SpaceWorks Entertainment Inc. and Silverbirch Studios here are
pleased to announce that production has begun on the mobile game of Ice
Planet, part of a $50-million+ gaming and television entertainment franchise.
The mobile game, funded in part by a grant from the Bell Broadcast and New
Media Fund, will be a multi-level RPG game incorporating the characters and
settings from the HD television series Ice Planet. Both game and TV series will
feature Michael Ironside.

Gamers will be pleased to know that by July all reference builds will be complete and the final version will be mastered and released in time for the television series' broadcast debut this Fall.

"We're very excited to work on this project," said Silverbirch Studios Vice President Jason Azevedo. "It's an honor to be part of a sci-fi franchise that promises to be as original and ground-breaking as Ice Planet does. Creatively, it's the perfect canvas for a successful mobile game."

Integrating storylines from the television series into the mobile game play is a new concept for the two media producing their respective productions in tandem and launching simultaneously.
"We wanted to bring the gaming community back to television," said SpaceWorks
CEO Philip Jackson. "A growing demographic has been moving away from
television and our strategy in this and all our future productions, is to provide
entertainment that appeals to them."

A console game is also about to begin production with a street date that will coincide with the television series' season finale in 2008.