group are both planning to independently unveil online skill
games that offer an exhilerating trip into space as the grand prize.
SpaceShot is partnering with Rocketplane Ltd., an Oklahoma company that is planning
to begin suborbital service to outer-space altitudes in 2007. Virgin Skill is
developing a space-themed skill game that could land the top winner on Virgin
Galactic's "SpaceShipTwo" rocket plane beginning in 2008.
On the Virgin skill games site, participants can pay as little as 0.50 cents to
compete against each other for high scores in Solitaire, Bejeweled, trivia quizzes
or other games of skill. Prizes are deposited into winners' accounts, and can
be withdrawn as real money.
Virgin's spaceship-themed game, called Virgin Galactic Quest, is being fine-tuned
for a debut later this month, said Stephen Attenborough, vice president of astronaut
relations at Virgin Galactic.
The game apparently puts the player in control of a spaceship's progress with
different levels posing an escalating series of challenges culminating in tournaments
and a grand finale where the winner gets to head for Space.
The SpaceShot game is scheduled for launch by the end of this year and is distinct
and independent of the Virgin offering. A $5 or less entry cost will apparently
be levied, leading to multiple tournaments and Rocketplane space trip prizes.
