RealNetworks unveils games-subscription service: "The service is part of a makeover of its RealArcade game site, now renamed RealOne Arcade, which offers users free software to play games as well as a selection of more than 140 free Web-based games and 90 downloadable games for purchase. Modeled after RealNetworks' other popular subscriptions, GamePass allows users to pay a monthly fee of $6.95, which will give them a credit to buy one new game a month and get $5 off the purchase of additional games. The RealOne Arcade site will continue to offer a collection of free games and free demonstrations."

Since Jupiter has been busy being sold to pieces, IDC seems to be the new provider of clueless quotes. Hello, this is 2002. Paying web gaming was "still very much new territory" more than 5 years ago, and there's been precedents on proprietary networks for two decades. When you have nothing to say, just say nothing.

Speaking of Real, they recently launched Superpass in Europe.