Pogo (website)
Pogo.com is a website that offers casual games for free to play. In addition to the original American side, there are now French and British versions. The German platform was closed on August 5, 2012. The site is operated by the US game software company Electronic Arts .
According to data from Internet research company comScore from April 2008, Pogo is the number 1 independent online gaming platform in the United States . The website has over 14 million unique monthly visitors worldwide who play an average of more than 69 minutes a day there. In addition, pogo.com is one of the most visited websites in North America and, according to usage data from Alexa Internet, is currently in 40th place in the USA and 48th in Canada (as of April 4, 2009), with peak values among the top 30.
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Pogo has over 100 different games in the fields of puzzles , word games , card games , board games , casino games and arcade - and sports games . Depending on the variant, these can be played alone or with one or more opponents. In addition, Pogo offers a whole range of additional functions via the Club Pogo VIP area , such as: a. additional games, no commercial breaks, a private chat system and exclusive avatars . The Club Pogo VIP area has more than 1.62 million members.
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Each member has a "Pogo Mini", which is a kind of avatar for the player. The tokens acquired by using the games can be used to unlock extras for this mini. Players can use the so-called pogo courier to find out about news on the website. Friends and like-minded people who are logged on to the site can also be entered in a friends list. The creation of an individual profile page including your own guest book is another function. While playing, it is possible to chat with human colleagues who are in the same game room . Due to a cooperation between Hasbro and Electronic Arts , some well-known Hasbro board games, including Monopoly , Yahtzee and Trivial Pursuit, can be played for free and exclusively on Pogo.
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- ↑ Pogo.de, June 10, 2012
- ↑ a b Reuters, October 16, 2008
- ↑ Alexa Internet: usage data from the pogo.com website
- ↑ Alexa Internet: usage data of the website pogo.com in 30th place (status from 2009, this no longer available)
- ↑ kotaku.com: Announcement of the online versions of well-known Hasbro board games ( Memento of February 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )