11.   Louie is a lifelong computer gaming aficianado who a year ago sold Microprose, his computer gaming company, to Hasbro.

12.   More positively in the U.S., gaming companies gained amid speculation of impending mergers.

13.   More positively in the U.S., gaming companies may gain amid speculation of impending mergers.

14.   Paramount, which is owned by Viacom Inc., has already been leaving game development to game companies.

15.   Sinophil is controlled by the same managers who run property and gaming company Belle Corp., whose shares have more than doubled in the past year.

16.   The games themselves are generally startlingly low-tech, deliberate to the point of glacial and widely mocked by the twitch-happy crews running most gaming companies.

17.   TheLine.com was a distant memory for Carrigan when he got a telephone call from Station Casinos, a Nevada gaming company, in late July.

18.   An Irish charity and a London gaming company joined forces Monday to give the Irish republic its first casino -- if the government will allow it.

19.   GAMING company Sports Toto Malaysia Sdn Bhd never fails to be generous to the needy and the aged before the Chinese New Year and Hari Raya every year.

20.   The chief executive officer of Malaysian gaming company Repco Holdings Bhd. has been charged in court for issuing misleading statements to the local bourse, a report said Tuesday.