SEATTLE, Oct. 15, 2013 – GameHouse, a division of RealNetworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNWK) today announced that it has awarded the first Golden Dreams Sweepstakes $100,000 cash prize. The first prize winner is Janet G., a hard-working 65-year-old grandmother from the Buffalo, New York area, who was awarded the prize on her birthday.

With headlines like “Zynga doesn’t, so RealNetworks does: Media company unveils its US social casino game for real-money” there is still a huge amount of buzz in the social casino gaming space crossing over to  real money gambling in the US.

There are many social gaming companies integrating the Sweepstakes style model for incentivizing it’s players. A great slots game that allows you to win $200 every month is FreeSlotsMania.com. It’s a great place to play free slots for real money!

Here is a video of a free slots game where you can win real money by simply playing play coins:

CEO of real networks Rob Glaser states at casual connect “The social casino space is ripe for innovation. Now all games on GameHouse Casino Plus — slots, video poker, blackjack, and roulette — will offer players the opportunity to collect Golden Tickets, which they can use to enter the Golden Dreams Sweepstakes and have a chance to win $100,000. This goes far beyond the industry standard of virtual coins and makes a fun game even more exciting.”

GameHouse Casino Plus is the latest game to come from RealNetworks.

Real Networks also announced several major expansions to GameHouse Casino Plus, including the addition of multiplayer Bingo on Facebook and the launch of iOS and Android platforms, making it the first social casino game for mobile devices to use a sweepstakes to offer the chance to win life-changing, cash prizes.

Based on the popular GameHouse Casino Plus app on Facebook, which launched in August, the free mobile apps offer a fun and convenient way to enter a sweepstakes to win real cash.