For Immediate Release

Keep an eye on your PC – Uplink: Hacker Elite Ships!

Montreal, Quebec. March 11, 2003 – Publisher Strategy First Inc. and developer Introversion Software announced today that Uplink: Hacker Elite, their one-of-a-kind hacker simulation game, has shipped to retail stores nationwide.

“Uplink is a very unique game with plenty of addictive elements,” says Steve Milburn, Director of Marketing for Strategy First Inc. “I think players will have a great time trying to work their way into a hacker’s world and doing as much damage as they can.”

If you’re good, you’ll get into the system, if you’re great, you’ll take it down…

In Uplink, players take on the role of an Uplink agent, working for large corporations and hacking into rival computer systems, stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money, erasing evidence, and framing innocent people.

Game features

• Original gameplay that gives players the opportunity to be freelance hackers
• Freeform gameplay: Accept the missions that you want to play
• Neuromancer rating: Let your morals guide you; save the net or watch processors melt. Uplink offers two totally different paths to ‘3l33t’ hacker status
• Exciting Missions: Crack a bank, hack a rival into jail, crash the stock market, and get out before you’re caught
• Thrilling action where players make those last 15 seconds count and feel the tension rise, as their signal is traced
• Deep Plot: The computer underground can be a dangerous place, especially if you’ve got to stop the world’s deadliest virus
• Choose your OS: Runs on Windows and Linux

For more information on Uplink: Hacker Elite, please visit www.strategyfirst.com or www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/index.html.

Uplink will be distributed exclusively by Infogrames throughout North America.

About Introversion Software
Introversion Software Ltd, is a new independent developer and UK publisher of original entertainment software for PC, Pocket PC, and Macintosh platforms. The company, based in London, was founded in 2001, with Uplink as its first title. Introversion are currently developing two more titles, the first of which they hope to release in 2003.

About Strategy First Inc.
Strategy First Inc. is a leading developer and worldwide publisher of entertainment software for the PC. Founded in 1990, the company has grown rapidly, publishing major games in the industry and simultaneously developing its own in-house titles such as O.R.B., Disciples II, and Nexagon: Deathmatch. After winning numerous awards for games such as Disciples: Sacred Lands, Europa Universalis, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns and Steel Beasts, Strategy First continues to push the gaming envelope with its own groundbreaking titles, while maintaining its reputation as a unique alternative for independent developers seeking to market their games to a worldwide audience