GameVault,
C I Host's On-Line Game Hosting Network Announces Acquisition
of
2AM Game Club [January 20, 2004]
BEDFORD,
TX (January 20, 2004) - GameVault, a hosting network
specifically dedicated to competitive online gaming
and a subsidiary of C I Host, today announced the acquisition
of 2AM Game Club.
"C
I Host officially launched GameVault this week in Las
Vegas at CES and the feedback has been crazy -- in a
positive way," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of
C I Host. "Now with the acquisition of 2AM we are
taking the hottest new brand in gaming - GameVault -
and stamping it on one of the most established gaming
communities on the Internet."
2AM,
located at www.2am.com, launched in 1996 offering multi-player
gaming services including Total War, Alliance and Defiance,
The Invisible Hand, Poker, Backgammon and more. The
site has more than 20,000 members and the 2AM site tallies
30,000 hits a day. Visitors to the site now see a mirror
of the GameVault homepage, www.gamevault.com.
"In
one strategic move, we have supercharged a popular site
and built a sizeable customer base for GameVault, the
next generation of online gaming," Faulkner said.
"Gamers at the Vegas show like the new look and
the product offering. We're ecstatic with that field
research."
GameVault.com
provides fast, powerful, feature-filled and reliable
gaming services for most online games. GameVault features:
a.. advanced hardware
b.. Internet redundant connections.
c.. 24/7 customer service and technical support - anywhere
GameVault servers are located in Dallas, Chicago and
Los Angeles (with London coming during 2004).
--About GameVault--
GameVault
was founded on the principle that bleeding-edge computing
technology - the same used by the enterprise - is vital
to online gaming. The company supplies powerful and
reliable server hosting for more than a dozen online
games including Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament 2003,
Call of Honor and America's Army. GameVault, www.gamevault.com,
is a subsidiary of C I Host.
--About C I Host--
C
I Host (www.cihost.com),
based in the Dallas/Fort Worth market, is a Web hosting
and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar
(DNR) and application service provider (ASP) serving
200,000 individual consumers and businesses in 182 countries
worldwide.
C
I Host creates business-class Web hosting solutions
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the broadest portfolio of managed hosting and value-added
services in the industry. C I Host is accredited by
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I Host has been ranked #1 in speed by the Adoloma Web
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I Host offers turn-key services ranging from initial
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I Host operates three diverse data centers across the
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Center in Bedford, Texas. C I Host also has offices
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