Japanese Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1998-0192

Fujitsu Partners With mplayer.com in Network Game Service for Japanese Market

Tokyo, September 21, 1998 -- Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has entered into cooperative arrangement with U.S-based Mpath Interactive, Inc. (Headquarters: U.S., CEO: Paul Matteucci) and has acquired exclusive rights to operate a Japanese extension of the Internet-based mplayer.com games and entertainment service as operated by Mpath in the U.S. Under the cooperative arrangement, Fujitsu will launch a network game service for Japanese PC users based on Mpath's mplayer.com technology at the end of 1998.

Mpath has been operating an Internet games and entertainment service in the U.S. under the name of mplayer.com, offering Internet game play experiences for more than eighty popular multiplayer computer games, mostly for free. The service has attracted more than one million registered members. Mplayer.com is an online entertainment community that provides not only a place to play games against opponents on the Internet, but also capabilities such as matchmaking for finding opponents, voice and text chat for socializing with other people, bulletin boards and forums, online events and tournaments, etc. Mplayer.com "aggregates" game content by gathering popular retail computer games from many game developers, working with them to offer Internet game play for their customers.

According to Brian Apgar, founder of Mpath Interactive, Inc. and General Manager for mplayer.com, the partnership offers the necessary combination of superior resources and technology required to bring online gaming to the Japanese market. "Japan is the second largest market for interactive entertainment in the world and Japanese consumers have high expectations," explained Apgar. "Fujitsu is the ideal partner to expand the mplayer.com brand in Japan. Not only is it a powerful brand name in Japanese markets, but it is widely recognized for its cutting-edge technology and quality products and services."

Utilizing mplayer.com's superior technology, Fujitsu will independently operate Internet-based games geared toward Japanese users. As far as content is concerned, Fujitsu will not only adopt games that Mpath is providing in the U.S. but will also invite Japanese game manufacturers to participate. Fujitsu is currently considering which games it will offer and will announce them as they are finalized.

In the network game service area, Fujitsu pioneered the launch of Dragon's Dream (1), the world's first network-based Japanese-language role playing game adapted from the game machine version, as well as the Japanese version of MultiPlayer Battle Tech (2), a multi-player robot combat game for the Internet. The company plans to launch an aggregation service for network games in Japan, capitalizing on its network game service experience and also taking advantage of Mpath's technology, know-how, and relationships with U.S. game developers.

1. Dragon's Dream is a Sega-Saturn game available since December 20, 1997. The Windows 95 version was launched on February 20, 1998.
2. The Japanese version of MultiPlayer Battle Tech has been available since January 27, 1998.

* Mplayer is a registered trademark and mplayer.com, the Mplayer logo, and Mpath are trademarks of Mpath Interactive, Inc. All other company / product names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are used for identification purpose only.

mplayer.com

Launched in October 1996, mplayer.com is rated as the top Internet games and entertainment service by such leading industry publications as Yahoo! Internet Life. Mplayer.com offers the best and broadest range of online games to over one million game enthusiasts throughout North America. In February 1997, mplayer.com made a revolutionary move as the first commercial online game service to offer free Internet game play so game fans can play hit games such as Quake, Scrabble, and Spades against hundreds of thousands of opponents on the Internet at no charge. For only $3.95 a month, game fans can sign up for mplayer.com's Plus service and access special content, ratings and rankings features for special games, online events and tournaments. Mplayer.com remains the leading visionary to deliver superior communication technologies and cutting-edge software and can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.mplayer.com. Mplayer.com is a business unit of Mpath Interactive, a company dedicated to providing technology and services for the creation of people-to-people communities on the Internet.

Fujitsu Limited

Fujitsu Limited is a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace. Founded in Japan in 1935 as a telephone equipment maker, the Fujitsu Group had consolidated revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31,1998.

With over 500 group companies, including Amdahl and ICL, Fujitsu is one of the world's largest suppliers of computers and information systems solutions, telecommunications and semiconductor products, software and services. The Fujitsu Group has over 180,000 employees worldwide and operations in more than 100 countries. Homepage: http://www.fujitsu.com/

Press Contact: Kenichi Watanabe, Scott Ikeda, Bob Pomeroy Fujitsu Limited, Public Relations Tel: +81-3-3215-5236 (Tokyo) Fax: +81-3-3216-9365 e-mail: kenken@hq.fujitsu.co.jp

Customer Contact Hitoshi Kageyama Fujitsu Limited, Network & Contents Business Group Tel: +81-44-754-3828 Fax: +81-44-754-8555 e-mail: kageyama@cyber.mmp.fujitsu.co.jp