"With DVD-EXTRA STUDIO, we can easily produce and
leverage assets across projects in order to cost-effectively create
products like 'Santa's Trivia Game' that will become new family holiday
traditions.

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"Santa's Trivia Game" features over 300 questions on holiday traditions,
stories and myths from around the world. iWin has created more than 30 Web
games and three download games including Jewel Quest, a Finalist for the 2004
Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards as "Downloadable Game of the Year," Mah
Jong Quest, and Family Feud ."


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, 20th Century Fox, the BBC, New Line, Hart
Sharp Video, BestQuest Teaching Systems , Edutainment Resources, Microsoft
Game Studios, The b EQUAL Company, Snap TV Games, Pfizer Consumer
Healthcare, Honda, Lexus, and many others.
"iWin is a unique company that combines the reach of a large game portal
with the smarts of an experienced game development studio, and gameLab is the
industry leader in innovative downloadable games," said Eric Zimmerman, CEO
and co-founder of gameLab.

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"With b EQUAL and Comchoice, interactive DVD
products are destined to take their place in every stocking this
Christmas. DVD-EXTRA STUDIO
offers a solution to this problem. (LSE: ZOO . As the only company that features an
exclusive, patent-pending technology called Dynamic Leveling , The b EQUAL
Company ensures that everyone in the family will be equally engaged,
entertained and challenged.
gameLab's Diner Dash ranked in the top three games on major casual game
portals including Yahoo, Shockwave, Real, and MSN."

About iWin, Inc.

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PRESS RELEASE 'Santa's Trivia Game' Comes to Town With ZOOtech's DVD-EXTRA STUDIO

It does not require any new disc
pressing technology, nor any amendment of existing standards and
specifications.L).

About Comchoice

Comchoice (www., a leading developer and
publisher of games for the mass market, announced today that it has signed an
agreement with leading developer gameLab, the creator of best-selling Diner
Dash, to publish a top-tier game for the downloadable PC and mobile platforms.iWin. A
creatively -driven company focused on innovation, gameLab games have won
numerous awards, from inclusion in the SIGGRAPH art gallery to a Webby
nomination and a Best Audio at the Independent Game Festival.

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"The DVD format very effectively enables quiz games, but many other
experiences -- such as adventure games, puzzles, learning vehicles for all
age groups -- can also be supported on the DVD platform , made possible by
DVD-EXTRA STUDIO. This holiday season, our partners are delivering a
variety of products that many never thought possible," said Gordon Doran,
President, ZOOtech, Inc.

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The game is hosted by Kris
Kringle, from the Rankin-Bass holiday classic, "Santa Claus is Comin' to
Town," and is destined to become a holiday classic for families to
enjoy year after year. Created with world-class family brands such as
The History Channel, National Geographic, Shrek, and Madagascar , b EQUAL
designs every game with families in mind.
The agreement marks the launch of iWin's plans to begin funding and publishing
third-party games in addition to developing and publishing its own titles.

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" This new DVD Game, from award-winning family game
company b EQUAL, was created in DVD-EXTRA STUDIO, and joins the growing
roster of DVD Game products hitting store shelves this holiday season that
use this innovative technology.

"Traditional authoring methods would have limited the possibility of this
type of product coming to market," said Bob Hively, President and CEO of
Comchoice , the DVD production, creative and technical services studio
that created the title.com, which offers free single-player and multi-player games,
downloadable games, skill-based games and community features .

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It reduces development costs by
automating the most complex, labor intensive and error-prone elements of
the design and production phases, thus enabling rich interactive content to
be delivered comparatively inexpensively and efficiently. We are confident that gameLab's
creative energy combined with our distribution and game design expertise will
yield a blockbuster product..

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Editor's Note: "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" animated program 1970,
renewed 1998 Classic Media, Inc.
gameLab is New York City's largest game development company, founded in
2000 with a staff of 25 (http://www .com).

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"We believe there are great game ideas and talented developers that need
support to bring their concepts to market, and publishing those developers'
titles is a natural extension of our core business," explained CJ Wolf, CEO of
iWin, Inc.

About gameLab, Inc.

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ZOOtech , the interactive
DVD technology pioneer, along with partners b EQUAL and Comchoice, are
bringing the joy of Santa Claus to families this holiday season with
"Santa's Trivia Game."

"Santa 's Trivia Game" is available nationwide and has a suggested retail
price of $14. The company also manages its premier game portal,
http://www.com. create off-the-
cuff gamelets fraught with wry existential hilarity.

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For more information, please
visit www.comchoice. iWin distributes
its games through several leading web properties including Yahoo, Real
Networks, MSN, Shockwave and AOL..

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99 . It complies entirely with the DVD-Video specification, and
DVD-EXTRA content will play on any normal consumer DVD player conforming to
that standard. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sheffield-based ZOO Digital
Group plc. Characters names, images and other indicia
are trademarks of Classic Media , Inc.

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Universal Pictures, Ascent Media, Comchoice, OUAT
Entertainment and Freestyle New Media Group are among the companies who
have already delivered engaging DVD-EXTRA products. According to
Newsweek , "The gameLab crew of experiment-prone designers .

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ZOOtech pioneered DVD-EXTRA technology to enable
CD-ROM style interactivity in the DVD-Video format.

About The b EQUAL Company

Founded in 2002 in Palo Alto, California, The b EQUAL Company is the
leading innovator in family games.bequal . gameLab has created web and
downloadable games for companies like LEGO, HBO, Cartoon Network, MSN , and
Shockwave.

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About ZOOtech

ZOOtech Ltd. Today, DVD-EXTRA
developers worldwide are shaping the future of interactivity by pushing the
boundaries of DVD functionality.
Clients include: Warner Bros.
Founded in 2001, San Francisco-based iWin is a leading developer and
publisher of games for the mass market.

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About DVD-EXTRA

Using conventional DVD authoring systems to create interactive DVD-Video
content is enormously complex, laborious and costly.

DVD-EXTRA is not a new format for DVDs. Non-traditional DVD-Video markets such as
advertising , gaming, music, education and corporate training have begun
harnessing the power of DVD-EXTRA to exploit DVD as an interactive
communications medium.

iWin and gameLab Establish a Winning Combination

iWin has developed and
self-published three hit titles including Jewel Quest, Mah Jong Quest , and the
downloadable version of Family Feud.

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"As the developer-friendly publisher, we pride ourselves on
empowering others to fulfill their visions. "The online and downloadable game space needs more
partnerships like this one, and we are incredibly excited to be working with
them on creating a new game title.

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com) is a leader in the design and development
of advanced interactive DVD entertainment , educational and game products. SAN FRANCISCO, iWin, Inc."
The PC downloadable and wireless markets are in their infancy, and iWin is
focused on publishing richer, original content to further develop these
markets. More recently, gameLab has created original downloadable games,
such as the top-selling title Diner Dash, published by PlayFirst in 2005.

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iWin's overall objective is to raise the bar of quality game content
in the market both through first-party development and as a facilitator with
third-party developers.

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