Interactive TV games provider, Buzztime Entertainment (note: the company is a subsidiary of NTN Communications; its customers include EchoStar's DISH Network, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Susquehanna Communications), says that it has deployed its "Buzztime Single-Player Games" package on four US cable systems: Time Warner Cable's system in Portland, Maine, and Susquehanna's systems in Brunswick, Maine and in York and Williamsport, Pennsylvania. All of the systems already offer Buzztime's Buzztime Trivia Channel, a service that allows real-time multi-player gaming and competitions--Buzztime offers its various single- and multi-player games under the brand, Buzztime Network. The first single-player Buzztime games to be deployed are Poker, Checkers, Hexagone, Jungle-Bop, Memory and Solitaire: the company says that it has a portfolio of over 50 additional single-player games that will be part of the single-player games package. The cable operators that have deployed the games are offering them to their digital customers free-of-charge. "The addition of single-player games is part of an aggressive strategy to expand both content and distribution of our Buzztime Network across all interactive platforms, including cable TV, satellite TV, mobile phones, retail games and our own hospitality network of nearly 4,000 sites across North America," NTN chairman and CEO, Stanley Kinsey, said in a prepared statement. Buzztime also says that two of its new multi-player games, Buzztime Texas Hold'em and Buzztime Billiards, are being considered by cable operators for potential deployment. According to the company, the new games allow players from all Buzztime Network systems to compete against other players in real-time virtual game rooms.
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