Munich, 8 January 2002 - Fishtank Interactive, the games label of Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH, and JoWood Productions Software AG quoted at the Vienna stock exchange hereby announce the conclusion of an international publishing deal.

This contract grants JoWood the exclusive publishing rights to Fishtank's products AquaNox, Etherlords, S.W.I.N.E., RIM - Battle Planets and Car Tycoon for the listed territories. This selection comprises a whole range of products, from 3D action shooters through turn-based strategy games to economic simulations - in short, anything a gamer's heart desires.

English-speaking: Africa, Malta, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland

Italian-speaking: Italy, Italian-speaking Switzerland

Dutch-speaking: Netherlands, Flemish Belgium (Benelux)

Spanish-speaking: Portugal, Brazil, Portuguese sp. Africa, Spain, Spanish-speaking Latin America, Spanish-speaking North America

Scandinavia; Iceland: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Swedish Finland

Central East: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary (all titles except S.W.I.N.E), Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Roumania

Mediterranean: Greece and Cyprus (all titles except AquaNox), Turkey, Israel

Middle East: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Irak, Kuwait, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Jemen, Egypt, Sudan

The release of all titles mentioned above is schedulded in all major territories for quarter one 2002.

«I regard this cooperation with Fishtank as a very positive start to the year 2002,» says Andreas Tobler, JoWooD's Chief Executive. "The trust Ravensburger is placing in our international distributional and marketing skills allows us to provide an extensive portfolio of products, and thus reach a wide public. What is so special about this cooperation is that one of our own developing studios was responsible for the project AquaNox. As in the previous year, numerous publishing deals will follow this one and we will be continuing to fortify our distributional policies.»

«The cooperation with JoWood is of great importance to us, as it covers the exact territories we still require in order to achieve worldwide notability for our new games label Fishtank. The deal we have concluded confirms our model of a German publisher producing games with a potential for international marketing. We look to the future with confident optimism, as there are still eight more high quality Fishtank games currently undergoing development and due for release in 2002 alone,» Thomas Kirchenkamp, Managing Director of Ravensburger Interactive Media GmbH, stated.

Fishtank is one more cooperational partner with first-class products joining the list of notable companies - such as Disney and Phenomedia - who have profited from JoWooD's publishing expertise.

Munich January 8, 2002