MORE ON FANTASZSPORTS (Update)

8 February 2008

Skill gaming provider is backed by some heavyweight gaming expertise


InfoPowa now has more detailed information on the new skill games entry to the market FantaZsports.com (see previous InfoPowa report)

The partnering companies behind the Denver-based start-up are The Illusion Factory and Rolling Dice Productions, California groups that have extensive technological and general gaming and new media pedigrees.

Rolling Dice Productions, Inc., (Rolling Dice.com), is a developer of cutting edge gaming concepts and a shareholder in the entities that take them to market. Current projects include ownership in and management of Chan Poker, LLC., in partnership with international poker ace Johnny Chan, a 10 time WSOP winner who partnered the company in developing his own poker room catering to European, Canadian and Asian markets.

The company also offers Rapid Bet Live, a new platform that allows users to place bets in real time throughout a sporting event on kiosks and wireless devices and GIG Play, a full service, global gaming company that provides the ability to wager on interactive games of skill using a pc, gaming console or mobile phone using GIG's proprietary application, the GIG Exchange, a secure community for gamers to meet, chat, find and exchange information, and develop and enter into wagers on games of skill.

The Illusion Factory (Illusion Factory.com) was founded in 1979, and has been entrusted with the promotion and marketing of more than $6 billion in filmed, televised and live entertainment. The 20 unique verticals in the company's core business, include online gaming, interactive television, new media platforms, shared video on demand, interactive promotional media, web platform development, visual effects, animation, production, post production and core developer of Virtual World platforms.

The firm's client list embraces every major US film studio, numerous entertainment conglomerates, production companies, nonprofits, entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies. Nxtgen.tv, the group's patented shared video on demand application, was created in partnership with online visionaries Kevin Upton and Chris Tata and has just launched on Facebook.

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