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subscribers every day.

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PARIS, Many distinguished PC games including Rise
of Nations(R), Dungeon Siege(R), Age of Empires(R) II and Zoo Tycoon(R) will
soon be available for legal download in Europe via the games on demand service
developed by Metaboli (http://www. The game sites that Metaboli develop allow users to download
games (normally bought on CDRoms) over a high speed internet connection.
Interest in the development of services like those offered by Metaboli
stems from the games industry's wish to reduce peer to peer piracy and their
desire to create new distribution methods that maximise not only the
consumption of PC games but also the revenue generated by them.com.

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1 Market Definition
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This agreement with Microsoft consolidates
Metaboli's position as the leader in this market .

Press Contact:
Thibaut de Robien
Tel : +33 663 263 663
thibaut@metaboli .com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040820/RESEARCH )
Our Automotive Aftermarket in Italy industry profile is an essential
resource for top-level data and analysis covering the automotive aftermarket
industry .3 Market Analysis
CHAPTER 2 Market Value
CHAPTER 3 Market Volume
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation
CHAPTER 5 Market Share 1
CHAPTER 6 Competitive Landscape
CHAPTER 7 Leading Companies
CHAPTER 8 Market Forecasts
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About Metaboli
Formed in 2001 by a group of PC gamers specialised in high speed internet
connections, Metaboli offers via download and by subscription, the most
attractive games catalogue in the world with games from Atari , Dreamcatcher,
Eidos, Sega, THQ and UbiSoft.com, GameOne, Allocine.

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The Metaboli service is also distributed on http://www.com/), a
service of eMediawire.newscom. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus
textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape , demographic
information, and descriptions of the leading companies.

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Research and Markets: Future Trends and Developments in the Italian Automotive Aftermarket

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Scope:
-Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation
-Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive
landscape and leading companies
-Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights:
-Detailed information is included on market size, measured by both value
and volume.

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-Market shares are covered by manufacturer and by brand, including private
label.

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particularly franchises like Halo(R), Project Gotham Racing(R) and NFL Fever;
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Metaboli is a French company whose offers are today becoming a reference
all over Europe .

About Microsoft Games Studio
Microsoft Games Studio is the world's leading games developer and
publisher for the Xbox(R) games system, Windows and online platforms.com/), the official games channel of the MSN(R)
network who host, among others, the well known games Bejeweled and
OutSmart (R).2 Related Research

For more information visit
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A good
example of the success of subscription offers can be seen in the world of
music, where Napster's unlimited access offer (unlimited access to a catalogue
of more than 700,000 titles for a monthly price of euro 9 . Made up
of a network of cutting edge developers, Microsoft Games Studio is committed
to creating varied and innovative games for Windows
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This agreement follows the prediction of many market analysts, that the
future of online distribution of media (that is music, video and especially
games which, alone amongst digital media, already has a strong link to PCs and
the internet) lies in the subscription to unlimited access offers.fr for Wanadoo France.

-Distribution channels are also analysed.

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com).
Metaboli offer online subscriptions comparable to satellite TV bundles: after
paying a monthly subscription, the user has unlimited access to a large
catalogue of PC games, which he can then download and play at will.
Already working on the Janus project, their latest version of their DRM
software which allows rights management for temporary files, Microsoft signing
with Metaboli encourages the development of digital media subscription
services that respond to the quality, the diversity and the simplicity
demanded by the high-speed -internet community trying to make the move towards
legal download services.researchandmarkets.

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com /games/), particularly franchises like Age of
Empires(R), Flight Simulator and Zoo Tycoon; for Xbox (http://www.com/reports/c15811 ) has announced the addition
of Automotive Aftermarket in Italy to their offering.com/reports/c15812

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.

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microsoft.com (http://www. DUBLIN, Ireland, Research and Markets
(http://www.com
Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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The service is
distributed in the same way by AOL France, Club-Internet (T-Online France),
Noos, Tele2, NC-Numericable Gamekult .xbox.prwebdirect.

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Metaboli Signs Agreement with Microsoft for the Distribution of Their PC Games Catalogue Throughout Europe by Online Subscription

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(and, of course, by Wanadoo France ).

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Metaboli distributes its service via Internet Service Providers and large
Internet Sites for whom Metaboli creates co-branded gateway-sites like, for
example http://jeuxvideo.
(Logo: http://www.2 Research Highlights
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The contents of this report are as follows:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview
1.1 Market Value Forecast
8.2 Market Volume Forecast
CHAPTER 9 Further Reading
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