Game Network

Game Network was an Italy company, based in Rome, and is part of the larger Digital Bros. group. They provide pay to play online games as well as running their own television channel. It is the only television channel in Europe dedicated to covering multimedia entertainment, naturally focussing on video games.

Game Network developed the .

Both The Legend of Mir 2 and The Myth of Soma have been moderately successful in Europe, although the number of Mir 2 subscribers pale in comparison to their China and South Korea counterparts. Game Network has been criticised by the player base in both of these games for not doing enough to prevent cheating and bug exploiting, as well as having extremely poor customer service. This may be why the contract to provide The Legend of Mir 3 was signed with United Kingdom-based Quality Games Online rather than Game Network.

There was a weekly television show for both The Legend of Mir 2 and The Myth of Soma , which were used to attract new people to the games. Both have since been cancelled, however.

Originally, the channel was available all over Europe, with the UK overlaying their own, regional content to the channel, such as Short Message Service chat. This balooned in 2003 with the launch of BabeStation , a late-night tease show, essentially Webcam girls on television. The success of this show lead to many other clone programmes appearing on other channels, and this alternative revenue stream lead to a later influx of phone-in quiz shows, of which Game Network shows many of. Game Network s UK games programming is now (2005) largely limited to a block of raw games footage at 5:30AM, followed by phone-in quizzes from 10AM, which continue until BabeStation starts.

As of September 2005, the Italian-language feed from Hotbird has ceased. As of Early 2005, the major gaming shows, Live Wire and Reloaded were axed.

=British Version and Old Presenters New Projects=

The future of the British version of Gamenetwork is uncertain as Digital Bros owns the logo, trademarks ect. whilst cellcast run it.

YouTV2 will be home of a gaming program which is made by some/all of the Game Guru team.

ChoicesUK is home to guru stu s presenting and the gaming / technology show is produced by the chad

=External links=

*[http://www.digital-bros.net/eng/comunicati/CSDB_GameMediaNetworks_eng.pdf Press Release from Digital Bros regarding the closure of Game Network Italia] *[http://www.game-network.net Game Network Italia] *[http://www.gamenetwork.tv Game Network UK]