RESTON, VA, January 28, 2009 - comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an analysis of Americans’ usage of online gaming sites, which showed that the category has grown 27 percent during the past year to 86 million visitors in December 2008, while the total time spent playing online games has jumped 42 percent. Americans’ total share of Internet time spent playing online games grew from 3.7 percent in December 2007 to 4.9 percent in December 2008.

Yahoo! Games ranked as the most visited site in the category with 19.5 million visitors (up 20 percent), followed by EA Online with 15.4 million visitors (up 21 percent), and Disney Games with 13.4 million visitors (up 13 percent). The tenth most visited site, Spil Games, saw traffic surge 269 percent to 6.7 million visitors.

Top Online Gaming Sites December 2008 vs. December 2007 Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore Media Metrix
	Total Unique Visitors (000)
	Dec-2007	Dec-2008	% Change
Total Internet : Total Audience	183,619	190,650	4
Online Gaming	67,457	85,977	27
Yahoo! Games	16,184	19,468	20
EA Online	12,673	15,369	21
Disney Games	11,933	13,458	13
WildTangent Network	7,650	13,306	74
Addictinggames.com	9,706	11,343	17
AOL Games	8,380	10,750	28
MSN Games	9,685	10,263	6
Miniclip.com	7,264	8,636	19
Nick.com  Games	6,020	7,092	18
Spil Games	1,821	6,715	269

“It appears that online, ad-supported gaming is one of the activities that has benefited during this economic downturn,” said Edward Hunter, comScore director of gaming solutions. “Not only have consumers turned to outlets such as gaming to take their minds off the economy, but as they curtail their discretionary gaming-related purchases they are turning to free alternatives.”