September 18, 2009, Moscow. IT Territory, a part of Astrum Online Entertainment and Fanat.ru portal, a part of SUP Fabric media holding company are proud to announce launch of a new joint project. Browser-based soccer management game Soccer Territory now became available for users of Fanat.ru at http://tf.fanat.ru.

Soccer Territory is a fully featured soccer management game with matches broadcast in browser window. Once registered, the user is given his own soccer team, ability to transfer players and all the job responsibilities that a coach and a manager of a soccer club would have. The user can win tournaments and cups, find sponsors for his club, make profit building his own stadium and sports base. During the game every user will be able to transform a small team into a leading soccer club with professional players and army of loyal fans.

Any user of Fanat.ru will be able to enter Soccer Territory game using his Fanat ID as a login name, no additional registration is required.

“Integration of Soccer Territory and Fanat.ru is a great growth opportunity for both projects”, says Vsevolod Leonov, Vice-President of Development at Astrum Online Entertainment. “We look at this project with great optimism, as well as at the other possibilities of cooperation with SUP Fabric media holding”.
“One of the most important goals of Fanat.ru project is to connect our users to the new and unique services. Soccer Territory is one of the best online soccer management games on the market, and we are happy to collaborate with Astrum Online Entertainment, which allows us to significantly expand the range of services we provide to Fanat.ru visitors”, adds Dmitry Sergeev, head of sports projects of SUP Fabric.

About Fanat.ru:
Fanat.ru (www.fanat.ru) is unified system of sports fans registration. Upon registering the user receives his Fanat ID and gains access to new unique services designed for a real sports aficionado. In September 2009 the long-term cooperation agreement was signed between Russian Sports Supporters association (VOB) and Fanat.ru. Now everyone registered on Fanat.ru web site can submit their request to join VOB and take part in the events arranged by VOB and Fanat.ru.



About SUP Fabric:
SUP Fabric is an international internet company established and based in Moscow. Since its launch in 2006 it has acquired, integrated and developed holdings and at this point it holds four successful business projects (Internet based Gazeta.ru, LiveJournal.com, sports project Championat.ru (Fanat.ru, Championat.tv and others) and media sales house +SOL.) These companies are split into two core business units.

SUP Media – holds #1 positions for news, sport and analytical information, it also operates the most popular blogging service in Russian online space, LiveJournal.com, reaching more than 45% of Russian web users (TNS Gallup, March 2009).

SUP Advertizing – overseeing some of the most attractive inventory on the Russian internet, producing some of the best online campaigns and reaching through its sales network more than 70% of Russian web users.

About IT Territory:
IT Territory (http://www.it-territory.ru) is the developer and publisher of the online games and the games for social networks and is a part of Astrum Online Entertainment (http://www.astrumonline.ru), the largest player in Russia’s gaming market. The company is presently a leader in the online sector of Russian gaming market with 20 games in its portfolio, including 13 of its own games as well as the games by independent developers and licensed projects. The total number of the users registered in the IT Territory projects exceeds 12.5 million.
The company’s flagship, free role-playing online game Legend: Legacy of the Dragons (http://w2.dwar.ru) has been released in Russian, English (http://www.warofdragons.com), German (http://www.warofdragons.de), Chinese (http://w1.lz.woniu.com) and Turkish (http://www.dwar.gen.tr) languages.

About Astrum Online Entertainment:
Astrum Online Entertainment is the largest player in the Eastern European market of interactive online entertainment. Currently, the Corporation includes five companies: Astrum Nival (http://www.astrumnival.com), Nikita.Online (http://www.nikitaonline.ru), IT Territory (http://it-territory.ru), TimeZero (www.timezero.com) and DJ Games (http://www.djgames.com.ua/). The companies have successfully launched over thirty massive multiplayer online games, including such popular projects as Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (http://www.lotro-russia.com), Legend: Legacy of the Dragons (http://www.dwar.ru), the Territory (http://www.territory.ru), TimeZero (http://www.timezero.ru), Sphere (http://www.sphere.nikitaonline.ru), Piratia (http://www.piratia.ru), Perfect World (http://www.pwonline.ru) and many others. The total audience of Astrum’s projects has exceeded twenty million players in the beginning of 2009.

Astrum Online Entertainment prepares to release ten of its own gaming projects as well as six localized online games by its foreign partners during 2009. For more information please visit Astrum Online website at http://www.astrumonline.ru.