Themis Group to handle Marketing for Nicely Crafted Entertainment’s “Time of Defiance”

 Stamford, Connecticut, September 24th, 2002 – Nicely Crafted Entertainment Ltd. (“NiCE”) today announced it had contracted The Themis Group, an international provider of outsourcing and consulting solutions and services to the interactive entertainment industry, to provide Marketing and Public Relations services for their brand new massively multiplayer RTS game, Time of Defiance.

“Themis Group has a keen understanding of the US audience,” said Toby Simpson, Managing Director of NiCE. “We’re very excited to be working with them to introduce our next-generation massively multiplayer RTS game to the American online gaming audience.”

Under the terms of the agreement, Themis will provide a full solution to Nicely Crafted’s North American Marketing and PR requirements. Additionally, Themis will consult on community and customer relations issues.

“A massively multiplayer RTS is something that a lot of gamers have been wanting for some time now,” said Themis Marketing Manager Daniel “Savant” Manachi. “We’ll be getting Time of Defiance the exposure that it deserves.”

Time of Defiance is a massively multiplayer real time strategy game based upon many thousands of small floating islands on the remains of the planet of Nespanona. The Cog people are locked into a battle of supremacy with each other. The player takes on the role of one of the COG tribes and plays against hundreds or thousands of other players to gain control of the Northern Continent. The players expand their empires through exploration, negotiation, war or peace – using the strategies and tactics of their choice. There are no artificial players, and every empire found belongs to another human being. Typical games last for four weeks, although many other combinations are possible. Time of Defiance launched on-line at the end of August 2002, and is currently available to download from http://www.timeofdefiance.com with a free 5-day trial period.

About The Themis Group

The Themis Group is an international provider of outsourcing and consulting solutions and services to the interactive entertainment industry. Led by one of the most experienced teams in the industry, its expertise in community building, customer care and online operations is unparalleled. Themis Group, Inc. is headquartered in Stamford, CT. For more information, visit the website at http://www.themis-group.com or contact info@themis-group.com.

About Nicely Crafted Entertainment Ltd:

Nicely Crafted Entertainment Ltd (NiCE) was created in 2001 to design and create Massively Multiplayer virtual worlds using their proprietary shared environment modelling system called “AliceServer”. NiCE’s company vision is to take the word “virtual” out of the phrase “virtual reality” – putting The Matrix® in your living room. NiCE is headquartered in Cambridge, England. For more information, visit the website at www.nicelycrafted.com or contact info@nicelycrafted.com.