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LOS ANGELES, July 10 /PRNewswire/ — Today King (), the world’s leading online social gaming company, announced the launch of its newest skill game — Cake Mania 2 ( ).
Based on Sandlot Games’ hit casual Games sensation, King.com’s skill version of Cake Mania 2 encourages gamers to run their own online bakery. Players compete to deliver the best customer experience while serving up delicious creations to a variety of entertaining and wacky customers. Downloaded over 70 million times, the Cake Mania franchise remains one of the most popular and enduring game experiences on the Internet.
“We strive to listen to our gamers and deliver fun and engaging Games based on their likes and dislikes. When we see a game succeed like Cake Mania, we feel our customer base is sending us a message,” said Riccardo Zacconi, CEO, King. “We are thrilled to partner with Sandlot Games to give our customers an exciting new version, with varying degrees of difficulty, from the Cake Mania franchise.”
Game Play
The Skill version of Cake Mania 2 revolves around customer service. The goal of the game is to keep the customers of your bakery happy by serving up delicious frosted cakes. In Cake Mania 2, timing is everything; the quicker players work their bakery, the more points they receive. Cake-bakers must work quickly and accurately to please demanding customers, from aliens to rock stars.
“We are excited to partner with King.com to provide a skill version of Cake Mania 2 to Cake Mania fans,” said Daniel Bernstein, founder and CEO, Sandlot Games. “Cake Mania is incredibly well suited for skill play, and our fans will be pleased to have yet another way to experience the game.”
About King:
Founded in 2004, King is the world’s leading social gaming company, with its premier gaming destinations King.com and MyGame.com accounting for more than 80 Games and over 196 million Games played per month. King’s MyGame.com is the first social Games site to bring together user-generated content, casual Games and revenue-sharing.
King is the exclusive provider of cash Games for Yahoo! and has led industry firsts through partnerships with; NBC, Endemol, Fremantle Media and other leading media companies. The company is known for extending the brand of popular TV properties such as American Idol, The Biggest Loser, Deal or No Deal and 1vs100, bringing them online for the first time and transforming them to fun engaging game play.
King is incorporated in the state of Delaware and the company has offices in Los Angeles, London, Hamburg (Germany) and Stockholm (Sweden). King.com does not offer money tournaments in the states of Alaska, Iowa, Arizona, Louisiana, Arkansas, Maryland, Connecticut, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, Delaware, South Dakota, Florida, Tennessee, Illinois or Vermont.
About Sandlot Games:
Sandlot Games Corporation, headquartered in Bothell, Washington, is the world’s premier developer and publisher of casual and family-friendly games. Sandlot Games boasts a captivating portfolio of popular game titles and franchises including Cake Mania(R), Glyph(R), Super Granny(R), Tradewinds(R) and Westward(R). Sandlot Games reaches millions of game players worldwide through a variety of distribution channels including online, PC, PDA’s, handhelds, videogame consoles and mobile phones. Since 2002, more than 200 million Games have been downloaded by its loyal fan base. For more information or to play one of our award winning games, please visit us at .
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Sandlot Games

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SEATTLE, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Digital entertainment services company RealNetworks(R), Inc., today announced the promotion of three executives and the formation of a new operating structure. These changes are designed to strengthen and bring together Real’s existing portfolio of digital entertainment services, foster innovation to fuel the next stage of growth for the company, and set the stage for Real’s announced intention to spin-out its Games business.
Effective immediately, John Giamatteo has been promoted to chief operating officer, RealNetworks, and Harold Zeitz has been promoted to chief operating officer of the Games division. Additionally, Mike Lunsford has been appointed executive vice president, strategic ventures.
“The promotion of these three executives sets up RealNetworks’ next chapter,” said Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO of RealNetworks. “John, Mike, and Harold are outstanding executives who each have a proven ability to deliver great results. I am very proud to work with them and congratulate each of them on their well-deserved promotions.”
Mr. Giamatteo has served in a number of increasingly responsible executive roles at Real since 2005, most recently as president, technology products & services and international operations. Previously, Mr. Giamatteo was president and CEO of Nortel Networks Asia Pacific. In his new role as COO, Mr. Giamatteo will have operational responsibility for the company’s wholly owned businesses, which include its technology products and solutions, and media software and services divisions, as well as international operations. Mr. Giamatteo also will be responsible for the company’s advertising sales, platform technology, and network operations teams.
Mr. Lunsford joined Real in January 2008 as a strategic advisor. In his new role at Real, Mr. Lunsford will be responsible for corporate strategy as well as Real’s interests in key partnerships and joint ventures. This includes Real’s music business which in the U.S. is managed via a joint venture with MTV Networks called Rhapsody America. Prior to his work at Real, Mr. Lunsford served in a number of executive roles at Earthlink, Incorporated from 1999 to 2007, including interim CEO, president, and various other executive officer roles responsible for access and voice, broadband and brand marketing.
Mr. Zeitz joined Real in 2006, and as senior vice president of media software & services. For the past year and a half, he has been the executive with P&L responsibility for both the media software & services and Games divisions. In his new role, Mr. Zeitz will continue to run the Games division and lead the transition of the Games division into the anticipated stand-alone public entity. Previously, Mr. Zeitz was COO for ShareBuilder Corporation, and president and COO for WorldStream Communications. Before that, over a ten year period, he held several executive positions with AT&T Wireless where he led a number of consumer marketing initiatives, including the introduction of the first wireless “one rate” plan.
ABOUT REALNETWORKS
RealNetworks, Inc. delivers digital entertainment services to consumers via PC, portable music player, home entertainment system and mobile phone. Real created the streaming media category in 1995 and has continued to lead the market with pioneering products and services, including: RealPlayer(R), the first mainstream media player to enable one-click downloading and recording of Internet video; the award-winning Rhapsody(R) digital music service, which delivers more than 1 billion songs per year; RealArcade(R), one of the largest casual Games destinations on the Web; and a variety of mobile entertainment services, such as ringback tones, offered to consumers through leading wireless carriers around the world. RealNetworks’ corporate information is located at .
RealNetworks, RealPlayer, Rhapsody and RealArcade are trademarks or registered trademarks of RealNetworks or its subsidiaries.
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ROCKVILLE, Md., June 6 /PRNewswire/ — Bethesda Softworks(R), a ZeniMax Media company, and Amazon.com today announced the Fallout(R) 3 Survival Edition for Xbox 360(R)video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION(R)3 computer entertainment system and Games for Windows. The limited Survival Edition is now available for pre-order exclusively through .
This ultimate Fallout 3 package includes a life-size replica of the Pip-Boy 3000, the wrist-mounted device worn by characters in-game. The Pip-Boy 3000 has been painstakingly recreated and modified for real world display as a digital clock. In addition to the Pip-Boy 3000, the Survival Edition will include all of the items included in the Fallout 3 Collector’s Edition:
— The Fallout 3 game;
— Customized, metal Vault-Tec lunch box;
— 5″ Vault Boy Bobblehead;
— ‘The Art of Fallout 3′ hardcover book; and
— ‘The Making of Fallout 3′ DVD

“We’re thrilled to be working with Amazon.com on this exclusive edition,” said Vlatko Andonov, president of Bethesda Softworks. “The Survival Edition offers gamers the unique opportunity to own a piece of video game history along with a collection of limited edition items — it’s the definitive Fallout 3 package.”
“This is an exciting day for Amazon customers and Fallout fans,” said Greg Hart vice president of video Games and software at Amazon. “We’re delighted to be the exclusive destination for Fallout 3 Survival Edition; this is a great example of the continually expanding selection we offer to gamers.”
Fallout 3 features one of the most realized game worlds ever created. Create any kind of character you want and explore the open wastes of post-apocalyptic Washington, D.C. Every minute is a fight for survival as you encounter Super Mutants, Ghouls, Raiders, and other dangers of the Wasteland.
Currently under development at Bethesda Game Studios — creators of award winning The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion(R), the 2006 Game of the Year — Fallout 3 is one of the most anticipated Games of 2008 and is slated for release this Fall on Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION(R)3 system and Games for Windows.
Fallout(R) 3 has not yet been rated by the ESRB. For more information on Fallout 3, visit .
About Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks, part of the ZeniMax Media Inc. family of companies, is a premier developer and worldwide publisher of interactive entertainment software and has produced numerous award-winning titles, most recently with 2006 PC and Xbox 360(TM) Game of the Year and RPG of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion(R), and the 2002 PC and Xbox(R) Game of the Year and RPG of the Year, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrrowind(R). Among Bethesda’s more popular franchises are The Elder Scrolls(R) series and Fallout(R), as well as its licensed properties, such as Star Trek(R). Its product line spans the sports, racing, RPG, strategy, and action genres. For more information on Bethesda Softworks’ products, visit .
Fallout(R) 3 (C) 2008 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, ZeniMax and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Fallout and related logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bethesda Softworks LLC in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other product and company names referenced herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. All Rights Reserved
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc., , a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as books, movies, music & games, digital downloads, electronics & computers, home & garden, toys, kids & baby, grocery, apparel, shoes & jewelry, health & beauty, sports & outdoors, tools, auto & industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including , , , , , , and the Joyo Amazon websites at and .
As used herein, “Amazon.com,”"we,”"our” and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management’s expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, significant amount of indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and subsequent filings.
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ST LOUIS April 16 PRNewswire - TalentPlus a respected national agency for more than 30 years has sprouted a new division dedicated solely to prominent environmentalists and adventurers to address the growing demand for insightful and experienced experts in the Green movementTalentPlus GREEN based in St Louis Mo is a worldwide resource of the leading names about the environment and exploration The group represents scientists adventurers eco-celebrities authors filmmakers climatologists and some of the top thinkers on the planet about the planetWith the increasing fusion of entertainment politics and the environment TalentPlus GREEN gives businesses associations and groups of all kinds access to those innovators and visionaries on topics from climate change and depletion of species to meeting global resource demands and green technologies said Sharon Tucci founder of TalentPlus and co-founder of TalentPlus GREENTalentPlus GREEN also works with corporations product lines and trade associations to develop and advocate their sustainable policies and build validation for positive ecological business initiatives Among the eco-celebrities in the TalentPlus GREEN line-up are Dr Heidi Cullen chief climatologist for The Weather Channel Jean-Michel Fabien and Celine Cousteau the First Family of the Ocean and filmmakers Dr Kathryn Clark former chief medical specialist for NASA and its Return to Space mission biodiversity expert Dr Peter Raven eco-businesswoman Jacquelyn Ottman author Ocean Friendly Cuisine James O Fraioli Dr Joe MacInnis deep sea medical explorer Olav Heyerdahl grandson of adventurer Thor Heyerdahl rock star and environmentalist Mick Fleetwood Ron Cogan publisher of The Green Car Journal and Roger Payne and Lisa Harrow marine mammal and theater professionals of the celebrated Sea Change and cheetah conservationist Dr Laurie MarkerWhat differentiates TalentPlus GREEN from other bureaus and agencies is that we are solely dedicated to environmental challenges and solutions said Paul Zemitzsch co-founder of TalentPlus GREEN We dont just represent eco-experts and explorers behind a desk and on the phone We are among them on expedition in the field and behind the cameras Our goal is to forge relationships among our clients and companies associations and educational institutions based on finding the right collaborations that bring value and insightTalentPlus GREEN has already inked endorsements and corporate alignments with La Prairie cosmetics Dow Chemical Co GANT clothing Samsonite The Ritz Carlton Hotels the American Chemistry Council Regent Seven Seas Identity Games and London Towne Press among othersMany companies and groups want speakers who really walk the walk on the environment Tucci said Whether its for corporate environmental consulting trade convention sustainability conference endorsement or sponsorship there is a demand for legitimate experts with a vision of the challenges and solutions our planet is facingTalentPlus GREEN which also has representatives in New York and Los Angeles can be contacted at or at 314 421-9400 TalentPlus

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