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SEATTLE (October 16, 2007) - Hidden City Games has named Luke Crane and Jared A. Sorensen, both veteran, award-winning game designers, to the newly created position of senior game designer.

"Crane's and Sorensen's contributions to the roleplaying game industry make them ideal choices for the direction Hidden City Games is headed with our upcoming projects," said Peter D. Adkison, CEO of Hidden City Games. Adkison founded Wizards of the Coast in 1990 and built it to 2,000 employees before selling it to Hasbro in 1999 for nearly $500 million.

In their new positions, Crane and Sorensen will report to Paul Peterson, vice president of research and development.

Sorensen was most recently content designer on "The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar" for Midway Games and "Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach" for Atari. In the pen-and-paper RPG realm, he is best known as the author and designer of "InSpectres," "octaNe" and "Lacuna Part I." Sorensen has gathered a few awards along the way, winning the original Iron Game Chef contest, earning the 2002 "Best Sui Generis RPG" Out of the Box Award for "octaNe" and scoring the 2006 "Most Innovative Game" Indie RPG Award for "Lacuna Part I."

Crane is designer, author and publisher of "The Burning Wheel," an RPG that earned the Out of the Box Award for "Best New RPG" of 2003. Crane was also the designer, author and publisher of its follow-up, "Burning Empires," which earned the 2006 "Best Licensed Thing" Out of the Box Award and won the Origins Award for "Roleplaying Game of the Year" that same year.

About Hidden City Games
Hidden City Games, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Seattle, Washington and is the exclusive worldwide distributor of Bella Sara™ trading cards and online world outside of Scandinavia. The company is headed by CEO Peter D. Adkison; Jesper Myrfors, chief creative officer and original art director for Magic: The Gathering; and Paul Peterson, vice president of research and development, who was previously on the research and development team for Magic: The Gathering. Under Adkison's leadership, Wizards of the Coast created an entirely new genre of games with the release of Magic: The Gathering, which was the world's first non-sports trading card game, published in 13 languages and enjoyed by millions of players around the world. Adkison also introduced Pokémon trading cards to North America and reinvigorated the hugely popular Dungeons & Dragons brand after acquiring it from TSR, Inc.

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