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JoWooD announces the release of "Yetisports" brand games for May 27th

Rottenmann, Austria ? April 23rd, 2004 ? JoWooD Productions Software AG, a publicly traded company on the Vienna Stock Exchange, has announced the release of the first licensed production from the YETISPORTS franchise: The first games will be released on May 27th for the PC and shortly after for PS1, under the title ?YETISPORTS Deluxe?. ?We?re really happy: in May we?ll be able to present the first YETISPORTS brand games for PC and PS1 to the millions of fans,? as Robert Al Yazdi, Director Product Management JoWooD Software Productions AG comments. ?Aside from the popular Internet flash games, the new versions will also include new games and features, for example ?Super Pingu Throw: The Wind Challenge? as single and multiplayer games, ?Ice Bear Attack?, ?Yeti Slot Machine? and ?Super Orca Slap? in single and multiplayer modes. As an extra highlight, we?ve included the exclusive remix of the Yetisong. Next to that, the popular funsports game with the lovable characters Yeti and Penguine now includes a brand new character, Ice Bear.? YETISPORTS Deluxe for the PC will be available in stores for ? 9.99 ? the PS1 version for ? 14.99
(www.yeti-games.com).

The game design has been sensibly implemented, in close cooperation with Edelweiss Medienwerkstatt, the makers of the YETISPORTS games, according to the exact needs and desires of the huge, worldwide community. The main point of focus is on entertainment and honest fun, easy handling for all ages - from 3 to 99 - as well as impressive, high-quality presentations, animations and graphics. ?These are the most important factors that have led to this phenomenal, intercultural hype,? explains Andreas Tobler, CEO JoWooD Software Productions AG. ?Together with Edelweiss Medienwerkstatt, we?re planning to add fuel to the hype around the YETISPORTS franchise as we continue to carefully persue the strategy of offering free online games alongside comercially aquirable games.? As a consequence of the planned release of the seven additional ?disciplines? for the YETISPORTS online games, JoWooD is planning the release of other YETISPORTS games for PC, PS1 and PS2, X-Box, Gamecube and GBA, in this year.

YETISPORTS is a production of the Edelweiss Medienwerkstatt located in Vienna and was discovered by the worldwide online community on January the 19th. Since then, the starting page itself (www.yetisports.org) has attracted more than 100 Million web visitors per month. Now that YETISPORTS has been made available for download on numerous other sites, the actual number of hits per month has climbed far beyond 200 million - on a rising tendency. The USA and Japan are leading the hit rate charts, followed by Germany and various other West European countries.

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