Mr. Trevor Doerksen reports

EPLAY DIGITAL JOINS IPWE METAVERSE SMART POOL

ePlay Digital Inc. has arranged membership in the IPwe Metaverse Smart Pool. The Metaverse Smart Pool is designed to permit innovation leaders in the space to make their innovations available to other participants in the industry that can be built on and improved upon. The metaverse holds incredible promise, reaching about $500-billion in 2020 and expected to be an $800-billion market by 2024.

"The Metaverse Smart Pool has already attracted 72 members in just three months, an extraordinary feat in the industry," says Lavinia Meliti, global head of business development at IPwe. "We are incredibly excited to continue to expand our membership while simultaneously observing the metaverse-related innovation taking place."

ePlay brings the award-winning Klocked Sports World advanced metaverse platform and other ePlay Digital intellectual property to the IPwe Metaverse Smart Pool. ePlay's portfolio of games and apps includes seven-time National Basketball Association champion Robert Horry, comedian and producer Howie Mandel, and Olympic decathlete Michael Smith. ePlay has created the Klocked World of Sports, which integrates the 15-title portfolio, including the award-winning Klocked app, Howie Go Viral and Big Shot Basketball, into the company's metaverse platform.

IPwe's Metaverse Smart Pool is designed to permit innovation leaders to make innovations available to other participants, including large corporations, that can be built on and improved upon. It strikes a balance between open innovation and a fair return for innovators. Innovators are able to encourage adoption and generate a return on their innovation efforts.

"We are thrilled to be working with IPwe to enable ePlay Digital to protect, democratize, manage risk, and innovate our sports and entertainment worlds with advanced metaverse, web3 and blockchain technologies," says Trevor Doerksen, chief executive officer of ePlay Digital.

About ePlay Digital Inc.

ePlay Digital is a mobile game creator and publisher specializing in sports, e-sports and entertainment augmented reality titles, including the award-winning augmented reality running app Klocked.run, sports gaming app Fan Freak, flagship title Big Shot Basketball and Howie Mandel mobile game collaboration -- HowiesGames. ePlay is operated by an award-winning team of sports, gaming and e-sports leaders, as well as broadcast and digital technology industry experts, software engineers, and athletes who have brought dozens of game titles to market for companies, including Time Warner Cable, ESPN, Sony Pictures, AXS TV, Intel, AXN, Fiat, CBS and others.