Yahoo! has announced a new fee-based games service, saying the growth of the online games business is outpacing other forms of online entertainment.
The new service, call Yahoo! Games All-Star, will let serious players run private game rooms and set up tournaments and chat rooms.
Subscription to the new service will be €8.84 for one month, €22.18 for three months and €66.64 for one year.
Yahoo! said it will continue to make its online games available for free but will charge people using the new community and personalisation features.
"With this new service, Yahoo! Games is evolving to meet the entertainment needs of a growing base of online games enthusiasts," Mr Dan Hart, senior director of Yahoo Games, said.
Yahoo! said its games site hosts 140,000 simultaneous players at peak times and hosts 3.5 billion minutes of online gameplay per month.
