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Oberon Media Bolsters Mobile Games Position: Acquires Blaze Mobile Entertainment



    Oberon Media, a leading casual games solution provider, announced
    today the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Blaze, a
    premier provider of mobile games and technologies with offices in
    Stockholm, Sweden, and San Mateo, California. Blaze including former
    Synergenix will augment Oberon's mobile game distribution network with
    more than 100 powerful mobile distributor relationships worldwide
    including Vodafone, 3, Orange, Vivo and Telefonica.

    Additionally, Blaze will provide Oberon with a dynamic portfolio
    of single player, multiplayer, and 3D mobile games such as: "The Da
    Vinci Code", VH1 Mobile's "I know the 80s", the highly rated Rally
    Pro, MTV Europe Music Awards 2006 Quiz and casual game hit licenses
    such as Slingo-2-Go and Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament

    The new combined entity will offer mobile operators a strong
    full-service casual games offering with mobile, web, and downloadable
    PC games. Examples from the new games portfolio include casual hit
    games like Bricks of Egypt and Magic Match.

    "Oberon is thrilled to welcome Blaze with its extensive
    relationships and distribution partners into the Oberon family. Blaze
    experience will help us to scale and execute our strategy to provide
    the best casual games experience across multiple platforms"

    "Oberon is committed to growing the mobile casual games category.
    Over the past year we have been developing great games, innovative
    platforms to boost sales and grow mobile casual gamer communities. We
    look forward to work with our new partners on expanding their reach
    and offering to consumers," says Ofer Leidner, Co-Founder and Head of
    Business Development for Oberon.

    Martin Forsling, GM of Blaze Europe states, "Oberon has a strong
    vision and a proven track record of successful execution, we are very
    happy to now be a part of this family. As the mobile games market
    consolidates, it will be crucial to focus the effort and with Oberon
    we can gain an enormous leverage from their casual games knowledge on
    the web and PC side."

    Adding Blaze's deployment capabilities and strong mobile game
    pedigree, Oberon is poised to offer a broad selection of mobile games
    across platforms including J2ME, Brew, Symbian, Flash Lite, and
    Windows Mobile.

    About Oberon Media

    Oberon Media (http://www.oberon-media.com) is the world's leading
    casual games solution provider. The Oberon Game Center platform is the
    industry standard and has been adopted by some of the world's largest
    corporations. The platform combines casual game content, merchandizing
    and features to fulfill each partner's specific needs. Oberon Media's
    publishing arm works with the industry's best, award-winning game
    developers to produce the top-selling casual games, which can be
    played in more than a dozen languages on PC, web-based, mobile and
    console platforms. Oberon Media was founded in 2003 and has offices in
    New York, Seattle, London, Cyprus, Tel Aviv and Singapore.

    About Blaze

    Blaze, formerly Kayak Interactive, is a global mobile games
    publisher headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in Stockholm
    Sweden. The company has worldwide distribution with top tier mobile
    operators in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Blaze publishes
    a wide portfolio of products targeting mass market consumers and based
    on leading branded media properties. The company's portfolio
    encompasses connected community games and single player games, and is
    available on Java, Brew, and Symbian devices from all leading mobile
    handset manufacturers. In 2005 Blaze acquired both Synergenix, a
    leading mobile games publisher in Europe and owner of the industry's
    best multi OS mobile game development middleware, mophun(TM), and
    Chasma, a mobile games publisher in the US.