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GAMETABLE ONLINE BRINGS METAGAME TO GLEEMAX™

Gaming Platform Brings Board Gaming to Wizards of the Coast's New Website

Florence, MA - October 11, 2007 - When GameTable Online® went live in 2003 their game platform powered a handful of popular board games on the subscription gaming site GameTableOnline.com. Today Metagame™, as their game platform is called, is the power behind Gleemax.com's™ Board Game Portal from Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (NYSE: HAS).

Utilizing Metagame, Wizards of the Coast (WotC) will bring many of their most beloved board and card games to the Internet. Already announced are Axis & Allies®, Robo Rally™, Guillotine™ and Vegas Showdown®. Others are in development by GameTable Online (GTO) that will be announced by WotC in the coming months.

"Wizards approached us initially to create a prototype of Guillotine using our technology," recalls Robert Eng, vice president of GameTable Online. "Building on our experience and the capabilities of the Metagame platform, we very quickly developed an electronic recreation of their card game classic."

"At first we thought we would have to build our own technology, but as we investigated our options we realized that GameTable Online had already built pretty much exactly the engine we were looking for," said Randy Buehler, Vice President of Digital Games with Wizards of the Coast. "The relationship has been going well and we look forward to bringing this platform and these games to our customers."

GTO has been building Metagame since 2001 and using it for their subscription site while quietly planning to license it to companies looking to create their own portals or to add multi-player games to their existing websites. The platform makes it easy to host, manage and track the complexities of multi-player board, card, dice and trivia games - while also providing a game development engine for quickly building new games.

"It is a great pleasure to work with a company known worldwide for their tremendous games as well as for their pioneering work in online gaming," added Joe Minton, President of GTO. "We are thrilled that, using our Metagame platform, so many people will be able to play touchstone games like Axis & Allies."

About GameTable Online
GameTable Online is a Florence, Massachusetts based company that provides, technology, services and expertise for putting turn-based, multi-player strategy games online. Their Metagame™ platform powers both Gleemax's board game portal and GTO's own gaming portal. For more information please visit the Metagame website www.metagame.biz.

About Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE:HAS), is a worldwide leader in the trading card game and tabletop role-playing game categories, and a leading developer and publisher of game based entertainment products. The company holds an exclusive patent on trading card games (TCGs) and their method of play and produces the premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering®, among many other trading card games and family card and board games. Wizards is also a leading publisher of role-playing games, such as Dungeons & Dragons®, and publisher of fantasy series fiction with numerous New York Times bestsellers. For more information, visit the Wizards of the Coast website at www.wizards.com.

© 2007 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Gleemax, Gleemax.com, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Robo Rally, Guillotine and Vegas Showdown are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. in the U.S.A. and other countries. Axis & Allies is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc.

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