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Best of luck to you!

I'm curious to hear in your own words, however: what does embedding games do to help a site? As opposed to, say, doing what Kongregate does, and creating a centralized location for games? With video it's different, because videos tend to be shorter and last less time, so posting a video - especially one under 10 minutes in length - makes sense. (Even then, longer videos work better in centralized zones like Hulu or even Vimeo.) Aren't most games long enough that they thrive more from a feeling of centralization and unity of location?



Thanks for your comments unalone,

Embedding games on your site will keep users engaged for longer and give them deeper, more interesting and addictive content.

If the users want to spend longer on a piece of content, they wont opt out just because that piece of content has been embedded.

It's also great for the developers to get their games out to a larger audience.

In general, setting these games free can only be a good thing for game developers, game players and publishers.




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