Baaa-rilliant News: Farmerama Prepares for Shear Madness as Shaun the Sheep Joins the Farm

HAMBURG, Germany, August 10, 2011 -

• Farmerama gets the flock treatment as Shaun the Sheep and the gang join the popular online game
• Bigpoint launches one of the biggest updates to Farmerama with significant partnership with Aardman Animations and provider of branded virtual items, Iconicfuture

Love Shaun the Sheep’s naughty antics, but reckon that if you were the farmer, you could manage to prevent some of his more mischievous mistakes? Well, with the arrival of Shaun the Sheep into Bigpoint’s popular online game, Farmerama (www.farmerama.com), now you can.

Shaun the Sheep and his flock including Shirley, Timmy and Timmy’s Mother will arrive in the game in the middle of August 2011 and Farmerama’s existing 150 million sheep are already getting excited to become part of Shaun’s flock. However, Bitzer the put-upon sheepdog is definitely concerned that with such a big increase to Shaun’s flock there may well be baa-mageddon!

Tobias Reisberger, Chief Games Officer, Bigpoint, says: “We know that Shaun the Sheep is one of the most popular TV shows across the world and we’re delighted to welcome him into Farmerama. With over 30 million players of Farmerama across the world, this addition is Shaun to be a star.”

So, here’s looking at ewe, let’s get playing this unbleatable game at: www.farmerama.com

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About Bigpoint

Bigpoint (www.bigpoint.com) is an online-game developer, publisher, and content provider for large media concerns. Bigpoint-developed games are played by over 200 million people in more than 30 languages, are free-to-play anytime, anywhere, and require no download or installation. The company’s portfolio includes games in a quality which until now was associated exclusively with CD or console games. More than 700 employees from over 35 different nations work at the company headquarters in Hamburg, Germany or at other locations in Berlin, San Francisco, São Paulo and Malta. Bigpoint’s many distinctions in the industry include the Mashable Best Online Game Award for “Farmerama”, the “Fastest Growing Larger Company” and “Uniqueness of Offering” prizes at the 2010 Media Momentum Awards, as well as the MTV Skyscraper Award for extraordinary achievement in game development. For more information or press material, please visit the press area at www.bigpoint.net.

About Iconicfuture

Iconicfuture facilitates the creation of branded virtual items in social games, virtual worlds and mobile applications. It brings together games developers with rights-holders and simplifies the process of clearing rights. Iconicfuture recently won the Innovation Award at the SPONSORS Sports Media Summit in Düsseldorf 2011. For more information please visit www.iconicfuture.com.

Please address all inquiries to:
Bigpoint GmbH
Katharina Frank
PR
Tel: +49-(0)40 881413-193
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E-mail: k.frank@bigpoint.net

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