FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2004 4:30 p.m. PDT IRVINE, Calif. - Blizzard Entertainment® today announced plans to enter into an agreement with Swingin' Ape StudiosTM for the collaborative development of multi-platform titles based on Blizzard licenses. Their first project will be to continue work on the upcoming tactical-action console game, StarCraft: GhostTM. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. "The team at Swingin' Ape Studios is a very talented group of developers with a proven ability to deliver extraordinary games," stated Mike Morhaime, Blizzard Entertainment president and co-founder. "We're confident that this partnership will result in titles that achieve the level of quality that players have come to expect from Blizzard products." Further details regarding future projects and platform specifics will be announced at a later date.