21.10.2007, Saint-Petersburg, As a result of 1.5 years' work a few months ago the company started a new division of development and in the middle of October JoyBits took part in Casual Game Conference 2007 in Kiev.

JoyBits has extended its horizons of development and started PC casual project. The first PC title will be released in January 2008 and has a good chance to get on top of the major distributors. As a part of new direction the company participated in Casual Game Conference 2007 in Kiev and had lots of meetings with major publishers and distributors and also with the legend of casual industry Jason Kapalka.

Sergio Manucharian, Head of Sales (JoyBits); Jason Kapalka, Creative Director (PopCap); Anton Rybakov, CEO (JoyBits)

JoyBits’ mobile division also was of interest to participants, especially to I-Play Company (acquired by Oberon Media). Possibilities of partnership and distribution were discussed with Stephane Labrunie, Senior Vice President of I-Play and the great hopes of working hand-to-hand were originated.

Anton Rybakov, CEO (JoyBits); Stephane Labrunie, Senior Vice President (I-Play); Sergio Manucharian, Head of Sales (JoyBits)

The CGC 2007 now is the largest professional conference in Eastern Europe and this year there were over 500 people, representing more than 150 companies from 24 different countries. Our conference presentation you can look at here:

About JoyBits

JoyBits is a leading Russian mobile game-developer and content-aggregator company started in 2002. JoyBits’ expanding mobile game development studio has its successful track record of over 30 mobile games and J2ME products that contain our award-winning original IP combine in-depth stories, excellent graphics and unique-to-mobile design. We are also highly experienced and skilled at publishing and aggregating famous world developers’ games in Russia. JoyBits is your ideal partner on the Russian market and for the next higher steps of your mobile developing and publishing! More info at www.joybits.org