GamesIndustry.biz and Games Press forge content partnership

Press release

London, August 31st, 2004: Games Press (http://www.gamespress.com), the UK's leading online information resource for games industry journalists, and GamesIndustry.biz (http://www.gamesindustry.biz), Europe's leading video games industry online portal, today announce a far-reaching content and business partnership that will change the way the games industry is served in terms of information.

Launching at EGN, the agreement between the two companies will see Games Press's exhaustive press release service fed directly to a prominent position on the GamesIndustry.biz homepage, creating the most powerful resource for games industry professionals and games industry journalists in the world.

Combining GamesIndustry.biz's unparalleled games industry news and comment editorial with Games Press's completive coverage of gaming press releases and video game assets, the alliance will provide those in the business of games an unbeatable destination for all news and views surrounding the global games industry, as well as legal advice, market watching facilities and the biggest interviews and features from the video games industry.

"The combination of Games Press's press release and asset feeds, invaluable to Britain's video games journalists, and GamesIndustry.biz's superb editorial and trade reach will create a perfect destination for anyone involved in the games industry," said Patrick Garratt, GamesIndustry.biz's Business Development Manager (Content). "Games Press has been long admired in the industry for its indispensable press resources, and we're genuinely excited by the possibilities provided by this partnership. GamesIndustry.biz currently serves more than 200,000 readers every month from all over the world. Being able to offer Games Press's services to that audience in one location is a real coup in the hard fought European market."

"We always look forward to GamesIndustry.biz's no-holds-barred emails each Thursday," said Jonathan Davies, Production Director of Games Press. "So having our press release feed appearing on their smart new front page is something of an honour. Better still, press releases included on Games Press will now reach a wider industry audience than ever before, making GP an even more invaluable part of every PR department's marketing plan."

Patrick Garratt

Business Development Manager (Content), Eurogamer Network

Tel: ++44 (0)7903 831 070

Patrick@eurogamer.net

Rupert Loman

Director of Operations, Eurogamer Network

Tel: ++44 (0)1273 382 521

Rupert@eurogamer.net

Steve Owen / Jonathan Davies

Technical Director / Production Director, Games Press Ltd

Tel: 020 8384 2507

steve.owen@gamespress.com / jonathan.davies@gamespress.com

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NOTES TO EDITORS

Founded in September 1999 by brothers Rupert and Nick Loman, Brighton-based Eurogamer is at the leading edge of the online games middleware market, providing game programmers with powerful tools and systems for building and deploying online games. The content division of the company is the publisher of one of the most popular games editorial sites in Europe, Eurogamer.net. It also publishes the market-leading industry resource, GamesIndustry.biz, which has been quickly established as the leading source of industry-focused information for the interactive entertainment industry in the UK and abroad.

Based in London, and formed in the summer of 2000 by games journalists Steve Owen and Jonathan Davies, www.gamespress.com has grown to become the world's leading online resource for the games media. The site is used regularly by over 8,000 journalists from the print press, TV, radio and online media, along with retailers, games publishers, developers and PR agencies. Updated daily, the site hosts an archive of over 11,000 press releases and 110,000 images from nearly 1,500 games companies. It is funded by premium services used by nearly 200 media organisations and games companies worldwide. Games Press also develops sophisticated and imaginative online PR solutions for a growing range of clients including Electronic Arts, Lunch PR, Barrington Harvey, Bastion and Digital Jesters.

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