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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to Oversee Codemasters' North American Videogame Distribution



    Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has entered into a videogame
    distribution agreement with Codemasters, Inc. for distribution and
    sales of its product slate in North America beginning in April 2007.

    Within Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, Warner Bros.
    Interactive Entertainment will work together with Warner Home Video in
    managing the distribution, sales and trade marketing of Codemasters'
    portfolio of videogames.

    "This partnership allows the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
    divisions to combine strengths to distribute Codemasters' games, which
    have global appeal, throughout North America," said Kevin Tsujihara,
    President, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. "Employing the
    expertise of our gaming division and our powerful home video
    distribution services, we will bring Codemasters' products to
    consumers within the ever-growing gaming marketplace."

    "We greet this arrangement to work with Warner Bros. Home
    Entertainment Group with great enthusiasm," commented Rod Cousens,
    Chief Executive Officer, Codemasters Ltd. "Codemasters continues to
    strengthen its content and distribution, and as the reach of our
    product portfolio broadens to a global audience, there can be no more
    effective alliance than to have the world's largest entertainment
    corporation handling the line in the single largest market. The
    commitment of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group can only benefit
    the progress and scale of our future releases targeted at the North
    American consumer."

    Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group is scheduled to distribute
    Codemasters' videogame titles in North America from April 2007 through
    May 2008. Titles include: DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road, Overlord, Clive
    Barker's Jericho, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty and more.

    About Codemasters

    Codemasters is a leading developer and publisher of best-selling
    interactive entertainment products for a global audience on current
    and future gaming platforms and channels. Established in 1986, the
    company's dominant brands include Colin McRae Rally, TOCA Race Driver,
    LMA Manager, Brian Lara Cricket and Operation Flashpoint. The company
    is headquartered in Southam, Warwickshire UK and maintains operations
    in the US, Germany, France, Spain, and Benelux. More information about
    the company and its products is available online at
    www.codemasters.com.

    Codemasters press resource site: www.codemasters.com/mediabank.

    About Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group

    The Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group was founded in 2005 to
    bring together all of the Warner Bros. Entertainment businesses
    involved in the digital delivery of entertainment content to
    consumers, including home video, online, wireless, games and
    anti-piracy and emerging technologies operations. WBHEG is a strategic
    recognition of the ongoing changes in the way consumers view
    entertainment product and seeks to maximize current and
    next-generation distribution scenarios to make the Studio's content
    available to audiences through as many channels, platforms and devices
    as possible.