THE SETUP OF A SUCCESS

VARESE, ITALY - 20TH FEBRUARY 2007

While the official teams are finalizing their set ups in Qatar, Black Bean and Milestone are putting the finishing touches to their biggest release to date: SBK-07 Superbike World Championship.

From April 2007, you will have the chance to directly experience the highs and lows of the SBK World championship on PS2-PSP-PC-X360. All the official teams, 22 bikes and 22 riders on track at the same time each with individual characteristics will be fighting for pole position in 4 game modes: Quick Race, Race Weekend, Championship and Challenges.

While the Race Team mechanics and technicians are tweaking their bikes to extract the last drop of power ahead of this year's championship, in Milestone studios the engineers are optimizing the bikes physics, acceleration and speed in order to deliver the SBK bike experience to race fans everywhere. While at the same time adapting and tweaking the AI to ensure each rider behaves as aggressively, daringling or insanely in the game as their real world counterparts.

All elements of the SBK universe have been faithfully recreated: riders, tracks, atmosphere, TV style replays, and much much more... including all the most beautiful Superbike Umbrella girls! The entire world of the most spectacular bike races in your game pad from April this year.

We're already at the beginning of a fantastic new season, where the 5 official teams (Ducati, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha) are gearing up for a high octane race for the podium.

This 20th anniversary year for the SBK Championship is already looking like a classic, with Troy Bayliss and Ducati, the 2006 season champions having to defend their title from the assault of great opponents such as the young Fonsi Nieto with his Kawasaki, last years runner up James Toseland with his great Team Honda, the expert Troy Corser on Yamaha and most of all the new couple Max Biaggi and Suzuki Alstare, a roster that promise a thrilling 2007 season from the very beginning with the first race in Doha, Qatar, on feb 24.

Choose your favourite rider and take a place on the starting grid, with SBK-07, the race for victory is starting!!

For Infos and Contacts

Livio Cantagallo - PR Manager

tel: +39 0332 874 329

@: l.cantagallo@blackbeangames.com

About Lago/Black Bean. Black Bean is the games publishing label of Lago Srl, part of the Leader Group. Leader SpA founded in 1984 is the leading independent distributor in Italy working with some of the biggest names in global publishing. With offices situated in Gazzada (Varese) 30 miles north of Milan and in the UK Black Bean's philosophy is to focus on a wide range of genres including racing, strategy and simulation. Black Bean has distribution partners covering all major territories in Europe and other PAL territories including Australia and South Africa. More information and news can be found at www.blackbeangames.com