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Gameloft Best Mobile Games Developer 2008

Posted on: Monday, 19 January 2009, 11:33 CST

LONDON, January 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

- Gameloft Games Top Media Ratings Since 2003

Gameloft has emerged as the best mobile games publisher in 2008 in terms of game quality, according to research conducted by industry website PocketGamer.biz.

The PocketGamer.biz Quality Index tracks review scores across the most popular mobile game websites, and found that Gameloft scored an average of 7.95 out of 10 from 145 reviews of its titles. The top publisher and games charts are at the bottom of this press release in full.

Gameloft thus confirms its leadership in game quality for the fifth year running. The average media rating received by Gameloft games since 2003 has been constantly above 79%.

"Each year, our production teams manage to carry the games' quality one step further, and each year our competitors fail to reach the quality bar that we're setting," said Michel Guillemot, Gameloft President & CEO. "I've been constantly stating how important quality is for our business and our consumers and results so far prove us right. I wanted also to take this opportunity to thank PocketGamer for publishing this quarterly analysis that is the reference for our industry."

"This year again, our teams have proven to be the best and I wanted to thank all the 3,300 creators working in our studios for this outstanding result," Julien Fournials, Sr. Vice-President Production said. "Each game developed and published by Gameloft has passed strict internal quality control and consumer surveys and the same level of demand is applied to all kinds of games, from Midnight Bowling 2 to Hero of Sparta."

The PocketGamer.biz Quality Index tracks reviews of Java and BREW mobile games only - it doesn't cover iPhone, N-Gage or Android titles. Sites tracked include PocketGamer, IGN Wireless, AirGamer, Mobile Game FAQs, Handy-Player, JeuxPo and MobileXP.

squaredAbridged Charts

Note, the full publishers chart and games can be found at http://www.pocketgamer.biz

Top 10 Mobile Games Publishers for 2008 (with average rating) Pos Publisher Reviews Avg Score 1 Gameloft 145 7.95 2 EA Mobile 102 7.68 3 RealArcade 26 7.63 4 Digital Chocolate 78 7.60 5 I-play 72 7.52 6 Player One 23 7.47 7 Glu Mobile 111 7.43 8 HandyGames 44 7.41 9 Disney Mobile 72 7.40 10 Vivendi Games Mobile 46 7.17 Most Disapointing games for 2008 Pos Game Publisher Reviews Avg Score 181 Minesweeper Mobile Eidos Mobile 4 6.08 182 Tetris Blockout EA Mobile 3 6.07 183 Summer Games 2008 HeroCraft 3 6.03 184 Pang 3 Capcom 3 5.93 185 Park Or Die HandyGames 3 5.90 186 The Chronicles Of Narnia Disney Mobile 3 5.83 187 Wanted I-play 3 5.70 188 The Incredible Hulk Hands-On Mobile 4 5.53 189 Rambo Forever In-Fusio 3 5.50 190 Iron Man Hands-On Mobile 3 4.13

About Gameloft

Gameloft is a leading international publisher and developer of video games for mobile phones and consoles. Established in 1999, it has emerged as one of the top innovators in its field. The company creates games for mobile handsets equipped with Java, Brew or Symbian technology. The total number of games-enabled handsets is anticipated to exceed four billion units by 2012. Gameloft games are also available to players on WiiWare and DS, Microsoft's Xbox LIVE Arcade, Apple's iPod, iTouch and iPhones, and PCs.

Partnership agreements with leading licensors and sports personalities such as Ubisoft Entertainment, Universal Pictures, ABC, Dreamworks Animations SKG, Endemol, 20th Century Fox, Viacom, Sony Pictures, Touchtone Television, Warner Bros., FifPro, Ferrari, Paris Hilton, Gus Hansen, Kobe Bryant, Derek Jeter, Reggie Bush, Chuck Norris, Jonny Wilkinson or Robinho allow Gameloft to form strong relationships with international brands. In addition to the partnerships, Gameloft owns and operates titles such as Block Breaker Deluxe, Asphalt: Urban GT and New York Nights.

Through agreements with major telephone wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, specialized distributors and its online shop, Gameloft has a distribution network in over 80 plus countries.

Gameloft has worldwide offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Montreal, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Caracas, Sao Polo, Santiago, Paris, London, Cologne, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Helsinki, Budapest, Vienna, Prague, Bucharest, New Delhi, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. Gameloft is listed on Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0000079600, Bloomberg: GFT FP, Reuters: GLFT.PA)

About PocketGamer.biz

PocketGamer.biz is the UK's mobile game industry-focused site from the highly experienced team behind PocketGamer.co.uk. It aims to cover the issues affecting the sector by providing the insightful news, features and opinion that it deserves, while working to help push this multi-billion industry forward. http://www.pocketgamer.biz

For further information, please contact: Anne-Laure Descleves Head of Communications Phone: +331-5816-2082 anne-laure.descleves@gameloft.com For more information, visit http://www.gameloft.com

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