Sports Party, first PLAY ZONE game for friends and family to enjoy exclusively on WiiTM

London, UK – June 19th, 2008 – Today Ubisoft announced that it will launch a new Wii exclusive party-games range under the label PLAY ZONE. The PLAY ZONE titles will provide immediate entertainment & recreation thanks to original and numerous mini-games to be shared by all family members and friends.

“With our new PLAY ZONE party titles, the Wii gamers who like to spend time with friends and family will have fun with the Wii through innovative and involving mini-games. The PLAY ZONE label will provide them with the best games to mingle and compete together in a fun and friendly atmosphere” said John Parkes, Ubisoft’s EMEA Marketing Director.

Sports Party: become the summer sports champion!

Sports Party will be the first game to be released within the PLAY ZONE label. Located in a tropical paradise Island, Sports Party proposes 9 sports mini-games that can be played head-to-head or cooperatively. With 3 different difficulty levels and using intuitive gestures with the Wii Remote the games can be enjoyed again and again.

Key features:

• 9 different disciplines: Challenge family and friends to basketball (3 different mini-games), croquet, lawn darts, badminton, volley-ball, horse shoes and mini-golf.

• Short gaming sessions: Have a break and change sport as often as desired. Practice a few minutes and challenge whoever is around!

• For the whole family: 3 different difficulty levels that fit with the skills of all family members and friends.

• Wii Remote based gameplay: Thanks to intuitive motions, instantaneously enjoy any sport!

Sports Party will be available on July 11th 2008.

San Francisco, Calif. – June 19, 2008 – LucasArts today announced Star Wars: The Clone Wars will blast its way onto the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ in Holiday 2008. Bringing an entirely new look and feel to the galaxy far, far away, Star Wars: The Clone Wars combines the cinematic qualities of the Star Wars movies with state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery from artists at Lucasfilm Animation.

Star Wars™ The Clone Wars™: Lightsaber Duels™, in development by Krome Studios exclusively for the Wii, delivers fun-filled Lightsaber battles for the entire family while it immerses players in the characters, locations, and epic duels from the all-new Star Wars animated TV series. Built from the ground-up for the Wii, Lightsaber Duels features an intuitive motion-controlled combat system that puts the Lightsaber™ weapon in your hand for non-stop fun.

Star Wars™ The Clone Wars™: Jedi Alliance™, developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS by the LucasArts Singapore team in conjunction with Lucasfilm Animation, lets gamers experience the awesome power when two Jedi join forces to fight as one. With an innovative stylus-based input, controlling the Jedi’s movement and engaging in Lightsaber combat has never felt more immersive.

“Working on The Clone Wars chapter of the Star Wars Saga has been an exciting endeavor for everyone here at LucasArts,” said Feargus Carroll, project lead for LucasArts Singapore. “The intuitive and accessible gameplay on both the Wii and the Nintendo DS complement one of the most exciting Star Wars adventures yet.”

The world premiere trailer for the games will debut exclusively on Spike TV’s “Game Trailers TV with Geoff Keighley” on Friday, June 20.

Gamers are set for a return to paradise with the next instalment of the Empire’s best selling series

London, UK, 19th June 2008 – Empire Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Silverstar Holdings (NASDAQ: SSTR), today announced that Animal Paradise 2, the follow up to the massively successful Animal Paradise DS, is currently under development for the Nintendo DS. Animal Paradise 2 will follow in the footsteps of its predecessor bringing a new level of exciting pet simulation fun to fans and newcomers to the series. Animal Paradise 2 will be published worldwide in the second quarter of 2009.

“Given the massive success of Animal Paradise in Europe and our recent announcement that we will be publishing Animal Paradise in the US, we’re very excited to be bringing Animal Paradise 2 to DS gamers across Europe.” said James Spice, Vice President of Marketing at Empire Interactive. “Animal Paradise 2 will build on the historical success of the franchise, featuring more animals, more interactivity and more fun than ever before.”

Clive Kabatznik, CEO of Silverstar Holdings commented, “We are looking forward to extending the franchise with Animal Paradise 2 for the Nintendo DS. The original title proved hugely popular in Europe and we have plans to continue this success globally, and grow the Animal Paradise brand.”

Animal Paradise 2 will feature an even greater variety of animals and a completely new game structure; here the emphasis is on developing and managing your burgeoning park and animals, with the aim of creating the greatest Animal Park in the world! A new task a reward system will see players unlocking new animals and areas, plus all new mini-games. Also set for inclusion is an encyclopaedia of animals the player has befriended, giving detailed information about each of the animals and their natural habitats. The game is due for release in the second quarter of 2009.

Popular Hunt and Find Online Game Comes to Console this Holiday Season

EDISON, N.J., June 19th, 2008 - Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Escape the Museum for Wii. Based on the popular online hunt and find game from Gogii Games, Escape the Museum is being developed by Majesco Studios and will be available in retail outlets this holiday for only $19.99.

“Although an incredibly successful PC genre, the hunt and find adventure category has yet to be introduced on Wii,” said Liz Buckley, Director of Marketing, Majesco. “Escape the Museum’s online success coupled with category opportunity and an attractive price point make this an ideal title to bring to market.”

In Escape the Museum, a devastating earthquake has rocked the foundations of the National Museum of History and players must help Susan Anderson, who was knocked unconscious by falling debris while searching the museum for survivors, escape from the crumbling building to the safety outside. Thwarted by doors blocked with rubble and tripped alarm systems, players wander through the museum’s maze of 12 different hunt and find areas and 25 action-packed adventure scenes, using the Wii Remote to uncover hidden exits and save priceless archaeological artifacts. Along the way, players will solve puzzles, consult a map and access hints to help them inch closer to freedom and a joyful reunion with Susan’s lost daughter, Caitlin.

Escape the Museum for Wii is expected to release this holiday for $19.99.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ENGLAND, June 19th, 2008 – Oxygen Games™ is pleased to release further information on the first in its series of MyGames titles - My Make-Up™ - coming to Nintendo DS™ this autumn.
Featuring game design based upon the real-world interests and next steps of its young female gaming audience, My Make-Up is a perfect fit. Offering aspirational subject matter, personal and social play, complete customization options and most importantly, full touch screen support, My Make-Up™, joined by its sister titles; My Dress-Up™ and My Secret Diary™, hits the shelves this autumn.

About My Make-Up
Make over, pamper, and face-paint yourself and your friends, or check your messages to see whose makeover dreams you can make come true!
With brushes, colours and creams, face masks, hydrating fruits and facepaint palettes, you’ll experiment with new styles and techniques, plus be awarded new colours and stencils to try out on your friends. Check your inbox for messages, give yourself a makeover, or visit your friends for makeover and pampering practise. Do makeovers for parties, weddings and special events. Pamper your skin with facial treatments, or invite up to three of your friends to a makeover party via Nintendo DS Wireless Communication.
Save favourite makeovers in your photo album and send them to your My Make-Up friends, or for a complete new look, to friends with My Dress-Up. Sit back and chat with all of your My Make-Up™, My Dress-Up™ and My Secret Diary™ friends, with exclusive MyGames Chat via Nintendo DS Wireless Communication.
My Make-Up offers players their very own makeup box on Nintendo DS™. My Dress-Up offers players dressing up, fashion and design for themselves and their friends, with their very own dressing-up box. My Secret Diary provides a place to store secrets, keep a journal, have fun with mini-games, or send secret messages and event invitations to keep in touch with their friends.
With the added benefit of all titles in the MyGames series working together with the exclusive MyGames Chat feature, My Make-Up, My Dress-Up and My Secret Diary will be in-store this autumn

Hamburg, June 19th 2008 – Leading European MMOG publisher gamigo AG is proud to announce the acquisition of the exclusive European publishing rights of the English, German, French and Spanish versions of Fiesta Online, a “free to play” Online Roleplaying game that has already enjoyed massive success in the US and Asia. Featuring detailed 3D graphics and a rich game world with numerous quests and epic storyline, the high quality game already enjoys a thriving European community. Players can now pre-register for the Beta-Test by signing-up on http://fiesta.gamigo.com.

Inviting Adventurers on a free trip to a magical land
At first sight, Fiesta Online is an unlikely candidate for the free-to-play model: Boasting detailed cell-shaded characters in a rich and vast game world packed with epic quests and endless challenges, the MMORPG rivals most subscription titles in terms of scope and quality – making it one of the biggest genre-hits in the US. Thousands of players explore the magical island, fight numerous enemies, solve mysteries and develop their unique avatars with new skills and equipment.

After an intuitive introduction in the home city, players can choose to hunt down enemies or follow hundreds of quests on their own or group with others in parties and guilds, together solving epic kingdom quests that offer adventures for up to 30 players. Another innovation is the “housing” system: Players can transform into their mushroom-like, but fully customizable, house at any time to rest or trade items. And with the autumn update, the interiors can be decorated and used to invite friends – apart from levelling, socializing is a big part of the Fiesta Online experience!

The international MMOG-Hit is coming to Europe!
gamigo exclusively publishes the Korean-developed MMOG in Europe, starting with German and English versions this summer, followed by French and Spanish later in the year. Currently the game is being modified for local tastes, including a complete rework of the English translation. Numerous improvements and new features will keep players engaged while the free-to-play model offers the title to a broad audience.

“Fiesta Online is our biggest game so far and has already proven successful in the US and Asia”, explains Sven Ossenbrüggen, CEO gamigo AG. “Improving the international versions with a completely reworked translation and storyline, we are offering players a high quality game to enjoy for free!”

The English European version of Fiesta Online is set to launch soon after the German version. Interested players can sign up for the Beta Test on http://fiesta.gamigo.com.

About Fiesta Online:
Fiesta Online is a 3D MMORPG with attractive cartoon-style graphics. The game combines high accessibility with the depth of MMORPGs. Together with friends, players explore the detailed and vast game world or solve epic kingdom quests. The free-to-play game is published exclusively by gamigo AG in Europe and will be released in an updated, enhanced English version this summer. Interested players can sign up now for the Beta Test and reserve one of 5,000 spots.

Features
• Free-to-Play Online Roleplaying Game (MMORPG)
• Rich and vast Fantasy World
• Detailed 3D Cartoon Graphics
• Individual Character development with four classes
• Hundreds of quests – among them epic kingdom quests for up to 30 players
• Crafting and Trading System
• Innovative Housing System
• Pet and marriage systems
• Guild Support
• Free download – no subscription fees

The Countdown to the Launch of Spore Blasts Off With Fans Uploading More Than Two Creatures Every Second Since Launch

Redwood City, CA – June 18, 2008 – We’re not alone in the galaxy! Maxis, an Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio, today announced that Spore™ fans and the creatively curious have designed and shared more than 250,000 new alien life forms since yesterday’s launch of the Spore Creature Creator – currently more than two creatures are being shared every second! Anyone can download their own copy of the Spore Creature Creator or check out thousands of amazing creations from around the world in the Sporepedia at www.spore.com.

“The response to the Spore Creature Creator has been overwhelming,” said Lucy Bradshaw, executive producer of Spore at Maxis. “The creativity and passion that the community is putting into their creatures is spectacular. The development team has spent the last 24 hours checking out the amazing creations racing in from all corners of the globe – with peak volume hitting more than 1,000 creatures being shared a minute.”

The Spore Creature Creator is a stand-alone product and creativity toy box where players create their own unique creatures, bring them to life with entertaining animations, and share them online with friends around the world. The full version of the Spore Creature Creator will be available for $9.99 at retail stores or by visiting www.spore.com. A free trial version of the Spore Creature Creator is also available today at www.spore.com. The trial version features 25% of the creature-making parts from Spore and lets players shape, paint and play with their custom-created creatures. Creatures made in the Spore Creature Creator can also be imported into the full Spore game, allowing players to populate their own galaxies when the game ships worldwide later this year.

The Spore Creature Creator lets players create their own creatures, take them on a test drive, snap pictures, and make movies of them. Sharing pictures or videos with friends is as easy as the click of a button. Players can also share their creations with others by uploading to the Sporepedia™ at www.Spore.com. The Sporepedia is an extraordinarily vast online destination where people worldwide can search for and share Spore creations, comment on other player’s designs, check out celebrity creature creations and much more.

The Spore Creature Creator is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB. The downloadable demo version is free. The complete version has an MSRP of $9.99 in North America. Spore ships for the PC, Mac, Nintendo DS™ and mobile phones on September 5, 2008 in Europe and September 7, 2008 in North America and Asia. Visit www.Spore.com to download a free version of the Spore Creature Creator, sign up for the Spore newsletter or check out all-new screenshots and videos from the game.

Today a new trailer for Overclocked: A History of Violence, was released by leading computer software Publishers Lighthouse Interactive and dtp Entertainment. Showcasing Overclocked’s immersive game environment, players will witness just some of the tense situations faced by the main character, David McNamara, and his five young patients who were found wandering the streets of New York City – distraught, scared and screaming. Overclocked explores an archetypical, yet actual condition of mankind: violence. Players will become engrossed in a world where memories and illusions; dreams and reality; perpetrators and victims… collide. Created by award-winning developer House of Tales Entertainment for PC DVD-ROM, Overclocked: A History of Violence is in stores now.

GAME SUMMARY

Set against the backdrop of a catastrophic thunderstorm raging over New York City, step into the world of Overclocked as former army psychiatrist, David McNamara. You are called to the Staten Island Forensic Hospital in New York City to consult on a case that requires your expertise in forensic psychiatry. Tasked with exploring the minds of five young men and women who were found scared, screaming, and without memory, you make alarming discoveries as you begin to cautiously probe the psyches of your young patients. Throughout the game, you will play as five other characters in this chilling interactive psycho thriller.

FEATURES

• Experience Overclocked from various perspectives as you play as six different characters throughout the game
• Explore 45 diverse locations with densely animated pre-rendered settings
• Innovative storytelling techniques create a unique gameplay experience
• Meet and interact with a cast of intriguing characters, each with their own distinct personalities
• Characters come to life with fluid movements and realistic facial expressions created with EMotion™ FX 2 technology
• Cinematic cut-scenes designed using advanced camera techniques pioneered by feature films
• Exceptional visuals enhanced by shadow and shader effects, real-time atmospheric particle effects (rain, snow, lightening), and dynamic lighting
• Unique icon-based dialogue system

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

OS: Windows® 2000 / XP / Vista™
CPU: 1.3 GHz Intel® Pentium® or AMD® Athlon™ processor
RAM: 512 MB (1 GB recommended for Windows® Vista™)
Video: DirectX® 9-compliant video card Shader Model 1.1
PC DVD-ROM: 4x
Sound: DirectX® 9 compliant sound card
Available Hard Disk Space: 5 GB
DirectX®: 9.0c
Other: Mouse, Keyboard and Speakers

We are pleased to announce that Focus Home Interactive has settled on an agreement with White Birds to publish and distribute Last King of Africa, Benoît Sokal’s first adventure game for the Nintendo DS. The game will be available end of 2008.

Last King of Africa on Nintendo DS invites you on a fantastic journey deep into an imaginary Africa where you will play the role of young Ann Smith, daughter of the last king of Maurania. Ann is on her way to assist her dying father on his deathbed when her plane crashes near a city held by a rebel faction, on the north side of the country. Ann lives through this terrible accident and wakes up with amnesia in a prince’s palace. That is how her extraordinary journey begins.

In order to develop the game on the Nintendo DS, this amazing adventure created by Benoit Sokal had to be totally rethought with regard to Paradise on the PC. The numerous puzzles and mind-teasers throughout the game have been completely reworked and now offer an original and intuitive gameplay that takes advantage of the Nintendo DS functions. The use of the stylus, microphone and your own logic will be of capital importance in solving the puzzles and mind-teasers.

The story itself has undergone some refreshing changes and is now much more coherent and surprising. These modifications are notable in the radical change in the relationships between the principal characters and in the combination and simplification of the dialogues that retain only the essential information needed to understand the story line without artificially prolonging the game. Still with the same intention of facilitating comprehension, Nintendo DS’s dialogue interface offers a more expressive identification of the characters. The characters are now displayed with a close up shot on the DS’ upper screen. Also, 3D action phases have been eliminated to make Last King of Africa a true, pure and traditional point & click adventure game.

Finally, Last King of Africa on Nintendo DS has equipped itself with a clear and detailed layout of the game’s zones for increased ease of orientation during the course of the adventure. The game has also equipped itself with a help system to lend a hand to players during exploration phases and to avoid fastidious « pixel hunting ». Thanks to its magnificent 2D scenes in which detailed 3D characters evolve, perplexing mind-teasers and exciting alternative stories, Last King of Africa has all the necessary qualities to make this a great Nintendo DS adventure.

Last King of Africa will be released on Nintendo DS end of the year 2008.