Frogster Interactive Pictures AG announces a Casual Social Game for Facebook with 'Runes of Magic - The Challenge' / 'Runes of Magic' is the first MMO game with such a connection to strongly growing social networks

Frogster Interactive Pictures AG / Product Launch

11.03.2010 07:30

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San Francisco, 11.03.2010: Frogster Interactive Pictures AG, international
publisher of massively multiplayer online games with headquarters in Berlin
and subsidiaries in Berlin, San Francisco and Seoul is announcing today at
the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco the release of its first
social game with the title 'Runes of Magic - The Challenge'. The trading
card game for casual gamers which has been in preparation for half a year
and has been in development for several months shall be launched in the
social network Facebook in the second quarter of 2010. Worldwide, 'Runes of
Magic' is the first massively multiplayer online game (MMO game) which is
expanding into the world of the strongly growing 'social communities' in
such a manner and with this, into a genre which attracts mass audiences.

Facebook Connect
Furthermore, Frogster will, on short notice, implement a 'Facebook Connect'
application for players of 'Runes of Magic' which makes it possible for
them to find co-players on Facebook and as well as to see their own
Facebook contacts on the 'Runes of Magic' website who are not yet
co-players and invite them into the virtual world.

Current sales trend
The running monthly revenues of the massively multiplayer online game
'Runes of Magic' which was launched in 2009 and has been internationally
successful since then, have been stable in January and February 2010 on the
level reached in the fourth quarter 2009, whereas in February, in spite of
the less number of days, an increase was achieved compared to January.
Frogster expects further increase of revenues from both the roll-out into
the Polish language version which was just launched, from additional game
content, amongst others the siege battles between players' castles which
were announced yesterday, and especially from the third chapter 'Runes of
Magic - The Elder Kingdoms' which was announced for May 2010, from
additional large-scale marketing campaigns, especially in the USA and Korea
and from improvements in functions such as the already announced enabling
of impulse purchases within the game and the reduction of the data volume
of the initial game download with a 'slim client'. The running monthly
revenues of the MMO game 'Bounty Bay Online' were rising strongly in
January and February compared to the previous months.


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Language:     English
Company:      Frogster Interactive Pictures AG
              Hardenbergstr. 9A
              10623 Berlin
              Deutschland
Phone:        030 / 284701-10
Fax:          030 / 284701-11
E-mail:       frogster@ir-services.de
Internet:     http://www.frogster-ip.de/
ISIN:         DE000A0F47J1
WKN:          A0F47J
Indices:      Entry Standard Performance-Index
Listed:       Freiverkehr in Berlin, München, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart; Open
              Market (Entry Standard) in Frankfurt
 
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