I Entertainment Sponsors International WarBird Convention; World War II ACE, Commander Hamilton McWhorter III, to Speak.

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CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2002

iEntertainment Network, (OTC BB: IENT) announces the annual WarBirds Convention, to be held this weekend, in Pensacola, FL.

Over 100 WarBird Pilots from around the world will attend this annual gathering to play and plan the historical events the coming WarBird year. Commander Hamilton McWhorter III, US Navy Retired, World War II Ace, with 12 confirmed kills, will be the keynote speaker at the Con.

The annual Con has been held for 6 years and has attendees from many parts of the world. The annual Con has always been the kickoff for the fall WarBird Flying season. "The Con has always signaled the renewed enthusiasm of our online players, and has usually began our period of highest online revenues as players fly more and bring more players to our online simulation," says IENT CEO JW "Wild Bill" Stealey. "With the retail release of WarBirds III, Fighter Pilot Academy (now on major retail shelves), we expect this Flying season to be one of our best in revenue for some time."

The Con (http://www.warbirdplayerscon.com/) will be held this year at the Clarion Suites Resort in Pensacola, where the players will also have the opportunity to visit the National Museum of Naval Aviation to see real versions of the aircraft WarBird players fly online on the Internet. (The NMNA website is http://www.naval-air.org/)

"IENT is always excited when the players hold a Con. The Con is a great chance to get together to meet, smile, and challenge other players from around the world who regularly get together to fly historical World War II missions in our WarBirds III Internet Simulation. The players always come away energized and ready for another exciting year of Internet online flying," says JW "Wild Bill" Stealey. "Having Commander McWhorter there will really be a treat for the community."

Commander McWhorter qualified in the Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat in January 1943. VF-9 was the first operational squadron in the new Hellcat. He qualified aboard the USS Essex during March 1943. McWhorter's first Kill was a zero at Wake Island. His next two aerial victories came on Nov. 11th 1943, during a raid on Rabaul with two confirmed. Mac made ace on November 18th 1944, with a confirmed Pete floatplane and a Betty bomber off Tarawa. Commander authored the book, "The First Hellcat Ace."

About I Entertainment Network

IENT both sells games at Retail and operates Internet game communities with Free advertising supported games, like Bingo and Casino games, and Subscription simulations like WarBirds III. WarBirds is a series of Award Winning World War II simulations and has been named "Simulation of the year since 1997." A more complete description of WarBirds III and all IENT's subscription products can be found at http://www.iencentral.com/corporate/licensing/.

IENT's retail product, "WarBirds III, Fighter Pilot Academy", is now selling at retail and is bringing new customers to IENT. IENT plans to release three additional titles at retail over the next few months with Armored Assault, a World War II Tank game, due on retail shelves in November 2002.

IENT's also holds the Patent on managing Latency in Internet Games. IENT's Internet online patent, Number: 6,042,477, Minimizing Latency Technology can be found at IENT's corporate website, http://www.ient.com/.

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