Vote for People's Choice Zeeby Award

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PUBLIC VOTING IS NOW OPEN FOR THE ZEEBYS AWARDS, REWARDING THE BEST IN CASUAL GAMES

Ticket Sales for the 2nd Annual Zeebys Casual Game Award Show will Benefit Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation

LOS ANGELES – Gamezebo and the Casual Games Association has announced that voting is now open for the [url=\"http://www.zeebys.com/vote-2.php\"]Zeebys’ People’s Choice Awards[/url]. The winners will be revealed at the second annual Zeebys Award Show from 6:30 – 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at the Casual Connect Conference in the Taper Auditorium located inside of Benaroya Hall in Seattle. The show will be taped by Lifetime Networks and broadcast on its Web site, myLifetime.com.

"This year's Zeebys will be bigger and better than last year's to celebrate the ascent of casual games into mainstream entertainment," says Joel Brodie, CEO of Gamezebo and founder of the Zeebys. "We are now a $ 2.25 billion dollar a-year industry, and compete with the likes of TV, music and movies. We've arrived."

The theme of this year’s Zeebys is “Casual Games Giving Back,” with 100% of all ticket sales benefiting the Zeebys’ official charity partner, Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation. Starlight is a nonprofit dedicated to helping seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities. Tickets for this year’s Zeebys Award Show can be purchased for $20 at www.starlight.org/zeebys2008.

"What better way to celebrate the innovation and diversity of casual games than to open voting to members of the public and support a cause as important as Starlight's," says Jessica Tams, Managing Director of the Casual Games Association,

The Zeebys reward the very best in casual games as voted by the general public. Starting today through July 5, 2008, everyone is invited to vote for the best casual games of 2007 by visiting [url=\"http://www.zeebys.com/vote-2.php\"]http://www.zeebys.com/vote-2.php[/url]. There are two types of Zeebys Awards: 1) The People’s Choice Awards, which represent the best casual games of the year as voted by the people; and 2) The Craft Awards, which reward excellence in game design itself as voted by peers in the Casual Games Association.

Nominations for the People’s Choice Awards have been chosen by members of the Casual Games Association, the largest membership-based association within the casual games industry. New People’s Choice categories to vote for this year include Best Hidden Object/Adventure, Time Management, and Web Game. New Craft Award categories include Best Mobile, Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA), and Social Networking Game. For more about the Zeebys, visit www.zeebys.com.

As one of the top destinations for casual games for women, MyLifetime.com, Lifetime Network’s online community for women’s entertainment and escape, is the exclusive video partner of the awards show and will stream the entire show at MyLifetime.com. The exclusive production partner is SomaTone Interactive Audio, which is producing and providing live music for the show.