Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2nd.  Game Entertainment Europe and Kalicanthus Entertainment announce today that the Beta version of Hovorun, Europe’s first casual online multiplayer racing game, has been officially launched in Italy.

During the Leipzig Game Conference last summer Kalicanthus and Game Entertainment signed a partner agreement for Hovorun and Martial Heroes currently having 800.000 subscribers from Europe. Kalicanthus Entertainment, operator of the game portal www.kalicanthus.it, is the no. 1 Portal in Italy currently serving 200.000 users with game accounts. Kalicanthus Entertainment will arrange promotion, localization and support services for the Italian players of Hovorun.

“We are happy to have Kalicanthus Entertainment as our partner. They are the key player in Italy and can reach a large Italian audience. The feedback from Italian players  will help us to improve and localize our services for Hovorun Gamers” says Richard van Barneveld, CEO of Game Entertainment Europe.

According to Fabrizio Cali, CEO of Kalicanthus Entertainment: “Hovorun is a great addition to our  game portfolio. The game, based on peer2peer technology, has very strong game play features and will certainly appeal to our Italian users. Also our cooperation with Game Entertainment looks like a strong match”

Game Entertainment Europe has officially released the test version of Hovorun. The open beta is now freely available for gamers all over the world. The game is currently available in English and Dutch, and will soon be followed by versions in more European languages. Many new features will be added over the next few weeks and months.

Hovorun is a 3D casual racing game developed by the Korean game developer Lots Entertainment. The game is Free2Play: the game client installer can be downloaded for free from the website. Credits can be bought on the website to buy items in the game, like new characters, accessories and vehicles. The game has many interesting features such as a clan system, high scores tournaments, friends lists and in game chat.

Find more information in the press document.

Game Entertainment Europe presents herself at the Games Convention with its new game title Hovorun. Everybody will be able to play this brand new game in a specially designed Hovorun environment in the B2C hall. For those who feel the roaring race environment is too fast, Game Entertainment Europe also will be available in the B2B hall for a more quiet business meeting.

Come see us at:
B2B       18 – 20 August 2008, hall 2, nr. E41
B2C        20 – 24 August 2008,hall 4, nr. A03

With pain in our hearts we like to inform you that our honorable board
member and shareholder Mr. Eckart Wintzen has passed away due to a heart
attack last Friday in his home in France. First of all we give our sincere
condolences to his partner, his children and his team from Ex'tent

For the team of Game Entertainment Europe Eckart has been a great coach and
above all he was an important source of inspiration.  We will miss Eckart.

To messages of condolence

Richard and Jurriaan

Game Entertainment Europe (GEE) and Lots Entertainment announced today their partnership to release Europe's first Multi-Player Online Casual Racing Game, Hovorun across Europe. Targeted to be launched in the 2nd quarter of 2008. Hovorun is a free2copy™ online game that will be available in 12 European languages and targets casual gamers aged between 8 to 28 years old.

Read the press document for more information.

Game Entertainment Europe BV is pleased to announce that Mr. Don Hong joins their Advisory Board. Mr. Don Hong will be a valuable source of both information and influence and will play an important role in Game Entertainment Europe’s plans for growth in Europe.

Read the press document for more information on Don Hong's and GEE's view.

Game Entertainment Europe is listed in the Sprout 50 challengers 2007 the list for Dutch companies which excel in innovation, vision and guts! Sprout magazine is a Dutch magazine for the inspiration of entrepreneurs.

More information can be found on the Sprout site. (Dutch only).

Dutch FEM Business magazine went searching for the top 25 most briljant idea's for waking up excisting markets and nominated GEE as one of this years top 25 innovative technical oriënted companies.

More information can be found on the FEM Business site. We are listed in the Media/Creative sector. (Dutch only)

Recently Richard van Barneveld (CEO) successfully participated the Quote elevator pitch contest, moderated by Jort Kelder and hosted by Sara in Amsterdam. The goal was to promote GEE in 1 ½ minute to gain interest from investors.
From the 15 other contestants the jury, including Jort Kelder, chief editor and founder of Quote Magazine, choose GEE as the winning company.
GEE won an article in Quote magazine (the May 2007 edition) and a video presentation of the pitch on the Quote website. Also company is able to spend a 3.000 euros at the several sponsors of the Elevator Pitch contest.
Winning the contest already resulted interest from several investors. Currently GEE is raising money for the acceleration of there successful growth. If you are interested please contact us for more information.

The open beta client of Martial Heroes Europe has been successfully launched. It is a totally improved new client for a world which is exclusively available for European gamers. Game Entertainment Europe already welcomed 130.000 new registries. The new world is called "Pandora". Together with Pandora a totally improved portal for Martial Heroes has been launched, www.martialheroes.eu.

To see what's new about the Pandora world of Martial Heroes and what the features are of the new portal, please visit www.martialheroes.eu.

Game Entertainment Europe (GEE), the first pan-European publisher of Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) Games, and SPILL GROUP, the largest game traffic generator in the world, signed a promotion contract which states that SPILL GROUP promotes the MMO Games published by GEE on all of their European portals and in return SPILL GROUP receives a revenue share. The contract is already effective, GEE's latest MMORP GameMartial Heroes can now be played through SPILL GROUP's European portals (f.i. : www.agame.com, www.spelletjes.nl, www.jeux.fr). The first results are excellent, after 4 weeks promotion in The Netherlands GEE's game Martial Heroes has 35.000 new registrations. Soon other online games will follow.

Game Entertainment Europe BV is pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Willem Vermeend and Eckart Wintzen will join their Advisory Board.
Vermeend will chair the Board. The members will be a valuable source of both information and influence and will play an important role in Game Entertainment Europe’s plans for growth in Europe.

Game Entertainment Europe BV has added the game Martial Heroes to it's game portfolio as the first massive multiplayer game.
Martial Heroes is a ‘free to play’ game based on oriental martial arts. With the introduction of Martial Heroes, Game Entertainment Europe is offering a new game genre to gamers that like Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG).

In South Korea, online games and particularly Massive Multiplayers (MMOG’s) forms a US$ 1.1 billion market with a 55% annual growth rate. Currently, there are more then 100 online game developers, moving into the North American and European markets after consolidating their position in the Chinese and Asian Markets.
To open the doors to Europe for Korean game developers Game Entertainment Europe has opened an office in Seoul. Mr. Hyun, Matthew Gun-Sub is responsible of the GEE Korea operations. Together with local team Mr. Hyun will expand Game Entertainment Europe’s relationships with Korean game developers in order to license new games for the European Territory.

On January 12th 2006 we invite our relations to celebrate the business-start of 2006. This reception will take place at the WZZRD game café in Utrecht, Vismarkt 21. If you would like to attend this event please contact us at .

On December 21st we invite gamers and press for the official opening of a new Game Café in the heart of Utrecht. Perhaps you didn’t notice but together with the launce of the Xbox 360 on December 2nd we had a soft launce of this brand new Game Café. The grand opening will be on December the 21st. This Game Café has 34 seats combined with advanced game computers and the most wanted on-line games. Please find out where to hide on December 21st at www.wzzrd.nl.

We are proud to inform you that the first member of the advisory board is professor gaming itself: prof. dr. Mark Overmars. Besides his chair for the University Mark has developed the most popular game-scripting tools on the internet: gamemaker. Game Maker is a program that allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code. Making games with Game Maker is a lot of fun. Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time.