A new game has been released called Bugz Zapper!

It is a pleasure to play, and by purchasing the tip, you will have a trick up your sleeve on how to conquer the bugz!

Play now, or forever hold your peace...

http://www.skillpod.com/game-info/67386

The Gazuma launch officially took place today, the first of March, 2010.

The Gazuma mobile games platform is a SkillPod Media product and offers users / publishers and advertisers the following features.

PLATFORM FEATURES:
- Mobile Games, playable through the mobile browser
- Tournaments
- Challenges
- Game Ratings
- Game Info Pages
- Secure High Score Logging
- Player Profiles
- Pods System
- Messaging
- Friends Lists
- Multiple Switchable Skins
- Global Payment Provider Integration
- Buy & Download Games

PUBLISHER OPPORTUNITIES:
- White Label Solutions
- XML Feeds
- Revenue Share Opportunities
- Custom Games
- Translated Site and Games

ADVERTISER OPPORTUNITIES:
- Branded Games
- Customised Games
- Links and Banners
- Tournament Sponsorship
- Game Pre-roll Ads

Register now, and take part in the mobile gaming craze!! http://www.gazuma.com/

Our developers just added two new exciting features:

- Game Tips: Unlock tips on certain games to sweeten the gaming experience with a small amount of pods! You will find this feature beneath 'Game Help' on certain games.

- 'Share this Game': Share your favourite games on Facebook, Twitter and via e-mail! You will find this feature above the Control Panel, upon loading a game to play.

Make fun a feature in YOUR life, with SkillPod!

Go on a scenic site seeing cruise in Amsterdam by connecting all the exciting attractions Amsterdam has to offer via the canals - creating a tourists dream!

Canal Connect - http://www.skillpod.com/game-info/67380

A new fantastic feature has been added to our site - 'Playes Online', situated under the Control Panel.

By clicking on the Players Online banner, a map of the world will load enabling you to view all the other players currently on the site, and where they are situated.

Please note that each player represents one IP address, so although it may say e.g. 300 players in Europe, it may actualy be 3000.

You're not alone!

Get that rusted brain in motion again by playing and mastering these 8 new challenging games:

- Rotate Puzzle: http://www.skillpod.com/game-info/67324
- Hanging Hamster: http://www.skillpod.com/game-info/67322
- Row Slide Puzzle: http://www.skillpod.com/game-info/67327
- Sewer Panic: http://www.skillpod.com/game-info/67332
- Sliding: http://www.skillpod.com/game-info/67328
- Sliding Blocks: http://www.skillpod.com/game-info/67323
- Super Slider: http://www.skillpod.com/game-info/67329
- Picture Perfect: http://www.skillpod.com/game-info/67330

Good luck and enjoy!

A 'New Games' window is now viewable on the right hand side of the website under the 'Tournament Winners' window.

This window will keep you up to date on all the newly added games as soon as they have been added, and the inner warrior in you will not be satisfied until you have beaten your best!

Get SkillPod's latest farming community going by connecting all the isolated roads!

http://www.skillpod.com/index.php?gameid=67319&game=67319&game_name=Farm%20Roads

A MUST play!

This Festive season, playing newly added Christmas games is a must to get you in the mood!

Christmas Bouncing Balls' graphics are certain to do just that - check it out!

http://www.skillpod.com/index.php?gameid=65891&game=65891&game_name=Christmas%20Bouncing%20Balls

Also, play the new game called Christmas Tree and contribute to the Festive Season's ambience by lighting up the Christmas Tree:

http://www.skillpod.com/index.php?gameid=67320&game=67320&game_name=Christmas%20Tree

SkillPod has a Conduit toolbar to be downloaded for all those who prefer to simplify life!

Add it now - it's incredibly easy and convenient: http://SkillPod.OurToolbar.com/

The following buttons have been installed for ease of use:

- SkillPod Media
- Search function
- Games
- SkillPod Home
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Messages
- SkillPod Forum
- Daily Games
- YouTube
- SkillPod Blog
- SkillPod Store

The second JackPod Week is to be held from the 1-17 December - you're officially allowed to get excited about the following in store for you this JackPod Week:

- Two weeks of incredible pod earnings
- 300 pods for tournaments held during the JackPod Week
- 250 pods up for grabs in the public challenges
- Successful sign up referrals will be worth 1000 pods
- A gaming quiz to be complated will win you 100 pods - for a few minutes of general knowledge questions!!!
- Random click here messages will win you 5 pods each time you click on them!
- By following SkillPod on Twitter, you will have the opportunity of replying to a direct message with your SkillPod nickname in order to win 1000 pods!!!

Ensure you stick around - it's going to be a pod packed two weeks!

21 new Mochi games have been added to the site - which is really exciting!

The following games have been added:

- Days 2 die - the other side
- Clockwards Prelude
- Mob Street Fighter
- 3D Zombie Attack Survival
- 3D Car Racing Deluxe
- Gerda Deadly Revenge
- Apocalypse Warrior Mad Max
- Wild West Gunslinger 3D
- Worlds Hardest Game Pro
- Mobster V1
- Stunt Bike Pro
- Canufit
- Planet Basher 2
- Splitty
- Beat
- Airborne Toy Catapult
- Dropsum
- Clicksum
- Space Pips
- Eliteforces Data Warfare
- Eliteforces Clone Wars

Join in the fun and games...

SkillPod is rolling the new games out one by one with the ease of brilliance - much to your delight!

The new games are as follows:

- Cherry Bomb 2
- Metal Marbles
- Bricks Breaking 2 (X2)
- Monstagon
- Disco Dance
- Worm Trouble
- Friends
- Fuzzballs
- Thunderstruck - an action packed ultimate experience!
- Pinball Star
- Critter Zapper
- Escape the Garden
- Montris
- Shopping Frenzy

Grant yourself a glorious gaming moment!

SkillPod is ensuring all it's fans (or potential fans!) are reached, and therefore manages various groups for updates and discussions on what's happening, as follows:

- Google Groups
http://groups.google.co.za/group/skillpod?hl=en&pli=1
- Viddler
http://www.viddler.com/groups/casualgaming/
- Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1198448@N24/
- LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2317625&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
- Viadeo
http://www.viadeo.com/hu03/002tv6gwnxnlhs7/online-casual-gaming
- Dailymotion
http://www.dailymotion.com/group/164424

Don't miss out on all the latest news and updates!

As social media is the way to go nowadays, SkillPod has profiles on the following social networking sites:

- Zoopy
http://www.zoopy.com/skillpod
- Viddler
http://www.viddler.com/CalamityKate/
- Dailymotion
http://www.dailymotion.com/en
- Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/
- Photobucket
http://photobucket.com/
- Metacafe
http://www.metacafe.com/
- Viadeo
http://www.viadeo.com/hu03/002tv6gwnxnlhs7/online-casual-gaming
- Yahoo Videos
http://video.yahoo.com/
- Mister-Wong
http://www.mister-wong.com/
- Bebo
http://www.bebo.com/c/home/index.html
- LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.co/groups?gid=2317625trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
- Technorati
http://technorati.com/
- Digg
http://digg.com/
- DZone
http://www.dzone.com/
- Faves
http://faves.com/home
- Friendster
http://www.friendster.com/
- Netvibes
http://www.netvibes.com/gamelikemad#General
- Google Bookmarks
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark
- Google Groups
http://groups.google.co.za/group/skillpod?hl=en&pli=1
- StumbleUpon
http://vanmark.stumbleupon.com/

What are you waiting for!? Join now and add yourself as a friend of SkillPod - we are waiting...

Have a sudden incurable urge to watch a SkillPod casual gaming video?

Fear not - SkillPod currently posts casual gaming videos on the following sites:

- YouTube
- Yahoo Videos
- Flickr (approximately two a month due to Flickr's limit)
- Viddler
- Zoopy
- Metacafe
- Photobucket
- Dailymotion

Happy watching!

The following press releases can be viewed (amongst many other sites) on www.skillpodmedia.com and www.bizcommunity.com:

- Breaking new social gaming fronts
- Leading European Entertainment Network concludes deal with SkillPod Media
- Gaming: Winning Ways for Marketers
- Warning: Highly Addictive Contents
- Bring on the Branded Entertainment!
- Using Social Media to Promote Your Business / Service

Hope you have been keeping your eyes peeled for the latest re-skinned games to play your heart out on, as follows:

- Twin Pizzas
- Fire Water Ice Tritris
- Valet Parking
- Jelly Belly
- Real Foosball
- Super Bricks
- Super Zen Blaster
- Building Bloxx
- Fruit Bat Fruit
- Oceanic Treasures
- Supa Badminton
- Mini Putt Mania
- Collapse Crashdown 2
- Tropical Marbles

To find them quickly, use the Search Function (top right hand corner on the website).

Have FUN!

Now is your chance to win terrific prizes, and triumph in the tournaments!

A new tournament schedule begins every 15 days, ensuring that there are always 6 tournaments to be played every day!

The prizes range from sponsored prizes, like PC & Mobile games which will be couriered / shipped to you, pods, trophies, jackpots & lucky draws.

The tournaments are always fun, with cool descriptions of the game and awesome prizes up for grabs.

What are you waiting for - allow the competitive you to surface!!

As SkillPod Media’s business is now approximately 80% international, it has to date localised its services into Afrikaans, Polish, Russian, Spanish and more recently into Dutch, with its client RTL. SkillPod has furthered its international expansion by launching a simple games site in Turkey, and the launch was rewarded with 8,000 unique visitors in the first 24 hours.

The translation of games and the games platform into foreign languages has been proven to be successful for the advertisers and publishers alike and SkillPod is finding that more and more non English speaking partners are realising that games are a proven medium to attract and return users. SkillPod has in excess of 450 game titles that can be translated into any language and can be fully localised and / or branded.

SkillPod recently opened a Cafe Press online store, with the best quality and funkiest designed clothing and accessories to be purchased.

You have a choice between the originally branded products with 'SkillPod Games' branded on them, or the 'Pimp My Avatar' funky brand.

Any shopaholic will have a definite adrenaline rush just thinking about this cool online store!

Two brilliant new games were published today, with the most awesome graphics, a definite MUST play!

Sushi Twist (http://www.skillpod.com/index.php?gameid=39797&game=39797&game_name=Sushi%20Twist) enables you to twist the sushi to your liking! A very authentic game, enough to get that appetite for sushi working overtime!

The second game published is Caps Morabaraba (http://www.skillpod.com/index.php?gameid=39796&game=39796&game_name=Caps%20Morabaraba) , which has to be one of the best designed games on skillpod.com - a definite creative masterpiece. No words can describe the difference between the original Morabaraba compared to this re-skinned version!

Enjoy...

Check out the Crossword, Word Search and Sudoku - added daily on Skillpod!

Find them by typing 'daily' in the Search, or in the left hand 'Game Categories' content box on the Home page.

Your vocubulary will be increased somewhat!

Streeeetch that brain of yours a touch!

All you need to do is go to the 'Game Categories' content box on the left hand side of the Home page, and click on the category of your choice under 'Mac Games' at the top of the content box.

Once the page has loaded, you are able to click on any downloadable PC game in order to be directed to more information on the game.

Click on either 'Download Now' or Buy Now' if you are interested.

Each game will cost you 5000 pods, which is R5.

Certain downloadable games offer a free hour trial run before you decide to purchase or not.

Easy as pie!

SkillPod has begun a gaming discussion forum on Google Groups!

Join SkillPod's casual games discussion forum at: http://groups.google.co.za/group/skillpod?hl=en.

Hot gaming topics will be discussed!

What better opportunity than this gaming forum to voice your opinion, and to get the latest updates of absolutely everything!?

The first week in September the very first official JackPod week will be held!

Pod giveaways will be UPSIZED generously, and there will be absolutely AWESOME and unique pod giveaways!

Here's a hint of the fun to come:

- Sign up referrals pod incentives will be increased to 50 pods
- Increased tournament prize pods by 50 pods
- Members can earn 50 pods by replying with their SkillPod nickname to a direct message to be sent to SkillPod's followers on Twitter
- Public challenges will be set with increased pod prizes - 50 pods
- A general gaming quiz about the origins of certain games. Those who submit answers will earn 20 pods
- Random 'click here to earn 5 pods' messages popping up now and then - in the form of a banner which will be made live for an hour once every day of the JackPod week.

Prepare for a podful week!

All the most popular games, as well as the recently published games have been uploaded on YouTube and Yahoo! as videos!

The following videos have been added, so far:

- Fishtank Crashdown
- Bricks
- Tritris
- Pyramid Solitaire
- Smiley Island
- Crescent Solitaire
- 3D Pool
- Gaps Solitaire
- Mahjong II
- Dress Up Time
- Aces Up Solitaire
- Gumballs
- Bouncing Balls
- Gem Twist
- Monster Jump
- Zen Blaster
- Cute and Cuddly
- Bin Jumper
- 21 Blitz
- Tri Peaks Solitaire
- Air Devil
- How to Register on SkillPod

Keep you eyes peeled for more videos to be uploaded - about 3-4 will be uploaded every week!

'Tune in' to YouTube or Yahoo, sit back, relax and enjoy the show!

The two latest games released are Tritris and Gumballs.

Challenge yourself to a few tricky games in this 'tweaked' version of tetris! You are able to choose the difficulty level (between 3-20), as well as play up to 3 games simultaneously!

Gumballs will leave you entranced and highly addicted!

Are you feeling triumphant?

SkillPod has just added another game called Makeover Me to check out-

http://www.skillpod.com/index.php?gameid=16680&game=16680&game_name=Makeover%20Me.

Have a blast getting a FULL makeover - for free!

Be sure to check out the latest game published: Bin Jumper.

Bin Jumper will surely qualify you at becoming a bin jumper pro!

Strut your stuff & show 'em what you got...

Be sure to check out and log some CrAzY competitive scores on the following new games:

- Cute and Cuddly
- Zen Blaster
- 3 vs 3 Soccer
- Echo the Dolphin
- Safari Mahjongg
- Smiley Island
- Dagwood Bar
- Fishtank Crashdown
- Smash n Grab

To find them quickly, use the Search Function (top right hand corner on the website).

The latest online features definitely worth getting excited about are as follows:

- The Avatar Parade

Rate your favourite avatars by clicking on the Avater Parade on the right hand side of the Home page, and tell us exactly what the true meaning is fashion is!

- View reports (and allow the 'competitive you' to surface) by clicking on the 'View More' links of the following:

* Tournament Leaderboards (Viewable per tournament)
* Tournament Winners (Viewable per tournament)
* Top Pod Earners (Viewable as 'This Week'; 'This Month'; 'All Time')
* Top Scores (Viewable as 'This Week'; 'This Month'; 'All Time')

- Chat with your friends via the Chat function

- Participate in Leagues by forming a league team with your friends - where you are also able to challenge other league teams!

- 'Tweet' your Twitter status by going to your profile & adding Twitter. You will be able to update your status from SkillPod's website whenever you please! Your game high scores will log on your Twitter status as well - doing the bragging work for you!

Downloadable PC games are for sale now!

All you need to do is go to the 'Game Categories' content box on the left hand side of the Home page, and click on the category of your choice under 'PC Games' at the bottom of the content box.

Once the page has loaded, you are able to click on any downloadable PC game in order to be directed to more information on the game.

Click on either 'Download Now' or Buy Now' if you are interested.

Each game will cost you 5000 pods, which is R5.

Certain downloadable games offer a free hour trial run before you decide to purchase or not.

As easy as that!

Anywhere, anytime, Playtime...

You’ve achieved pre-eminence in your industry. Some of the most trafficked websites in South Africa use your software to serve their communities and bring in advertisers. You supply large overseas portals that operate in some of the biggest markets in the world. Your own websites attract over 200,000 unique visitors a month, to whom you serve over 2 million banners – and this is growing at a rate of almost 15% every month. You’re at the top of your game.

So what do you do next?

If you’re SkillPod Media, you redouble your efforts. You take a close look at yourself and what you have to offer. And then you reinvent your already successful software platform, emerging with a product that is so far ahead of your peers that it will set the pace for the foreseeable future. It’s the same approach that took Tiger Woods from being merely the best of his day to one of the greatest ever.

The things that online gaming dreams are made of

The SkillPod Media Game Management Platform manages the delivery of casual and skill games and gaming related services to 36 games portals in 11 countries. Highlights are the provision of online games to games channels for M-Net’s KTV, IOL, Media24, EZPhoneBill, gaming portals in the UK, Australia and United States, and some of the largest social networking sites in Eastern Europe.

“We realised that we could either just continue at our already successful pace, rolling out our platform into more and more communities – a solid enough business model in its own right,” says Mark van Diggelen, CEO of SkillPod Media, “or we could really take a leap into the forefront of the global gaming industry.”

The result is a new generation online gaming platform that provides hitherto unmatched power and flexibility for online providers to:
• build gaming portals
• create, nurture and actually monetise communities
• roll out, manage and analyse advertising campaigns
• optimise and measure return on investment

Advertisers can use in-game advertising or product placement, brand individual games or entire batches of portal real estate, sponsor tournaments, run surveys, or even have custom games developed for them. There is full integration with Google Adsense, and revenue sharing models from subscriptions and game sales are available.

Social networking for gamers - monetised

For online gaming enthusiasts the platform offers a rich interactive online gaming environment where they can enjoy the same sort of features as on social networking sites like MySpace. This includes creating profiles, building your own custom avatar, public and private messaging; photo uploading; private and community tournaments, leagues and challenges; sweepstakes and prize draws.

A big breakthrough is the platform’s monetisation capabilities. Players get free “Pods” when they register, and can buy further Pods via SMS or credit cards. Prepaid cards and vouchers are also in the offing. Pods can be used to play premium games and enter tournaments, and can be won off other players in challenges. They can also be used to buy and download games - there will soon be a merchandising model based on Pods.

“We’ve tried to imagine a step beyond what gaming communities, online providers and advertisers are currently doing,” explains Van Diggelen, “and with this platform we’ll be able to meaningfully expand the online gaming experience for everyone.”

At a time when hyperbolic marketing claims are thrown around with abandon, SkillPod Media is steadily establishing itself as the real deal when it comes to pulling off online marketing coups. The company specialises in creating gaming platforms for some of the major entertainment and news portals in South Africa and around the world, which provide valuable online advertising opportunities - in what is one of the most lucrative and successful formats currently available. New deals and partnerships will see SkillPod media expand into Eastern Europe and China, as well as beginning to make inroads into the massive US Telco market. Games portals for Kagiso Media. In South Africa, new online games portals have been launched for East Coast Radio and Jacaranda, under an agreement between SkillPod Media and Kagiso Media. The games are part of the new ‘Buzz’ content offered on the websites. The focus for these sites will be on creating branded games for both of the media properties and their advertisers. Players will be enticed with tournaments offering a range of well worthwhile prizes. CEO of SkillPod Media, Mark van Diggelen, is excited about these new games portals: “We’re delighted and rather proud to be working with a partner as eminent as Kagiso Media, and to be recognised as being able to provide the kind of entertainment and advertising value that a media powerhouse like this requires.” Social networking success in Eastern Europe. Turning abroad, SkillPod Media has inked a deal with Gadu-Gadu, Poland's largest social networking website that serves around 6 million regular users. This deal will see the SkillPod games platform fully translated into Polish. Over 200 SkillPod games will be made available to Polish users, localised for this advertising market. The deal will later see expansion of the games platform to regions including Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania. Two huge markets: China and US Telcos. SkillPod Media is also at an advanced stage of concluding an agreement that'll see it rolling out its games platforms to portals with significant reach in the massive Chinese online market. “The Chinese market is notoriously difficult to break into,” says Van Diggelen. “Regulatory issues mean that you can’t just go ahead and start marketing there. By partnering with key local players we are managing to fast-track our efforts.” At the other end of the spectrum, The EZ Phone Bill, a US based Telco, will shortly be offering live games supplied by SkillPod Media. The approach will target customers who use the Telco’s systems for traditional telephone service billing - offering them access to content services, billed directly to their telephone accounts. The focus will be on games tournaments with prize rewards. Success with Google Gadgets. A recent test launch of Google Gadgets has been a resounding success. Consequently SkillPod Media has increased its Google Gadgets offering to 38 of its most successful games. More popular games titles will continue to be added, with multi-player games set to become available in the near future.