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TOP GUN™ FLIES ONTO INTERNET ENABLED WIRELESS PHONES
Redwood City and Cambridge, UK (December 20th, 2001) Today nGame, the #1 publisher of games for Internet enabled wireless phones in North America, announced the release of “Top Gun”, its multiplayer flight simulator for mobile internet enabled wireless phones based on Paramount Pictures’ film “Top Gun”. nGame also announced a co-marketing campaign for it’s “Top Gun” Wireless game with Titus Interactive and their Top Gun-Combat Zones product for the Sony PlayStation2 computer entertainment system.
Further, nGame has extended the term of its “Top Gun” license with Viacom Consumer Products until December 31st 2003 and is now developing “Top Gun” titles for next generation 3G wireless devices including Sun Microsystems Inc.’s J2ME™ (Java™ 2 Platform, Micro Edition).
“Top Gun” is available to play now with wireless web enabled phones only on
Sprint PCS in the U.S., and shortly on Bell Mobility in Canada through February 1st 2002. “Top Gun” will be available on other North American wireless operators networks from early February 2002 onwards.
“Top Gun” is faithful to its Hollywood counterpart and is the first appearance of the modern movie classic on wireless devices. The game is really fun to play, and is pushing wireless phone technology to the limits. We are delighted to be working with Viacom Consumer Products again on our second project together,” said Alex Green, Vice President Business Development, nGame Inc.
“nGame has done a terrific job of developing and marketing a fun and compelling “Top Gun” game in keeping with the theme of the movie,” said Pam Newton, Vice President Licensing and Marketing Viacom Consumer Products. “We are pleased to be working on another leading project for wireless with nGame.”
In “Top Gun” the wireless game, players are pitched against fellow students, instructors, and enemy MIGs in both practice battles or “real life” battles using cannons and missiles. Catering for both casual and more dedicated players, quick mode and career mode are available. In career mode, Pilots develop new skills, and are instructed by key characters from the movie which are incorporated into the game.
nGame is also participating in co-marketing activities with Titus, the master “Top Gun” interactive game licensee for PC’s and consoles. Titus will be advertising “Top Gun” wireless in their print, Internet and in-store marketing, whilst nGame is advertising “Top Gun-Combat Zones” in a range of their multiplayer wireless games and on their Internet site.
Sprint PCS users can also enter the “Top Gun-Combat Zones” sweepstakes in the Top Gun wireless game. Titus is providing prizes for the winners of the sweepstakes including a Sony PlayStation2 console computer entertainment system and copies of the “Top Gun” game. The sweepstakes can be entered by users who play the “Top Gun” game created by nGame on their wireless phones, or alternatively on nGame’s HTML website.
“As nGame demonstrated with our Rat Race™ wireless game based on the hit Paramount Pictures movie, a sweepstakes component significantly increases usage and therefore revenues for nGame, Viacom Consumer Products and the wireless operators. Titus’ advertising featuring the wireless game, will also encourage hundreds of thousands of additional users to play “Top Gun” on their wireless phones”, said Alex Green, Vice President of Business Development at nGame Inc.
"We're always excited by cross-promotion and cross-marketing opportunities such as this one, especially when both products complement each other so well and that customers benefit from it at the end as much as we do,” said Frederic OUALID, Vice President of Marketing at Titus Software Corp. Inc.
About nGame
Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Cambridge UK and Redwood City CA, nGame aggregates games content for Network Operators and provides a unique global technological delivery platform for a massive new content marketplace - interactive entertainment for mobile phones and digital interactive television.
Channel: Since June 2000, nGame has built a global network of content distribution agreements with major digital TV and wireless carriers and the key independent portals. These give nGame potential access to over 150 million consumers including coverage on six out of the eight largest U.S. mobile operators, and the two largest Canadian operators. nGame also has significant presence in the UK, mainland Europe, and Australia.
Productions: nGame’s internal content studio, nGame Productions, has produced the 'flagship' content that has been used to build up their distribution network, define revenue models and prove the content hosting architecture and content authoring suite. nGame has developed more than 30 games using their content authoring suite which has greatly accelerated games development and reduced cost.
Content Hosting Infrastructure: nGame's content hosting infrastructure is based on the company's CGS/2 connected games server platform. This architecture allows nGame to host and deliver content to carrier grade service levels. As of 1st November 2001, nGame has served over 5 million game sessions to more than 2,700,000 unique users with CGS/2.
Content Authoring Suite: The nGame Development Kit (nGDK) is an advanced authoring tool used by nGame Productions and external content developers. It allows the rapid creation of multi-platform (including J2ME, WAP, Liberate) multi-player interactive entertainment content. At its heart lies the unique Sin programming language, a specialized tool for the cost-effective creation of advanced entertainment properties. The nGDK is currently the subject of multiple U.S. patent filings.
About Titus
TITUS INTERACTIVE (http://www.titusgames.com) Europe's fastest growing games developer and publisher.
Titus develops a number of high quality games on all formats including Nintendo GameBoy, Color GameBoy, Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation, PC and Macintosh.
In the very near future, expect to see more groundbreaking products for PlayStation®2, Nintendo Game Cube and Microsoft X-Box.
About Viacom Consumer Products
Viacom Consumer Products merchandises properties on behalf of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television, Viacom Productions, and Spelling Television, as well as third-party properties. Viacom Consumer Products, a unit of Viacom Entertainment Group, is a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. To learn more about Viacom Consumer Products and our properties, please visit us at www.viacomcp.com.
About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving 23 million business and residential customers in more than 70 countries. With more than 80,000 employees worldwide and $23 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state of the art network technologies, including the United States’ first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network. Sprint’s award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone is being extended to key global markets to provide customers with a broad portfolio of scalable IP products. Sprint’s high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers fast, dependable, non-stop access to the vast majority of the world’s Internet content. Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nation’s metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities.
For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at http://www.sprintpcs.com.
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