15th March , 2004

Europe : Macrospace, the global provider of mobile games and mobile gaming services, announced the launch of its dedicated i-mode games channel for KPN Mobile subscribers. KPN Mobile's i-mode service has over 1 million subscribers spanning the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. The Macrospace i-mode channel is available initially to subscribers in the Netherlands, and will expand to encompass the other regions in the coming weeks.

Subscribers to the Macrospace games channel pay a small monthly fee in return for unlimited downloads of featured games and other content, with new games added every month. Macrospace's i-mode channel already includes a number of its bestselling mobile games including Dragon Island, Alpha Wing and Goldminer.

Macrospace's games channel has been available to i-mode users on the WIND network in Italy since December 2003. Macrospace is amongst the first wave of European companies launching dedicated games channels on i-mode to compliment it's existing distribution network. Macrospace is also the first mobile games publisher to push connected features such as online high scores and multiplayer gaming on Europe's emerging i-mode networks; i-mode users will be able to post their best scores to online score tables, and see how they compare with other I-mode gamers and players on other networks around the world.

"Today's launch shows the growing demand for innovative and exciting mobile games, " said Kristian Segerstråle, Head of Products and Services at Macrospace. "Since deploying our first i-mode service in December we have had a great response from i-mode users, and I'm confident that gamers in the Netherlands will be just as enthusiastic about Macrospace's great games and mobile content."

I-mode was originally developed and launched by NTT DoCoMo in Japan. To date there are over 40 million i-mode subscribers worldwide, with over 3000 companies offering products, services and content via i-mode. KPN Mobile was the first European operator to licence i-mode from NTT DoCoMo, launching its European service in March 2002.

About Macrospace
Macrospace develops and publishes mobile games and provides mobile gaming solutions for network operators, service providers, handset manufacturers, media companies and brand owners around the world. With expertise in single and multiplayer gaming, web emulation and content provisioning, Macrospace is uniquely positioned to offer complete end-to-end solutions ranging from content development through to final delivery and billing. ProvisionXT, the company's fully managed provisioning solution, is the most widely deployed Java download service worldwide.

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