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Monday March 25, 2002

Tesseraction Games Selects Cybernet's OpenSkies Massive Multi-Player Network Architecture to Power Debut Release

Tens of Thousands of Gamers Can Face-Off in Enigma: Rising Tide

Cybernet Systems, a technology research and development firm focused on advancing the state of human-machine interaction, today announced that Tesseraction Games has licensed its OpenSkies network architecture to provide massively multi-player capabilities for Enigma: Rising Tide, Tesseraction's debut computer game.

OpenSkies drastically reduced the time necessary to develop Enigma: Rising Tide, enabling Tesseraction to schedule its launch substantially sooner than would otherwise have been possible.

"We needed to go to war, and Cybernet provided the sword," said Kelly Asay, Tesseraction's president and producer. "When we began looking into licensing technology rather than creating it, we quickly discovered a growing segment of engine providers, like Cybernet, who had branched off of the traditional 'all in one' approach to game engine design. This let us pick and choose from the best available. Because of the approach Cybernet had chosen, it put their product well ahead of the 'Swiss army knife' type technologies out there."

Cybernet's OpenSkies massively multi-player gaming (MMPG) network architecture is adapted from a distributed network software system the company originally developed for use in U.S. military flight training exercises. The MMPG architecture delivers real-time intelligent game-independent routing across a distributed network server system. Game platform clients connect to distributed servers that direct real-time data requests across the Internet backbone, minimizing redundancy. Sophisticated culling rules further lower the bandwidth load by 25 to 90 percent. Cybernet's technology offers developers a high-performance, low cost solution for easily implementing the MMPG architecture into online games and simulations on off-the-shelf white box server hardware. The OpenSkies MMPG routing system is built over Cybernet's Linux-based NetMAX network connectivity appliance software. NetMAX provides MMPG backbone stability, security and performance, without any server side per-client license expenses.

    "OpenSkies' status as Tesseraction's network engine of choice is testament to the value our technology offers game developers," said Charles Cohen, Cybernet's vice president of research and development. "Besides being easy to integrate, OpenSkies expedites market-readiness, enabling developers to realize revenues sooner, and provides game enthusiasts with a more strategically challenging massive multi-player gaming environment. Everybody wins."

    About Tesseraction

    Tesseraction Games is a recent entry to the high-tech computer game industry, focused on creating innovative interactive entertainment software for the global online gaming market. The company employs a 12-person team with over 60 years' experience in video game and software development. The team includes veterans of "AAA" titles such as Tribes 2, Super Street Fighter 2, X-Men, Trophy Bass Fishing, Dungeons and Dragons and Darkstalkers. The company is based in Eugene, Ore. For more information, please visit www.tesseractiongames.com.

    About Cybernet Systems

    Cybernet Systems Corp. is a profitable, technology-based company focused on developing products that combine software and Internet intelligence with human-machine interaction. Cybernet has successfully leveraged its wealth of intellectual property to bring force feedback technology to market in the form of widely used game controllers and joysticks, introduced NetMAX Linux-based Internet appliance software, and launched the first of its kind "Use Your Head" gesture technology product that enhances PC gaming. The company continues to innovate in the areas of Internet medical systems, large-scale distributed network training and gaming and gesture control interface technology. Additional information on Cybernet Systems is available on the web at www.cybernet.com.