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Navy Wargame Expert Peter Perla to Keynote 2005 Serious Games Summit D.C.

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are trademarks of F2FGaming, Inc. The EGM editors' overall winner
for 2004 Game of the Year was Microsoft's Halo 2, the juggernaut of the gaming
industry that had gamers lining up to purchase and competitors moving their
release dates to avoid.

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Four months after its debut, the editors of EGM still
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-- Publisher: Activision (Santa Monica, CA)
-- Developer: Troika
* 2004 Hardware of the Year: Athlon 64 FX-55
-- Manufacturer: AMD (Sunnyvale, CA)

About the Ziff Davis Media Game Group
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Electronic Gaming Monthly and Computer Gaming World Announce the Best Games of 2004

The 2004 awards expanded
this year to include 15 distinct categories , ranging from in-depth
role-playing games to real-time strategy and sports games.
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By
partnering with game designers and publishers, F2FGaming is able to provide
actual game components and offer a true-to-life tabletop board gaming
experience. The winners will be published in the
March 2004 issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly and Computer Gaming World,
which will be on newsstands February 8, 2005.com. Peter Perla III will share the platform with Douglas
Whatley, CEO, Breakaway Games, as keynote presenters on Monday, October 31,
2005, at this year's Serious Games Summit D.
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Additional information is available at http://www.

About the CMP Game Group
A trusted provider of essential information and community to the
professional Game industry, the CMP Game Group includes the Game Developers
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magazines, Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education
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1UP. PlayStation Magazine.com, eWEEK. Perla to Address Top Government Professionals, Business Leaders, and Game
Developers Gathered to Discuss How Interactive Games Tackle Real-Life
Challenges

WASHINGTON, Respected Navy defense researcher and
wargame expert Dr. The summit
is a primary forum for experts within various fields to network, learn more
and share information about the growing demand for games designed for
practical applications.
The keynote session titled "What's So Serious About Game Design? The Art
or the Science?" will attempt to demonstrate how serious games require a
combination of both art and science.

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com. Other product and company names mentioned
herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective
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Electronic Gaming Monthly
The editors of Electronic Gaming Monthly, the ultimate guide to video
gaming, reviewed scores of videogames that reflect the various platforms that
comprise the videogame industry -- PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube -- as well
as handheld, online and multi -platform games. The complete list of
Computer Gaming World's 2004 Game of the Year winners is:

* Game of the Year: World of Warcraft
-- Publisher: Vivendi Universal Games (Los Angeles , CA)
-- Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
* Strategy Game of the Year: The Sims 2
-- Publisher: Electronic Arts (Redwood City, CA)
-- Developer: Maxis
* Real-Time Strategy Game of the Year: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
-- Publisher: THQ (Calabasas, CA )
-- Developer: Relic Entertainment
* Action Game of the Year: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher
Bay
-- Publisher: Vivendi Universal Games (Los Angeles, CA)
-- Developer: Starbreeze
* MMORPG of the Year: City of Heroes
-- Publisher: NCsoft (Austin, TX)
-- Developer: Cryptic Studios
* Single Player Shooter Game of the Year: Painkiller
-- Publisher: Dreamcatcher Interactive (Toronto, ON)
-- Developer: People Can Fly
* Multiplayer Shooter Game of the Year: Unreal Tournament 2004
-- Publisher: Atari (New York, NY)
-- Developer: Epic Games
* Wargame Game of the Year: Battles in Normandy
-- Publisher: Matrix Games (Staten Island, NY)
-- Developer: Strategic Studies Group
* Adventure Game of the Year: Missing: Since January
-- Publisher: The Adventure Company (Toronto, ON)
-- Developer: Lexis Numerique
* Expansion Pack of the Year: Rise of Nations: Thrones + Patriots
-- Publisher: Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
-- Developer: Big Huge Games
* Sports Game of the Year: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005
-- Publisher: Electronic Arts (Redwood City, CA)
-- Developer: EA Sports
* Classic Game of the Year: Sid Meier 's Pirates!
-- Publisher: Atari (New York, NY)
-- Developer: Fireaxis
* Role -Playing Game of the Year: Vampire: The Masquerade.com.com, the Independent Games
Festival and the Game Developers Choice Awards.

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Text communication is
available between the players as they are playing the game. The editors' pick
for the overall 2004 PC Game of the Year was Vivendi Universal Games ' World of
Warcraft, lauded as the first massive-multiplayer game that anyone can play,
both hardcore and casual gamers alike, bringing the genre into the mainstream. With its main
headquarters and PC Magazine Labs based in New York, Ziff Davis Media also has
offices and lab facilities in the San Francisco and Boston markets.

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PRESS RELEASE F2FGaming Announces Release of Tunguska Gaming Service

" The game components and play are
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The Tunguska application and software is built on Microsoft's .f2fgaming . Electronic Gaming Monthly has the highest
rate base of any independent gaming magazine published , covering the
PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and all relevant and emerging
game systems. The Company exports the
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The Tunguska application allows users to communicate with other gamers
through private conversations or public meeting rooms.
Ziff Davis Media is a leading integrated media company focusing on the
technology, videogame and consumer lifestyle markets. Over the years, he has worked on several Navy campaign
studies, designed a naval game, documented existing Navy wargames and led a
study on the elements that go into such games and their appropriate usage.

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The complete list of Electronic Gaming Monthly's 2004
Game of the Year awards is:

* Game of the Year: Halo 2
-- Publisher: Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
-- Developer: Bungie
* Sony PlayStation 2 Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
-- Publisher: Rockstar Games (New York, NY)
-- Developer: Rockstar North
* Microsoft Xbox Game of the Year: Ninja Gaiden
-- Publisher: Tecmo (Torrence, CA)
-- Developer: Team Ninja
* GameCube Game of the Year: Metroid Prime 2
-- Publisher: Nintendo (Redmond, WA)
-- Developer: Nintendo
* Multiplatform Game of the Year: Burnout 3
-- Publisher: Electronic Arts (Redwood City , CA)
-- Developer: Criterion Studios
* Handheld Game of the Year: Metroid: Zero Mission
-- Publisher: Nintendo (Redmond, WA)
-- Developer: Nintendo

Computer Gaming World
The editors of Computer Gaming World, the number one PC gaming publication
in the industry providing two decades of gaming industry editorial leadership,
revealed their 21st annual Game of the Year Awards.
Perla, director for interactive research, Center for Naval Analyses, has
more than 30 years of professional wargaming experience.
"We're excited to have Dr.cmp.

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Ziff Davis Media leverages its content on the Internet with eight
highly-targeted technology and gaming sites including PCMag.C. from Carnegie-Mellon University, Perla joined the Center for Naval
Analyses in 1977., said.

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System requirements for this service are the minimum required to run
Microsoft's .com. The Company also produces highly-targeted b-to-b
and consumer technology events including DigitalLife. After earning a
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Users can use
Tunguska to find opponents and play games online . The first game release is
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For more information , visit http://www.S. The Company is an
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1 and the bandwidth necessary to run any
popular instant messaging program. The partners' knowledge of the face-to-face gaming world,
coupled with their IT experience, allows them to build what gamers want. The winners
represent the best PC games and hardware in the industry. "The keynote will highlight
the fact that art and science go hand-in-hand when designing any type of
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In connection with this first release, the company is
offering the service for free to all users for the first 30 days of
operation.

F2FGaming has partnered with Columbia Games. 2004 was an
unbelievable year in terms of quality releases, and picking the very best was
more challenging than ever before. PlayStation Magazine is the #1 publication
for passionate PlayStation gamers. Peter Perla share his vast expertise in
wargaming with the rest of the game development community," Jamil Moledina,
director of the Serious Games Summit D.
For more information, please visit http://www.

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com, the Company's new
online community for gaming enthusiasts , will also feature the winners in the
same issues. "Every winner of an EGM or
CGW Game of the Year Award represents something truly special.