King.com Launches Mass Market Mobile Skill Games

July 21st, 2009 SEATTLE - - Individual developers already outshining 'Super Talents' by being featured on thousands of websites and played over 100 million times CASUAL CONNECT CONFERENCE -- In a presentation to Casual Connect (seattle.casualconnect.org/index.html), the annual conference of the casual games industry, King.com's VP of Games Acquisitions and Advertising Sales, Alex Norstrom, announced the results of the company's global quest to discover and promote games development talent directly from individual developers, alongside 3rd party studios and their in-house team. In the six months since King.com (www.king.com), the world's leading online skill games company, started scouring the world for developers who can create high-quality games that could be promoted via their distribution network, over 40 games have been created and released, which have been played over 100 million times on 7,000 websites.

July 12th, 2009 LOS ANGELES and LONDON - - Amazon Survival, Kalorie King & Mars Lives among the debut offerings King.com (www.king.com), the world's largest online skill games company, today announced the release of its first-ever games for the iPhone (www.apple.com/iphone/) and Facebook (www.facebook.com). Kalorie King and Mars Lives are the first in a series of games for Facebook users and Amazon Survival is the first iPhone game.

July 12th, 2009 DUBLIN, Ireland - - New "Social" Iteration of PopCap's #2 Franchise Enables Friendly Zuma Competition Via Facebook Connect PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced the beta launch of Zuma(R) Web Connect, a "social" version of its massively popular action puzzle game Zuma. Available only on PopCap.com, Zuma Web Connect combines the familiar fun of Zuma with the power of Facebook's social interaction, challenging players to score as many points as possible to earn medals and outscore their friends.

July 7th, 2009 SEATTLE, Washington and DUBLIN - PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced the immediate availability of ten all-new World of Warcraft-themed Peggle(TM) levels - available for free at www.popcap.com/promos/pegglewow. This all-new WoW-themed Peggle mash-up is a stand-alone version of Peggle, available for free and combining the sights, sounds and storyline of World of Warcraft with the rainbows and unicorns of everyone's favorite peg-popping pastime.

June 23rd, 2009 HERZLIYA, Israel - Volas Entertainment Ltd, part of Logia Group and a provider of mobile video solutions and value added managed services, have recently signed an agreement with leading mobile games developer Redboss Games, part of MLiven, to distribute and resell Redboss mobile games in Israel. The new partnership will create an Israeli presence for MLiven's Redboss Games via ICQ's gaming site (mobilegames.icq.com) using a mobile billing solution provided by Volas.

June 22nd, 2009 COLOGNE, Germany - Simple Online Games With Real Cash Prizes Continue to Gain Popularity - Qeep Becomes the First to Offer Worldwide Skill Gaming for Mobile Phones Qeep, the mobile gaming and friend network brings skill gaming with cash payoffs to the mobile world. For the first time ever, users from all over the world can play instantly against each other for real money from their mobile phones.

June 3rd, 2009 LONDON - King.com (www.king.com), the world's leading online social games company, and Mattel Inc., the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of toys and family products, today announced the launch of the official and exclusive online skill game version of the classic board game Scrabble, entitled Scrabble ZING (www.King.com/game/word-games/scrabble-zing/), in Europe. King.com is the first online games site in Europe to offer the skill-based version of the world's best-selling crossword board game that for decades has tested the vocabulary skills of players.

May 6th, 2009 ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands - BoosterMedia has released GamesPlaza.mobi, a casual gaming platform targeting mobile gamers and game developers internationally. GamesPlaza.mobi offers a growing selection of free-to-play mobile games based on Flash technology.

May 5th, 2009 SYDNEY - Problems Getting Email on Your Mobile, Sending Pictures or Browsing the Web? - it's Over! Configuremyphone.com launches today, offering a solution to the millions of Australians who struggle to manually set-up their mobile phones for services such as email, internet browsing and picture messaging. One in five Australian mobile users has experienced the disappointment of an error message when trying to send a picture, download a mobile game or use their phone to surf the internet.

April 28th, 2009 LYON, France - The French company Widescreen Games has announced that the adaptation of the video game "The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf" for Playstation3 and Xbox360 consoles is being frozen. The game was under development in partnership with Atari (publisher) and CDProjekt (creator of the original game on PC).

June 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has divulged into the secrets of what makes a great footballer. While most fans are in awe of what football players can do with a football, the source of their remarkable skill remains strangely mysterious, with speculation rife that there must be something else than just physical training that makes average players like professionals.

January 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - General Motors India has chalked out ambitious plans for 2009, including new launches, developing powertrain facility and mass hiring for its research and development centre, a top official said here Friday. GM India president and managing director Karl Slym said the company was in the final stages of launching compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) variants of its cars.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Citibank today announced the launch of Citi Mobile, its mobile banking solution that combines the consumer need for convenient, on-the-go banking with advanced mobile technology that is compatible with popular mobile devices across most GSM operators. Through Citi Mobile, customers can check account balances, send money, issue drafts, pay bills, make credit card payments, register for services like e-Statements, request for a cheque book, stop payments and much more.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Reliance Mobile, the GSM arm of telecom operator Reliance Communication (RCom), Wednesday said it would launch a new mobile number series beginning with the digit "8" in the Delhi-National Capital Region circle. Reliance will be the first telecom operator to shift from the practice of beginning a cell phone number with the digit "9".

January 5th, 2009 JAIPUR - Reliance Communications (R-Com), India's only telecom service provider to offer GSM and CDMA services nationwide, has launched mobile GSM services in over 1,450 towns and more than 10,000 villages in Rajasthan. The company also launched a first-of-its-kind Customer Experience Programme (CEP) for subscribers opting for its GSM services, which offers up to 100 percent savings to sub-Rs.300 Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) mobile customers for a one-time subscription charge (including GSM SIM) of Rs.25.

January 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Airtel has slashed the one time processing fee for lifetime validity customers from Rs.295 to Rs.99, the company said in a statement Monday. According to the new tariff plan, an Airtel customer on the lifelong plan will have to make a minimum recharge of Rs.200 every 180 days.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian capital will be made beggar free in the run up to next year's Commonwealth Games, the authorities said Tuesday while launching two mobile courts to prosecute beggars. To begin with, citizens who spot beggars can reach the mobile courts through a control room.

May 28th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Way2SMS, Hyderabad-based SMS service provider today launched Email alerts on mobile. Any subscriber of www.way2sms.com can avail this free service, which works with any mail box that has forward option.

August 22nd, 2009 TAIPEI - China Mobile Ltd, the world's largest mobile phone carrier, has decided to pick Taiwan's electronics giant Hon Hai Group as its supplier of electronic readers, a top company official said Saturday. "We have picked Hong Hai Group to make electronic readers for us and we believe the electronic reader market will be huge," said Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, on the second day of his nine-day visit to Taiwan.

April 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Telecom service provider Virgin Mobile Wednesday launched an online cricket fantasy game, Indian Hatke League (IHL), with an aim to leverage the cricket mania during the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) season. The online game will provide users the option to play for any of the eight teams participating in the 47-day IPL, to be held in South Africa April 18-May 24, while their scores on the basis of performance will determine their standings.