COMPUSERVE PARTNERSHIPS TO EXPAND ONLINE GAMES OFFERINGS

Online Service Bolsters Games Offerings With Numerous Leading-Edge
Additions

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 20, 1996 -- As part of its renewed commitment to
creating an online service that offers fun, exciting entertainment options
for its members, CompuServe (NASDAQ: CSRV) today announced a relationship
with Kesmai Corp. to offer numerous leading edge games to users of the
CompuServe Information Service. Highlighting the deal is the major online
service debut of the new Windows version of Air Warrior, available now on
CompuServe.

This relationship comes on the heals of several other partnerships with
online games leaders, including NTN Communications, Yoyodyne, Boxer Jam
and GIC Software. These developments are part of an aggressive new
strategy to expand the highest quality online interactive games selection
in the world.

"As part of this announcement, CompuServe will launch New Game City, a new
online area zoned for fun that will be the cool place to play the best
games," said Srini Vasan, director of Games, CB (Chat) and Conferencing.
"As the online market continues its explosive growth among consumers and
new computer owners, there is a huge opportunity for CompuServe's New Game
City to truly become the best place for people around the world to meet,
interact, and play games."

Vasan added that developing strong relationships with industry leaders is
key. "Online technology is ideally suited for interactive gaming because
it allows people to communicate and have fun no matter where they are,"
Vasan said. "We want to use CompuServe's existing global leadership
position to take command of the games, chat and conferencing segments of
the online market."

The relationship with Kesmai will bring the first commercial release on an
online service of the new Windows version of Air Warrior, the highly
popular air combat simulation game. Additionally from Kesmai, CompuServe
will offer Casino Games, Classic Card Games, Classic board games (chess,
bingo), Multiplayer Battle Tech, Stellar Emperor, Legends of Kesmai,
Harpoon, Barbarossa, Destiny Online and Star Rangers to CompuServe users
worldwide.

Previously, CompuServe and NTN Communications, Inc. (AMEX: NTN) announced a
worldwide licensing agreement. NTN will provide CompuServe with a minimum
of 24 games during a two-year period including its trivia game shows and
sports applications. NTN's Countdown, a popular trivia show, and QB1(R),
the NFL licensed play-a-long football game, will headline NTN's product
menu for CompuServe.

Additional new games will include Boxer Jam's Game show, GIC Software's
Word Games and Yoyodyne's Email Trivia contest.

NTN Communications, Inc., based in Carlsbad, California is the industry's
premier producer, programmer and broadcaster of two way interactive
television games and shows and online entertainment including live
play-along sports programs and international trivia game shows. NTN's
multiplayer, multiplatform programming is among the most popular
destinations on computer online services. In addition to the home, NTN
distributes the same programming to more than 15 million participants per
month on its own NTN Entertainment Network.

Kesmai Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE:
NWS). Led by Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation is one of the world's
largest media companies, with diversified operations reaching two-thirds
of the world's population. Other News Corporation companies include
Twentieth Century Fox Films, Fox Broadcasting, the fX Cable Channel,
HarperCollins Publishers and other world class media organizations.

CompuServe is an H&R Block (NYSE:HRB) company.

Founded in 1955, H&R Block is a diversified services company and the
world's leader in tax preparation and online information services. H&R
Block Tax Services handled almost one in every seven returns filed with
the Internal Revenue Service in 1995, serving 17.1 million taxpayers in
more than 9,500 offices worldwide. CompuServe operates the most
comprehensive online network in the world, providing services to more than
950 corporate accounts and more than 4.9 million users in over 185
countries.
 
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