NEW GAMES IN THE NEW HOUSE

July 28, 2005 - Absolutist is dramatically increasing the development capabilities as the company moves in the new office building.

The Absolutist company is in the casual computer games market from 2000. Nowadays this segment is a separate and important part of the gaming market. It is growing and attracting more and more Internet users. For the last few years Absolutist has grown from a group of enthusiasts to a big team of professionals developing popular games widely known in the North and South Americas, Europe and Asia.

To allow the company meeting the growing business needs and to provide the best working environment for the growing staff, the company opened a new office. It is a modern 3-story building in the center of the big city. The total area is 10,000 sq ft. The current staff is 70 people, but in the future there will be more personnel as the company has prospective plans that would allow creating more workplaces.

CEO of Absolutist Sergey Stepanov comments on why the company decided to make such a huge investment in the construction of a new office:

"Absolutist is working on the high-tech market where the main object of the investing is intellectual property. Today the main asset of our company is our hard-working and talented team that managed to reach great results in a small period of time. This new convenient office helps us to create even more comfortable work conditions, as well as the possibility for a fast development further on. And this happening will allow us to make our customers happy by releasing new beautiful and interesting games."

Absolutist's rapidly expanding portfolio already contains more than 60 unique titles for Windows PC and over 25 titles for handhelds. One of the distinctive features of the company is the development for several platforms at once - for desktops (Windows, Mac, Linux), handhelds (Palm, PocketPC), mobiles (Windows for Smartphone, Symbian (Series 60), Symbian UIQ, Smartphones, N-Gage è J2ME), and online (Flash, Java, Shockwave è JavaScript). Besides, the company has in-house R&D department that investigates the technological breakthroughs, new devices and new tendencies in IT sphere. The company's success also lies in the games with multilanguage support (English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese).
Absolutist is also known as an online publisher. The game portal Absolutist.com has more than 1,000,000 unique visitors that allow it to be in the Top 100 best game portals in the Net.

Besides game development and publishing, the company is constantly developing its b2b direction with outsourcing options for the software industry:

• Game and applications development on demand;
• Porting to other platforms;
• Localization;
• Implementation and maintenance of game sections on portals.