offline video game development publication and distribution founded 1991 headquarters seattle washington u.s. products video games casual games website www.gamehouse.com gamehouse is a casual game developer publisher digital video game distributor and portal based in seattle washington united states . gamehouse distributes casual games for pc and mac computers as well as for mobile devices such as phones and tablets on both itunes google playstore and the amazon appstore . gamehouse offers 2 300 online and downloadable games consisting of both in house produced titles such as the delicious series and third party games . contents 1 history 2 sales model 3 references 4 external links history edit the first downloadable game developed by the company was collapse a game somewhat similar to tetris . in 2003 company revenues topped 10 million 5.5 million net . 1 in 2004 gamehouse was acquired by realnetworks for 14.6 million cash and about 3.3 million rnwk shares then estimated at 21 million . 1 after acquisition the gamehouse studio continued operations as a developer while its games were distributed via realnetworks and the gamehouse game portal continued to operate alongside the realarcade game service . on november 3 2009 realarcade had announced they are merging with gamehouse to create a large distribution platform . such plans include migrating the accounts of users from realarcade offering discounts and special offers to gamepass members and new social community opportunities . the merging is expected to complete by the end of this year . 2 realarcade was a gaming service run by realnetworks that sold casual style computer games to individual users . its purpose was to let users download demo versions of games and optionally buy the full versions . 3 on november 13 2009 gamehouse and realarcade successfully merged their websites into one portal . as a result all customers visiting the realarcade website are redirected to gamehouse.com sales model edit realarcade distributes games on a time limited demo basis . each game downloaded has a trial time of 60 minutes unless differently specified by each publisher . once the trial time expires users are required either to uninstall the game from their computer or to purchase the full version of the game . users can also subscribe to a realnetworks service called gamepass . for a monthly fee it offers them ownership of 1 game of their choice per month at no additional fee and 5.00 off each game purchase . 4 as of november 2009 gamehouse a subsidiary of realnetworks offers full versions of some of its games supported by in game advertising . 5 references edit a b realnetworks inc. acquisition history . realnetworks.com . retrieved 29 august 2015 . realarcade announces gamehouse merger . retrieved 2009 11 06 . ryan michael e. 2001 01 08 . pc magazine reviews realarcade . retrieved 2008 12 14 . gamepass by realarcade . retrieved 2008 12 14 . free games at gamehouse . retrieved 2009 11 06 . external links 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