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Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. and Team 17 Announce North American Publishing Agreement For 'Worms Forts: Under Siege!' Companies Expand Successful Partnership with Latest Installment in Popular 'Worms' Franchise, Featuring First-Ever Player-Controlled Fort Construction LOS ANGELES, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on its successful partnership with video game developer Team 17, Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. , today announced that it has signed a North American publishing agreement for the next installment of their popular Worms franchise, Worms Forts: Under Siege!. Available this fall for the current generation of console gaming systems and PC, Worms Forts: Under Siege! will feature the brand's trademark dark humor and turn-based action, and for the first-time in the series' history, player-controlled fort construction and battles. "The Worms brand, which is extremely popular, gets deeper and more humorous with each version," said Marc Metis, Senior Vice President of Brand Management for Acclaim. "We're very pleased to continue our partnership with Team 17 and offer fans of the series exciting new gameplay features and even greater replay value." Worms Forts: Under Siege! puts players in command of a crack team of up to four fort-dwelling worms. Set in the cartoon environments that will be very familiar to Worms fans, players direct their worm garrison to construct defenses to maximize strategic advantages, expand castles, seize valuable victory locations and of course, build massively destructive weapons to eliminate their opponents' fortifications. Players can test their mettle in a single-player game by battling through the 20 missions, or they can take on up to four friends in the frenzy of destruction that is Fort vs. Fort mode. Worms Forts: Under Siege! will feature: * Hot seat play for up to four players on one console simultaneously; * Familiar gameplay mechanics and design of the popular Worms series; * Massive weapons and massive destruction, including catapults, cannons, giant crossbows, bows and arrows, rocket launchers, air strikes, napalm ... even nuclear strikes; * For the first time in the history of the series, players can build their own castle, including towers, walls, citadels and keeps. Each building will offer unique special powers and weapons, and poor choices may leave players lagging in the arms race. * Fully-deformable 3D fortifications that crumble before players' eyes; * Travel the world and through time by taking on the historically-set single player missions, from ancient Egypt to Medieval Europe of King Arthur; * Turn-based strategy gameplay, challenging players to beat the clock by constructing castle walls and fortifications, taking aim and firing and choosing their battle plan as the seconds tick away; * Unlockable features as missions are completed, including new weapons, challenges, multiplayer maps and game modes, environments and fort styles. Worms Forts: Under Siege! will be available this fall for the current generation of console gaming systems and PC at suggested retail prices to be determined. For more information on this game, please visit http://www.acclaim.com/ and http://www.wormsforts.com/. Acclaim's complete showcase of products will be featured at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, CA at booth #152 in the Concourse Hall. About Team 17 Team 17 Software Limited is a privately owned high calibre entertainment software development company headquartered in West Yorkshire, England. Team 17 has developed over 120 SKU's in their thirteen-year history and specializes in quality original titles using proprietary technology across all major hardware platforms. Key Team 17 franchises and brands include Worms, Alien Breed, Project X, Superfrog, Body Blows and StuntGP. For more information visit Team 17 website http://www.team17.com/. About Acclaim Entertainment Based in Glen Cove, N.Y., Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., is a worldwide developer, publisher and mass marketer of software for use with interactive entertainment game consoles including those manufactured by Nintendo, Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft Corporation as well as personal computer hardware systems. Acclaim owns and operates five studios located in the United States and the United Kingdom, and publishes and distributes its software through its subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France and Spain. The Company uses regional distributors worldwide. Acclaim also distributes entertainment software for other publishers worldwide, publishes software gaming strategy guides and issues "special edition" comic magazines periodically. Acclaim's corporate headquarters are in Glen Cove, New York and Acclaim's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ.SC under the symbol AKLM. For more information please visit our website at http://www.acclaim.com/. The statements contained in this release which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements." Acclaim cautions readers of this press release that a number of important factors could cause Acclaim's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in any such forward-looking statements. These important factors, including, without limitation, the financial strength of the interactive entertainment industry, dependence on new product introductions and the ability to maintain the scheduling of such introductions, technological changes, dependence on major platform manufacturers and other factors that could affect Acclaim, are described in Acclaim's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003, and Acclaim's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, all of which were filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers of this press release are referred to such filings. Contact: Alan B. Lewis Tara Monahan Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (516) 656-5000 (516) 656-5000 DATASOURCE: Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. CONTACT: Alan B. Lewis, +1-516-656-5000, or , or Tara Monahan, +1-516-656-5000, or , both of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. Web site: http://www.acclaim.com/ http://www.team17.com/ http://www.wormsforts.com/

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