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Venatus Interactive PLC: European Games Group AG: Successful initial international launch of Hero Zero exceeds expectations
Venatus Interactive PLC / Key word(s): Miscellaneous 04.05.2012 / 16:23 --------------------------------------------------------------------- (Munich, May 4th, 2012) European Games Group AG, the entrepreneurial online and mobile games publisher in whom Venatus Interactive plc have 9.09% financial stake, announced that the new launches of the Hero Zero game (Developer: Playata GmbH) in France and Poland in April have exceeded expectations with 75,000 new registrations each within the first three weeks. Together with the game's continued strong growth on the domestic side this gives Hero Zero 375,000 registered users (versus 110,000 in February and 175,000 in March), and 120,000 monthly active users (versus 46,000 in February, and 53,000 in March). The next step on European Games Group's international front is the launch in May of the Slick Sleeve game (original title: 'Schulterglatze' - Developer: Unikat Media GmbH) into the Turkish markets where a significant interest for this type of game has already been identified. Slick Sleeve currently has 340,000 registered users in Germany and Poland. Both games show a healthy pay-user conversion rate above industry standard. The company also plans to release two new games this year which promise substantial international impact. CEO Johannes Sevket Gözalan: 'We are very excited how this year started and with the impressive growth curve of Hero Zero and our company. We are right on target to establish ourselves and our business model before year end not only in Germany but the ten most important markets globally.' About Hero Zero and Slick Sleeve: Hero Zero and Slick Sleeve are generally free to play and monetize through in-game item-purchases with real money. Hero Zero is a comic-style browser-based MMORPG with lots of humor and a very broad appeal. The player makes his way from the average neighborhood-nerd to a true super-hero respected by the whole town. He competes with other players and forms teams to rise to the top, while never slacking on his duties or training. Play it at http://www.herozerogame.com! Slick Sleeve is a military style MMO-browser-game where players start out as a lowly ranked soldier (a 'Slick Sleeve') and make their way up to the rank of a general. Players form troops or fight alone to reach the top of the leaderboard and have to undergo harsh drills to become a high ranking officer. Slick Sleeve (Schulterglatze in German) has won 'Best Role Playing Browser Game of the Year' in 2011 and 2012 in Germany. Play it at http://www.slick-sleeve.com and http://www.schulterglatze.de! About European Games Group AG www.gamesgroup.eu The European Games Group in its role as an entrepreneurial partner, provides the domestic and international marketing and commercialization of the online and mobile games of the independant game developers. Under the direction of the online and marketing experts Johannes Sevket Gözalan und Justin Stolzenberg, the European Games Group has been making it possible since its inception in November 2010, for independent developers to operate on a global basis, maximizing the commercial potential of their games without having to relinquish any freedoms of control over the further development of their product. Gözalan and Stolzenberg worked previously together in 2009 and were the driving force in the development of Shakes & Fidget (www.sfgame.de), an international Blockbuster with more than 15 million players worldwide. The online game won the German Developer Prize 2009 in the category 'Best German Casual Game'. About Venatus Interactive plc www.venatusinteractive.co.uk Venatus Interactive PLC was founded in 2010 with the purpose of investing and taking part in the enormously exciting, high growth interactive technology and social gaming industry, through direct investment in up and coming companies identified and selected by our team as potential new stars on the interactive gaming scene, and its ancilliary industries as well as investment in current established gaming companies with a proven track record of excellent returns. End of Corporate News --------------------------------------------------------------------- 04.05.2012 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. DGAP's Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- 168233 04.05.2012
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