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Hidden City Games(TM) Announces International License Agreement with Game Publisher conceptcard



    HCG Signs Licensing Agreement with conceptcard to Publish Bella Sara,
    A Horse-Themed Game for Girls Combining Physical Cards and Virtual
    Horses

    Hidden City Games(TM), LLC, a privately held game publisher
    headquartered in Seattle, Washington, announced today that it has
    signed a five-year licensing agreement with conceptcard, a pioneering
    game publisher based in Denmark, for the worldwide rights (with the
    exception of Scandinavia) to publish and market Bella Sara, an
    innovative horse-themed game for girls, ages 5-12.
    Bella Sara will be an updated version of conceptcard's extremely
    successful existing game, which debuted in Denmark under the brand
    name Bella. Bella Sara combines whimsical, fantasy images of horses
    printed on cards, which can be collected or used in easy-to-learn game
    play, with an online environment that enables girls to activate, care
    for and play with a virtual horse. In addition to imagination-building
    game play, Bella Sara features positive messages designed to uplift
    girls and reinforces the principle that "Beauty Comes from Within."
    "Conceptcard is excited to work with a game veteran like Peter
    Adkison, and his Hidden City Games team, to bring our Bella Sara
    concept to the world," noted Gitte Braendgaard, co-director of
    conceptcard. "Peter's experience with successful properties such as
    Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering and Hidden City Games' Clout game makes
    him a great partner for us, and we look forward to a mutually
    rewarding relationship."
    "This agreement presents an incredible opportunity for Hidden City
    Games to launch Bella Sara as a major mainstream girls' brand
    internationally," said Peter D. Adkison, CEO of Hidden City Games. "In
    the six months since conceptcard launched it, Bella has sold an
    astounding four million-plus cards in Denmark, a country with a
    population of five million people. This initial success, and the
    universal love of girls for horses, makes us very confident in the
    prospects Bella Sara will have around the globe."
    Hidden City Games will release Bella Sara in the United States
    late in 2006. In North America, sales and marketing will be conducted
    by Hidden City Games; in all other territories, the game will be
    marketed and distributed through partnerships with experienced, local
    game companies.

    About Hidden City Games, LLC

    Hidden City Games, LLC, is a privately held company headquartered
    in Seattle, Washington. Its mission is to bring to market games
    designed to interactively engage players of all ages. Hidden City
    Games brings together a highly experienced team of industry
    management, including founders Peter D. Adkison, CEO and formerly
    founder of Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Jesper Myrfors, Chief Creative
    Officer and original art director for Wizards of the Coast's game
    Magic: The Gathering; and Paul Peterson, currently HCG's Vice
    President of Research and Development, previously on the R&D team for
    Magic: The Gathering. Under Adkison's leadership, Wizards of the Coast
    created an entirely new genre of games with the release of the world's
    first trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, which was published in
    13 languages and is loved by millions of players worldwide. Adkison
    grew Wizards to a multimillion-dollar company before selling it to
    Hasbro in 1999 for nearly $500 million. HCG's first product, Clout --
    the chip-throwing game, was launched in September 2005. Clout, which
    combines strategy, dexterity and imagination, features fantastic
    creatures printed onto poker-size chips that players toss onto any
    flat surface during head-to-head competition. Players must merge
    strategy and tactics with physical skill to score points and edge out
    their opponents. Clout appeals to kids and adults the world over, age
    eight and up.

    About Conceptcard

    Conceptcard was founded in September of 2005 in Svendborg,
    Denmark. The company launched its first product, a game called Bella,
    also in September of 2005. Bella, a horse-themed game for girls 5 to
    12, combines physical cards, featuring whimsical images of horses and
    easy-to-learn game play, with an online component that involves care
    of and play with virtual horses. Initially sold through mass-market
    distributors in Denmark and then in Norway and Sweden, Bella has sold
    over 4 million cards since its debut. Conceptcard was founded by
    principals Gitte Braendgaard, Poul Villadsen and Peter Andersen, each
    of whom hold the title of director. Gitte, who developed the Bella
    product vision, was inspired to create Bella during her tenure as a
    social worker, caring for the mentally handicapped. In line with the
    focus of her former career, Bella features socially conscious,
    positive messages and imagination-building game play, designed to
    uplift girls. Bella is named for Gitte's daughter's real-world horse.