Bigpoint’s top online game “DarkOrbit” now available on cell phones: “GPS Mission” extends an online game into real life for the first time ever

  • World’s first: Online game “DarkOrbit” available to play in real life via a cell phone
    application
  • The online game portal “Bigpoint.com” and outdoor GPS game platform “GPS Mission”
    implement the pilot project “DarkOrbit Ground Forces”

Hamburg, October 22nd, 2009 – Bigpoint.com (http://bigpoint.com), leading provider of browserbased
online games, and Orbster GmbH, a company offering location-based games for GPS cell
phones on its game platform “GPS Mission“, present an exciting new mission for the online space
game “DarkOrbit“.

As an application for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, DarkOrbit can now be played in real life on a cell phone
and not just on your home computer, on your laptop or in an Internet cafe. A game, which is played
completely online and extends into one’s real life via a GPS application for GPS cell phones, is a
world’s first.

This is how it all works: Using the application “GPS Mission Pro“, players can continue to play their
virtual games “outside” in real places just like in a scavenger hunt or treasure hunt using a GPS cell
phone such as the iPhone. Following the popular geocaching game principle assign virtual goods for
their game to a location in their city, for example, Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Eiffel Tower in Paris,
Times Square in New York, Big Ben in London and many other well-known places. The location of the
valuable items will be shown on the cell phone on a map in “GPS Mission” and can be collected.
They’ll be credited directly to the game account in the online game.

The story: Players are transported back in time through a wormhole to the year 2009 in a spaceship to
find themselves circling Earth’s orbit. As a space pilot of the “DarkOrbit Ground Forces“, the mission
for players is to collect stranded goods from Earth such as valuable X-4 ammunition and beam them
back to their spaceship.

Under the name “DarkOrbit Ground Forces” the pilot project will be launched in real locations as part
of the “GPS Mission Pro” application for the iPhone 3G and 3GS in the following seven countries:
Germany, France, Turkey, Poland, the Netherlands, the USA and Great Britain.