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SPRINT AND NGAME ANNOUNCE PLANS TO CONTINUE SUCCESSFUL GAMING RELATIONSHIP
nGame to provide wireless games including Top GunÔ and SLAM!
for Sprint’s Third-Generation Network
E3 Expo, Los Angeles, Calif. – May 20, 2002 – Sprint (NYSE: FON, PCS), which operates the largest all-digital, all-PCS nationwide wireless network and is the fastest growing wireless carrier, and nGame, the #1 publisher of games for Internet-enabled wireless phones in North America, today announced an agreement under which nGame will develop wireless games for Sprint’s Third-Generation (3G) PCS Phones. Sprint’s PCS Wireless Web currently offers 11 popular games from nGame, including Top Gun, Air Aces, Rat RaceÔ and Alien Fish Exchange.
The 3G games that nGame has agreed to provide include a 3G-version of Top Gun and SLAM!, the grand prize winner of the J2MEÔ Application Design contest at the 2001 PCS Developer’s Conference. All of these games will be developed using J2MEÔ (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition).
For Sprint customers, 3G1X services are planned to launch nationwide this summer. After the launch, Sprint expects faster wireless data speeds and enhancements for existing applications and services when using a 3G enabled device. Sprint’s 3G Network establishes a platform for later releases of new and more robust applications as data speeds increase including advanced games, video and audio clips, enhanced messaging, email with attachments, high-speed Internet browsing and digital imaging. Specifically for games, 3G enables Sprint to move the game experience from the text-based games of today to graphic, full-color brand name games on 3G-enabled PCS Phones using J2MEÔ.
“Sprint’s wireless 3G games will arm customers with a better interactive gaming experience,” said Chip Novick, vice president of consumer marketing for Sprint’s PCS division. “We are committed to working with select gaming companies like nGame to provide our wireless customers with both casual and competitive games for independent or networked play.”
“nGame is delighted to be one of the launch games partners for Sprint’s 3GIX service. We look forward to providing a large catalogue of compelling single and multiplayer games many of which will be developed by nGame’s network of more than 40 external developers. nGame will also be providing a range of titles based on Paramount Picture’s movie properties including the classic Top Gun, ” said Alex Green, Senior VP Business Development nGame Inc.
Sprint was the first wireless carrier to launch wireless games, including games from nGame, in October 2000 and currently offers more than 60 games on the Sprint PCS Wireless Web. Sprint offers the largest selection of both single-player and multi-player games in a variety of categories – such as action, adventure, casino, classics, puzzles and sports – that challenge and entertain all levels of players. With the launch of Sprint’s 3G wireless network this summer, Sprint plans to continue to provide the biggest and best selection of games to its customers on dynamic, full color screens.
The evolution of gaming has gone through many stages, from board games such as checkers to arcade games. After evolving from the arcade to the PC, gaming became portable and has now evolved to the ultimate in portability: the wireless phone.
Research firm DataMonitor says that one in six U.S. cell phone subscribers (21.6 million people) played games on mobile phones in 2001, and it forecasts that 93 million people will be playing wireless games in 2006.
For more information on products and services, please visit www.sprint.com/mr and www.ngame.com.
About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving more than 26 million business and residential customers in over 70 countries. With approximately 80,000 employees worldwide and more than $26 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, nonstop 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.
About nGame
Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Cambridge UK and Redwood City CA, nGame aggregates entertainment content and provides a unique end-to-end content delivery solution for Network Operators in a massive new content marketplace – Interactive Entertainment for Wireless Devices.
nGame is the leading Content Aggregator of mobile Java, SMS, MMS and WAP games for mobile phones in North America, Latin America and Europe. nGame partners directly with more than 25 Network Operators and 40 third party developers around the world.
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