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Playlogic Appoints Jean-Paul Hardy PR Manager

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 05/04/2006: Digital Entertainment publisher Playlogic (OTC BB: PLGC) announced today that it named Jean-Paul Hardy as PR Manager. Hardy previously worked with Dutch broadcasting company 'RTV Utrecht' as editor and with the internet portal 'quotenet.nl'.

In this position, Hardy is responsible for all international Games PR related activities at Playlogic. Hardy reports directly to Playlogic Chief Sales & Marketing Officer/VP Stefan Layer and works closely with PR agencies IMC in Europe and Kohnke in the US.

Hardy's background is in journalism. After having received his undergraduate in Journalism, in Utrecht (the Netherlands), he started working with the "Stemming van Nederland" as an editor, followed by his position at 'RTV Utrecht.'

Stefan Layer, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer of Playlogic, said: "Jean-Paul is a journalist as well as an experienced, passionate gamer and we are really looking forward to working with him. His presence is particularly important to build up relationships with the international games press, especially with the impressive line-up we have for the third and fourth quarter coming up this year."

About Playlogic:


Playlogic Entertainment, Inc. is an independent publisher of entertainment software for consoles, PCs, handhelds, mobile devices, and other digital media. Playlogic, established in early 2002, publishes game concepts across various genres. The company distributes its products worldwide through all available channels, online and offline.

Playlogic, who currently has approximately 75 employees, is listed on the OTC BB under the symbol "PLGC" and is headquartered in New York and Amsterdam. Its internal studio is based in Breda (The Netherlands).

Playlogic's portfolio includes games that are being developed by several teams at Playlogic Game Factory, Playlogic's in-house development studio based in Breda, as well as games developed by a number of studios throughout the world. Currently, 13 games on 20 platforms are in the pipe-line, including "Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales," "Age of Pirates: Captain Blood," "Ancient Wars: Sparta," "Infernal," "Xyanide Resurrection" and "PRISM - Threat Level: Red," which will be published this year. "World Racing 2," "Knights of the Temple 2" and "Gene Troopers" have been released recently throughout Europe.

Playlogic is always looking for additional, high-quality games and acquires products that can be exploited in the complete value chain of digital entertainment products from games at retail to mobile games and digital TV.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This release contains statements about PLAYLOGIC's future expectations, performance, plans, and prospects, as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions and trends; fluctuations in operating results; reduced customer demand relative to expectations; competitive factors; and other risk factors listed from time to time in the company's SEC reports. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to PLAYLOGIC'S business and product development efforts, which are further described in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to PLAYLOGIC on the date of this release, and PLAYLOGIC assumes no obligation to update such statements.

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