Artificial Life Inc. (ALIF)

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Artificial Life Receives New Funding

LOS ANGELES and HONG KONG, July 7, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Artificial Life, Inc. (OTCBB:ALIF) (www.artificial-life.com) today announced the completion of a private placement of common stock and warrants to several investors, raising gross proceeds of approximately US$1.9 million.

Artificial Life, Inc. sold approximately 2.5 million shares of common stock at market price on the day of sales (between US$0.66 and US$0.85) and issued warrants for the purchase of up to 1.5 million additional shares of common stock with a strike price of up to $1.25 per share. The warrants are exercisable for a period of two years. The common stock and warrants were issued to seven institutional and two individual accredited investors.

"As we continue to expand our business, we are pleased to have been able to complete this financing round despite the global financial market conditions. The new funding gives us more financial flexibility to pursue new business opportunities, to finance our receivables and to develop new products. We are currently also in advanced negotiations with additional investors about further investments for the third quarter of 2009," said Eberhard Schoneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc.

Neither the issuance of the shares of Artificial Life's common stock nor the warrants in connection with the private placement has been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). Accordingly, these securities may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy Artificial Life's common stock or warrants.

About Artificial Life, Inc.

Artificial Life, Inc. (OTCBB:ALIF) is a public U.S. corporation headquartered in Los Angeles, with its production center in Hong Kong and additional offices in Berlin (EMEA headquarter) and Tokyo. As a leading, full-service provider of mobile broadband 3G technology, mobile participation TV, mobile gaming, content and business applications, Artificial Life provides 2D and 3D multi- and single- player rich-media applications for 3G, 3.5G and 4G network-enabled mobile phones. Recognized internationally for outstanding content quality and technology, Artificial Life transcends traditional modes of mobile communications and interactive gaming. For more information, please visit www.artificial-life.com or the company's m-commerce portal at www.botme.com.

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Forward-Looking Statements:

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding our future results of operations, financial condition and business prospects. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may", "will", "should", "expect", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "predict", "potential", "continue" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Although such statements are based on our own information and information from other sources we believe to be reliable, you should not place undue reliance on them. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual market trends or our actual results of operations, financial condition or business prospects may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward looking statements for a variety of reasons. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our ability to obtain additional funding to operate and grow our business; the unproven potential of our mobile gaming business model; changing consumer preferences and uncertainty of market acceptance of our products; timely adoption and availability of 3G mobile technology; market acceptance for use of mobile handheld devices to play the interactive games; unpredictable mobile game development schedules; our reliance on a relatively small number of brands; our ability to license brands from others; our dependence upon resellers and telecommunication carriers and operators to distribute our products; our ability to successfully develop, introduce, and sell new or enhanced products in a timely manner; and the timing of new product announcements or introductions by us or by our competitors. For additional discussion of these risks and uncertainties and other factors, please see the documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB filed on February 9, 2009. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this press release.

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