Press Release

RifleSLUGs-W declares Wild Web Wars!Paragon Software (SHDD) introduces new concept of Palm OS games development.

Munich, Germany, September 22nd, 2003 - Today at the European PalmSource Developer Conference Paragon Software (SHDD) announced a new wireless game - RifleSLUGs-W: Wild Web Wars.

RifleSLUGs-W is a sequel of the popular game series RifleSLUGs and RifleSLUGs-II for Palm OS. During several weeks after the releases the products jumped into the Top 10 of the most popular Palm OS games, on PalmGear.com.

RifleSLUGs is a reincarnation of well-known PC strategy games concept. It is a step-by-step strategy game in which two armies of slugs (red and yellow) battle for existence. Using a wide range of weapons, the armies engage in fierce battle, attempting to annihilate each other. The player can command an army of slugs in battle against the computer or another player. There is a choice of different battle maps and tons of weapons.

The principle new features of RifleSLUGs-W are a series of multi-players modes. Players can battle with each over via Infrared or Bluetooth connections on their wireless Palm Powered devices. In addition to the launch of this games series, Paragon Software has introduced a game server that will host multi-player games of RifleSLUGs. Connecting to this server from a Palm Powered device or from a PC Palm OS emulator customers can play with each other via TCP/IP protocol. Now, it is unnecessary to look for a partner for your game in the neighborhood - you can login to the web server and find thousands of people from different parts of the globe waiting to battle with you.

"RifleSLUGs-W: Wild Web Wars is a great Palm OS gaming application designed to leverage the advantages of the wireless capabilities and high-resolution screens of many Palm Powered devices and deliver a unique mobile gaming experience," said Larry Berkin, director of global developer marketing, PalmSource, Inc.

RifleSLUGs-W: Wild Web Wars is now available with four packs of new battle maps: two of them are included into the game package, two others are distributed as stand alone add-ons. The company plans to continue designing new maps and to offer a number of new scenarios. New versions of RifleSLUGs-W will also be available soon for the Sony CLIE UX40/50 and for the new Zodiac from Tapwave, Inc.

Detailed information about and a trial version of RifleSLUGs-W: Wild Web Wars are available at: http://www.palm-games.net

About Paragon Software (SHDD)
Paragon Software (Smart Handheld Devices Division) is one of the European leading companies developing software for PDAs, mobile computers and smartphones based on all the most popular present-day platforms: Palm OS, Pocket PC/Windows CE, MS Smartphone CE, Symbian OS and others. Main development interests of the company are multilingual software dictionaries, national localization technologies, software games and on-line handwriting recognition systems (PenReader).

Localization systems and dictionaries developed by the company are chosen by a great number of distributors and resellers of PDAs and smartphones for preinstallation and bundling with devices sold in Russia, Eastern European countries as well as in a number of countries of Northern and Western Europe. Localization systems for Palm OS devices developed by Paragon Software (SHDD) have already become a de-facto standard of localizations on many European markets, inclduing Holland, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Poland and Czech Republic.

Among Paragon partners are official distributors and national headquarters of HP, Toshiba, NEC, Palm Solutions Group, Sony, Handspring, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Siemenes, Samsung, ASUS, Mitac.

At the end of 2001 Paragon decided to enter a new market. First Palm OS game by Paragon - AnotherBall classic Arcanoid - was released. During the first month of sales the game reached 7'th position in the world rating of Palm OS games. Observing such incredible success of this new product, Paragon decided to open new, fourth product line - games for PDAs and in particular for Palm OS. At the end of 2002 Paragon released another hit game - RifleSLUGs. Later the company released second edition - RifleSLUGs-II for Hi-Res screens. During the first month of the sales the game reached 3d position in the world rating of Palm OS games (you are welcome to check the www.palm.com). In June 2003 "One for All Solitaires collection" was released. This is the largest collection of Palm OS solitaires games with more than 200 different solitaires in small 500 kb package. One for All Solitaires collection is one of the most popular card and solitaires games in the Palm OS software world .

For more information about Paragon Software (SHDD), you are welcome to visit: http://www.penreader.com/
http://www.palm-dictionaries.com
http://www.palm-games.net