By Alex Tikhman, Director, Mobile / LBS, TikGames, LLC
400 South El Camino Real, Suite 400, San Mateo, CA 94402, (650) 403-0123 x.  2204

SAN MATEO, CA, February 2, 2007 -- TIKGAMES LLC, a leading publisher and developer of digital entertainment announced that its LBS game Interpol has been chosen as a Finalist in the NAVTEQ European LBS Challenge in the Social Networking category.  Shortly after, TikGames’ geocaching application GeoUniverse² was chosen as a Finalist in the NAVTEQ North American LBS Challenge in the Entertainment category.

Interpol is a global detective game that puts the player in the role of historian and sleuth, solving clues to discover hidden items.  The entire team at TikGames is excited to be recognized as a finalist in NAVTEQ’s European LBS Challenge. “Bridging together high-quality game development with the constantly growing technology of LBS, Interpol and GeoUniverse² continue to stretch the possibilities of innovative, on the move entertainment,” said Alex Tikhman, Director of Mobile Applications at TikGames.

Even more recently, TikGames’ geocaching application GeoUniverse² gained its own recognition.   The application brings the popular activity of geocaching to any GPS-enabled handset.  Integrated www.geocaching.com API, allows access to a database of over 500,000 caches.

“TikGames is a true innovator within location-based gaming and we’re excited to share in their success as a finalist,” said Joe Astroth, Vice President and General Manager of Autodesk Location Services.  “Autodesk is committed to supporting industry leading application developers like TikGames with our award winning LocationLogic™ platform.”

The NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge is a global program that challenges application developers to build innovative location-based services (LBS) that work with mobile phones or wireless handheld devices using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ(R) maps.  The challenge was created to drive growth in the LBS industry by bringing together the key players in the LBS/wireless value chain.

TikGames, LLC was founded in 2002 with a focus on developing the most innovative and entertaining games for digital distribution.   A few of TikGames other successes include Flower Shop: Big City Break, Cinema Tycoon and Fortune Tiles for PC Casual as well as Texas Hold ‘em for Xbox Live Arcade.