Capcom Expands MotoGP Deal

Capcom announces they have expanded the scope of their deal with Dorna Sports to
give them exclusive rights to publish MotoGP games across all platforms for the
next five years:Jerez, Spain – March 30, 2008 - Capcom®, a leading
developer and publisher of videogames today confirmed that it has secured
exclusive worldwide rights to publish official videogames and create peripherals
based on the World’s premier motorcycling championship, MotoGP™ across all
hardware platforms.

This agreement will run for five years and supersedes the existing rights
granted to publish titles on the PlayStation platforms which saw last year’s
successful release of MotoGP 07 for the PlayStation® 2 entertainment system.

As part of this new agreement Capcom intends to initially publish titles based
on the 2008 MotoGP season for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system
from Microsoft, Sony Computer Entertainment’s PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™), the Wii™
video game system from Nintendo, PC platform and the PlayStation® 2
entertainment system, plus versions for mobile handsets.


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