FACEBOOK POKER

26 October 2007

Arsenal Interactive takes Facebook community action a step further


The Mountain View, California based web-cam social video network company Arsenal Interactive has launched its HeyCosmo Texas Hold'em poker application on the Facebook platform. HeyCosmo is an intuitive free web-cam service enabling live interactivity and communication on the Internet. The service is directly available to Facebook members from their personal profile pages.

Arsenal's live, multi-player Texas Hold'em poker application is downloaded from Facebook and players can choose to join a game already in session or create a new game, invite other players to join and begin game play immediately.

Each player has a full-motion video stream around a graphically rich poker table, allowing participants to see and talk to each other as if they were in the same room. Arsenal Interactive's technology supports up to 10 live web-cam video participants and up to 50 people will be able to watch, listen, and chat during the games. At 30 frames per second, a high degree of reality and ambience can be achieved.

"With an increasing number of online gaming enthusiasts, it was just a natural transition for us to create a poker application specifically catered for interactive networks," said James H. Im, president and CEO, Arsenal Interactive, Inc. "It's an easy way for friends to connect, entertain and communicate with each other at the same time."

The magic behind HeyCosmo is a high-quality interactive multimedia engine, which features proprietary video, audio, and multi-party call control technologies. Arsenal's engineering team consists of innovative industry veterans who have collaborated for the past six years to build proven and scalable multimedia service platforms in collaboration with various industry standard groups and service provider entities.

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