ROBERT SMALL CEO and Founder of Miniclip.com, "The Game Boy"

Rob Small co-founded Miniclip.com in 2001, at the age of 24, with a dream and a plan to build the next generation game entertainment company. By harnessing the power of Internet with a focus on interactivity and creativity Miniclip has built over six years the dominant worldwide online gaming portal. Miniclip has emerged as the defining new look of entertainment where users are totally involved and have access anywhere, anytime to online games.

Today Rob is credited with building the largest community of online gamers in the world (43 million) and supplying them with the full range of casual to hard core massive multiplayer games.

Rob has built a solid business from the ground up with an enormous user base and consistent growth over six years without venture capital or other outside investors. He’s created a diversified business model including, advertising, sales, licensing, and subscriptions.

His belief and drive have helped Miniclip.com become the market leader in the online games sector while successfully attracting the highly valued youth demographic. Miniclip is an incredibly exciting and fun place to be. "We provide unique, interactive entertainment that is in high demand on the internet. You do so much more than watch entertainment at Miniclip, you are totally involved in it. You are literally in the driver's seat!" - Rob Small, Miniclip CEO.

Miniclip also won the prestigious 2007 Webby Peoples Voice Award, the "Oscars of the Internet" for the Internet’s best game site for the thirdconsecutive year. Miniclip is currently the largest entertainment portal in private hands.

Fallout 3 Voted as Video Game of the Year

Post-apocalyptic adventure "Fallout 3" has been crowned Game of the Year at a major gathering of videogame makers in San Francisco.



The captivating story-driven videogame made by Bethesda Softworks bested blockbuster rivals including notorious "Grand Theft Auto: IV" and zombie shooter "Left 4 Dead" at the 9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards.

"It's the first time we've ever won this award, and to be given it by other game developers, with so many amazing games that could have won, well, we're simply overjoyed," Bethesda game director Todd Howard said Thursday.

"It's very special to us."

"Fallout 3" also won a Best Writing award at Wednesday's ceremony, considered a highlight of the Game Developers Conference (GDC).

Sony-backed "LittleBigPlanet" developed by Media Molecule of Britain ended the evening with the most awards, capturing top spots for game design technology, innovation, and Best Debut Game.

LittleBigPlanet encourages people to create and share games as well as play.

The latest "Prince of Persia" release by hot French videogame maker Ubisoft won a Best Visual Arts category for "hauntingly beautiful" imagery. "God of War: Chains of Olympus" was declared Best Handheld Game.

"The games being recognized here are virtuoso efforts that have truly advanced the state of video games." said GDC content director Meggan Scavio.

"The Game Developers Conference has become the premiere videogame award show because it gives voice to those who understand games better than anyone; the people who make them."

Two Million Gamers and 725,000 Custom Levels Created On LittleBigPlanet

While it may not have lived up to the unrealistic expectations placed upon it, Sony's adorable and incredibly addictive LittleBigPlanet is hardly the failure some have been claiming. To help dispel any such notions, the company is releasing some impressive stats on developer Media Molecule's ground-breaking platformer. Two million users have been adventuring in the LBP universe, 725,000 customized levels have been created, with over 125 million games played since it was first launched in November 2008.

Mark Hardy, Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe's marketing director:

"LittleBigPlanet is giving people from every walk of life the opportunity to express themselves creatively. The game is just the start. This is creative gaming; never ending experiences that take on lives of their own through their players,"

Some have claimed LittleBigPlanet 's "failure" to make an immediate impact at retail was in part to bad timing, having been released during the most lucrative (and overstuffed) time of the year. Others have questioned the viability of casual-friendly titles for the PlayStation 3 console, seen by many as an elite platform and ill-suited for the market. The game has gone on to win several industry accolades, including many "Game of the Year" awards and recognitions.

Regardless, the game has managed to stay in the collective consciousness of the gaming public since its release, and has since positioned itself as one of this generation's (and certainly the PS3's) most attractive evergreen titles.

LittleBigPlanet is currently available for PlayStation 3, with a PSP version slated to hit sometime this Fall.

Ralooka.com - An Influential Experience: The Beginning of A Revolution

I recently had the opportunity to baby-sit my mother’s friend’s grand-daughter, Mbali, who is 4 years old, and I’ve been doing so for the past 2 weeks whereby she is picked up from kindergarten and dropped-off at my house.

As her daily transportation arrives, I hear a hooter, beeping away so I rush out the front door and bring her into the house. Before she arrived I was busy playing a flash game, called Barbie which I happened to find online as part of a research and development task I was practicing for the creation of Ralooka.com a Free MySpace Gaming Portal.

I called her into my study and asked her if she new who was on my computer screen and she screamed “Barbeeee”, enticed by the pretty pink shades of graphics overwhelming my screen she automatically realized from all the moving objects that this was a game so she wanted to play but first I offered to show her how the game is played.

Like any other flash game, it was very simple to play, basically “Barbie” was standing at the bottom of the screen while head sized “Poo” balls was falling from the sky and by moving the mouse from left to right you have to dodge between all this “Poo”.

I was amazed to find that she instinctively knew what to do, after a few tries she had become a little champ at the game and this alone became a major inspirational influence that lead me to create a place for people of all ages to find a large database of free flash games due to the sheer fun you get from playing non-competitive fast games because regardless of a games simplicity, I , a 19 year old was as amused by the game as much as a 4 year old, to a certain extent though and the reason I say that is because when I asked Mbali what the dark brown stuff falling from the sky was she said chocolate flavored marshmallows. Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha! here’s a link to the Barbie Game so you can play it yourself.