Press Releases

Frogster hits the ground running in Asia

Official release of Runes of Magic in Korea

Berlin, 19.11.2009:

Frogster’s success title, Runes of Magic, has officially launched in Korea. With the opening of the Item Shop, Frogster has today gone live with the commercial release of its fantasy title in the motherland of online games. In the course of an intensive beta phase, the subsidiary company Frogster Asia was able to enthral a good 100,000 Korean players with the fantasy game world – with a strongly upward trend. The successful release marks the first time Frogster has carried a title over into commercial live operation in Asia and in doing so has completed its strategic entry into this important growth market, already planned since 2006.

Following the official release of Runes of Magic in Korea, Frogster is now, with North America, Europe and Asia, present on all three market relevant continents. “With an initial campaign that accompanied the beta phases in high profile Korean gaming media, we have just begun the roll-out of Runes of Magic. We are very confident that we can develop Runes of Magic into one of the strongest titles in the new generation of online-games in Korea”, offered Sunny Park, CEO of Frogster Asia, confident regarding the long-term success of Runes of Magic.

Together with the marketing of Runes of Magic in Asia, Frogster Asia is also working intensively on a redesign of the Chronicles of Spellborn at present. In Japan, the new version including an Item Shop has already started into a closed beta test. Frogster Asia plans to publish the free-to-play version in the first quarter 2010 in Korea with optimised game design and considerably re-worked game mechanics. Along with the marketing rights for Korea and Japan, Frogster also owns the Spellborn licenses for China, Taiwan, Singapore and further Asiatic markets.

Runes of Magic has already gathered well over 2 million registered players worldwide. On 15th September 2009 Frogster launched a French and Spanish version of the fantasy game world along with the launch of the German, English and US versions of 'Chapter II - The Elven Prophecy'. Shortly following on from this milestone, the Russian version of Runes of Magic went into commercial operation.

On Monday, Runes of Magic was nominated for the German Developer Award in the category 'Best International PC Game of 2009’. Those who are interested in games can still vote for their favourite within the public vote category at: http://www.deutscher-entwicklerpreis.de

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More information on www.bountybayonline.com.

Mythos

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Mythos brings the highly successful Hack'n'Slash formula into an action-packed online role-playing game. Mythos offers players a virtual fantasy world based on an atmospheric comic book style where they hunt countless monsters in a variety of diverse dungeons. There is a choice of four races and three character classes which can be heavily customized. Mythos was originally developed by Flagship Studios and since 2010 has been further continued and prepared for its release in Europe by the Korean publisher HanbitSoft. The action-packed online game is due to throw open its gates in early 2011.

More information can be found on www.mythos-europe.com.

Runes of Magic

a world full of wizardry and adventure

Runes of Magic has redefined the standard for free-to-play MMORPGs since 2009 with its massive amount of features. The online role-playing game carries an exciting, multi-layered story, driven by more than 2,700 quests set in the atmospheric fantasy world of Taborea. ‘Runes of Magic’ features a unique dual class system enabling players to combine one of eight primary classes with a secondary class. Thanks to a comprehensive crafting system, individual player homes, arenas and battlefields, guild castles and siege wars, challenging dungeons and many other features ‘Runes of Magic’ offers plenty of online adventures for all kinds of players.

More information can be found on www.runesofmagic.com.

TERA

online game world to set new standards in the genre

An impressive and highly-detailed virtual world with triple-A quality claim awaits thousands of players with TERA. Entirely developed in Unreal Engine 3, TERA transcends current representatives of the genre with breathtaking 3D graphical environments, thrilling animations and spectacular effects. With six races and eight character classes, TERA offers an abundance of possibilities for character creation and development. The dynamic real-time combat system of TERA gets players engaged in battles considerably more actively than all conventional MMORPGs available on the market. TERA is set to be released in 2011 based on a subscription model.

More information can be found on www.tera-europe.com.

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More information can be found on www.throne-of-fire.com.

Christoph Gerlinger

CEO | Frogster Interactive Pictures AG

Despite having left the games industry more than two years ago Christoph received a call from his former colleague and friend Dirk Weyel at the end of 2004, that a small computer games publisher with 11 staff was for sale. From 1996 to 1999 Christoph had co-built the German computer games business of Psygnosis, a Sony group company. 1999 he had co-founded CDV Software Entertainment AG took it public as MD in the CFO role in 2000 and co-managed it until end of 2001. Psygnosis and CDV were a big success during his time. So why not buy a small company and switch to the driver seat completely? Opportunities in the games hit business are large but so are the risks. Even more if you are a small challenger required to move ahead into innovative niches. Christoph bought the company beginning of 2005 together with Dirk, friends and family. Under the new name Frogster Interactive Pictures they have since focussed the company as one of the first in Europe on the growth market of virtual worlds, so called massively multiplayer online games. For the purists - Christoph was born 1967, has started his career with a "Banklehre" and holds a master degree in business admin from JW Goethe University in Frankfurt.