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Virgin's online competitive gaming site hits 1M users

Virgin Gaming, a platform enabling users to play popular console games online competitively and win cash prizes, has reached 1 million registered members since the service launched in June 2010.

Eric Caoili, Blogger

January 26, 2012

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Newsbrief: Virgin Gaming, a platform enabling users to play popular console games online competitively and win cash prizes, has reached 1 million registered members since the service launched in June 2010. The Virgin Gaming platform offers free registrations (users can deposit a $20 minimum to compete in cash-prize matches), and allows members to play in tournaments for more than a dozen supported games like Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Electronic Arts' Battlefield 3. To date, the service has awarded $7 million in prizes to users. Virgin Gaming, a subsidiary of Richard Branson's British conglomerate Virgin Group, says registered users spend an average of 72 minutes per visit logged into its site.

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Eric Caoili

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Eric Caoili currently serves as a news editor for Gamasutra, and has helmed numerous other UBM Techweb Game Network sites all now long-dead, including GameSetWatch. He is also co-editor for beloved handheld gaming blog Tiny Cartridge, and has contributed to Joystiq, Winamp, GamePro, and 4 Color Rebellion.

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