Encore Ships Battle Engine Aquila

ENCORE SHIPS BATTLE ENGINE AQUILA

Unique mech land and air combat game for
PCs expected on store shelves later this month

Los Angeles, CA – October 23, 2003 – Encore,
a majority-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation (NASDAQ: NAVR), today
announced that it has begun shipping Battle Engine Aquila, a mech combat game
with land and air engagement. The PC game will begin reaching store shelves by
the end of this week, and retail for approximately $30.

Said Jeremy Longley, Director at Lost Toys
Limited, "We’re thrilled that the PC version of this game will soon be available
to gamers. Battle Engine Aquila has been widely praised for its fast-paced
action, graphics and replayability, and we can’t wait for it to get it into
gamers’ hands."

Shooter Puts Players at the Helm of Advanced
War Machine

Battle Engine Aquila is a fierce and frenetic
shooter that puts players at the helm of the most advanced war machine ever
created. Tasked with protecting a world from hostile rebel forces, players
employ an impressive arsenal of pulse cannons, micro missiles, spread bombs and
more to prevail in the game’s continuously evolving war zone.

The battle begins on the planet Allium, where
rising sea levels have resulted in a significant reduction in habitable land and
rising tensions

between two major planetary factions. As the
game’s central character

Hawk Winter, players are thrust into this
rapidly escalating conflict as the pilot of the most powerful weapon in the war.
To win the conflict, players can take advantage of the game’s key features:

– Ability to attack enemies by ground or air

– A huge selection of powerful weaponry,
including guns, missiles, cannons, bombs, lasers, grenades and torpedoes

– Modifiable weapon load outs, selectable
wingmen and a host of allied troop, tank, air and sea craft support

– More than 40 missions in a branching
storyline with multiple endings

– "EVO" versions of every mission, which are
significantly harder and present new challenges, such as enemy forces with more
entrenched positions or greater numbers of enemy forces

– Several modes of play, including
Single-Player, Co-Op Mode (two players team up to battle missions together),
Skirmish Mode (pitting two players and their entire armies against each other)
and Versus Mode (one-on-one fights between two Battle Engines in deadly arenas).
Multi-player modes are two player, split-screen, on a single PC.

– Optimized to take advantage of the latest
graphics cards

About Encore

Encore, a majority-owned subsidiary of
Navarre Corporation (NASDAQ: NAVR), is a leading interactive publisher in the PC
CD-ROM and videogame markets. The company will release close to a dozen new
entertainment titles in the coming months through licensing or publishing
agreements with Marvel (DaredevilT), JoWooD Productions (Silent Storm,
Spellforce and Soldner among others), Victory Simulations (Redline: Xtreme Air
Racing 2), Ascaron (Pirate Hunter and Patrician III) and Lost Toys (Battle
Engine Aquila). The company also offers PC titles or compilations in nearly
every major software category from business and productivity to education and
kids, including brand names such as Sesame StreetT, Advantage and SafeworldT.

About Lost Toys