For Immediate Release
April 16, 2003

Enlightened Age Entertainment, Inc., Land Rick McDowell

Enlightened Age Entertainment spokesperson Susan Davis announced that the company signed Rick McDowell to lead its online strategy gaming business as President. “We are delighted to have attracted the individual we feel is ideally qualified to lead EAE to success in this untapped market. Mr. McDowell, while Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Blockbuster, Inc., demonstrated big-market savvy, including efforts such as assembling a $1.9 billion credit facility that allowed that company to launch its IPO in 1999. Following that, he managed the capital structure of Blockbuster, reducing its debt more than $1 billion and battling successfully for the important credit rating upgrade to investment grade – the only such upgrade anywhere in the entertainment industry in 2002. Perhaps more important to EAE, Mr. McDowell is the multiple national award winning game designer/producer of arguably the best multi-player strategy game to date in any medium: Alamaze. He may be the only individual ever to become both a senior executive for a Fortune 500 sized company and an established, highly regarded game designer and creative marketer. We are confident he will provide the leadership Enlightened Age Entertainment needs to successfully bring new, exciting, and best-in-class games to the young web-based strategy gaming market.”