"The rich content
of the uWink entertainment portfolio raises the bar of video game
standards
, which we're confident people will truly enjoy. Planetwide Games is currently in open Beta with its
first MMORPG title "RYL-Risk Your Life. Spyro A
Hero's Tail is also available for Nintendo GameCube
.
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As of January 3, 2005, RYL-Risk Your Life, http://www.2 million players worldwide.
Approximately
10 teams of five students each from these schools will
participate in the Retro Redux Game Jam.genesis frontend
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RYL is a beautifully rendered
MMORPG and is a persistent universe or role-playing game (RPG) and
online
global community.
Beginning May 13 and running through June 9, 2005, in North America
,
McDonald's Happy Meals and Mighty Kids Meals will include one of eight
different handheld video
games featuring Crash Bandicoot(R) and Spyro the
Dragon(TM).
About McDonald's
McDonald
's is the leading global foodservice retailer with more than
30,000 local restaurants serving nearly
50 million people in more than 119
countries each day.kstella fmsx
About Planetwide Games
Based
in Costa Mesa, CA, Planetwide Games seeks to establish itself as a
leading provider of online video
games.
"Crash and Spyro are among VU Games' most popular video game franchises'
and the video
games are very popular among kids," said Ed Zobrist, Senior Vice
President, Global Marketing for
VU Games. McDonald's will support the promotion in each region with
multi-million dollar television
campaigns, point-of-sale materials for
in-store use and online campaigns.kstella emulators
"Our partnership
with Parsons for its first 24-hour game jam underscores
Atari's commitment in inspiring and supporting
future game designers," said
Erik Gerson, senior vice president of Marketing for Atari.
The
promotion is being offered for four weeks in each region including
territories throughout Europe
, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Korea and
Taiwan.mcdonalds.emulation msx
com.
(Nasdaq: ATAR).m. To meet
this demand, we are launching a game design concentration at
the BFA level this coming fall.com
. (Nasdaq: ATAR) develops interactive games for
all platforms and is one of the largest third-party
publishers of interactive
entertainment software in the U.Vivendi Universal Games and McDonald's
(R) Partner to Offer Handheld Video Games Based on the Popular Crash and Spyro video games in Happy Meals
and Mighty Kids
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"The pending release of RYL-Risk Your Life, Planetwide Games' massive
multi-player
online role playing game (MMORPG), represents a significant
opportunity to introduce people of all
ages to uWink's technology and suite
of software, which is extremely well-suited to this marketplace
. In the game, players assume the role of a Warrior,
Cleric, Wizard, or Thief (over 20 classes) and
explore the many beautiful
and exotic locations within the game where they meet other players from
around the world, complete quests, fight monsters and other players.parsons.edu/games.
For
more information about the promotion, or more information about the
Crash and Spyro franchises, please
visit http://www.patcher skinable
uWink, Inc. For more information on uWink, visit http://www.parsons.
About Parsons School of Design
Located in the heart of New York City, Parsons School of Design
, a
division of New School University, is one of the largest degree-granting
colleges of art and
design in the nation, with more than 3,000 students in
degreed programs, and 2,500 non-degree students
from all 50 states and
approximately 60 countries.emulation msx
uWink continues to expand its
installed base
of entertainment platforms concurrent with the development
of a range of new concepts that target
fresh market opportunities and
applications. For
more information on Planetwide Games, visit http:
//www. These statements, and other forward-looking statements, are not
guarantees of future performance
and involve risks and uncertainties as
more fully described in uWink's periodic filings with the
Securities and
Exchange Commission.S. Parsons has been a forerunner
in the field of art and design
since its founding in 1896. Approximately 70 percent of McDonald's restaurants
worldwide are owned
and operated by independent, local businessmen and women.frontend gameboy
"
New York is home to a vibrant game
design community, from industry-leading
game companies such as Atari to numerous institutions offering
programs in
game development education including New York University, Renssaeler
Polytechnic Institute
, Mercy College, and the School of Visual Arts. "Kids will be very exited about the
handheld video
games featuring Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon, based on
the popular video games.
In
the fall, VU Games will release Crash Tag Team Racing(TM) a unique new
addition to the Crash franchise
that will allow players to combine cars and
combat each other on the racetrack.kde hyper
For more information
about game design at Parsons, visit
http://games.html . Internationalism
has always been an essential
ingredient of Parsons' success, with affiliate
schools in Paris; Kanazawa, Japan; Seoul, South Korea;
and Altos de Chavon in
the Dominican Republic.
"
For the first time ever in McDonald
's Happy Meals and Mighty Kids Meals,
kids will experience the adventures with their favorite video
game characters,
Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon, with these high-action interactive
handheld
games.vugames.modeler patcher
RYL-Risk
Your Life is one of the hottest MMORPGs to be released in the video game
industry in a very long time, with over 1.uwink.PlanetwideGames. "The
tremendous success of our
MFA-level concentration in game design made it clear
to us that there was a demand for academic training
at the undergraduate level
as well. Also, this
fall the popular Spyro video game franchise will
expand to include Spyro
Shadow Legacy on Nintendo DS(TM) where for the first time ever the franchise
will incorporate popular role playing game elements and introduce magic into
the adventure.gameboy winuae
uWink
's rich library of highly
challenging video games includes more than 70 short form games of strategy
,
trivia, and card games, all simple to learn, but nearly impossible to
master.ryl. is a technology
-based entertainment company focused on the
emerging medium of mass-market digital entertainment.
RYL. McDonald's to Participate in Promotion Featuring Handheld Video Games
LOS ANGELES
, MAY 9 -- Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games)
today announced that it is partnering with McDonald
's(R) to offer electronic
handheld video games based on the popular Crash(TM) and Spyro(TM) video
games
franchises' in Happy Meals and Mighty Kids Meals worldwide.
About Vivendi Universal
Games (VU Games)
Vivendi Universal Games (http://www.raging hyper
atari. The company's 1,000-plus titles
include
hard-core, genre-defining games such as DRIV3R(TM), Enter the Matrix(TM),
Neverwinter
Nights(TM), Stuntman(TM), Test Drive(R), Unreal(R) Tournament
2004, and Unreal(R) Championship; and
mass-market and children's games such
as Backyard Sports(TM), Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues(TM) and
Dora the
Explorer(TM), Dragon Ball Z(R) and RollerCoaster Tycoon(R). VU Games' library of over 700
titles features owned
intellectual properties including Warcraft(R), StarCraft(R), Diablo(R) and
World of Warcraft(R) from Blizzard Entertainment; Crash Bandicoot(R), Spyro
The Dragon(R), Empire
Earth(R), Leisure Suit Larry(TM), Ground Control(R) and
Tribes(R).modeler launched
Teams of students from New York
-area colleges and
universities will compete to see if they have what it takes to design a game
that
withstands the test of time based on the original Atari 2600 technology,
which gave rise to such
classic games as Asteroids(R), Missile Command(R),
Pong(R) and Centipede(R). The resulting games
will be judged in the categories
of top overall game, most innovative game design, best sound, and
best
visuals, with the top overall game to be featured in the an upcoming version
of the Atari
(R) Flashback(TM) Game Console.
Atari, the company that started the gaming revolution when it
introduced
Pong(R) to the world, has proven that great games never go out of style with
last year
's successful launch of the Atari Flashback Game Console.
New York-based Atari, Inc. Parsons'
rigorous programs and distinguished faculty
embrace curricular innovation, pioneer new uses of technology
, and instill in
students a global perspective in design. The company is a
leader in the subscription
-based massively multi-player online (MMO) games
category, and also holds leading positions in the
PC, console and handheld
games markets.ips raging
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"uWink is delighted to partner with Planetwide
Games to maximize its market
penetration into the online gaming space," said Nolan Bushnell, uWink
CEO. uWink is led by Nolan
Bushnell, the founder and former CEO of Atari Corporation and Chuck E
.
About Atari, Inc.
launched emulation
Awards will be presented at a
ceremony to be held on Monday
, April 4 at 5 p. at the Theresa Lang Student
Center, 55 West 13th Street, New York.
"Retro
Redux provides students with the opportunity to test their
creativity and design skills by re-inventing
classic games from the birth of
the video game era," said Katie Salen, the director of the MFA Design
and
Technology Program at Parsons and a professional game designer. A plug-
and-play system,
the Atari Flashback offers gamers the chance to go back in
time and see where it all started. The
School's Dean is Paul Goldberger, the
Pulitzer-prize winning design critic and writer.com.hyper launched
At uWink
, Mr. The McDonald's handheld games are based on VU Games' popular
Crash and Spyro video game franchises
including Crash Twinsanity(TM) and Spyro
A Hero's Tail both available in stores now for PlayStation
2 computer
entertainment system and Xbox video game system from Microsoft. Its development studios
and publishing labels include Blizzard
Entertainment(R), Radical Entertainment, Sierra(R) Entertainment
and Massive
Entertainment(TM).launched kde
"By bringing
together students from the leading university game
design programs in the New
York area, Parsons will showcase the tremendous talent to be found in
the
region.vugames.com) is a global developer, publisher
and distributor of multi-platform interactive
entertainment.raging ips
uWink Licenses Video Arcade Game Library to Planetwide Games for Global Online Play
Originally designed for the public space consumer market, the games
exhibit a quality, functionality
, and exciting gameplay not generally seen
on the Internet.
"The combination of Nolan Bushnell
, uWink's video game wizardry and
Planetwide Games' innovative marketing and unique channels of distribution
translates into a powerful platform to bring video games to the mass
market," said Kevin Donovan
, Planetwide Games President."
About uWink
uWink, Inc. Bushnell has focused his skills
on creating, developing and launching innovative consumer entertainment
concepts with broad mass
-market appeal. The Company is developing its own
online video games, licensing existing online video
games, developing
online technology and building a worldwide network of affiliates to
distribute
the games. For more information, visit
http://www.com/mcdonalds.skinable genesis
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"At Parsons, students learn
to think critically about the role technology
plays in the design, production, dissemination, and
use of games," said
Colleen Macklin, Chair of the Design and Technology Program at Parsons.edu .
kstella modeler
(OTC BB: UWNK), a designer,
developer and marketer of entertainment software for video game terminals
and amusement vending machines, today announced that it has granted the
exclusive licensing rights
for Internet and Online gameplay for its library
of video arcade games to Planetwide Games.
Cheese
's Pizza Time Theater.net and
http://www. "Game design is
the fastest-growing sector in the new
media industry, and through educational
programs such as those offered by Parsons, students receive
the training and
support they need to succeed in this exciting field."
For more information
about Retro Redux, visit
http://retroredux.parsons.mame hyper
Forward-Looking Statements
The
statements contained in this press release that are not historical are
forward-looking statements
, including statements, without limitation,
regarding our expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies
regarding the
future.Flashback to the '80s: Parsons School of Design Partners with Atari for 'Retro
Redux' 24-hour Video Game Jam
Crash Tag Team Racing will be available
for the PlayStation(R
)2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox(R) video game
system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube
(TM) and Nintendo DS(TM).win32 gameboy
net, has passed
the 125,000 North American registered online player milestone
.
New York-Area Students to Create New Games Based on the Atari Technology
Behind Such
Classic Hits as Asteroids(R), Missile Command(R), Pong(R) and
Centipede
(R)
Winning Game to be Featured in an Upcoming Version of 'Atari(R) Flashback(TM)
Game Console'
NEW YORK, On April 2-3, Parsons School
of Design
, a division of New School University, will present its first 24-hour
game design event, "Retro Redux
", in collaboration with Atari, Inc.
More information on the Atari Flashback Game Console
can be found online
at http://www. Areas of study include Architecture,
Communication Design,
Critical Studies, Design and Management, Design and
Technology, Fashion Design, Fine Arts, the History
of Decorative Arts,
Illustration, Integrated Design, Interior Design, Lighting Design,
Photography
, and Product Design.edu . VU Games also maintains strategic relationships with industry
leading
content partners, including NBC Universal and Twentieth Century Fox.
For more information, visit
http://www.header kde
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