Released on = April 2, 2007, 2:23 am

Press Release Author = Sheela Panicker

Industry = Internet & Online

Press Release Summary = - Bjorn, is an Architect of Internet's First Tournament Game
Systems

Press Release Body = Hyderabad, India, April 02, 2007: Gameshastra world's leading
provider of Game Development Services today announced the appointment of Bjorn Book
Larsson as VP Game Development & CTO. In this role, Bjorn will oversee Gameshastra's
new game services initiatives and product development roadmap.

\"Bjorn Book brings years of solid experience in game development management and is
an ideal complement to our strong engineering team. His proven ability to architect
and drive technology strategy will result in innovative solutions for game
publishers that rely on Gameshastra's end-to-end technological excellence.\" Prakash
Ahuja, CEO, Gameshastra said. \"We have chalked out aggressive growth plans and his
expertise will be invaluable as we continue to set new standards in Game Services
for our partners and our customers.\"

Prior to joining Gameshastra Bjorn Book Larsson was Chief Technology Officer at FUN
Technologies Inc (LSE:FUN, TSX:FUN) a Liberty Media company. At FUN, Bjorn led
development of casual, sports, fantasy and sci-fi games across a wide range of
devices and platforms (online, PC, downloads, devices, consoles and handhelds) for
world-wide distribution.

\"Gameshastra is in a solid position to turn into Gaming industry\'s leading Game
Services provider world wide,\" Bjorn, the new CTO at Gameshastra, said. \"It has a
world-class facility, which addresses today\'s most demanding needs in Gaming
Technology. I look forward to working with Gameshastra's young and highly talented
team and its extensive list of global customers as well as accelerate the company\'s
rapid growth and market momentum.\"




As CTO of Skilljam.com that Bjorn co-founded in 1999, before moving to FUN, he
architected one of the Internet's first tournament game systems, which became the
skill game platform of choice for Intermix Media, Microsoft, DirecTV, Virgin Games,
AOL, Real Networks, Lycos Europe, Excite, GSN, RIM and T-Online, at its peak
reaching over 10 million of registered tournament players. In March 2006 Liberty
Media bought a controlling interest in FUN for $200 million USD.


In his previous positions Bjorn dealt extensively with widely distributed
development teams and methodologies, including consulting stints for AT&T, Telcordia
and OLabs where he guided teams to adopt early XML-based methodologies to
interconnect loosely coupled systems. Most recently Bjorn managed game development
efforts spread across seven offices in three different countries. This background
gives him a unique perspective on the challenges involved in integrating externally
developed code into internal development cycles. He brings a unique understanding of
the customer's point of view to his leadership at Game Shastra's Game Development
Division.

Bjorn holds a BS degree in Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science from
UNC-Chapel Hill.

Game Shastra's Game Development Division provides outsourced game services that
range from individual game components to complete end-to-end games.

About Gameshastra

Gameshastra has been involved in game testing and related services for over two
years, and have successfully handled the testing of numerous games for leading
publishers and development houses globally. The company has opened a
state-of-the-art Game Services center in Hyderabad to extend testing services for
all the gaming platforms - Consoles, Handheld, Mobiles and Online and offers testing
- Functionality, Compatibility, Game-play, Certification. To know more about
Gameshastra visit http://www.gameshastra.com

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