What's happening here - the volume has increased massively today. Am I missing something in the air - anybody got any news?

Well Rodders, it is very quiet at the Zoo today but looking on the plus side at least nobody is selling :-)

Another small tick up this morning, jees this would try your patience

Zoo Digital Group PLC
1 October 2003



1 October 2003


ZOO Digital Group plc ('ZOO' or 'the Company')

ZOO acquires 33 titles from Atari and launches 'ZOO Classics' range



ZOO Digital Group plc ('ZOO'), the technology and games publishing company,
today announced that it has acquired the intellectual property rights of Gremlin
Interactive together with a catalogue of fifteen PlayStation One ('PSOne') games
and eighteen PC games for an undisclosed one-off payment.



The games are a collection of classic best-selling titles from Gremlin
Interactive, which was acquired by Atari in 1999. ZOO will publish all the
games under its new 'ZOO Classics' range of budget titles. The Company intends
to launch the PSOne range in mid October across Europe, with the view to
capturing the Christmas market. The PC titles will be published in 2004 and
further PSOne and PC titles will be added to the range for release throughout
next year.



The intellectual property rights and games acquired include titles from the
best-selling Actua range such as Actua Soccer 3, Actua Golf 3 and Actua Tennis.
Highly acclaimed titles such as Judge Dredd and Hogs of War are also included.



Ian Stewart, CEO of ZOO commented:



'This is an excellent opportunity for us to take advantage of the value market
which is offering superb prospects across Europe. This acquisition enables us to
enter this marketplace with a substantial line up of established titles, which
should help underpin our financial position this year. We expect to increase
this value range with a number of classic and also previously unreleased games
in Europe during 2004.'



Ends
For Further Information:


Ian Stewart, CEO, 0114 241 3700
Robert Deri, Finance Director, 0114 241 3700
James Chandler / Gemma Smith, Beattie Financial, 020 7398 3300
Alasdair Robinson, Noble & Company Limited, 0131 225 9677


Notes to Editors

ZOO Digital Group Plc (
www.zoodigitalgroup.com)


ZOO Digital Group, the DVD technology and games publishing company, was founded
in 1999 by Ian Stewart ( founder of Gremlin Interactive plc). In April 2001 it
reversed into AIM listed technology company Kazoo 3D. ZOO has strong expertise
in two areas - games publishing and DVD authoring software.





DVD Authoring Software

In DVD, ZOO has developed a technology called DVD-ExtraTM. The software enables
DVD authors to introduce new interactive functionality - playable on standard
DVD players - to the DVD. Additionally, it vastly reduces the time and cost
taken to produce such content. DVD-ExtraTM enables the DVD industry - from
Hollywood to corporate and educational institutions - to provide highly
interactive stand-alone and bonus content for DVD at lower cost and time than
ever before possible. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? will be released on DVD
this November 2003. 40 DVD Authoring houses are currently part of a DVD-ExtraTM
'Early-Adopters' programme including Technicolor and Warner Bros (GDMX).



Games Publishing

In gaming, ZOO concentrates mainly on licensing and publishing existing games
rather than on the development of new titles. This is a lower risk business
model has been adopted due to the low break even sales levels required and the
ever increasing costs development. ZOO has published and distributed a wealth of
quality titles predominantly on GBA, PS2 and PC platforms including Medal of
Honor Underground, Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf, Premier Manager, Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire? and Sim City 2000. Over 40 sku's will be released in Q4 2003.




This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

This should make for a good base of turnover to bolster the new development of the dvd extra TM until it starts to be taken up by more companies. These titles were obtained "on the cheap" allowing a cost cutting range of sales for both volume and turnover. Good work zoo.

Spot on rodders, I wish one of the guys on my home site SC saw it that way.

I have likened Zoo to NXT, but NXT without the valuable revenues coming in meaning they have to return to market time after time to raise further money just to keep going.

gf

Ah - there you are GF, just "tailing you around"!!!!

The bb on advfn has a lot more posters but I havn't been able to get into it for nearly a week now, some internal server area on my computer, but I checked thru my dads computer.

all things pretty tame at the zoo.

wELL WE COULD SEE SOME NICE PROFIT IN THIS BY CHRIMBO, AS SOMEONE SAID ON THIS BB BEFORE, ZOO WILL CONTINUE WITH NEWS RELEASES FROM OCTOBER 2003

That 450k should have thrown a spanner in the works but the fact that it has held up after is a very good sign. Brokers now paying 9p for these at the minute and they were already marked up to 8.75 this morning. Keep it up mm's

I'm new to this investing lark but with a name like zoo it is bound to go up.

I like football too

Come on you blues

Why "with a name like zoo" is this bound to go up, I dont understand your investment strategy, but if it leads you to the right shares, fair enough.

Small trading today just holding up the price and keeping it ticking over til next announcement and building support at each level

Fantastic write up in shares mag today, saying that with zoos authoring system makes the 50 dvd player a competitor for playstations and pc's. The development of beta testing with 20 major studios and games developers being almost complete and most of these companies are expected to buy licenses early next year when the software goes on sale. The shares summary notes that zoo have a good chance to eventually regain their glory levels of 74p after they listed in 2000. the technology works and people are queuing up to buy it. Cool!!!!!!!!!!

Read it here for yourself
http://www.moneyam.com/sharesmag/edition39/?page=playsoftheweek

The bid price has ticked up 0.5p in the last hour with the offer staying, they are looking for stock. Share price already up 10% again today. With company announcements helped by shres magazine articles after each this stock is ticking up and sticking up. Come on, how long am I going to talk to myself here.

I bought in when I read Shares Magazines blue sky portfolio July 24th.
Well done and thank you Tim Freeborn.

Time to take profit Rodders?

I think there may be a bit more juice in this one yet before next RNS.

The shares mag feature is certainly why this has taken off today rather than a delayed response to the most recent RNS.

Just another quiet day at the zoo (+42.5% as I write)

I would love to take profits but only if it goes down enough afterwards to allow me back in for the next hike. Thinking overall, I am going to sit on my holding and cross my fingers for very little retracement and news within the next month to help it jump up again. I sat for quite a while waiting for it to rise enough to cover the spread so every hike up is pure profit now.
Uzbekking 44 I totally agree with you but isnt it annoying when the news is released and very few people do anything about it until an article in shares magazine lead people by the scruff of the neck and shove their noses in it before they realise how much potential this share has, it also shows that press coverage is vital to small firms like this.