Bitstream T2K is a high-performance font engine well suited for interactive applications. It provides high-quality rendering in any format, for virtually any device, from the smallest embedded systems to the largest multi-threaded systems. T2K offers superior quality and speed, small code size, and font compression, and it supports all major industry-standard font formats. In addition, T2K is easily scalable to Font Fusion, the premier font-rendering engine from Bitstream.

Sports Interactive publishes games for various PCs and the popular new Xbox from Microsoft Corporation. The 2001 soccer title Championship Manager: Season 01/02 was the fastest-selling personal computer game in history in the United Kingdom, racking up over 103,000 copies in the first weekend alone, according to a ChartTrack report at the time. The previous record was set by an earlier version, Championship Manager 3 , which recorded sales of 70,000 units during its debut weekend in 1999. Championship Manager 4 , the latest in the series, is due for release in February 2003 and looks set to continue the record-breaking run.

As Miles Jacobson, President and CEO of Sports Interactive, explains, "Over the years Bitstream has provided us with outstanding technology and service and some of the funkiest fonts we've found. We're happy to extend our relationship with this US partner."

Adds Bitstream President Anna Chagnon, "By renewing our licensing agreement with Sports Interactive, Bitstream continues to maintain its impressive stable of long-term clients and its connections to the UK. We welcome the ongoing opportunity to deliver the consistent legibility of our T2K font rendering engine to the computer gaming market and to develop creative new font families to address this fast-moving sector."

About

Bitstream Inc.
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc and Font Fusion technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream has released ThunderHawk, a breakthrough technology for the wireless Web.

Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sports Interactive
Sports Interactive is the development team behind the award-winning and market-leading Championship Manager football games (published by Eidos Interactive). Sports Interactive employs a full-time team of twelve at its headquarters in Islington, North London, and is supported hundreds of researchers around the world.

Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion, MyFonts.com, and ThunderHawk are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. T2K is a registered trademark of Type Solutions, Inc., a Bitstream company. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Anna Chagnon
President
Bitstream inc.
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