Nickelodeon's AddictingGames Announces Nominees for 'The Most AddictingGames Showdown'...

Nickelodeon's AddictingGames Announces Nominees for 'The Most AddictingGames
Showdown' on June 27

First-of-Its-Kind Convergent Prime-time TV, Web Event Honors Best Online Games

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon's AddictingGames, the
largest source of the best free games on the web and one of CNET's top five
gaming sites (December 2008), today announced the nominees for the first-ever
"The AddictingGames Showdown," a convergent, prime-time TV event honoring the
best in online games. "Pencil Racer 3: Drive It", "50 States", "Porta-Pusher"
and "Bloons" are among the coolest, funniest and most addicting games
nominated from the site's library of 3,000 games across 10 different
categories. The cream of the gaming crop, chosen by AddictingGamers
themselves, will jump from the web to prime-time TV and back again on
Saturday, June 27, from 8 to 10 p.m. ET/PT, in a first-of-its-kind fun and
quirky on-air "Showdown" across Nickelodeon and AddictingGames.

"There is an incredible amount of talent and creativity that goes into making
these online games," said Dave Williams, Senior Vice President and General
Manager, Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group. "Online gamers have grown by
23 percent to 86 million players a year per comScore, fueled in part by the
content from the one-thousand plus developers with whom AddictingGames works.
This event will give them the recognition they deserve."

AddictingGames has ranked as the top independent gaming site for more than two
and a half years and is the number-one place to reach Men 12 to 24 who are
gaming online (source: comScore, April 2009). The site just had its best
month ever with 11.6 million unique visitors (source: comScore U.S., April
2009). With 50 new games launching every month, AddictingGames provides games
that are fresh, timely and relevant to pop culture. AddictingGames' recently
launched "NewsGames," which focus on current events, including "Hero on the
Hudson," "Trillion Dollar Bailout," and "Baseball Juiced," have independently
generated nearly 8 million game plays since January 2009.

Voting for "The AddictingGames Showdown" begins June 3 and runs through June
27 on http://www.addictinggames.com/showdown. AddictingGamers can pay tribute
to the best games across the web by voting in categories including: "Most
Adrenaline Pumping Game"; "Greatest Escape Game"; "Mostest Edumacational
Game"; and "Most AddictingGame"; among others. On June 27, between brand-new
episodes of iCarly and True Jackson, VP, the winners will be announced on
AddictingGames and Nickelodeon through humorous and witty on-air
vignettes--hosted by iCarly's Jerry Trainor--that will bring the online games
to life.

"The Most AddictingGames Showdown" nominees include:

Most AddictingGame
-- Parking Lot
-- Stunt Dirt Bike
-- World Wars
-- Worlds Hardest Game

Best Performance by a Monkey
-- Bloons
-- Dance Monkey Dance
-- Monkey Go Happy
-- Pencil Racer XL

Most Courageous Stick Figure Stunt
-- Electric Man 2
-- Fancy Pants Adventure
-- Pencil Racer 3: Drive It
-- Porta-Pusher

Greatest Escape Game
-- Charger Escape
-- Escape the Car
-- Escape the Phone Booth
-- Synapsis

Best Game from Planet Random
-- Dibs Adventure to Mount Wafers
-- Headspin Storybook
-- Hide the Farta in Sparta
-- Tattoo Artist

Your Mom's Favorite Game
-- Bubble Spinner
-- Daily Jigsaw
-- Let's Get Cookin'
-- Sara's Super Spa

Best Performance by a Robot
-- Agent Platformer
-- Build a Robot 3
-- Chronotron
-- Pixel Mission

Most Adrenaline Pumping Game
-- Moto Rush
-- Ragdoll Volleyball
-- Redline Rumble
-- Supreme Extreme Snowboarding

Poppiest Pop Culture Game
-- Baseball Juiced
-- Hero on the Hudson
-- Mix Master
-- Trillion Dollar Bailout

Mostest Edumacational Game
-- 50 States
-- Battleground States 2008
-- Globe Game
-- Magic Pen

AddictingGames is part of the Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group portfolio of
digital sites, which serves kids, tweens and teens, and parents, and focuses
on the pre-eminent activities that its audiences participate in online: games,
social networks and community, and video. Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group's
portfolio of digital sites registered its second straight month at number one
in all key metrics with 29 million monthly visitors; 124 million total visits;
1.8 billion page views; and 81.6 minutes for average time spent per visitor,
according to April's comScore Media Metrix.

Nickelodeon, now in its 30th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for
kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in
everything it does. The company includes television programming and production
in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online,
recreation, books, magazines and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television
network is seen in more than 98 million households and has been the
number-one-rated basic cable network for 14 consecutive years. For more
information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all
related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA,
VIA.B).

SOURCE Nickelodeon

Joanna Roses, +1-212-846-7326, joanna.roses@nick.com, or Thamar Romero,
+1-212-846-7491, thamar.romero@nick.com; both of Nickelodeon