| Ozura and Maxis Launch game featuring superstar Zhang Zhi Chen |
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KUALA LUMPUR - OCTOBER 6, 2005 - Ozura Mobile (a subsidiary of Nextnation Communication Berhard MESDAQ:NEXTNAT), one of the Asia's pioneer developer of mobile games and Maxis (Malaysia) Berhad (Maxis), Malaysia's largest cellular company today launched Happy Prince, a game based on Malaysian pop superstar Zhang Zhi Chen (Zhang). In conjunction with Zhang's newly released album "Happy", Ozura had developed an exclusive mobile game for Maxis' subscribers named "Happy Prince", with Zhang as the main character. The creation of mobile game based on a celebrity is a first for Ozura and a milestone in the company's history. "We were fortunate to have Zhang and his record company, H.I.M. giving their creative input in the game. Hopefully the fans will enjoy the game as much as we have enjoyed working with Zhang" said Norman H'ng, Vice President of Business Development, Ozura. In the game, players will get to play Zhang in a quest to save a kidnapped princess. "Players will have to fight through a variety of monsters and face off with each level's top monster in order to progress to the next round. To assist the players in their quest, players will be able to use Zhang's magical powers to freeze monsters upon charging up” said Norman. Happy Prince is an interactive game, which enables gamers to upload their score to a centralized game server to obtain game ranking and win prizes worth up to RM5,000. The interactivity element of the game was made possible by the recent completion and deployment of Ozura's proprietary game engine, FunLogiX. Happy Prince is the first in a series of games based on Zhang, with the next game "Happy Cart" expected to be release in the first quarter of 2006. H.I.M. and Ozura is also targeting to market these games to overseas market where Zhang has immense popularity, especially in China. Zhang, Maxis and Ozura will be carrying out road shows throughout Peninsular Malaysia to promote Zhang's latest album and the game and Zhang will be performing live on these road shows.
About Ozura Mobile Ozura is a leading international developer and distributor for mobile games and game developer engines to carriers, aggregators, mobile phone manufacturers and service providers. The company creates games for mobile phones using Java, BREW or Symbian technology. The total number of mobile phones supporting this technology is expected to exceed one billion units in 2008. Ozura is a subsidiary of Nextnation Communication Berhad.
About Nextnation Nextnation, a mobile application service provider, enables businesses and individuals to access, connect, and transact across today's complex global mobile networks. Its core product MINDCEP Platform is a mobile multimedia communication platform, facilitating and enabling mobile data transmission worldwide using WAP, MMS, SMS and Java technologies. MINDCEP is connected to some of the largest premium messaging networks in the world in order to offer a broad range of services from content distribution to mobile m-commerce and place the company at the forefront of this rapidly growing messaging market. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.nextnationnet.com. |
