Yahoo! Games and GameSpot Announce Content Relationship

Business Wire, Dec 14, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo! Games (http://games.yahoo.com), a leading online games site, and GameSpot (www.gamespot.com), a leading source for unbiased gaming information, today announced a partnership through which GameSpot's comprehensive PC and video game content offering will be provided to Yahoo! Games users, starting in the first quarter of 2005.

As video games become increasingly popular among a broader consumer audience, this arrangement will enable Yahoo! Games to further expand its content offering into video games, which will complement its already strong offering in casual games. In turn, GameSpot will gain greater exposure before Yahoo's expansive audience.

GameSpot, a CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET) property, is a dynamic, high-quality editorial Web property that is a leading guide to today's burgeoning PC and video games market. GameSpot offers reviews, news, and previews of the hottest upcoming games, as well as an expansive database of demos, trailers, screenshots, and game guides. The property, which engages users with a host of innovative community features and vast array of broadband video content, attracts more than 1.25 million unique visitors per day, primarily men between 18 and 34 years old, who generate 170,000 message board posts, and more than 600,000 on-demand video streams each day.

"Yahoo! Games is the number one casual games site on the Internet, and now we want to become the destination of choice for video gamers," said Geoff Graber, general manager of Yahoo! Games. "GameSpot content is a key part of our strategy to raise the company to a new level in online games."

"Our partnership with Yahoo! Games marks another major step in establishing GameSpot as the leading content source for the rapidly expanding games market, and exposes our brand to millions of new users," said Vince Broady, senior vice president of CNET Networks' games and entertainment. "Our internal site growth, combined with our ever expanding network of content partners -- which include leading portals, retailers, and wireless carriers -- has made us the standard for games information worldwide."

About Yahoo! Games

The leading destination for online games and one of the largest game communities on the Internet, Yahoo! Games (http://games.yahoo.com) offers more than 50 free, Java-based games to a worldwide audience of players. In addition, Yahoo! Games offers single-player and multi-player games and downloadable games and demos. Premium service offerings include Yahoo! Games All-Star, providing players with tournaments, game leagues and other customized game-play features and Yahoo! Games on Demand, delivering the ability to rent and play PC video games directly on the broadband-connected desktop through a streamed service. Yahoo! Games hosts more than six billion minutes of online game-play per month and is ranked the No. 1 online games site by Nielsen//NetRatings.

About GameSpot

GameSpot, a CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET) property, is a leading online source for gaming information. The GameSpot family includes GameFAQs, Game Rankings, Wireless Gaming Review, GameSpot DLX, and GameSpot Trax, its real-time market intelligence tool. GameSpot's Websites offer free access to tens of thousands of PC and video game reviews from expert editors, previews of the hottest upcoming games, game downloads, video streams, guides, breaking news, and hints. GameSpot also has one of the most active online gaming communities which is a free, innovative social network service that makes it fun and easy for gamers to meet and interact with others that share their specific gaming interests.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo!'s global network includes 25 world properties and is available in 13 languages.

About CNET Networks, Inc.

CNET Networks, Inc. (www.cnetnetworks.com) is a premier global interactive content company that informs, entertains, and connects large, engaged audiences around topics of high information need or personal passion. The company focuses on three categories -- personal technology, games and entertainment, and business technology -- and includes such leading brands as CNET, ZDNet, TechRepublic, MP3.com, GameSpot, CNET Download.com, CNET News.com, Webshots, Computer Shopper magazine, and CNET Channel. With a strong presence in the US, Asia and Europe, CNET Networks has operations in 12 countries.