The line-up of more than 20 titles represents a significant increase compared to the previous, successful year of 2006. JoWooD Productions Software AG (ATXPrime: JWD) thereby presents one of the most extensive line-up in its company history.

Extension of Core Brands

JoWooD’s strongest and financially successful brands will extend their success to this year. Apart from the addons to “SpellForce 2” and “The Guild 2”, JoWooD expects another definite highlight hitting the shelves at the end of 2007: “Soldner 2”. JoWooD’s endeavours to further extend its core brands and thereby expanding its installed user basis turned out to be the right direction. In the middle-term, this strategy will further be supported by conversions of classical JoWooD core brands to take advantage of the opportunities of next-gen console systems.

Not only that new and promising titles such as “Genesis Rising” have been gained through the acquisition of Canada based Publisher DreamCatcher, furthermore also successful brands such as Painkiller, which sold approximately 500.000 units worldwide, can now be incorporated into the group’s product portfolio. Already in 2007, JoWooD intends to keep the successful Painkiller brand with conversions to Playstation 2 and PSP, as well as a sequel for PC on its successful track.

„For JoWooD, the acquisition of DreamCatcher assures access to numerous IP-rights across multiple game-genres which could not possibly be achieved within the next 3 years on a standalone basis”, comments Marshall Zwicker, V.P. Marketing of DreamCatcher.

With DreamCatchers product line “The Adventure Company”, the segment of the vastly growing adventure games is served accordingly. A sequel to the utterly successful Agatha Christie-series, as well as two additional genre-highlights are already in development.

"DreamCatcher looks forward to announcing some very exciting, high profile adventure games that will further solidify our commitment to the genre and our longstanding leading position as the #1 adventure game publisher in North America” says Richard Wah Kan, CEO of DreamCatcher.

Apart from the already mentioned titles, two additional JoWooD-, 2 additional Adventure-, and 5 additional GS-Line titles are in the pipeline which should complete and round off the line-up considerably.

Serving the strong-growing casual gamers market

JoWooD Productions Software AG aims at specifically serving the globally strong growing casual gamers segment with its own casual product line “GS-Line” that was launched at the end of 2006. Titles such as the manga hospital drama soap “Lifesigns – Hospital Affairs” for Nintendo DS, the children’s game “My little Flufties” for Nintendo DS and Playstation 2 as well as “Flyboys” for PC, stand for quality at a reasonable price, simple interface, fun, and a quick sense of achievement.

On top of that, a multiplayer-enabled Fantasy-Action game will be released by GS-Line within the next few months already. Further information will be published as soon as the necessary preliminary works have been finished.

“GS-Line will put its strategic focus especially on platforms which are interesting for casual gamers such as Nintendo DS, and Nintendo Wii, but we also will not neglect the increasing utilisation of the PC as a casual platform” explains Gerald Kossaer, Vice president of GS-Line.

JoWooD already announced that it will increasingly focus on this specific segment with an intelligent combination of gameplay and matching hardware by midyear 2006. At that point, the development of several casual titles on the Nintendo DS platform have already been arranged. With more than 10 millions of DS sold worldwide, Nintendo positioned itself as the number one of the new handheld generation. Nintendi Wii sold worldwide over 4 million units since its launch in November 2006.

Website-Relaunch for a focused market presence

In order to communicate its new brand strategy accordingly, JoWooD will present its entire new logo, as well as an innovative online-appearance this month already. “Because of the new alignment of the JoWooD-brand, a redesign of the logo is inevitable so as to illustrate the brand’s core values with its visualisation homogenously”, comments Johannes Natterer, Senior Marketing Manager of JoWooD.

Another positive aspect is that the redesigned conception allows the transparent presentation of information to investors and shareholders.