DISNEY GAME KINGDOM ONLINE MAKES DEBUT
Exciting New Interactive Product Offers Kids Cool Customization, Great Games and Wild & Crazy Pets
North Hollywood, Calif. - July 9, 2007 - Kids can now join their favorite Disney characters for fun and games in a new, personalized online destination, Disney Game Kingdom Online™. Created by Disney Online, part of the Walt Disney Internet Group, this exciting new broadband subscription product will be available for an annual fee of $49.95 or a monthly fee of $9.95. Parents can log-on to www.gamekingdom.com to subscribe to the product or to access a free trial.
"In Game Kingdom kids can customize their kingdom and enjoy a variety of original and ever-changing activities," said Steve Parkis, vice president of Premium Content for Disney Online. "Game Kingdom presents kids with a fun new interactive environment where they can play their favorite games, including games from the Disney Game Downloads collection and adopt their very own virtual pet."
Key Disney Game Kingdom Online features include:
- Premium Games - Get access to fun, interactive games from the Disney Game Downloads lineup as part of your membership.
- Endless Fun - Play tons of different games and activities. Games are updated on a regular basis to ensure hours of entertainment.
- Wild and Crazy Pets - Adopt and care for up to 6 crazy pets - each with its own unique personality.
- Cool Customization - Create your own icy place, cheesy land, candy paradise, and more.
- Your Very Own Virtual House - Decorate up to 10 rooms in your virtual house with awesome stickers and your favorite characters.
- Digital Prizes - Earn coins by playing fun games and activities. Use them to shop for exciting digital prizes in the Disney Game Kingdom Online shop.
- A Safe Place to Play - Play great games in a trusted environment, that is free from ads and links to non-Disney sites.
Disney Game Kingdom Online features a variety of engaging games and activities featuring favorite Disney characters including The Incredibles, Disney Princesses and Stitch, among others. In this unique environment, kids can choose from a selection of themed backgrounds for each room in their virtual house - creating a one-of-a-kind "living" space full of fun stuff like a Venus fly-trap, a recliner made out of rock or a player piano. Kids can also adopt a variety of crazy hybrid pets including a Drog (part dragon, part dog), a Yetisaurus (part Yeti, part dinosaur), a Squenguin (part squirrel, part penguin), a Flonkey (part fly, part monkey), a Butteraffe (part butterfly, part giraffe) and a Cabunny (part cat, part bunny). After choosing wacky names for their pets, players can customize their pets' home with beds, toys, pictures and tons of other stickers. Kids can keep their pets happy by playing games with them like tic-tac-toe and air hockey to unlock cool tricks and talents.
About Disney Online
Disney Online (www.disney.com), a division of the Walt Disney Internet Group, produces the number one kids' entertainment and family community destination on the World Wide Web. Launched in 1996, Disney.com is the online gateway to all of the company's Disney-branded entertainment initiatives, providing comprehensive access to, and information about Disney movies, travel, television, games, mobile, music, shopping and live events. Disney.com also features Disney Disney XD, a highly interactive broadband experience, that lets Disney.com guests create their own customized online channel with games, videos, music, and chat - all of which can be enjoyed simultaneously in an immersive environment.
In addition, Disney Online develops and publishes a range of online products and services including Disney's Toontown Online, Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online, Disney Game Downloads, Disney Game Kingdom Online, Disney Connection and Hot Shot Business.
About Walt Disney Internet Group
The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) offers a compelling mix of interactive entertainment and information content and services for Internet and mobile devices for audiences around the world. WDIG is both a developer of unique new media experiences specifically designed for Internet and mobile media and a developer of new platforms for distributing content selected from broad, existing entertainment divisions and libraries of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS). Its paramount mission is to provide a safe, secure environment for consumers to experience the Disney brand anytime and anywhere as they inform and entertain themselves, look to join communities with other Disney fans, or shop for products and services. WDIG integrates the unmatched breadth of content with a best-practices approach to Internet and mobile technology and drives multiple revenue streams from premium content offerings, advertising and ecommerce. WDIG's suite of properties includes Disney.com and mDisney mobile entertainment, FamilyFun.com, Movies.com and Wondertime.com. Additionally, WDIG's Disney Mobile phone service is the first comprehensive mobile phone service with applications specifically developed to meet the needs of kids and parents. WDIG also provides strategic leadership, business execution support and a world-class technology platform for all the Walt Disney Company Internet properties, including category leaders ESPN.com, ABC.com and ABCNEWS.com. WDIG, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, Calif., has operations in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas.
Contact:
Katie Gerber
Walt Disney Internet Group
818-623-3886
Katie.X.Gerber.-ND@dig.com
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