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Kuju Brighton's Continuing Success

Growing Studio Adds More Staff and Three New Titles

7th June 2006. Brighton, UK. Kuju Entertainment (AIM: KUJ) today announced the continuing success of its Brighton studio with the signing of two major new titles and recruitment of an additional 20 staff.

Kuju Brighton specialises in the creation of games in social/lifestyle genre, primarily for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable, with their most recently announced PSP title 'Traxion' picking up an IGN Award (Technical Excellence) at this year's E3. The game is due to be published by LucasArts later this year.

Ed Daly, Head of Kuju Brighton, commented, "We are delighted to be working with LucasArts on this exciting, innovative game which, by aiming squarely at music fans, fits with our mission to reach out to new audiences."

In preparation for the full-scale production of Traxion and the two new titles at the studio, there have been several new hires including Ste Curran, Creative Director on Traxion, Nick Rodriguez, Producer on another new title. Martin Newing has been promoted to Producer for yet another new project and Ange Fenge has been promoted to Project Manager for SingStar® games. The studio is continuing to hire.

Ian Baverstock, CEO of Kuju Entertainment, added, "The huge success of Kuju Brighton has been the direct result of pulling together a great team of people with enormous passion for the Lifestyle games that the studio specialises in. We are really excited about the prospects for their future titles."

Kuju Brighton has recently completed EyeToy®: Play 3 and SingStar®: Rocks in collaboration with Sony London Studio.

IGN said," Traxion is such the thing that the PSP needs right now. Traxion makes gameplay out of your MP3 collection. The game will feature at least two dozen ways of interacting with your music in mini-games and semi-interactive music presentations. Some of the ideas presented in this mix of musical mini-games are pretty normal -- fun stuff like a drum kit or a Frequency-like beat mashing game, for example. But Traxion also gets pretty freaky too. A music-based fighting game? Music-based puzzle play? There are dozens of these kinds of ideas packed into the game, and the beauty of it is that each game will be different depending on what tracks you load up to play with http://uk.psp.ign.com/articles/709/709254p6.html

For further information please contact:

Kuju Entertainment. joel.benton@kuju.com T: +44(0)1483 414344 www.kuju.com

About Kuju Entertainment


Kuju Entertainment, one of Europe's leading independent game developers on console and PC platforms, operates five studios in the UK and has been creating top-rated games for over sixteen years. Kuju maintains specialist console/PC divisions in the action, strategy/tactical, lifestyle, simulation and flight action genres as well as a separate division for conversion projects.

Kuju Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuju plc. Kuju plc is listed on London's AIM market (LSE AIM: KUJ) www.kuju.com

About LucasArts


LucasArts, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software worldwide for video game console systems, computers and the Internet. Based in San Francisco, Calif., as well as on the Internet at www.lucasarts.com, LucasArts was created in 1982 by George Lucas to provide an interactive element to his vision of a state-of-the-art, multifaceted entertainment company.

Lucasfilm Ltd. is one of the world's leading film and entertainment companies. Founded by George Lucas in 1971, it is a privately held, fully integrated entertainment company. In addition to its motion-picture and television production operations, the company's global activities include Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound, serving the digital needs of the entertainment industry for visual-effects and audio post-production; and Lucas Licensing, which manages the global merchandising activities for Lucasfilm's entertainment properties. Additionally, Lucas Online creates Internet-based content for Lucasfilm's entertainment properties and businesses. Lucasfilm's motion-picture productions include five of the 20 biggest box-office hits of all time and have received 19 Oscars and 53 Academy Award nominations. Lucasfilm's television projects have won 12 Emmy Awards. Lucasfilm Ltd. is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif.

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