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Global Mind Games Partners with Global Entrepreneurship Week

To Launch New Game Application on Facebook® Platform

Innovative game challenges entrepreneurs worldwide to unleash their ideas

BOSTON, MA – October 13, 2010 – Global Mind Games, a producer of social games that provoke debate and inspire real-world change, today announced a partnership with Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) to launch Global Innovation Game (GiG) – a free, online and interactive game that engages aspiring and serial entrepreneurs in meaningful competition.

Partnering with GEW introduces this new game to an audience of 7.6 million people who participated in GEW last year, a figure that is only expected to increase this year.  GEW was co-founded in 2008 by the Kauffman Foundation and Enterprise UK as a global initiative exposing millions of people to life-changing entrepreneurial experiences.

"Global Mind Games produces games that give players fun with real-world value," said Fred Skoler, president and executive producer at Global Mind Games.  "Global Innovation Game teases out inventive ideas, rewards mentorship, expands a player's business network, and creates a platform to showcase strategy, creativity and expertise."

Played on Facebook Platform, GiG challenges players to share innovative solutions for problems impacting communities across the globe. The game's initial challenges are themed around energy, health and transportation.  To succeed, players must collaborate with others to drive up the value of their solutions – or work to bury the competition.  GiG's dynamic economy turns fortunes as quickly as a viral story sweeps the Internet.

"During one week in November, we put a shot of adrenaline in the arm of anyone with a new idea," said Jonathan Ortmans, president of Global Entrepreneurship Week. "GiG provides a fun and educational experience that keeps people interested and engaged when the GEW celebration quiets down."

GEW 2010 takes place from November 15^th to 21^st in 100 countries.  For updates about GiG, connect on Facebook at www.facebook.com/globalinnovationgame and follow on Twitter @GiG_socialgame.

About Global Mind Games

Global Mind Games produces social games that matter.  Committed to creating games that provoke debate and inspire real-world change, Global Mind Games will launch its inaugural game in support of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010.  For more information, visit www.globalmindgames.com, connect on Facebook at www.facebook.com/globalmindgames and follow on Twitter @GlobalMindGames.

About Global Entrepreneurship Week

With the goal to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity, Global Entrepreneurship Week will encourage youth to think big and turn their ideas into reality. From November 15-21, 2010, millions of young people around the world will join a growing movement to generate new ideas and seek better ways of doing things. Tens of thousands of activities are being planned in dozens of countries. Global Entrepreneurship Week is founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Enterprise UK. For more information, visit www.unleashingideas.org, and follow @unleashingideas on Twitter.

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Global Mind Games and DoubleTap Games Join Forces

to Create New Social Game Applications for Facebook® Platform

Boston-based businesses poised to launch global social game for entrepreneurs

10.14.2010– BOSTON, MA – Global Mind Games, a new social games company, has teamed up with another Boston company, DoubleTap Games, to create a new social game application for entrepreneurs played on Facebook Platform.

Global Innovation Game (GiG) is a free, online and interactive game that engages aspiring and serial entrepreneurs to solve real-world problems with innovative ideas. The game encourages collaboration, mentorship and meaningful competition. GiG will launch in November 2010 to an international audience as the official online game of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

"The Boston technology and start-up community is fertile ground for developing new companies and products like Global Innovation Game," said Fred Skoler, president of Global Mind Games. "Partnering with the award-winning team of developers and engineers at DoubleTap Games immediately deepens our bench and accelerates our progress as we prepare to launch GiG."

GMG is comprised of a team of seasoned game developers with more than 20 years of game production experience. The founders identified a gap in the current offering of social games – the lack of games that have the potential to impact social change – and created GMG with the mission to produce social games that provoke debate and inspire real-world change.

"Our strength lies in creating high quality portable, social and multiplayer games, so partnering with Global Mind Games to develop a social game that will touch millions of entrepreneurs around the world is a fascinating challenge," said Richard Corredera, co-founder and director of business affairs at DoubleTap Games. "As entrepreneurs ourselves, the nature of the game – helping people to connect, mentor and shape their entrepreneurial ideas – immediately grabbed us."

Both Skoler and Corredera are participating in Powered Up Boston on October 14, 2010. Corredera will moderate the session "Life as a Startup – Bootstrapping 101" and Skoler will serve as a panelist, sharing insight and anecdotes on what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur in the Boston area.

To learn more about GiG, connect on Facebook at www.facebook.com/globalinnovationgame and follow on Twitter @GiG_socialgame.

About Global Mind Games
Global Mind Games produces social games that matter. Committed to creating games that provoke debate and inspire real-world change, Global Mind Games will launch its inaugural game in support of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010. For more information, visit www.globalmindgames.com, connect on Facebook at www.facebook.com/globalmindgames and follow on Twitter @GlobalMindGames.


About DoubleTap Games
DoubleTap Games creates unique, high quality entertainment software. Focusing on multiplayer and online multiplayer games, DoubleTap builds fresh and innovative games for popular gaming platforms. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the DoubleTap team carries extensive experience in crafting online games of varying scale, as well as movie and TV licensed based games such as WALL•E, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Tak, Jimmy Neutron, Fairly Odd Parents, Scooby Doo, Star Wars, and many others, with an understanding of a licenser's ever-changing properties.

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Official Game of Global Entrepreneurship Week Launches on Facebook® Platform

Global Innovation Game challenges worldwide audience to capture the idea market

Boston-based businesses poised to launch global social game for entrepreneurs

11.15.2010– BOSTON, MA – Global Mind Games, a producer of social games that provoke debate and inspire real-world change, officially launches Global Innovation Game during Global Entrepreneurship Week, celebrated by 10 million people in 100 countries. GiG is the official game of GEW 2010.

"The ability to reach millions of people through free online games has opened up a new world of communications and engagement," said Fred Skoler, co-founder and president of Global Mind Games. "But with this ability comes a responsibility for developers to produce not only games that entertain, but also empower, teach and challenge. GiG is our contribution to help entrepreneurs develop strategy, collaborate with others and engage in healthy competition to capture market support in a global exchange of ideas."

GiG is an interactive online game that engages aspiring and serial entrepreneurs to solve real-world problems by presenting innovative ideas. Unlike many GEW events, the game is not limited by time or geography – innovators from around the world can play GiG from wherever they are, whenever they choose.

"We have a colorful diversity of activities taking place around the world in celebration of entrepreneurship," said Jonathan Ortmans, president of Global Entrepreneurship Week. "GiG brings a unique element by creating a new online space for people to meet and compete throughout the year, continuing the spirit of entrepreneurship."

GiG was previewed in Cairo on November 5 during Egypt's celebration of GEW. The game is currently available on Facebook at www.facebook.com/globalinnovationgame and is free-to-play. For updates about GiG, connect on Facebook and follow on Twitter @GiG_SocialGame.

About Global Mind Games
Global Mind Games produces social games that matter. Committed to creating games that provoke debate and inspire real-world change, Global Mind Games will launch its inaugural game in support of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010. For more information, visit www.globalmindgames.com, connect on Facebook at www.facebook.com/globalmindgames and follow on Twitter @GlobalMindGames.

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First Winners Announced in Social Game for Entrepreneurs

Global Innovation Game rewards three top players with business tools and expert advice

12.02.2010– BOSTON, MA – Global Mind Games, a producer of social games that provoke debate and inspire real-world change, revealed the first three players to earn tangible rewards from its online social game, Global Innovation Game.

GiG launched in early November as the official online game of Global Entrepreneurship Week, which was celebrated by 10 million people in more than 100 countries. New features are being added to GiG as it expands to meet demand.

Throughout the week of GEW in mid-November, players competed within GiG for the top spot in three categories – health, energy and transport. The three players described below posted solutions to real life challenges that reflected fresh thinking and received the most support – both from the players themselves and other players within the GiG community.

• Tarek Refaat of Cairo, Egypt, for his solution to use river transportation and increase bicycle usage to relieve heavy vehicle traffic in the streets of his city.
• Hilary Singer, a native of the U.S. state of Alaska currently living in Edinburgh, U.K., for recommending a mobile purification system that cleanses water while it is being transported from the source.
• Bugs Tan of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for his idea to wrap thin, flexible solar films around objects to maximize capture of the sun's energy throughout the day.

All three winners will receive a rewards package courtesy of game sponsor Mercator XXI, a professional services company helping clients engage the global economy, that consists of a year's worth of expert advice to develop a business plan or investment presentation, assistance in identifying possible sources of financing, and up to $750 USD of business tools to help each entrepreneur to succeed.

"All along, we've believed that social games can be so much more than just a way to pass the time – they can be a catalyst for real change," said Edward DeMarco, CEO of Global Mind Games and a former foreign policy editor in Washington, DC. "Awarding these first prizes is just the beginning. We can't wait to see what players come up with next as they buy, sell and create solutions in the GiG idea market."

The game is free-to-play at www.facebook.com/globalinnovationgame. To join the GiG community, connect on Facebook and follow on Twitter @GiG_SocialGame.

About Global Mind Games
Global Mind Games produces social games that matter. Committed to creating games that provoke debate and inspire real-world change, the company launched its inaugural product, Global Innovation Game, in 2010. For more information, visit www.globalmindgames.com, connect on Facebook at www.facebook.com/globalmindgames and follow on Twitter @GlobalMindGames.

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International Idea Movement Teams Up with Facebook App to Find Innovation

Leading developer of games for social change, Boston-based Global Mind Games (GMG), has partnered with Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI) to bring challenges to Facebook game GiG.

08.01.2011– BOSTON, MA – A leading developer of games for social change, Boston-based Global Mind Games (GMG), has partnered with one of the world's most popular innovation forums for young people, Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI), of Florida. The partnership will showcase original Saturday challenges from FPSPI in GMG's social game, Global Innovation Game (GiG), played on Facebook. .

GiG plays as an international idea marketplace for aspiring change agents. Problem solvers interact with each other as they create solutions to topical challenges on global warming, technology, poverty, water, food, energy, freedom and more. With hundreds of challenges in its live stream, GiG has attracted players from 19 countries who create, buy and sell ideas using a virtual currency. Generating more than 1,000 solutions to the world's most pressing challenges, GiG has proven its importance as a platform for crowdsourcing meaningful ideas.

FPSPI will draw millions of brainstorming innovators to special Problem Solvers Saturday challenges on GiG's real-time platform as an online, interactive addition to the FPSPI curricula.

Fred Skoler, veteran games producer and president of Global Mind Games, anticipates meaningful outcomes from the partnership. "Smart kids, with big ideas, know that social media is empowering. GiG pairs the engagement of a game with social tools that amplify ideas globally and trigger real-world action. The FPSPI community brings energized problem solvers to GiG, where they can practice their problem-solving skills and lead global change through Global Mind Game's innovation platform."

Future Problem Solving Program International's Executive Director Marianne Solomon adds, "The relationship of FPSPI with Global Mind Games is very exciting as our participants are given the chance to focus on global issues, research topics and envision and create solutions along with other problem solvers from around the world. Not only will participants utilize critical and creative thinking in GiG, but they will visualize innovative ideas while addressing global issues – great practice for our future leaders!"

The partnership with Future Problem Solving Program International is part of a worldwide effort to bring "idea brands" to the GiG platform, so the world can dream up ideas and then

Find GiG on Facebook at: https://apps.facebook.com/globalinnovationgame To reach Global Mind Games, contact pr@globalmindgames.com Follow on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/GiG_socialgame. To reach Future Problem Solving Program International, contact Executive Director Marianne Solomon at marianne@fpspi.org.
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GiG Brainstorms Arab Frontier, Rising Africa, Brazil Future in Game Challenges, Chats for GEW 2011

Brainstorm a New World Series to Debut Nov. 14 in the Official Online Game of Global Entrepreneurship Week Set for 123 Countries

11.11.2011– Amid warfare and Europe's debt crisis, a new world has emerged since Global Entrepreneurship Week in 2010. And the official online game of GEW, Global Innovation Game, is poised to explore the winning regions in special brainstorming challenges and Twitter chats next week during GEW 2011.

"The financial and political shocks of the past year showed us where the world economy has strength. And it's basically where entrepreneurs are making a big mark," says Global Mind Games co-founder Edward DeMarco, a former international policy editor. "East Asia, key parts of Africa, Brazil, post-revolution Arab nations and emerging Europe, such as Turkey – all are being lifted up by entrepreneurship."

Starting Nov. 14, Global Innovation Game – known as GiG -- will feature provocative challenges inspired by these regions under the banner: Brainstorm a New World. What's the Amazon worth to Brazil's entrepreneurs? What can an Arab revolutionary teach us about business? How can startups make Africa roar by tackling security threats and the gap in education?

GiG's lineup next week: Asia Ahead on Monday, Nov. 14; Arab Frontier on Tuesday, Nov. 15; Brazil Scores on Wednesday Nov. 16, Rising Africa on Thursday, Nov. 17 and Emerging Europe on Friday, Nov. 18.

Fady Ramzy of Interact Egypt will join the GiG Twitter chat Nov. 15 to talk about the challenges for entrepreneurs after the Arab Spring. East Africa social-media guru Mark Kaigwa is the special guest from Nairobi on Nov. 17 to talk about the consumer revolution in Africa. Other guests during the week will include a Turkish serial entrepreneur and experts on Brazil's rise.

The one-hour Twitter chats will begin each day at 10 a.m. New York time at #GiGchat on Twitter. To join the conversation, simply add #GiGchat at the end of your tweet.

To check out what's trending in GiG and jump into the game, point your browser to: http://trends.globalmindgames.com. You can also enter the game directly through Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/globalinnovationgame

And now you can suggest a challenge for the game by posting at #GiGask on Twitter.

Aspiring entrepreneurs use GiG as a fun platform to crowdsource ideas for all kinds of challenges, from the environment to technology to development in Africa. And because this is a social game, you play for status across four traits: Ambassador, Influencer, Investor and Socialite. (Click on your profile picture in GiG to see how you score.)

"The bottom line is you're competing to win a global brainstorm," DeMarco says. "And you can rally your Facebook friends to back your ideas with our easy sharing features and virtual currency. GiG is feature rich and building a loyal player base across the world."

To learn more about GEW 2011, with millions of participants across 123 countries, go to: http://www.unleashingideas.org