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Slingo Coming To Mobile Phones

MobileChasma, a wireless entertainment publisher, has signed on Super Happy Fun Fun to develop Mobile Internet Slingo® games. Slingo® games are known by over 50 million people around the world for their simple yet irresistible gameplay. Nielsen/Net Ratings named www.Slingo.com as the #1 stickiest online game website on the Internet - rating higher than all other sites including EA Online, MSN Games, and AOL Games. Now, for the first time, mobile Slingo® game players will be able to compete with opponents on their phones!

The first two Mobile Internet Slingo® games available in January 2005 are:

  • Slingo® Millennium, the original Slingo game
  • 5 Card Slingo®, a variant in which players form poker hands

These games will be immediately familiar to existing Slingo® players and easy for new players to learn. Chasma's Mobile Slingo® games will feature live, real-time game play and chat with players on Slingo.com. Additionally, all tokens accumulated playing Mobile Slingo® become part of a player's account on slingo.com and vice-versa.

"We are proud to offer the immensely popular Slingo® games to the wireless community," said Tom Dusenberry, CEO of Chasma. Slingo® games provide the ultimate online game community with a huge, incredibly loyal and engaged group of players. With such a simple yet wildly addictive play pattern and extraordinary online following, Slingo® games are perfect to revolutionize how the Mobile Internet is used for Mobile Entertainment."

"We are thrilled to partner with Chasma to bring Slingo® games into the wireless space" said Mark Stephen Pierce, President and CEO of Austin, TX based Super Happy Fun Fun, Inc.. "The mobile entertainment industry is poised to explode. We are excited to be developing Slingo® products, where mobile players and internet players will seamlessly converge to experience Slingo® as one community. This is truly the future."

About Chasma

Chasma, Inc. (www.chasma.com) helped ignite the wireless revolution as one of the first youth-oriented mobile entertainment companies in the world. Today, Chasma is a leading publisher of interactive entertainment applications for wireless devices. With a large and growing portfolio of successful applications, and access to popular consumer brands, Chasma is a key partner for leading carriers who offer entertainment services to their subscribers and for independent developers that create original, compelling wireless entertainment content. Chasma is headquartered in the greater Boston area.

About Slingo

Slingo, Inc. (www.Slingo.com) launched the immensely successful original Slingo® games on the America Online® service in 1996. Since their initial launch the Slingo® games have been blockbusters and can be found on America Online®, www.Slingo.com, CD-ROM, bar top games, downloadable games, slot machines at many casinos, and on scratch-off lottery tickets around the United States and in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. New Jersey recently launched the world's first Internet lottery game, Cyber Slingo®. The www.Slingo.com website now offers more than 60 different games and continues to grow. Slingo, Inc. is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

About Super Happy Fun Fun, Inc.

Super Happy Fun Fun, Inc. (www.superhappyfunfun.com), founded in 2001, is a leading developer of games for wireless devices. SHFF is focused on developing top quality video games. With its partners, SHFF creates and designs compelling intellectual properties and builds the technologies that power innovative games for next generation gaming devices. The experienced team includes individuals who have been major contributors to many top selling video games and is based in Austin Texas.