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Frogster plays Speedball 2 and The Chaos Engine

Frogster licence mega classics from The Bitmap Brothers

Berlin, 26.09.06: Frogster Interactive brings out the big classics: The Berlin-based publisher has secured the worldwide PC-rights for über-games Speedball 2 and The Chaos Engine from legendary British game makers The Bitmap Brothers. The cult image of both games comes from the beginning of the computer games era. Since then, a huge fan base has continually asked for re-releases. In vain - until now! Frogster will release both titles in 2007 for PC; The Bitmap Brothers will participate in the development process.

The futuristic sports game series Speedball was first released in 1988 on the Amiga and was an instant triumph. Versions for almost every relevant system and highly successful sequels followed. The series got many awards, amongst others 1989 "Game of the Year" from The Golden Joysticks and "Best Original Game" from In-Din Arcade.

Action-shooter The Chaos Engine celebrated a similarly successful première in 1993. The Chaos Engine received numerous awards including the SEGA Award 1994 for "Best Action Game" and the Power Play Award for "Multi-player Game of the Year".

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About The Bitmap Brothers

Originally Founded in 1987, The Bitmap Brothers are considered by many to be the original 'rock stars' of computer game development: a small but highly successful development team with a history of creating unique, critically and commercially acclaimed IP across a number of popular platforms: www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk

About Frogster Interactive Pictures AG

Frogster Interactive Pictures AG, based in Berlin, acts as publisher of computer games of all genres and price levels and is amongst the market leaders in Germany. Under the labels Brigades, Hall of Game, Eclypse and BacktoGames the publisher markets PC games by international licensors. Besides this core business, for the future the growing market of massive multi-player online games is taken into focus. Related to this there are, amongst others, stakes into Frogster Studios Co. Ltd., Korea, in Online Embassy GmbH, in OnlineWelten GmbH and in Yusho GmbH. The company currently employs more than 30 staff in the departments licensing, marketing, sales, administration and logistics.

Internet: www.frogster-ip.de

Contact:

Frogster Interactive Pictures AG

Peter Steinlechner

PR Manager

Bleibtreustr. 38

10623 Berlin

T +49 (0) 30 - 28 47 01 45

F +49 (0) 30 - 28 47 01 11

M +49 (0) 179 - 214 39 86

E psteinlechner@frogster-ip.de

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