Verizon to Add Interactive Games to FiOS TV Service

6:35 am on October 5, 2007 | Category: Web Services, Telecom Services, Television

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Verizon Communication is planning to add a number of interactive video games to its FiOS TV service in the first quarter of next year, as part of an ongoing attempt to differentiate its home entertainment services from those of cable operators.

The company will start out by offering simple games of skill and logic, such as Chess and Sudoku, as well as trivia games like Scene It?, a pop-culture knowledge game based on DVD video clips. Some titles will be offered at no extra charge to existing subscribers, while others will be offered on a pay-per-play or subscription basis.

If popular, the lineup may eventually be expanded to offer “high-twitch” first-person shooters like Doom and Quake, according to Verizon’s president of video solutions Shawn Strickland.

“We want to build a leadership position… to make sure our product set is top-of-mind so that if and when this becomes a must-have, we’re out in front,” Strickland explained of the company’s preemptive strategy.

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    1. If you want to try out something new in sudoku, try shendoku, using the sudoku rules but playing two people, one against the other, like battleshipps. They have a free version to download at http://www.shendoku.com/sample.pdf . Anything else they are bringing out or they are working on you can find at www.shendoku.com or at they´r blog www.shendoku.blogspot.com . Have fun, I am. I specially like one slogan I heard about Shendoku: SUDOKU is like masturbation (on your own)…. SHENDOKU is like sex (it takes two).

      Comment by armando — October 21, 2007 #

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