Jolt Online Gaming

[4] On 8 November 2009 the website Silicon Republic confirmed that GameStop had acquired a stake in Jolt, making a major, undisclosed investment.

Earth: 2025 was a browser-based massive multiplayer internet-based strategy game, originally created and run by Mehul Patel.

[11] Utopia is a browser-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, originally developed by Mehul Patel and run by Swirve.com.

Scale Front relaunched the game at utopia-game.com by the end of the year, after rewriting its code base from scratch with identical gameplay.

On 16 November 2010 Jolt announced that Utopia Kingdoms would be discontinued after 31 January 2011, citing lack of development resources.

[18] Jolt Online's CEO Richard Barnwell communicated that the company's closure will not affect Utopia Kingdoms: I believe so much in the future of the game - I've taken it on personally.

"[21] Finally, on 24 May 2011, two years and one month after its release, Jolt Online announced the game closure to players in-game.

[23] Trukz was a text-based game that allowed the player to create a truck driver and simulate the multitude of struggles cargo truck drivers endure on the road, the goal being upgrading their vehicle with commissions earned from the shipping and earning achievements for playing.

[29] The original Playboy Manager website contained the options to pre-register, beta sign-ups[30] and subscription to updates, as well as promotional content.

The Playboy Party game in Facebook[31] was poorly managed, requiring a reset that made players start from scratch on March 31, 2011.

After it was taken down, the owner of NationStates, author Max Barry reclaimed the domain and encouraged users to return or try the original version which was "now proudly Jolt-free".