THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced Worms: A Space Oddity, the newest iteration of the popular turn-based strategy game, is scheduled for release in spring 2008. Retaining the humor synonymous with the Worms brand, Worms: A Space Oddity marks the franchise debut on the Wii™ with a fresh visual style, new environmental settings, intuitive controls and even more customization options. Players will be closer to the action than ever before, launching attacks through a wide range of gesture-based maneuvers only possible with the Wii Remote™.

In Worms: A Space Oddity, players will enjoy the ultimate blend of classic Worms game modes and re-invented single-player missions, as well as multiplayer modes that include a host of all-new party games and even more customization options. The game takes advantage of the Wii’s intuitive controls, on-screen hints and the redesigned interface with an in-game help system. Worms: A Space Oddity demonstrates significant visual, technical and design advancement over its predecessors with a new visual style that abandons the traditional drawn approach and replaces it with a distinctive style inspired by classic Sci-Fi looks. The Worms battles take place across six planets, each with its own, unique environments and global events. The online multiplayer experience pits up to four Worms fiends from all over the world against each other.

Worms: A Space Oddity is being developed by Team17 Software Ltd out of West Yorkshire, UK. Along with this title, two additional titles in the Worms series, Worms: Open Warfare 2 for the Nintendo DS™ and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system and Worms 2007 for wireless handsets, are scheduled for release this fall.

For more information about Worms: A Space Oddity and the rest of THQ’s line-up of games, please visit www.thq.com.

Grammy Award-Winning Guitarist Tom Morello to Appear in Guitar Hero^TM III: Legends of Rock

Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATVI) today announced that Grammy^® Award-winning guitarist Tom Morello, from Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave and the Nightwatchman, will guest star as a boss character in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, providing guitar heroes the chance to shred with the music icon. Morello was listed as #26 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”

“Whenever I play Guitar Hero my opponent always kicks my ass on my own riffs. It’s embarrassing,” said Morello. “Now that I’m actually IN the game I hope the digital me will win once in awhile!”

“We are thrilled to have two guitar icons of our generation on board to be bosses in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock,” said Tim Riley, worldwide executive of music. “Both Morello and Slash went into the studio and created mind-blowing original recordings designed to be challenging for even the expert players.”

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock boss battles give fans a chance to compete against legendary guitarists such as Slash and now Tom Morello. Players are required to deplete the boss’ Rock Meter before the boss goes into their Death Drain solo, which always means ‘lights-out.’ After defeating a boss, players unlock that guitarist as a playable character and continue to the encore for the set list, which is a master recording of one of their respective bands’ most well-known tracks. When Morello is defeated, the next performance is “Bulls on Parade,” during which Morello performs on stage alongside the player.

“Bulls on Parade” features one of Morello’s most famous guitar riffs and a highly unusual solo that sounds more like a turntable than a guitar by making use of the toggle switch and rubbing his hand along the strings parallel to the neck of the guitar. Now, fans have the chance to emulate some of Morello’s extremely innovative guitar playing antics.

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, published by RedOctane^® and developed by Neversoft, is rated T for Teen by the ESRB and will be available starting October 28, 2007.

Welcome to the unsanctioned, underground, and utterly unhinged world of clandestine ping-pong. Based on the forthcoming film, Balls of Fury, you take the role of washed-up ping-pong champion Randy Daytona who faces an uphill battle to reclaim his once legendary skills. The government has recruited Randy to go undercover and bust a crime lord, who hosts an annual ping-pong tournament in which all the losers are executed.

In this secret underground ping-pong society, the competition is brutal and the stakes are high. It’s up to you to help Randy bounce back and avenge the death of his father by beating his killer -r’s killer, the fiendish Feng.

· Use the intuitive Nintendo control schemes to control the action. Use the Wii Remote to move your bat and beat your opponent.

· Unlock and play as one of eight stars from the film including Randy Daytona, Feng, Master Wong, Maggie and Karl Wolfsachtagg.

· The engrossing story mode follows the plot of the film and puts you in Randy’s shoes as he aims to regain his talent and defeat the evil Feng.

· Take on their friends in a frantically paced multiplayer game of ping-pong to prove who is the true champion.

· Also available on Nintendo DS.

Balls of Fury is set for release on October 26th on Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Based on the forthcoming movie from Universal of the same name, Balls of Fury offers frantic ping-pong action!

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