TheGameReviews.com received information today that PWNED.com, a site that is unique in offering social networking opportunities to gamers, has been launched this week. This launch follows on the well received closed beta test that concluded last Monday and which garnered literally thousands of requests to participate in the beta and ALSO resulted in over 325,000 individual page opinions in the first week of it’s operation. Part of Pwned.com’s uniqueness the compensation plan that Pwned.com offers it’s users. Members of  Pwned.com can recieve Pwned Points by using various features of the site. During it’s opening week dozens of the users on Pwned.com received over $100 dollars of Pwned Points by using features of the site such as watching or offered comments on videos, pictures, game trailers, and other assorted multimedia. In addition users of Pwned.com can gain Pwned Points by adding or requesting friends be added, viewing reviews and previews of games, blogs, and polls.

Pwned.com has already achieved tremendous amounts of support from both inside and outside the company as, during it’s first week of operation, over 40% of it’s current users were hired on as Beta testers. Compensated by Pwned Points these beta testers are currently working to help Pwned.com staff to prepare the website for it’s first publc launch which will take place sometime in the first quarter of 2008. This interest among members of Pwned.Com has also been reinforced by computer firms and widget developers who have sent numerous requests for information on Pwned.Com to the website.

Mr. Andrew Briggs, the Chief Executive Officer of pwned.com, announced a deal with the “Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA)” in order to “ advocate for consumers of interactive entertainment.” Mr. Briggs also added that “The joint promotions will kick-off in 2008 through online advertising initiatives”. In addition the Chief Marketing Officer of Pwned.Com, Mark Bartkowiak, announced that Pwned. Com had arranged a deal with Rockstar Games that would assist Pwned.Com to “help market, promote, and advertise their new and upcoming game titles on the current beta site and on the public site to launch in 2008.” Mr. Bartowiak also added that Pwned.com was “in talks with many other video game companies” and that Pwned.Com “will be announcing more gaming industry partnerships and more celebrity gamer profiles to be added in the first quarter of 2008.”