Shoal Games’    Rooplay OTT System and the Kidoz Network will Reach 50 Million Kids a Month with a Premium Subscription System Offering

ANGUILLA, B.W.I., March 4, 2019 – Shoal Games Ltd. (TSXV: SGW) (“Shoal Games” or the “Company”), mobile software developer, owner of the Rooplay edu-games platform (www.rooplay.com) and publisher of the Rooplay Originals games library, has successfully completed its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Kidoz Ltd. (“Kidoz”), the Israel-based industry-leader in the global kids’ content distribution and monetization marketplace (the “Acquisition”), as previously announced in the Company’s news release dated December 28, 2018.

The Acquisition enables the global reach of Kidoz’s content network to be efficiently combined with Shoal Games’ Rooplay subscription OTT platform, to create a unique player in the high growth digital kids market.  The combined company is positioned to grow through exclusive ownership of content which the Kidoz network will make accessible to tens of millions of kids each month, utilizing a proprietary OTT subscription platform and a kid-safe monetization platform to attract top kids advertisers.

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Rooplay OTT System and the Kidoz Network will Reach 50 Million Kids a Month with a Premium Subscription System Offering

ANGUILLA, B.W.I., December 28, 2018 – Shoal Games Ltd. (TSXV: SGW) (OTCQB: SGLDF) (“Shoal Games” or the “Company”), mobile software developer, owner of the Rooplay edu-games platform (www.rooplay.com) and publisher of the Rooplay Originals games library, announces that it  has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Kidoz Ltd. (“Kidoz”) (www.kidoz.net), a privately held Israeli company.  Based in Netaniya, Israel, Kidoz is a fast-growing industry-leader in the global kids’ content distribution and monetization market – its platform is preloaded by Lenovo, Acer, PBS Kids and other device manufacturers on millions of kids tablets as their official kid-mode and is embedded in thousands of popular kids apps as their developers’ main kid-friendly monetization solution.

The combination of the two companies will marry the global reach of Kidoz’s content network with Shoal Games’ Rooplay subscription OTT platform, to create a unique player in the high growth digital kids market.  With the decline in kids’ terrestrial television viewing and their increasing shift to digital media, the combined company will be positioned to grow by owning exclusive content, having access to tens of millions of kids each month, an OTT subscription platform, and a safe monetization platform from top kids advertisers.

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ANGUILLA, B.W.I., November 21, 2018 – Shoal Games Ltd. (TSXV: SGW) (OTCQB: SGLDF) (“the Company”), mobile software developer, owner, and publisher of Rooplay, the EdTech games platform (www.rooplay.com) and the Rooplay Originals games featuring Garfield, Moomin, Mr. Men & Little Miss, Pororo, Peter Rabbit and Mr. Bean, announces that it has completed its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Anguilla B.W.I.

At the meeting, the Shoal Games shareholders elected the Board of Directors: Tarrnie Williams Sr., Executive Chairman; Jason Williams, CEO, Fiona Curtis, and Claes Kalborg; reappointed the Auditors and re-affirmed the Company’s stock option plan.

Additionally, the Company announces that the Rooplay OTT platform continues to expand rapidly with the recent launch of a web-enabled version accessible on www.rooplay.com from any desktop or mobile browser on any web enabled device. This launch takes Rooplay one step closer to being a full OTT cloud games platform. The platform will shortly include Apple iOS and Smart TV support which are in advanced stages of development. With growing popularity and reach, Rooplay has more than 40 exclusive games, over 300 games in total, and more than 600,000 installs on Android. The Shoal Games team is advancing the Rooplay game development capacity by distributing its proprietary Shoal.JS framework to partner studios and by working closely with leading KidTech distribution partners who reach millions of potential Rooplay users each and every month.

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ANGUILLA, B.W.I., November 14, 2018 – Shoal Games Ltd. (TSXV: SGW) (OTCQB: SGLDF) (“the Company”), mobile software developer, owner, and publisher of Rooplay, the EdTech games platform (www.rooplay.com) and the Rooplay Originals games featuring Garfield, Moomin, Mr. Men & Little Miss, Pororo, Peter Rabbit and Mr. Bean today announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2018. All amounts are presented in United States dollars and are in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Recent Shoal Games Ltd. highlights include:

• Revenue increase of 68% to $40,942 over second quarter of fiscal 2018
• Reduced loss by 60% to $397,176 from fiscal second quarter 2018 loss of $989,473
• Launched Rooplay.com web platform for desktop and mobile web subscriptions
• Launched new game categorizations by Age and Grade

“With the launch of the Rooplay games platform on www.rooplay.com we now have two complete platforms live and synchronized with hundreds of educational games for children,” commented Jason Williams, CEO of Shoal Games. “Soon we will be adding Apple iOS and Smart TV support for Rooplay which will create one of the first fully cross platform OTT games systems in existence. We continue to advance all aspects of Rooplay to improve usability, personalization, engagement, and the content catalog. With more than 40 Rooplay Original games and hundreds of hand-picked licensed games Rooplay offers a unique and growing selection of high quality educational games for kids. In our next phase of development, we will be sharing the Shoal.JS game development framework to partner developers so they can port existing games to the Rooplay platform. As we simultaneously improve the Rooplay system and expand the Rooplay game library, the value of our offering becomes stronger and our position in the market solidified.

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