”Power Challenge is a rapidly growing game development company with high demands on finding a flexible and swift project model and thereby an equally flexible project tracking tool that supports the model in full. Agile practises were adopted early on in the growth phase and Hansoft was quickly proven the best system on the market. It supports our geographically separated development organization and it brings teams and individuals easy-to-use and powerful functions for managing the game development in real-time, across offices, in every level of the production; from developer and tester to producer and product owner. The system roll-out was extremely quick and the user interface is intuitive. Our teams were up and running using Hansoft in a matter of hours. We’re happy to have found a tool that supports Agile development in such a great way," says Richard Kronfält, Executive Producer at Power Challenge.

Power Challenge was founded in 2004 by Johan Christenson, an Internet entrepreneur who previously created three successful companies in the gaming industry. The company, which is headquartered in Karlskrona, Sweden, merged with ManagerZone in 2007 in order to strengthen its position in the rapidly growing online gaming market. The Power Challenge team is determined to push the boundaries of the sports gaming world by combining the quality of a PC- based game with the high-growth patterns of online social networking communities. In 2007 Benchmark Capital, a leading early-stage high-technology venture capital firm, announced an $8 million investment in Power Challenge. The investment will be used to fund development of new titles, enhance the quality of existing games and expand the company's global infrastructure.

Patric Palm, Managing Director at Hansoft commented, “PowerChallenge is a world leader in online gaming and we are obviously thrilled to provide them with Hansoft for their exciting projects. Using Hansoft will help them coordinate all their talent across several studios. We are very much looking forward to see the results in the new titles coming out.”

About PowerChallenge

Power Challenge is the leading sports games provider on the Web. With two games currently available and more on the way, Power Challenge is adding thousands of users to a growing community of sports and games enthusiasts. Power Challenge provides both action and management games where users play against their friends or fellow users, creating dedicated communities of fans playing together across the virtual world. Power Challenge has two development studios in Karlskrona and Linkoping, and will shortly be opening offices in Stockholm and New York.

www.powerchallenge.com

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“Hansoft’s fast and easy, state-of-the-art functionality strengthens our project management capabilities and enhances our studio efficiency,” says Gaël Seydoux, Producer, Ubisoft.

“Ubisoft’s Paris studio is working on some of the industry’s most exiting productions. We are very happy to provide them with a tool that gives benefits for all team members. With Hansoft they will be able to use agile and scheduling project management methodologies side by side, also within the same production,” says Patric Palm, Managing Director, Hansoft.

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has grown considerably through a strong and diversified line-up of products and partnerships. Ubisoft has offices in 22 countries and sales in more than 50 countries around the globe. It is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge video game titles to consumers. Ubisoft generated sales of €680 million for the 2006-2007 fiscal year. To learn more, please visit www.ubisoftgroup.com.

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SEGA owned studio The Creative Assembly Australia (maker of Medieval II: Total War™ Kingdoms, due in autumn 2007) has successfully implemented the self-titled Hansoft tool for production management.

“Hansoft transformed our diligent game development team from a group that worked a lot of overtime to make a deadline, to a professional outfit that finished world class software ahead of schedule,” says Ashley Parker, Senior Producer, The Creative Assembly International.

“We are very passionate about production management practices and there is big money in shipping better games faster. Working with The Creative Assembly Australia has been very exiting since they are truly leading the way, bringing project management and collaboration to new levels. By using Hansoft they will benefit from a new breed of tools that are not only blistering fast and intuitive, but also features truly innovative and unique functionality,” says Patric Palm, Managing Director, Hansoft.

With the new 5.0 release Hansoft has applied its design and the performance of their unique technology to create an industry leading user friendly and really fast bug tracking tool. The functionality is designed to help integrate the QA process closer with development. With the Hansoft SDK real-time integration can be made with other bug databases and systems.

“Since moving over to Hansoft, instead of working overtime to meet deadline, now we are heading home on time, and spending our days adding extra polish to projects ahead of schedule. For game developers like ourselves, the new QA functionality will let our staff track both scheduled work and bug fixing in one application, which will help tighten our time management even further,” says Ashley Parker.

“With Hansoft 5.0 every team member will have tasks and bugs in one place and using the free QA-accounts for testers will help you save licensing costs,” says Patric Palm.

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As seen in previous and current entries in Swedish Game Awards, Sweden's largest game development competition, student game developers have plenty of creativity, drive and passion. What they sometimes lack is organizational skills, and the tools to work together in an efficient way. Thanks to a unique collaboration between Swedish Game Awards and Hansoft, makers of the premium project management, collaboration and bug tracking tool for game developers, winners of the Best PC Game award can now realize their full potential and bring their game to market in an orderly manner.

Hansoft will offer the winning team a free, ten-user license of its new Hansoft 5.0 solution for one year, worth over 30 000 SEK. Hansoft 5.0 offers extensive functionality in scheduling, tracking, collaboration, bug tracking and document management and is used by many professional studios, such as Swedish Game Awards silver partner Starbreeze.

"Tools like Hansoft are important when going from a hobbyist development model to one that is viable for making a competitive game - that's why we're excited to have this license as a prize for our winners", says Swedish Game Awards Project Manager John-Philip Johansson.

"We are happy to help the next generation of Swedish game developers in producing their first commercial title", says Hansoft Managing Director Patric Palm. "Since Hansoft is suitable for use in both small-scale and large-scale game development, the team will benefit even more as it grows."

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“We are very happy with the way we have changed the market for scheduling and Agile project management tools. Now it is time for the QA market, and it is not one day to early, says Hansoft Managing Director Patric Palm.

Hansoft is applying its intuitive design and the performance their unique technology to create an industry leading user friendly, innovative and really fast QA tool. Focus will be on defect tracking, communication, documentation and the functionality will be fully integrated in the rest of the Hansoft production management solution. The functionality will be designed to help integrate the QA process closer with development. With the Hansoft integration SDK real-time integration can be made with other QA databases and systems.

“There is an urgent need for QA-tools that are much faster and easy to use for the whole team. With the Hansoft QA-module you will also have tasks and bugs in one place and there is a lot of functionality there to help integrate the QA-process closer with development,” says Patric Palm.

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“We have had a fantastic start of the year with many new clients in Australia, Europe and north America. We are now very happy to have been selected by Creat Studios since they have such a strong team for current and next-gen productions. Having a solid approach to project management is becoming increasingly important in the global marketplace for games development and Creat is definitely leading the way in this regard,” says Hansoft Managing Director Patric Palm.

“Creat Studios is committed to continually improving our project planning procedures to streamline our development process and provide our clients with accurate, real-time information about projects in development. Working with Hansoft takes us one step closer to that goal and offers our development teams an effective way to move forward from our previous project planning solution and thereby optimize our production pipeline for maximum efficiency,” says Vlad Starzhevsky, CEO, Creat Studios Inc.

The 4.3 release of Hansoft features full Unicode support (for example Russian and Japanese), a new dynamic reporting tool and many enhancements to both the task scheduling and the Agile functionality.

About Creat Studios

Creat Studios, Inc. is a premier developer of current and next-gen console and handheld games. Founded in 1990, Creat is headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts, with a development studio in St. Petersburg, Russia. They are official developer for

Playstation® Portable, PlayStation® 3, Nintendo DS and Xbox360 Console. www.creatstudios.com

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