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Cellufun's Mobile Gaming Network Soars to Three Million Downloads as Gamers Turn to Cell Phones Seeking Global Competition.


Findings Show Gaming Together Is More Fun, Including Data on Preferred Handsets, and Popularity by Country and Genre

NEW YORK New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 -- Social gaming Social gaming commonly refers to playing games as a way of social interaction, as opposed to playing games in solitude, like some card games (solitaire) and the single-player mode of many video games.  community portal Cellufun, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
, announced today that it has exceeded a download milestone for its mobile games of three million worldwide, as it experiences explosive growth.

A leading provider of real-time, multi-player games for current and next-generation mobile phones, the company has recorded an average monthly increase of 250,000 downloads since December 2006, and is witnessing 50% growth per quarter. Traffic to www.cellufun.com, the online gaming See gaming.  portal, and to the WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point.

(2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages.
 portal, www.wap.cellufun.com, is now two million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions.  monthly. In December, Cellufun registered 10 million page views; traffic spiked to 15 million in March 2007.

"We're seeing mobile gaming consumers participating in more dynamic, challenging games with other members of the community," said Arthur Goikhman, Cellufun CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Because we offer a variety of titles to suit varied tastes, our community attracts all ages, abilities and nationalities, creating a powerful demographic base for the advertisers that help keep the gaming experience free for consumers."

While Cellufun's social gaming community is 80% English-speaking, the site already supports seven additional languages, including Spanish, French and Russian. Plans are underway to add languages as the population of gamers using them soars. Gamers in the U.S., South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa.  and India are the community's most active, with the average player downloading one to two games each visit.

Cellufun's casual multi-player games appeal to a wide international audience of all ages, with games downloaded by players in more than 130 countries via 170 carriers. Some single-player games are ad-sponsored, which offers consumers free access. Players can get all the game-specific details and read the reviews at http://www.cellufun.com and at the WAP portal, http://wap.cellufun.com.

Cellufun's most popular mobile games include MobilePets, with its MobilePetDog a worldwide favorite, followed by Sudoku. With recent download increases, Orion's Belt is fast becoming a leader of the game collection, followed by Chess. Cellufun finds that the majority of its gaming community downloads to the handsets of three top manufacturers: Nokia (34.84%), Motorola (21.62%) and Samsung (13.44%).

About Cellufun, LLC

Cellufun is an ad-sponsored mobile gaming portal providing free entertainment content and casual, connected and real-time, multi-player games for current and next-generation Web-enabled mobile phones. It is the only company providing a community-based, mobile gaming portal. For more information, visit cellufun.com.

For more information please contact Vijay S. Chattha at vijay@cellufun.com or by calling 415-305-6041.
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