Venatus Interactive PLC: European Games Group AG: Successful initial international launch of Hero Zero exceeds expectations

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04.05.2012 / 16:23

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(Munich, May 4th, 2012) European Games Group AG, the entrepreneurial online
and mobile games publisher in whom Venatus Interactive plc have 9.09%
financial stake, announced that the new launches of the Hero Zero game
(Developer: Playata GmbH) in France and Poland in April have exceeded
expectations with 75,000 new registrations each within the first three
weeks. Together with the game's continued strong growth on the domestic
side
this gives Hero Zero 375,000 registered users (versus 110,000 in February
and 175,000 in March), and 120,000 monthly active users (versus 46,000 in
February, and 53,000 in March).

The next step on European Games Group's international front is the launch
in
May of the Slick Sleeve game (original title: 'Schulterglatze' - Developer:
Unikat Media GmbH) into the Turkish markets where a significant interest
for
this type of game has already been identified. Slick Sleeve currently has
340,000 registered users in Germany and Poland.

Both games show a healthy pay-user conversion rate above industry standard.
The company also plans to release two new games this year which promise
substantial international impact. CEO Johannes Sevket Gözalan: 'We are very
excited how this year started and with the impressive growth curve of Hero
Zero and our company. We are right on target to establish ourselves and our
business model before year end not only in Germany but the ten most
important markets globally.'

About Hero Zero and Slick Sleeve: 

Hero Zero and Slick Sleeve are generally free to play and monetize through
in-game item-purchases with real money.

Hero Zero is a comic-style browser-based MMORPG with lots of humor and a
very broad appeal. The player makes his way from the average
neighborhood-nerd to a true super-hero respected by the whole town. He
competes with other players and forms teams to rise to the top, while never
slacking on his duties or training. Play it at http://www.herozerogame.com!

Slick Sleeve is a military style MMO-browser-game where players start out
as
a lowly ranked soldier (a 'Slick Sleeve') and make their way up to the rank
of a general. Players form troops or fight alone to reach the top of the
leaderboard and have to undergo harsh drills to become a high ranking
officer.  Slick Sleeve (Schulterglatze in German) has won 'Best Role
Playing
Browser Game of the Year' in 2011 and 2012 in Germany. Play it at
http://www.slick-sleeve.com and http://www.schulterglatze.de!






About European Games Group AG

www.gamesgroup.eu

The European Games Group in its role as an entrepreneurial partner,
provides
the domestic and international marketing and commercialization of the
online
and mobile games of the independant game developers. Under the direction of
the online and marketing experts Johannes Sevket Gözalan und Justin
Stolzenberg, the European Games Group has been making it possible since its
inception in November 2010, for independent developers to operate on a
global basis, maximizing the commercial potential of their games without
having to relinquish any freedoms of control over the further development
of
their product. Gözalan and Stolzenberg worked previously together in 2009
and were the driving force in the development of Shakes & Fidget
(www.sfgame.de), an international Blockbuster with more than 15 million
players worldwide. The online game won the German Developer Prize 2009 in
the category 'Best German Casual Game'.


About Venatus Interactive plc 

www.venatusinteractive.co.uk


Venatus Interactive PLC was founded in 2010 with the purpose of investing
and taking part in the enormously exciting, high growth interactive
technology and social gaming industry, through direct investment in up and
coming companies identified and selected by our team as potential new stars
on the interactive gaming scene, and its ancilliary industries as well as
investment in current established gaming companies with a proven track
record of excellent returns.


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