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Vindigo Launches Award-Winning Fantasy Graphic Adventure Game Shadowgate®

Vindigo, a leading mobile media company, today announced the launch of the fantasy adventure game Shadowgate developed for QUALCOMM’s BREW® solution on mobile phones in North America. The award-winning Shadowgate from Infinite Ventures has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide on multiple platforms. Shadowgate will be demonstrated in booth # 44 at the BREW 2005 Conference, being held June 1-3 in San Diego.

Shadowgate’s rich fantasy setting and dramatic illustrations set it apart from other mobile phone games, immersing players in a vast world of fantastic beasts, devious puzzles and heroic challenges which they must overcome to defeat the ancient evil that threatens the land. Designed to appeal to both casual gamers and avid adventure-gamers alike, Shadowgate features:

  • Simple, point and click interface
  • More than 40 rooms to explore
  • Hundreds of items and spells
  • In-game and online hints
  • Automatic game save and resume
  • More than 20 hours of gameplay

”We’re thrilled to be able to bring Shadowgate to BREW users. It stands out as a unique new challenge to gamers everywhere,” said Karla Knickerbocker, president of Infinite Ventures. “Adventure games are perfect for phones. They offer significant depth of design while remaining playable by everyone and it is easy to leave and then return to the game anytime.”

“Shadowgate’s enduring popularity has made it an ideal lead title for our adventure games offering. We believe classic adventure games like Shadowgate, which emphasize exploration and puzzle-solving, are ideally suited to BREW subscribers,” said Leonard C. Quam, director of games for Vindigo. “They provide a challenging game experience and work well in a mobile environment, allowing a user to pick up where they left off when they find themselves with some time to play.”

“As mobile gaming continues to grow in popularity, QUALCOMM is pleased to see Vindigo enter the game-publishing arena,” said Mike Yuen, director of the Gaming Group for QUALCOMM Internet Services. “Vindigo has long been a developer of innovative and compelling BREW applications and given the extraordinary opportunity with mobile gaming, it seems to be a natural next step.”

QUALCOMM's BREW solution is designed to meet the distinct and varied needs of wireless operators, handset manufacturers, publishers, developers and end users around the world. BREW products and services include: an open, extensible client platform that supports robust system and application software including personalized and branded user interfaces for mass market devices; a J2EE™-based, modular delivery system that enables the distribution of content, applications and user interfaces to wireless devices across all air interfaces; a dedicated professional services team that supports the integration of customized implementations; and the wireless industry's first global marketplace to support the monetization of applications and services developed in all programming languages. The BREW solution can make the wireless visions of innovative companies a reality.

To find out how to get Shadowgate on your phone, go to shadowgate.vindigo.com.

About Infinite Ventures

Infinite Ventures is an independent production company. It has developed, licensed and published a line of award winning games including titles on DVD, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Pocket PC, PalmOS and BREW. Visit www.infiniteventures.com for more information.

About Vindigo

Vindigo is one of the industry's leading mobile media companies. The company publishes and distributes mobile media through a network of partnerships that includes all tier-one U.S. wireless carriers. Vindigo sells mobile content including wallpaper, ringtones, local information, maps, news, entertainment, sports and games, and creates mobile products in partnership with leading consumer brands. Vindigo provides a full suite of mobile marketing solutions to more than 100 advertisers, including Cadillac and MasterCard. Vindigo is a wholly owned subsidiary of For-Side.com, one of the largest mobile media companies in the world. Visit www.vindigo.com for more information.

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