Loyalty Duty Respect Selfless Service Honor Integrity Personal Courage

For Public Release

America's Army Announces New Honor Program and Preferred Providers

Westlake Village, Calif., and West Point, NY August 8, 2005 - Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. and the U.S. Army announced today the launch of the AAHonor.com website to provide Honor Services to the more than 5.5 million registered users of the America's Army PC game community. Honor points form the basis of America's Army's unique scoring and rewards system. It is modeled after the Army values of Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-Service, Honor, Integrity and Personal Courage.

As a character progresses throughout the game, Honor levels increase and decrease based upon actions and performance. Honor earnings increase for choosing to be a leader during the match (squad leader, team leader), successfully accomplishing the team's goals or objectives, winning a mission, and avoiding ROE (Rules of Engagement) violations.

By playing on official servers offered by a group of Preferred Providers or enabling Honor services on their existing servers, players can gain Honor points while playing the America's Army game. The Preferred Providers were chosen for their commitment to America's Army including their dedication to support and first-rate customer service. The Preferred Providers and their Points of Presence (POP) locations are:

  • Clanservers.com - NJ/NY; Dallas; Chicago; LA; Atlanta; Seattle; London; Amsterdam
  • GameDaemons - Seattle, WA; San Jose, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Dallas, TX; Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Washington D.C.; New York; NY; London; UK
  • Gamehosters - Ashburn, VA; Los Angeles, CA
  • InfraBasic - Korea

The Preferred Provider partner network will broaden the Points of Presence that the America's Army community currently reaches to provide additional bandwidth in the United States as well as the UK, Amsterdam and Korea. Announcements of additional locations will be announced soon.

Additional information on America's Army, Honor and the Preferred Providers can be found at www.aahonor.com.

Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. develops software. A company that knows no bounds when it comes to the application it's asked to develop, its team members immerse themselves into building a solid framework that then builds upon itself, layer by layer to achieve the necessary objectives. Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. blends superior talent, original thinking and a large dose of common sense. It doesn't allow itself to think in terms of simply completing a project, but evolving it. Through valued feedback by both customer and consumer, it commits its resources to constantly finding a better way. This approach, fundamental to the way each developer works, has contributed to Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. proudly becoming an America's Army technology partner. To find out more about Pragmatic Solutions, Inc., visit www.pr-sol.com. To find out more about the America's Army Honor Program, visit www.aahonor.com.

America's Army was designed and developed to use online game technology as a virtual portal through which young Americans can explore Soldiering in the U.S. Army. In America's Army players can explore and dominate challenges ranging from basic training to Special Forces Assessment and Selection to Special Forces Qualification Course. They can join various elite Army units and see the power of Army teamwork, values and technology. One of the top online action games on the Internet, America's Army has more than 5.5 million registered players who have completed over 94 million hours virtually exploring the Soldiering in the game.

America's Army is rated T for Teen and is available as a free CD at local Army Recruiting stations, ROTC Detachments and Army events, and can also be downloaded from various partners listed on the www.americasarmy.com site.

Clanservers.com provides top notch game servers with locations around the world. Clanservers.com prides their success on an all Tier 1 global network infrastructure located in all major areas of the US as well as in Europe. Clanservers.com also provides a fully customizable Clan Panel which allows every customer to have full control over their game server subscriptions. With features such as Instant Game Setup, Free Voice servers, Free Web hosting, Free Location Switching, and True 24/7 Live technical support, Clanservers.com offers everything any Clan needs to Frag, not Lag. For more information on Clanservers.com, please visit www.clanservers.com.

GameDaemons provides high performance game server hosting for competitive online teams throughout the United States. Founded in 2001, GameDaemons was built around a solid foundation and has provided fast, stable, low latency servers since its inception. GameDaemons was also the first game server provider to evolve a complete management system with a white label option complete with back-office and billing integration called Game Development Extensions (GDX). With professional support unmatched technical expertise for the most popular games, GameDaemons is the solution for serious online games. GameDaemons is a wholly owned subsidiary of Speakeasy. For more information on GameDaemons, please visit www.gamedaemons.net.

While Honor servers can be obtained from a variety of web hosting companies, Gamehosters.com is the only internet technology company selected by The United States Army to host the America's Army Honor database and Virtual Community. In order to maintain Honor compliance, all Honor servers from all providers must connect to the GameHosters.com parent company Carpathia Hosting's infrastructure. As a key participant in the delivery of the America's Army game to the public, GameHosters.com's interest in offering America's Army game servers to the public is exclusively to further fund the development of the game, network and sever control panel. GameHosters.com customers are on the cutting edge of technology providing valuable input to the GameHosters.com engineers that allow for the continual development of the gaming network, hardware platforms and control panels. Play our demo server now to see the difference for yourself: 66.197.126.64:1716. For more information on GameHosters.com, please visit www.gamehosters.com.

InfraBasic manages cross border technology product and business launches in Asia and the U.S. After identifying promising technologies in one market, InfraBasic creates model operations in other untapped, cross border markets. InfraBasic manages the entire process of the launch, from strategic planning, corporate structuring, licensing, and raising capital to hands-on management of marketing and operations. Founded in 1991, InfraBasic is based in New York, and has offices in Seoul and soon in Beijing and Japan. The Korean local web site is www.AAonline.co.kr.

CONTACT:

Robert Brown
Pragmatic Solutions, Inc.
32123 Lindero Canyon Road
Suite 216A
Westlake Village, CA 91361
Phone: (818) 970-9104
E-mail: rob@pr-sol.com

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