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News Corp: Increased Focus On MySpace As Gaming Platform

MySpace owner News Corp. says it sees gaming as a crucial element to the social network's expansion, and is considering opportunities to attract video game companies into launching their titles on the site and growing MySpace's current game offerings.

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"None of the traditional media conglomerates are also significant video game players, so to speak, and I think that that's the missing piece of the equation, particularly when you see how much time is spent playing games online" Miller said
...commented, "You must focus, and in our case we are focusing on music, games, video, things like that."
"MySpace is and will be more in the future a gaming platform, a space for people to meet and play games" said News Corp...

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