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nGame Showcases GPRS Games and Technology at CTIA Wireless.


Business Editors and High Tech Writers

CTIA (1) See CompTIA.

(2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry.
 WIRELESS 2001

CTIA booth no. 225 (British Pavilion)

With Openwave no. 6023

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2001

nGame Ltd., the leading channel, content and technology provider for wireless, PC-web and interactive television community-based games, is exhibiting at CTIA Wireless 2001 for the first time. nGame will be demonstrating some of their hottest forthcoming wireless GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations.  titles, including the World War I flight simulator flight simulator, device providing a controlled environment in which a flight trainee can experience conditions approximating those of actual flight. A simulator generally consists of an enclosure housing a working replica of the interior of the cockpit of an  Dogfight and the action adventure Special Ops running on the latest version of their Connected Games Server Platform (nCGS/V2). The nGame booth is situated in the British Pavilion no. 225.

nGame will also be co-exhibiting with Openwave at stand no. 6023.

"We are very happy to be exhibiting at the CTIA show for the first time. The US is key to our future success, and the wireless market here is catching up fast with Europe and Asia," said nGame Vice President Business Development, Alex Green Alex Green is an English mathematical physicist. He is the author of the Geometric Theory of Consciousness. External links
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. "Many of nGame's GPRS titles that we are demonstrating at the show, will be deployed on US and Canadian carriers networks over the coming months. These games will also include a host of community features enabled by our Connected Games Server Technology."

"I am also pleased to announce the appointment of Javier Bonnemaison, nGame's new US Director of Business Development. Javier joins nGame from Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation).
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 where he worked in CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization.  for 3 years. We are delighted to have lured him away!"

Highlights:
-- Dogfight is a multiplayer First World War style air combat designed for the
current generation of mobile phones and also to take advantage of the speed and
responsiveness of GPRS. The player is placed within the cockpit of a biplane
and immediately pitched into the heart of the battle. The enemy can be seen
just a short distance away, and the player must manoeuvre their plane in order
to get their opponent within their sights and let rip with their guns.

-- Short Circuit is a car racing game, where the player has to drive one lap of
a circuit in the fastest possible time. It has been designed to present an
exciting driving experience on the current generation of mobile phones, and is
able to take advantage of the new GPRS standard to give a high-speed game.

-- Special Ops: A terrorist organisation has stolen a nuclear warhead and is
threatening to detonate it in a major city unless they are paid a billion
dollars! The player takes on the role of a secret agent who must infiltrate the
terrorists' hideout and retrieve the weapon.


nGame will also be showing their latest collection of casino and parlour games, as well as their most popular current titles, Alien Fish Exchange, the Bafta nominated Merchant Princes, DataClash and Chop Suey Kung Fu kung fu
 Pinyin gongfu

Chinese martial art that is simultaneously a spiritual and a physical discipline. It has been practiced at least since the Zhou dynasty (1111–255 BC).
.

About nGame

nGame is a Cambridge, UK based Business-to-Business-to-Consumer Media company, ready to exploit the huge global market for entertainment for connected devices such as mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV.  phones, PDAs and Digital Interactive Television. nGame is divided into three operating divisions including nGame Productions, nGame Channel, and nGame Technology.

"nGame Productions" leads the world in creating entertainment content for connected devices including WAP phones and Digital Interactive Television. The aim is to create interactive entertainment that is approachable, easy to play and has lasting appeal. It develops its own original content as well as titles and licenses commissioned by third parties.

"nGame Channel" secures distribution for nGame releases. By licensing its content to wireless and DiTV operators and portals such as AOL/ Mviva, NTL NTL Nevertheless
NTL National Transportation Library
NTL Norsk Tjenestemannslag
NTL National Training Laboratories
NTL Never Too Late
NTL Nothing to Lose
NTL National Training Laboratory
NTL None the Less
NTL Number Theory Library
, Telefonica Moviles, T-Motion, Orange and Freeserve in Europe and to Yahoo!, Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1.  and AT&T PocketNet in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , nGame channel creates a global, virtual channel for compelling entertainment.

"nGame Technology" supports the in-house production studio, and soon external developers, providing its own revolutionary convergent media server and games development kit as the benchmark technology for producers who aim to reach cross-platform audiences.

-- CGS/2, is an "open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced " entertainment platform that

allows publishers, carriers and portals to run a connected and

convergent entertainment service (with content from multiple

providers) which benefits from unified community and

administrative features. CGS/2 is currently used by nGame and

third parties to host multiplayer mobile and DiTV game

services across the world.

-- nGame's Game Development Toolkit (nGDK), is used by nGame to

create the most compelling multiplayer games content for

connected devices including mobile phones, wireless PDA's,

DiTV set-top-boxes and connected games consoles FAST. Based

around Java, Sin (the GDK GDK Graphics Developers Kit
GDK Gimp Drawing Kit
GDK Gnu Drawing Kit
GDK Game Development Kit
 language) reduces development times

significantly.

"nGame Developer Program": In Q1 2001, nGame's Games Service Platform ("nCGS/2") and the Game Development Toolkit will be readily available for license to third parties, enabling developers to create and deploy compelling multiplayer content quickly and inexpensively across multiple convergent and connected platforms.

The nGame Technology, powerful distribution and original content coupled with a strong community focus, give nGame a significant edge over other companies in this field. nGame has offices in Cambridge, London and Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. .
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