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Digital Bridges Launches Wireless Games With AT&T Wireless mMode
URL(s): www.digitalbridges.com
NEW YORK & REDMOND, Wash., Apr 24, 2002 - Digital Bridges Ltd., a global pioneer of wireless entertainment services, today
announced that it is providing a suite of its most advanced games to AT&T Wireless (NYSE: AWE) as part of the carrier's mMode(SM) wireless
service.
Included in that suite are some of the first full-color mobile games to be offered in North America.
"We are proud to continue our strong relationship with AT&T Wireless as a provider of exciting and compelling wireless games for their innovative
mMode offering," said Anders Evju, Digital Bridges Vice President and General Manager for North America. "AT&T Wireless has made a major
commitment to the success of mMode, and Digital Bridges expects to play a significant role in helping AT&T Wireless achieve that success."
Digital Bridges has several games available on AT&T Wireless mMode service, including:
- `Wireless Pets' - already one of the most successful wireless
games in the world
- `Steve Jackson's Sorcery!' - recently voted the best wireless
game in the world by readers of a leading online wireless
gaming site
- Star Trek(TM): First Duty+ - based on the world's most
successful and long running sci-fi series
Star Trek(TM): First Duty and Sorcery are currently available in full color as well as black and white. mMode customers using the Ericsson T68 handset
can play the games in color. Additional color games will be available in the near future.
"We're very pleased to add Digital Bridges games to our broadening portfolio of mMode destinations," said Andy Willett, Vice President of Consumer Data
Offers at AT&T Wireless. "Thanks to innovative companies like Digital Bridges, our customers can access compelling, new entertainment services while
on-the-go."
About mMode
mMode provides dozens of unique services that enable AT&T Wireless customers to use their wireless phones for much more than placing phone calls.
mMode gives AT&T Wireless customers access to the information and people they care about most - with a few clicks of their keypads. mMode is
available in all AT&T Wireless GSM(TM)/GPRS markets. Additional details about mMode availability can be found at www.attwireless.com/mmode.
About Digital Bridges
Founded in 1998 and based in the UK, Digital Bridges is a world leader in the creation of entertainment services for mobile devices.
The company brings a comprehensive solution and three major assets to the new medium of wireless entertainment: delivery technology (via its UNITY
platform), distribution and publishing capabilities and content design experience. A mobile entertainment pioneer, Digital Bridges was the first company in
the world to demonstrate multi-player WAP games, with Nokia in 1999; the first to demonstrate multi-player J2ME (Java) games, with Motorola in June
2000; and the first to introduce a comprehensive color gaming service to European and North American markets, in March 2002.
Digital Bridges has the widest distribution network of any mobile games publisher, with content currently running or planned with 40 network operators and
portals on six continents reaching approximately 200,000,000 cellular subscribers worldwide.
On the content side, the company is working with many of the world's leading media and entertainment companies to publish games based on globally
recognised licenses including: Star Trek(TM): First Duty, Star Trek(TM): Prime Directive, Thunderbirds, Scooby-Doo, Cartoon Network, Ali G Indahouse,
The Weakest Link, Space Invaders and EA Sports 2002 FIFA World Cup(TM). The company supports a comprehensive range of mobile entertainment
services, including games, covering technologies such as SMS, WAP, WAP-Push, GPRS, i-mode and Java as well as providing downloadable
personalisation services such as ringtones, icons, logos and celebrity voicemail plus EMS and MMS content. In total Digital Bridges has over sixty mobile
games titles in its portfolio and has recently purchased the software assets of UK-based personalisation specialists GR8 to provide an integrated platform
for the creation and supply of downloadable services.
The company supports all current and future mobile standards, protocols, technologies and operating systems including GSM, CDMA, TDMA, WAP,
I-mode, SMS, EMS, MMS, Java, Video-streaming and 3G services.
Digital Bridges has its headquarters in the UK (London for commercial management, Dunfermline, Scotland for technology) and has offices in New York,
San Francisco, Paris, Stockholm, Munich, Singapore Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul. In 2001, the company was recognised by two leading publications as one
of the world's top wireless companies. Unstrung.com selected Digital Bridges as of its `Unstrung 25', the editors pick of the world's most innovative
wireless companies, while Tornado Insider, which reports on Europe's new economy, also picked Digital Bridges as one of its `Tornado 100', a list of
`Europe's brightest, newest high-tech prospects for 2001'. The company has already gained further recognition in 2002. In January Sweden-based Mobile
Metrix identified Digital Bridges from among 3,000 companies as one of the world's eight most promising mobile application developers.
For more information, please visit www.digitalbridges.com.
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