Acclaim Announces Muniz Online

Los Angeles, CA (January 12, 2009) – Acclaim Games is pleased to announce the official launch of Muniz Online, a community based online game. Muniz Online has found a sweet spot between online games and communities: the game combines the best of these two worlds, to provide a rich multimedia experience to teens. The site (http://www.munizonline.com) is easily accessible, provides numerous forms of interaction and a real multimedia experience, delivers user-generated content and serves as a hub for social networking. The access to this virtual world is free and does not require any downloading.

Muniz Online is a free to play game for the 13 to 17 year old teens. The game is a MMO social hub with exciting features that include:

• Custom Avatars
• Pimp Out Your Pad
• Interactive Chat
• Mini-Games
• Social Networking
• Engaging Quests
• In-game Items

As players venture out on quests and chat with friends online they collect votes, the more votes they collect the closer they get to becoming The King of Muniz Online! Players can literally customize everything and express their own style portraying their ideal virtual self-representation. Beyond the social aspects of this game there are many fun mini-games that players can compete in. Some of these games are spin-offs of arcade classics. There's Blastoidz which is similar to the classic Asteroids game, Aeroz is like the game Snake but puts a Muniz spin on it. The mini-games range from casual twitch games to memory games and track player scores through game leaderboards. Muniz Online is a virtual world of entertainment and fun, so head on over and see if you have what it takes to Become the King of Muniz Online!

New players can play Muniz Online now at http://www.munizonline.com.

About Acclaim Games
Acclaim is a revolutionary company with a familiar name. Three years and 7 million registered users ago, former Activision CEO Howard Marks purchased the Acclaim name looking to revive one of the video game industry's former giants. With the help of renowned game director David Perry, Marks succeeded. Today, Acclaim offers some of the finest in multiplayer online gaming while using a new, free to play business model. Acclaim strives to offer its users a fun, community-oriented experience with a selection of titles ranging from casual browser games to hardcore MMOs. To learn more, visit www.acclaim.com.

First venture capital for Chapatiz.com

Chapatiz SA, creator of virtual worlds for pre-teens, acquires its first venture capital and speeds up its development in France and worldwide.


Created in 2005 by François Barbut, Stéphan Twarog and Arno Guensherian, CHAPATIZ.COM is a community website with a novel and unique chat application that has been endorsed by more than 770.000 French-speaking kids.

Chapatiz has found a sweet spot between online games and communities: the product combines the best of these two worlds, to provide a rich multimedia experience to preteenagers.
The site is easily accessible, provides numerous forms of interaction and a real multimedia experience, delivers user-generated content and serves as a hub for social networking. The access to this virtual world is free and immediate - since it does not require any downloading.

Having contributed to acquire a capital of 350.000 euros, François Véron (founder of Newfund), Dusan Stojanovic (Business Angel), Jean Bégo (Business Angel) and several IT experts will be the new shareholders.

Strengthened by this new partnership, Chapatiz SA aims to assert itself as a French reference among its global competitors and other video game giants.

Contact :
Arno Guenshérian – arno.guen@chapatiz.com - Phone:+33 6.19.82.12.91