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Wireless Developer Network - Daily News

nGame Launches Their First Commercial Wireless Games Service in Canada

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. & REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 3, 2001--nGame Ltd., the leading channel, content and technology provider for wireless, PC-web and interactive television community-based games, today announced an agreement with Bell Mobility a division of BCE (NYSE:BCE) to provide nine wireless games for dot com ready phones.

This will be Bell Mobility's largest collection of wireless games from a single wireless games provider.

nGame will provide some of its most popular titles, including "Alien Fish Exchange," "Dataclash", the Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) nominated "Merchant Princes", "Carrier Force", "Dragon Army" and "Chop Suey Kung Fu" for Bell Mobility users with dot com ready phones. nGame is also providing Bell Mobility with three of its most compelling casino games.

-- Alien Fish Exchange is a humorous game wherein players manage a tank of alien fish, a futuristic luxury commodity, which need to be fed and cared for in order to encourage them to breed. The aim of the game is to breed 47 species of alien fish. Alien Fish Exchange currently has more than 270,000 users around the globe.

-- Chop Suey Kung Fu is a humorous and rich multiplayer martial arts combat game and since launch over 630,000 sessions have been played. Players can choose to play against named individuals, if they're online or against the computer.

-- DataClash is a multiplayer card based combat game set in the cyberpunk world of warring hackers where players try to break through each other's defenses using a selection of combat programs.

-- The Bafta award nominated Merchant Princes is a medieval trading game set in Europe. Players take on the role of merchants, bringing cargoes of furs, spices, timber, cloth, fish or religious relics from far-flung places to the increasingly hungry consumers of Europe. On the way, they must deal with pirates and bandits, and still outwit their rivals to bring in the best goods at the best profits.

-- In Dragon Army, a multiplayer, fantasy combat game, your Kingdom is under threat from an invading army. You must call upon your loyal followers to gather together and form an army to battle against your foe.

-- In Carrier Force, control of the seas is crucial. Merchant ships transport supplies essential to the war effort across the ocean. Troops are transported to the front by sea. Planes launched from ships can attack targets, normally out of range. To win the war, you must battle for the sea in this multiplayer naval combat game.

-- Craps, Roulette and Fruit Machine are some of the most realistic wireless versions of the most popular parlor and casino games currently available.

"We are pleased to be working with Canada's leading wireless carrier on our first deal in the Canadian market," said nGame CEO, John Brimacombe. "nGame is delighted to be delivering some of the most popular wireless games to Canadian users."

Alex Green, Vice President of Business Development for nGame added: "nGame's applications offer a fun and compelling wireless Internet video game experience and will help drive even more traffic to Bell Mobility's Mobile Browser service."

About nGame

nGame is a Cambridge, UK based Business-to-Business-to-Consumer Media company, ready to exploit the huge global market for entertainment for connected devices such as mobile Internet phones, PDAs and Digital Interactive Television. nGame is divided into three operating divisions including nGame Productions, nGame Channel, and nGame Technology.

"nGame Productions" leads the world in creating entertainment content for connected devices including WAP phones and Digital Interactive Television. The aim is to create interactive entertainment that is approachable, easy to play and has lasting appeal. It develops its own original content as well as titles and licenses commissioned by third parties. nGame also licenses and partners with video-games, TV and media companies such as Viacom Consumer Products to create games around popular third party intellectual property.

"nGame Channel" secures distribution for nGame releases. By licensing its content to wireless and DiTV operators and portals, nGame channel creates a global, virtual channel for compelling entertainment.

nGame's Operators and Portal Partners include :

North America

Sprint PCS, Yahoo!, AOL Mobile, AT&T WS, Qwest Wireless, Alltel and Voicesteam Wireless.

Europe and ROW

Orange, Telefonica Moviles, Deutsche Telecom, One-to-One, Max Mobile, Freeserve, Mviva AOL, Yahoo! and ntl.

"nGame Technology" supports the in-house production studio, and soon external developers, providing its own revolutionary convergent media server and games development kit as the benchmark technology for producers who aim to reach cross-platform audiences.

-- CGS/2, is an "open standards" entertainment platform that allows publishers, carriers and portals to run a connected and convergent entertainment service (with content from multiple providers) which benefits from unified community and administrative features. CGS/2 is currently used by nGame and third parties to host multiplayer mobile and DiTV game services across the world.

-- nGame's Game Development Toolkit (nGDK), is used by nGame to create the most compelling multiplayer games content for connected devices including mobile phones, wireless PDA's, DiTV set-top-boxes and connected games consoles FAST. Based around Java, Sin (the GDK language) reduces development times significantly.

"nGame Developer Program": In 2001, nGame's Games Service Platform ("nCGS/2") and the Game Development Toolkit will be readily available for license to third parties, enabling nGame's huge network of developers to create and deploy compelling multiplayer content quickly and inexpensively across multiple convergent and connected platforms.

The nGame technology, powerful distribution and compelling content coupled with a strong community focus, give nGame a significant edge over other companies in this field. nGame has offices in Cambridge, London and Redwood City, California.

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