Casual Game Series Introduces Social Networking to Mobile Gaming Consumers; Creates a Longer-Term Relationship Between Consumers and Carriers

SAN MATEO, Calif.--Digital Chocolate, Inc., a leading publisher of high-quality, original software for mobile phones, today announced the launch of DChoc Café™ Series, a revolutionary new suite of games that merges casual, well-known titles with social networking elements, designed to virally drive new users to mobile gaming.

Global carrier launches for the DChoc Café Series are now underway for more than 100 operators. Games in the series are already available on 3, AT&T and T-Mobile. Additional operators and partners expected to launch DChoc Café games over the next several weeks include Alltel, Nokia (including the new N-game platform), O2, Orange, Telefonica, SFR, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, Telecom New Zealand, Telstra, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone.

“The introduction of the DChoc Café Series combines the trend of casual games with a community environment that promotes social interaction,” said Trip Hawkins, founder and CEO of Digital Chocolate. “The DChoc Café Series demonstrates the promise of mobile games: socially driven entertainment that allows players to stay connected with friends while playing fun, casual games.”

Games in the DChoc Café Series include casual games typically found or played at a café or other neighborhood meeting place. The Café Series allows players to create personalized characters, form exclusive cafés and invite friends to join, and earn points to unlock bonus items for their characters and upgrades for their community café. Complete with community scoring, players are rewarded for playing well, and cafés can compete against each other.

The first five games available in the DChoc Café Series include:

    * DChoc Café Sudoku –The next generation of Sudoku with infinite puzzles, players can choose from five difficulty levels with a progressive help system and view in-game animated tutorials and hints to best the competition.
    * DChoc Café Kakuro – The latest puzzle craze out of Japan and the mathematical equivalent of crosswords, DChoc Café Kakuro features an infinite number of puzzles for endless replay value, three difficulty settings to accommodate all player levels and an intuitive tutorial so players can master the game.
    * DChoc Café Hold’em Poker – With the most features of any mobile poker game, Digital Chocolate’s version includes tournaments, cash games and all three Hold’em limit variations. DChoc Café Hold’em Poker has three game modes that allow players to compete against 16 unique opponents or switch game modes to play with friends. Players can improve their strategy with a personal Poker Trainer, or view the Player Profiler to track and analyze their style.
    * DChoc Café Mahjong – The ultimate Mahjong experience, this version of the game has more than 100 challenging levels and four game modes. In DChoc Café Mahjong, players can get a leg up on the competition with an animated tutorial, easily select tiles with ‘smart controls’ to clear the board and win, and track their stats and compare their awards with friends.
    * DChoc Café Solitaire – With 13 games in one, including Klondike, FreeCell and Tri Peaks, DChoc Café Solitaire assembles the most game options for a mobile phone. DChoc Café Solitaire lets players choose from three different themes to personalize their card decks, watch animated tutorials to help players ace any game version, and feature intuitive double-click card-move controls that show possible moves.

The DChoc Café Series’ cross-selling function allows players to purchase new games in the series directly from other DChoc Café Series’ games. Digital Chocolate will continually add new games to the series.

In support of the game series, Digital Chocolate has launched a Web site, www.dchoccafe.com, where consumers can play free trials of the games. Interested customers can access additional information about the games, download free demo versions for their phones, watch videos and invite friends to learn more.

About Digital Chocolate

Digital Chocolate is a leading developer of original, high-quality games and applications for mobile phones. Based in San Mateo, California and founded in 2003 by software gaming pioneer, Trip Hawkins, Digital Chocolate offers some of the world’s most popular and top-rated games, already earning over 20 Game of the Year Awards and over 50 Editor’s Awards by top gaming press. In 2006, it was named Best Games Developer at the Mobile Entertainment Awards, decided by a voting panel of over 300 mobile company executives including leading Operators, OEMs, Publishers and Developers. It was also named a 2006 Fierce 15 emerging wireless company for its innovation around community, networked and social games with products like award-winning MLSN Sports Picks, and newly released AvaPeeps™: FlirtNation. Since its inception, Digital Chocolate has secured relationships with more than 200 carriers and partners, including Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Cingular, Orange and 3 and its products are available in over 60 countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.digitalchocolate.com.