CiRCLE confirms global brands for interactive DVD games

Date: 26.09.05

CiRCLE has built strong relationships with global mass-market brands throughout the year and today confirms agreements with FIFA, FIFA World Cup™, ‘NOW That’s What I Call Music’, NBA, ‘The Discovery Channel’ and ‘Discovery Kids™’

FIFA & FIFA World Cup™
CiRCLE has the exclusive contractual rights to create and publish the official FIFA licensed DVD quiz games. Two FIFA licensed products are scheduled for publication by CiRCLE in 2006 - the official ’FIFA World Cup™‘ licensed quiz game (May) and a ‘FIFA Challenge’ title (September). Under the terms of the licence CiRCLE will bring further FIFA branded DVD games to the market 2006/2007.

‘Scene It?’ 2006 FIFA World Cup™
The ‘Scene It?’ branded 2006 FIFA World Cup™ edition will be released Q2 2006 as a co-venture between CiRCLE and publisher Mattel.

Now That’s What I Call Music
The ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ collaboration is a joint venture between CiRCLE and the two ‘NOW’ partners, EMI and Universal Music. ‘NOW’ is the biggest compilation label in the UK/US music business, having sold over 50 million copies worldwide and CiRCLE’s exclusive agreement allows it to create a series of ‘NOW’ iDVD titles, the first to be released December 2005 by Virgin/EMI.

Discovery Channel & Discovery Kids™
CiRCLE’s license grants the company the rights to create and publish four iDVD games based upon ‘The Discovery Channel’ and ‘Discovery Kids™’ brands. The first 2 titles are scheduled for publication by CiRCLE Q1 2006.