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New Partnership Provides Unified Login Access and a Unified Monetary System for Players of Wicked Interactive and G4BOX Games

Toronto, CANADA-December 19, 2008-Wicked Interactive
(www.wickedinteractiveltd.com),and G4BOX (www.g4box.com), both North American MMO Publishers, announced today that Wicked Interactive’s SUBA Games platform (www.subagames.com), will now host G4BOX MMORPG, Metin2, and its upcoming online FPS, Cross Fire.

The new partnership will result in numerous benefits for both SUBA Games and G4BOX players. A new unified login system will allow Cross Fire and Metin2 players to access all SUBA Games properties, including ACE Online, Priston Tale, and the upcoming Priston Tale 2: The Second Enigma, with their current G4BOX logins. Likewise, SUBA Games players will gain access to Metin2, and the exclusive closed beta of Cross Fire. Additionally, G4BOX games and SUBA Games properties now share a unified currency and community space. While the games have merged onto one platform, G4BOX and Wicked Interactive remain separate corporate entities.

“We are excited to welcome these two G4BOX properties into the SUBA Games library of titles,” said Stanley Yu, Chief Executive Officer of Wicked Interactive. “The SUBA Games platform maintains an impressive lineup of MMORPGs to which we feel Metin2 and Cross Fire are worthy additions,” added Howard He, Chief Executive Officer of G4BOX.

To coincide with its entry into the SUBA Games platform, the Metin2 website (now located at http://metin2.subagames.com) will be re-designed and re-launched to better serve the ever-growing Metin2 community. Current Metin2 users should be able to continue playing during the platform switch and site re-launch, though they may experience some minimal downtime. Both the Metin2 and Cross Fire websites and forums will be down on Friday December 19, 2008 from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM EST while the games are moved to the SUBA Games portal. The SUBA Games portal itself will experience similar downtime.

G4BOX’s Cross Fire (now located at http://crossfire.subagames.com) will continue its closed beta test throughout the holiday season with an open beta launch expected on SUBA Games in early 2009. SUBA Games players will gain access to the closed beta test following its move to the SUBA Games platform.

SUBA Games properties, ACE Online (http://ace.subagames.com) and Priston Tale (http://pt1.subagames.com), will continue their respective holiday events and festivities into the New Year and should not experience downtime during the migration of G4BOX games to the SUBA Games platform.

For more information about the above products or SUBA Games visit www.subagames.com.

California - December 16, 2008 - Isotx, Inc. – Isotx is happy to announce a free expansion pack for its new RTS/FPS hybrid, Iron Grip: Warlord, available to all current and future players called the Winter Offensive! Starting December 22nd, Offensive will be available for digital download through their webstore (http://webstore.isotx.com). In order to access this free new content, players must own the original game first and then undergo a simple and quick patching process to upgrade.

Iron Grip: Warlord Winter Offensive will include three new units, one new level, a new soundtrack, and a myriad of technical changes and bug fixes. Isotx hopes to reliably update and add new, free content to the game every few months - stating that “while this expansion is the first, it is certainly not the last. We have hopes to continue to add value to our title and thank our growing community for playing our first commercial release.”

Iron Grip: Warlord is now available for $24.95 through Isotx’s digital download athttp://webstore.isotx.com with the Winter Offensive expansion to be available by 12/22/08 for free. To try out the game for free, download the demo today from www.igwarlord.com/splash.

ABOUT WARLORD 
Iron Grip: Warlord is a budget indie title that just hit the marketplace. It features a unique hybrid RTS/FPS gameplay with both single-player and multiplayer co-op levels. Players fill the shoes of Atelian warriors and defend their cities from on onslaught offense by the Confederate army. Outnumbered significantly, players must rely on their wits and skills to survive by building defensive structures (RTS) and using a wide-spread arsenal of weapons (FPS). With several difficulty options and complex levels, the firefights are uniquely intense, no battle is the same, and nothing is ever easy.

Iron Grip: Warlord is now available for $24.95 through Isotx’s digital download atwebstore.isotx.com. The Winter Offensive, the first of many expansions, will be available for free download by the 22nd of December – just in time for the holidays!

For more information about Iron Grip: Warlord and the Iron Grip universe, visit the official site atwww.igwarlord.com. For more information about Isotx, Inc. visit www.isotx.com.

5 December 2008 - Germany - Acony Games are pleased to unveil video footage for their game PARABELLUM a brand new Free-to-Play Game. Parabellum is a massive multiplayer online First Person Shooter (MMO-FPS), it combines the best elements of FPS (First Person Shooter) and MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) games to create an extremely unique and fully customizable gaming experience. PARABELLUM introduces the first interactive non-linear multiplayer campaigns in addition to an advanced character & weapon development system. The game is due be released as a free download in the first quarter of 2009.

Setting
By the year 2018, the privatization of global military forces created highly profitable opportunities for ex-soldiers, mercenaries and adventurers. Set in a world in a not too distant future, you must choose your alignments carefully to survive. You must join forces with one of the two foremost covert reconnaissance organizations in the world. The CTF; an organization avowed to keeping anarchy at bay, or the Syndicate; a legion of bloodthirsty rebels bent on destruction and chaos. Each of them are solicited by the C.I.N. a Global Mercenary Network that provides contract missions to each of these factions who vie against one another with the fate of the World as the ultimate prize.

Each mission will force you to make decisions that will have a consequence on the outcome of each operation. Instead of playing repetitious unconnected levels, you fight throughout entire cities wreaking havoc and mayhem during the entire mission. Important decisions where every battle can change the outcome of the global mission must be made continually by you, adding to the real time suspense. You may choose from different routes to conquer the city as well as lure antagonists into deadly traps. All of which can be modified to affect the fate of the campaign by completing the hazardous special-missions.

You will begin as a novice mercenary accepting missions in some of the World’s most exotic and intriguing locations. From the famous skyline of New York City to the dense jungles of South America, each mission you will gain experience and increase your abilities to become one of the most legendary mercenaries in the C.I.N. Network! As your experience grows your character evolves as well. You have the ability to unlock new weapons, weapon modifications and attachments, body armor, accessories and appearance with over 10,000 possible combinations to truly individualize your character in ways never seen before in any MMO-FPS!

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Afterword
We understand that our players do not want a game where the thickness of your wallet determines the winner. This is why we designed the game so that victory or defeat is defined by your own skill and wits during the game. No weapons or equipment in the game require you to pay with actual money.

As was utililizing cutting-edge technology for PARABELLUM, we at ACONY felt it was also very important from the start that as a free-to-play game, PARABELLUM would run on most machines; not only state of the art hardware. ACONY did not want to compromise the quality for which FPS games are known. Considering all of these factors made the decision to implement the “Unreal Engine 3″ technology an easy one.

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France - Dec. 2, 2008 - Allegorithmic, a leading provider of advanced procedural texturing tools for real-time 3D content, today announced that game development studio Acony has integrated ProFX into its upcoming Free-to-Play (F2P) game entitled Parabellum. Powered by Epic’s Unreal Engine 3, Parabellum combines the best elements of a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and First Person Shooter (FPS) game to create an extremely unique and fully customizable gaming experience. Acony selected ProFX for its ability to rapidly author high-quality textures of excellent visual quality that fit in a few kilobytes. Parabellum is scheduled for release in Q1 2009.

“One of the biggest challenges of this game was keeping the game size as small as possible,” said Frank Trigub, founding partner of Acony. “By using ProFX we could increase the amount of high-quality content and optimize the download size by factor 10. This technology is paving the way for F2P developers and gamers.”
ProFX is the only middleware that allows game developers to professionally render high-quality procedural textures. ProFX 2.6 procedural texture files are very small in size - typically 500 to 2,000 times smaller - making them ideal for use in an MMO-FPS such as Parabellum.

“There is a direct relationship between the size of a F2P game and its success, so developers of such games traditionally tend to make cuts in quality, especially reducing texture resolution, removing normal maps, specular maps, etc.,” said Dr. Sebastien Deguy, founder and CEO of Allegorithmic. “Acony is willing to provide gamers with a truly next-generation, online, F2P experience, and I’m glad to see them utilizing ProFX in order to produce the highest quality visuals, yet fitting in kilobytes instead of hundreds of megabytes. I can’t wait to play their game!”

Be Among the First to Experience the Intensity of Warfare in the Closed Beta for G4BOX’S New Online FPS

Toronto, CANADA (November 10, 2008) - G4BOX Inc, a North American publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment media, today announced that the highly-anticipated, free-to-play, online military first-person shooter Cross Fire has entered closed beta. The closed beta test begins today and will run for approximately one month, offering gamers an opportunity to play-test one of four high adrenaline game modes prior to the shooter’s official launch later this year.

“With its addictive pick up and play game play, simple learning curve, and high intensity fire-fights, Cross Fire has the appeal to captivate the first-person shooter community throughout North America and the United Kingdom,” said Howard He, CEO and Co-founder of G4BOX. “Players have read about its success in Korea and China, have seen the awesome screens and trailers, and now finally they get a chance to check it out for themselves!”

Cross Fire is an online, military-themed, first-person shooter for the PC platform. The game features two International Mercenary Forces Corporations locked in a global struggle. Players assume the role of either a Black List terrorist or Global Risk mercenary, and then join an online team that must work together to complete objective-based scenarios. There are four online modes in the game including, Team Death Match, Team Match, Annihilation Match and the all-new Ghost Match. Based on their performance in-game, players will receive experience points and be promoted through various Military Ranks. Players will also have the ability to customize their character’s equipment and appearance through Cross Fire’s in-game item shop.

To enlist in the closed beta, players must obtain an exclusive closed beta key, provided through FilePlanet. Once players have registered with the key on the Cross Fire home page at http://www.crossfire-en.com, they can download the game client and start playing! Just like Cross Fire will be upon its full release, the closed beta is totally free for players to participate in. Space is limited in the closed beta, so get your beta key today!

Register Now at www.crossfire-en.com and be One of the First to Play the Game in Early November

Toronto, CANADA-October 28, 2008– G4BOX Inc, a North American publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment media, announced today that the website for its upcoming online first-person shooter, Cross Fire, has now gone live at www.crossfire-en.com. To celebrate the launch of the site, G4BOX is offering special preferential access to the game’s upcoming closed beta to early Cross Fire community members. To register and secure your spot in the closed beta, visit www.crossfire-en.com and sign up for the Cross Fire forums before October 31, 2008.

“As we gear up for the closed beta in early November, we wanted to open up the official website and forums so that the Cross Fire community can start to gather together, discuss the game, and prepare for the big event,” said Howard He, Chief Executive Officer of G4BOX. “Due to the nature of the closed beta we can only allow a limited number of people to participate, so this is a great way to ensure your spot.”

About Cross Fire
In Cross Fire, two international mercenary forces corporations are at war. Players assume the role of either a Global Risk mercenary or a Black List terrorist, and join an online team that must work together to complete objective-based scenarios.

Cross Fire will feature a wide range of features upon its release, including:

-Four gameplay modes: Team Match, Team Death Match, Annihilation, and the all-new Ghost Mode

-Support for 16-player online multiplayer across a variety of maps

-Military-ranking system: players earn experience points and achievements which allow them to level-up through different military ranks and unlock exclusive items and equipment

-Robust player customization: personalize your in-game character with numerous items, weapons, and equipment

-Integrated friends list and clan formation system

-Free to download and free to play

Cross Fire is being developed by SmileGate for the PC platform. The game boasts slick graphics and fast-paced multiplayer action thanks to a sophisticated game engine that runs on a wide range of system configurations, including lower-end machines.

For more information about G4BOX and its current product offerings please visit: www.g4box.com

Montreal, Canada. Oct.17, 2008 

Publisher Strategy First Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Silverstar Holdings, Ltd. (Nasdaq: SSTR), invite gamers everywhere to participate in an exclusive promotion on Steam. From October 17th to the 24th Steam customers who pre-order Exodus from the Earth will receive a 10% discount.

“Exodus from the Earth is a next generation title that will create an exhilarating alternative in the first person shooter genre,” says Strategy First Business Development Manager Emanuel Wall.

The action-packed shooter, based on the advanced Riposte game engine, provided by Tools Media Corporation. Riposte uses modern processors and video accelerators to produce realistic and enriched game environments.

Players will be kept guessing up until the final step with the intriguing and unpredictable storyline, battling and exploring through high-poly, epic locations on two planets. The powerful arsenal offers multiple, unique attacks for each weapon to be put to full use in the dynamic gun-toting gameplay that transports players from the road to the sky.

“Exodus from the Earth won’t disappoint the high standards that Steam Gamers have for First Person Shooters,” says Strategy First Business Development Manager Emanuel Wall. “We understand that the Steam Gamers make or break a first person shooter, which is why we took our time to present only the top tier first person shooters to Valve.”
To take advantage of this promotion, please visithttp://store.steampowered.com/app/12390/

Starting from October 28, a selected group of players will have the chance to fire away for two consecutive weeks in the European version of the anticipated shooter game, which has already created a huge sensation among FPS fans in the North American region since its local launch in May.

The distribution of the first set of beta keys for the upcoming closed beta will run exclusively throughwww.eurogamer.net and www.onlinewelten.com, giving away 10,000 beta keys respectively beginning on October 24, at 13:00 (GMT+1).

The closed beta runs for a limited time with a limited amount of testing accounts only, and interested players are encouraged to sign up as soon as the beta key distribution goes live on October 24th.

Stay tuned and check out the official teaser site for more details at http://combatarms.nexoneu.com

About Combat Arms:

Combat Arms is a fast-paced, multiplayer shooter, designed for non-stop action on the grounds of various battlefields where players are recruited to get engaged with their enemies in multiple game modes. While integrating the traditional attributes of the FPS genre, Combat Arms advances further by evolving striking features such as character customization as well as weapon modification system, enabling the players to adjust their weapons with attachments such as scopes, silencers and extended magazines. Additional eye-catching feature is the unique backpack system, which allows players to combine a set of multiple weapons from the extensive armory for a more sophisticated combat experience on the battlefield.

Combat Arms is easy to adapt for newcomers with handy control while providing deep gameplay mechanics to veteran gamers. In-game currencies and experience points are rewarded based on the number of victories and kills made, and when accumulated, it will help the players to rank up and to mount with new weapons and equipments, while having access to their actual performance stat anytime during the gameplay. Moreover, the extensive community features within the game actively support the clan system, where players can easily recruit, manage, and communicate with their clan members.

WHITE PLAINS, NY - Oct. 3, 2008 - Hot on the heels of the release of their exciting tactical shooter, SAS: Secure Tomorrow, City Interactive is pleased to announce the release of Sniper: Art of Victory, to North American PC retail today. Featuring graphics powered by the critically acclaimed Chrome engine, Sniper: Art of Victory puts players into the boots of a WWII sniper as he attempts to fend off German forces throughout key battles of WWII.For more information about Sniper: Art of Victory, please visit http://www.city-interactive.com.
 

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Sniper: Art of Victory drops players into the thick of the action during various battles of WWII. Taking on the decisive role of a military sharpshooter, it will be up to the player to track down and eliminate key German targets, including the general in charge of the Stalingrad assault. Realistic ballistics, true-to-life sniper rifles and a unique aiming system ensure the ultimate combat experience for players.