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Thomas Ormond appointment

Former Activision France and Microprose France man to handle international business at Mamba Games.

In the wake of Mambas success with titles such as The Void and the outstanding uptake by gaming fans for mamba-games.co.uk, CEO Robert Neilson is now focusing his attention towards Europe and has appointed Thomas Ormond to drive business forward.

Thomas Ormond whose skills focus towards development, publishing and distribution comes with an impressive CV having been MD of Activision France, MD of Microprose France and MD of Fun soft for France and South of Europe. From 2006 Thomas took on a consulting role within the gaming industry and has now signed with Mamba games.

The first quarter of 2010 is a key focus for Mamba Games in the UK and Europe and with an exciting multiplatform schedule due to be announced in the coming weeks, gaming fans are keen to see what the adventure brand Odyssia and Mamba Games have install for the New Year.

With an initial insight into the forth coming line up that’s yet to be announced, Thomas is looking forward to driving sales and business development for the fresh faced publishers in Europe and 2010.

Thomas Ormond: "It is a very exiting opportunity to collaborate with a new comer on the market place. With a strong product line across PC and console titles, Mamba Games will be able to access to this very competitive but growing market. I am glad to be able to participate to its launch"

Jason Codd:

“Thomas Ormond has a fantastic reputation in the gaming industry and the whole Mamba team is really looking forward to working with him and driving his ideas forward.”

Mamba Games is due to start announcing their 2010 release schedule in the coming weeks.

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About Mamba Games:

Mamba Games is a new video games publisher based in the United Kingdom, London. Headed up by industry veterans spanning 40 years Mamba Games is looking to make a name for itself with releasing quality, value for money projects. In July 2009 Mamba Games announced a new adventure dedicated brand named "Odyssia" which will launch the first titles "Outcry" and "The Void" in October 2009 within Europe and Australasia. The business plan is to release up to 16 adventure products on PC, Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii by the end of 2010 and also working with other software publishers for distribution and publishing within Europe.

Mamba Games currently distributes in over 30 territories worldwide with over 40 the target by 2010. These range from the USA to Australia and Japan, working with professional sales and marketing companies giving the products exposure to the retail market.

Mamba Games encourages developers of all sizes to contact them if they have a quality product which they would like to bring to retail and digital market.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me for any more information jennie@capricornpr.com

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