Jawfish’s Tadhg Kelly is now a contributor at Huffington Post:

The term “microconsole” usually earns me some blank stares, which is fair as it’s a word that I made up. Invoking something of the spirit of the microcomputer, “microconsole” groups a certain kind of emerging games machine. You might have heard of some examples, like OUYA, GamePop, Gamestick and some others. Microconsoles are little game consoles promising to deliver a new kind of gaming relationship between you and your TV.

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Phil Gordon, founder and CEO of social gaming startup Jawfish Games, tells Inside Mobile Apps that the real-money gaming market in Europe is already saturated, with the likes of Ladbrokes, Bwin, 888, PokerStars and more.

“Muscling your way into a saturated market with undifferentiated products will not be easy, even with a billion dollars in cash,” Gordon tells us. “Trying to do so with a team comprised of engineers and game designers that don’t have any real-world, real-money experience is a recipe for disappointment.”

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“The idea for Jawfish is to take casual games of skill that people already know and love, and reinvent them for multiplayer real-time tournaments,” says Phil Gordon, founder and CEO of Jawfish Games.

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Jawfish Games was founded by Phil Gordon, a former professional poker player and World Tour champion. Speaking to Polygon, Gordon explained that Jawfish originally worked with Big Fish Games to make Match-Up! the first real-time multiplayer tournament game on iOS and Android devices. Now the company will use that technology for its own iOS, Android and Facebook games.

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Tadhg Kelly, a columnist for Tech Crunch and creative director at Seattle’s Jawfish Games, says the game’s appeal comes from revolving around activities that are inherently pleasing to the mind. “The ‘Candy Crush’ style is largely based around ‘I need to clean and I need to keep things sorted and in order.’ It’s not different from ‘Tetris’ — it’s all about forming order out of disorder. There’s a great game called ‘Diner Dash,’ which is the same thing — you’re a waitress in a restaurant, in a chaotic situation — you’re trying to get customers served, clear plates, collect money, back and forth, with the objective of having a clean restaurant. That’s a very strongly rewarding activity.”

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Jawfish Games, a Seattle-based startup run by a former professional poker player and the engineering team that built the Fult Tilt Poker site, launched a gaming platform that can host more than 100,000 simultaneous players in real-time tournaments across iOS, Android and the web.

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Recipient of the Best Consumer 2.0 award from the recent LAUNCH Festival, Jawfish Games seeks to make online gaming much more competitive. It was at the conference where the company debuted its platform and the two games that supported it.

Starting with Jawfish Poker, in tournament mode, gamers are will play in against one another in a virtual room just like you would expect when watching The World Series of Poker. 

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“Connectivity is good enough in many cases that people will be online all the time and it won’t be that big of a deal,” says Tadhg Kelly, creative director at Jawfish Games and the author of What Games Are. “It’s a concern with many of these online gaming systems — whether it’s Steam or Xbox Live — that you would have millions of users on it with dial-up modems. But it seems that over time, those concerns are slowly alleviating themselves.”

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Jawfish Words is the world’s first real-time multiplayer tournament word search game, where players compete in three objectives per round, such as High Score, Corners, Longest Word or Diagonals. It is currently available on Kindle Fire and will come to iOS, all Android devices and Facebook in June. When it releases on all platforms, players will be able to compete live against others in the same tournaments, regardless of which device they choose to play on.

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The adrenaline fuelled Jawfish Poker traps you within its unforgivable fishy jaws and doesn’t let go from the moment you are dealt the first hand.  With leadboards, unlockable achievements and the never ending quest for gold, Jawfish will have plenty to keep you going back for more, aside from its addictive gameplay.  User freindly with no real learning curve, Jawfish Poker features fast action for all poker adrenaline junkies that you can jump straight into no matter what level of player you are. Although it might not be every poker pros cup of tea, experienced players will find a lot of fun here. Time will tell if the gameplay will become repetative, though for now I am certainly pushing all-in with Jawfish Poker!

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