HUDSON ENTERTAINMENT and KONAMI ANNOUNCE HONEYCOMB BEAT, AN ADDICTIVE NEW PUZZLE GAME FOR NINTENDO DS™

HUDSON ENTERTAINMENT and KONAMI ANNOUNCE HONEYCOMB BEAT, AN ADDICTIVE NEW PUZZLE GAME FOR NINTENDO DS™

Music-Enhanced Puzzle Game Delivers Unique Brain Teasing Gameplay to Energize Your Mind

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – February 2, 2007 – Hudson Entertainment and Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced Honeycomb Beat, a puzzle game exclusively for the Nintendo DS™. Combining hypnotic music with brain teasing challenges that everyone can enjoy, Honeycomb Beat features intuitive touch screen puzzle action across three modes of play that lets gamers try to clear hexagonal Honeycombs from the game board.

Designed to challenge the brain, Honeycomb Beat requires players to use the Nintendo DS stylus to manipulate Honeycombs. Touching a Honeycomb, which is white on one side and colored on the other, changes both its color and that of all the adjacent panels. Using this intuitive mechanic, the player must meet certain level-based objectives, such as creating specific shapes or turning the entire game board a certain color.

Honeycomb Beat features more than 200 unique puzzles for players to solve across the game’s Puzzle and Evolution modes. In Puzzle Mode, players must shift all the Honeycombs on the game board to create a specific shape. Players are given an unlimited amount of time to flex their brains and try to come up with the best solution for each level. Evolution Mode challenges players to make quick decisions to clear fast-rising lines of Honeycombs by turning each row one color. The action quickens as more lines are eliminated, so players must focus to keep from being overwhelmed by the rapidly rising Honeycombs. Evolution Mode tracks the player’s progress and assigns different values to their overall brain “Evolution Level,” from mitochondria to neo-human. Players can customize their game experience in each mode of play, choosing from a wide variety of Honeycomb colors, background images, music and visualizers that are unlocked by meeting specific gameplay goals.

Honeycomb Beat will launch for the Nintendo DS in Spring 2007.

About Hudson Entertainment, Inc.
Hudson Entertainment is the North American publishing arm of Hudson Soft, an international provider of games and entertainment content founded in 1973. Hudson introduced best-selling classic videogame franchises including Bomberman, Bonk, and Super Adventure Island. Since 2000, Hudson’s mobile division has been a leading supplier of games and personalized content. Through their partnership with The Source and Death Row Records, Hudson is a leading provider of hip-hop ring tones and mobile content. For more information on Hudson Entertainment, please visit www.HudsonEntertainment.com

About Konami
Konami is a leading developer, publisher and manufacturer of electronic entertainment properties. Konami’s titles include the popular franchises Metal Gear Solid®, Silent Hill®, Dance Dance Revolution® and Castlevania®, among other top sellers. The latest information about Konami can be found on the Web at www.konami.com. Konami Corporation is a publicly traded company based in Tokyo, Japan with subsidiary offices, Konami Digital Entertainment, Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan, Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. in the United States and Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany. Konami Corporation is traded in the United States on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol KNM. Details of the products published by Konami can be found at www.konami.com.

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© 2007 HUDSON SOFT. Developed & Published by HUDSON SOFT. Distributed by Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. “HONEYCOMB BEAT” is a trademark of HUDSON SOFT. All Rights Reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.

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