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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Majesco Entertainment Selects Actimagine Video Technology to Deliver Full Length Movies on Nintendo Portable Consoles

Majesco Entertainment Selects Actimagine Video Technology to Deliver Full Length Movies on Nintendo Portable Consoles

PARIS, January 10/PRNewswire/ -- Actimagine video technology enables Majesco Entertainment to
deliver beloved full length animated classics on Game Boy(R) Advance, Game
Boy Advance SP, Nintendo DS(TM) and Game Boy Micro. DreamWorks' Shrek, Shrek
2 and Shark Tale are now part of Majesco Game Boy Advance Video product line
since last November. Actimagine software video codec allows storing up to 90
minutes of TV-like video titles on standard cartridges, bringing the highest
quality of video and sound to more than 66 million Nintendo hand-held
consoles users.

Actimagine software video codec has also been previously
selected by Sony Pictures Digital to deliver full length feature films on
memory cards for mobile phones. Spiderman(R)2, Monty Python and the Holy
Grail, Stuart Little, Ghostbusters and Hitch were successfully launched since
September 2005 in Europe in The Carphone Warehouse retail stores.

"[...]Mobile devices like portable gaming consoles, mobile
phones, PDAs, Portable Multimedia Players can run Actimagine software video
codecs [...] bringing new business opportunities to majors. Titles from
DreamWorks or Sony Pictures Digital are really breathtaking on those
platforms" says Andre Pagnac, Actimagine CEO.

Actimagine will exhibit at the 3GSM World Congress in
Barcelona, Spain, from February 13th to 16th, Hall 2 booth G066 and at the
Embedded System Expo & Conference in Tokyo, Japan, from June 28th to 30th.


For further information, please contact: Yann VIOT, Vice
President Marketing

press@actimagine.com / Tel. +33-1-53-3-03-65 /
www.actimagine.com

About Actimagine

Actimagine conceives, patents and licenses display software solutions for
video and vector graphics. These solutions allow displaying video, multimedia
interactive contents and user interfaces. Actimagine has patented a strong
DRM solution that allows the protection of content stored on memory cards.
Actimagine display software can be embedded or used in any product with a
color screen, from low to high speed processors, with or without operating
system. For instance, Actimagine technologies can be used on devices like
mobile phones, MP3 players, toys, set top boxes, TV-sets, home appliances,
digital signage, kiosks, etc.

- Actimagine software solutions provide high quality TV-like
display with lower CPU requirements and no dedicated multimedia extra chip,
thus limiting overheating, reducing battery power consumption while lowering
hardware costs.

- Customer references: Nintendo Co., Ltd, Sony Pictures
Digital, Fisher Price, Majesco Entertainment, ...

- Headquarter of Actimagine is located in Paris, France. The
company has overseas branches in Tokyo and Singapore.

Source: Actimagine

For further information, please contact: Yann VIOT, Vice President Marketing, press@actimagine.com, Tel. +33-1-53-3-03-65, www.actimagine.com

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