Club iT Corporation and Codemasters Software Company Ltd announce their partnership to bring some of Codemasters' best known and commercially successful game franchises to the G-cluster Gaming on Demand platform.

The partnership will initially see the million-selling Codemasters titles TOCA Race Driver 2 and Colin McRae Rally 2005 made available to users worldwide using Club iT's innovative G-cluster technology.

The games, already published on PC, PlayStation 2 and Xbox, will now be available on any broadband-connected device, including existing digital cable and IPTV set-top boxes, entry level PCs, and 3G mobile phones.

Club iT provides gaming on demand services in three business models: a) providing an online gaming platform for ISP web portals and open web portals; b) offering server system licenses for Japanese and overseas service operators; and c) granting licenses to Japanese and overseas hardware vendors to bundle with TVs, STBs, PCs and game consoles.

The alliance with Codemasters is expected to accelerate the development of these business models by strengthening Club iT's content aggregation ability and game title portfolio.

Taro Hashimoto, CEO of Club iT, said, "We are pleased to announce this alliance with Codemasters, as part of Club iT's continuing efforts to bring the best content to the G-cluster gaming platform. We are big fans of both the TOCA and Colin McRae series, and look forward to a fruitful relationship with Codemasters."

Matt Davies, Business Development Manager of Codemasters: "We see the G-cluster platform as an opportunity to bring these prestige game brands to a wider audience, at a time when broadband networks are becoming increasingly important channels for the distribution of gaming content. For Codemasters, a particularly attractive feature of the G-cluster technology has been the fact that no downloads are required, rendering software piracy an impossibility."