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AEGF Mobile Games to Partner with NBC Sports for Exclusive Worldwide License; NBC Sports Branded Wireless Video Games Coming to Mobile Phones.


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 -- AEGF Mobile Games, a partnership between Abandon Entertainment and GF Capital Management & Advisors, and NBC Sports NBC Sports is a division of NBC, responsible for the televising of many sports events on the network. The NBC Sports broadcast lineup includes: The Olympic Games (through 2012), the NFL, the NHL, Notre Dame Football, the PGA Tour, the USGA Championships, Wimbledon, the French , today announced a partnership on an exclusive worldwide mobile gaming license to create NBC Sports branded games. Under the deal, AEGF will use NBC Sports content to create unique and challenging wireless video games See video game console.  available on mobile phones, many of which will be directly interactive with NBC Sports broadcasts. The announcement was made by AEGF Mobile Games Principal, Marcus Ticotin and NBC Sports President Ken Schanzer.

Among the first NBC Sports mobile games are themed games in golf, hockey, horse racing, poker and skiing.

"As co-publisher of the best-selling massively multiplayer online role-playing game
    Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of online computer role-playing games (CRPGs) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world.
    , Dark Age of Camelot Dark Age of Camelot is a 3D medieval fantasy MMORPG that revolves around the war between three realms at the end of King Arthur's rule: Arthurian-inspired Albion, Norse mythology inspired Midgard, and Celtic Hibernia. , we understand the power of branded entertainment," says Ticotin. "The explosive growth in the mobile gaming marketplace is starting to mirror that of online gaming, and armed with powerful, household brands such as NBC Sports, we're confident that we can capture the imagination of a new breed of gamer."

    NBC Sports President Ken Schanzer said: "Wireless video games are a natural extension of the NBC Sports brand. This is a great way to utilize our content to reach out to the all-important 18-34 male demo in an entertaining and relevant way."

    About AEGF Mobile Games

    AEGF Mobile Games is a mobile game developer and publisher formed by Abandon Entertainment, Inc. and GF Capital Management and Advisors, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

    LLC - Logical Link Control
    , an investment firm that makes private equity investments in a variety of industries including media and entertainment, branded consumer products and other select industries. The two companies have extensive investment and operational experience in games, music, film and television and have partnered on several ventures including Abandon's investment into massively multiplayer role playing game See CRPG.  developer and publisher, Mythic Entertainment. Mythic and Abandon co-published the bestselling Dark Age of Camelot. Abandon also founded with producer Scott Faye, Collision Entertainment, a film development company whose upcoming projects include Backwater (Dimension Films), Max Payne (Fox -- based on the hit game), Alice (Universal) and $6 Billion Man (Dimension/Universal).
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    Date:Aug 9, 2005
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