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the way for even more specialized services tailored to individual games. In 2008, two new providers joined the guild hosting scene, iClan
Websites and Ejeet Networks. Ejeet Networks took a massive amount of stakes directly to the guild hosting world and made a press release to Tech2 Gaming which was then published in the Mumbai Times and placed in a top social media spotlight to this day they offer to the minute technology for guilds. With guilds increasingly playing more than one game, Enjin launched a new
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