Oberon Media Expands Deployment of JIVE Interactive Television Community Management Platform with Canada's Leading Digital Television Provider

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oberon Media, the world’s leading multi-platform casual-games company announced today a partnership with Canada’s leading digital television provider, Bell ExpressVu, to license its JIVE^® platform on Bell ExpressVu’s interactive television game service, Games Galaxy.

JIVE enables Bell ExpressVu to offer interactive television-based tournaments, advanced community features and online leader boards. These new features will launch on Action Arcade and Puzzle Zone, both featured on Bell ExpressVu’s Game Galaxy channel.

JIVE is a patented, proprietary technology platform that enables the creation, integration and management of multi-user game experiences and multiplayer cross-platform games on cable, satellite, telco and IPTV networks, allowing players to participate within those networks and interact across multiple platforms including game consoles.

“The launch of JIVE represents an important milestone for our interactive TV services at ExpressVu,” Jonathan Boltax, Oberon Media’s Sr. Director ITV Programming and Service Management said. “Players now get a richer gaming experience and Bell ExpressVu continues to be an important partner of ours. This deal further solidifies our commitment to their industry-leading games and technology.”

Over the last five years, Bell ExpressVu has leveraged Oberon’s extensive iTV games portfolio, which includes licenses from Hasbro, Atari, WPT Enterprises Inc, the Learning Company / Riverdeep as well as many leading online casual game publishers. Oberon’s game titles include SCRABBLE®, YAHTZEE™, MONOPOLY®, BOGGLE®, the WORLD POKER TOUR®, CENTIPEDE™, MISSILE COMMAND®, ASTEROIDS™, CAKE MANIA™, SUPER BREAKOUT®, SLINGO®, and CHAINZ®.

About Oberon Media

Oberon Media, the world’s leading multi-platform casual games company, is the first company to deliver global, integrated casual-games solutions across online, mobile and interactive TV platforms, following its acquisitions of I-play and PixelPlay, respective leaders in the mobile games and iTV casual games markets. The Oberon Game Center platform is the industry standard and has been adopted by some of the world's largest corporations including Microsoft, Comcast, Verizon, Electronic Arts, MySpace, France Telecom and NHN. The platform combines casual-game content, merchandizing and features to fulfill each partner's specific needs. Oberon Media's publishing arm works with the industry's best, award-winning game developers to produce the top-selling casual games, which can be played in more than a dozen languages across online, mobile, console and iTV platforms. Founded in 2003, Oberon Media is headquartered in New York with offices across North America, Europe and Asia, and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Oak Investment Partners and Lehman Brothers.

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