From the Netgame folks:

Casares.com First in the World with Internet Games for WebTV Users

Gibraltar April 1, 1999. Casares.com, owned by Netgame Ltd., a subsidiary company to Interactive Gaming Systems BV, launches its game section for all WebTV users in the world today, who pay for playing their games, with the possibility to win real money. Casares.com has more than 4,000 members today who use the WebTV platform, http://webtv.casares.com The company also announces, since the site was started business in March 1996, that not only do they have WebTV members from the US, but they are also going to be a part of a collaboration with Antena 3, one of the largest TV companies in Spain, where Casares.com will be a unique supplier of Internet games to the world's Spanish-speaking community, http://tv.casares.com. Casares.com is ranked as one of the largest gambling sites on the Internet, and last year the turnover was more than doubled. Netgame Ltd's gaming site can be reached at: http://www.casares.com.

"The venture of WebTV is the first step for Casares.com to become the largest and most entertaining gaming site on the Internet. Through this step we will not only be the first company to deliver Internet games for WebTV, we will also strengthen our position on the world market", says Alex Caballero, Managing Director of Netgame Ltd. "We have proved time after time our of goal business, with purpose, patience and credibility as part of our success, in a market where the life expectancy of a game operator is less than 10 weeks. Our members have also confirmed this in an opinion poll, where more than 1000 of them stated the importance of what we have achieved and what this means to our audience. This will strengthen us further."

The purpose of Casares.com is not only playing for money. The business has during the years also substantially contributed to charity. Most recently at a reception at the Royal Castle in Stockholm, a check of $25,000 was handed over to the South African President Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. About Netgame Ltd. Netgame Ltd. is a subsidiary company to Interactive Gaming Systems BV. IGS develops, sells and implements games and interactive entertainment for TV and Internet. Netgame's products are designed to give the customer the possibility of multi-revenues, and also give the player a higher level of interactivity. Netgame is mostly known for TV-lotteries, BingoLotto, Zesam and Cash Back, and also for Netgame's site on the Internet, Casares.com. Netgame's business started with BingoLotto at a local TV-Station in Gothenburg and then became the Swedish Eklund Group, and now expanding abroad as IGS. The CEO of IGS is its founder Mr. Gert Eklund.

Casares.com was founded in March 1996 with, Interkeno as the first game on the Internet, where one has to pay for playing. Today Casares.com offers their members, from 170 different countries, more than 20 games for free or at charge. For example "Interkeno"and "Kenoexpress", bingo games like "Bingoexpress", "Bingoexpress Plus" and "American Bingo", card games like "Poker Solitaire", "Instant Poker" and "Roman Poker", slot machines like "Centurion Slot", Triple 7" and "CENT Slot", dice games like "Casares Craps", and scratch lotteries like "WhoKnows". Neither of the games need to be downloaded, which makes Casares.com unique in this line of business. It also makes it much more easier for the player, who doesn't need to download any products.

Since the beginning Netgame Ltd. has, through their players, continually donated money to charity. About 20 % of the net profit of all the games are donated to The New World Foundation, http://www.tnwf.se a not-for profit-organization, which current projects include finishing the construction of a children's orphanage in Pirúa, Peru and a medical research project in Tanzania.

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Contact: Mr. Alex Caballero +35043200, alex.caballero@casares.com
Netgame Ltd, Portland House, Suite 19, Glacis Road, Gibraltar

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