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"We're proud of what we've achieved, we've stuck to the plan, we and our investors always knew that we'd need further funding…

"We're proud of what we've achieved, we've stuck to the plan, we and our investors always knew that we'd need further funding now, but the whole market is falling apart and everyone is frankly too scared to invest the amount of money BarrysWorld requires to run in its current form" - An ex- cerpt from a statement by TedTheDog of gaming site BarrysWorld which ceases all operations today.

News monitor column by Patrick Logue. Computimes edited by Conor Pope

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