com/peoples_choice.thepubliceye."
Mr. The company's value line
titles will leverage the company's extensive catalogue of popular brands
including Kings Quest, Tribes and Dark Age of Camelot, as well as entirely new
properties.

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"I'm psyched to emcee the Web Awards Ceremony this year," states Laura
Swisher.sxsw. "We offer
daily doses of humor, entertainment and a fresh approach to business,
science and technology news.

"The value line business in North America is a profitable and growing
category which well exceeded $1 billion in PC and console sales in 2004," said
Mr. Hammett sold the company to Activision and was appointed Senior
Vice President of Publishing for Head Games Publishing.
VU Games' value line products will be priced competitively at $29. Its development studios and publishing labels include Blizzard
Entertainment, Sierra Entertainment , Massive Entertainment and Coktel.

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For more information, visit: http://www.

About Vivendi Universal Games
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South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival,
one of the world's leading conferences targeted toward cutting-edge web
designers, developers and innovators, announced they will host the
conference's annual Web Awards.

The Web Awards honors the year's most innovative Web designs and the
digital artists who developed them. The nominees will be simply amazing and blow you away
with their creativity. For more
information on the conference, visit http://2005. The production schedule
includes providing a daily video broadcast available for viewing by 8 a.

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The Web Awards
judges aren't the only people with a vote. For
complete list of speakers, see http://www.

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entrepreneur , The Public Eye is
a daily video blog ("v-log") designed to capture and share news, commentary
and entertainment for an increasingly mobile and broadband Internet
connected population.

"With our unique perspective and delivery of today's news, we hope to
steadily increase our audience and news content contributors who log in to
see what's new," said Jack Hardy, founder of The Public Eye .
Traditional and new media companies are scrambling to fill the Web and
airwaves with fresh content and this new vlogging Webcast is designed to
fill this niche. Hammett will
oversee product development , sales, marketing and business development efforts
for VU Games' newly created value line business , which will mine the company's
deep library of more than 700 PC and console titles, as well as introduce a
new slate of interactive products for the mass market.

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We've got some of the hottest developers
from across the globe involved in this event, and these are the people who
are shaping tomorrow 's Internet.

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"It's truly an honor to be involved with SXSW Interactive and the
incredible talent that attends this event. Web users from across the nation
and around the world are invited to vote for their favorite site from
amongst the finalists via the People's Choice Award.com and talk radio host Al Franken.

Now in its twelfth year, this unique event brings together top-notch
developers , cutting-edge designers and out-of-the-box thinkers to share
their ideas about how interactive technology will shape our future. With the introduction of video-capable iPods,
high-speed wireless Internet and video-delivered cellular telephone
services such as VCast from Verizon, consumers are turning to new
devices to access video-based news content every day.
PST, with a high-speed Internet connection using the free Apple QuickTime
software or Microsoft's Media Player. He later was named
Executive Vice President of Activision and President of Activision Value
Publishing where he built the company 's value line business unit to more than
$100 million in annual revenues.

Contains sites and categories for games in the humor genre.

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on Friday, March 4.sxsw. Confirmed speakers at the 2005 event include
best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell, Ana Marie Cox of wonkette, Bit
Torrent's Bram Cohen,
Michael Robertson of MP3tunes. Google and
Yahoo! both recently announced video-search capability in order to
catalog these video programs. Hammett will
report to Philip W.

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Winners in all categories will be
announced at the ceremony, which will be hosted by tech-savvy comedian
Laura Swisher of "Unscrewed with Martin Sargent" on G4techTV and NBC's
"Last Comic Standing. Voting for this award ends at 11:59
p.sxsw."

The Web Awards ceremony is the cornerstone event of the annual SXSW
Interactive Festival, a five-day technology-fest, March 11-15.sxsw.

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The Public Eye is a daily video program , broadcast worldwide via the
Internet, from Vancouver, USA. Mr. "Danny has a proven track record in creating successful value
line strategies and we are thrilled to have him on-board leading VU Games'
efforts in this area.vugames.

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"The quality of sites we see in this
competition continues to soar.thepubliceye.

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Joining the likes of new media-based podcasts, downloadable MP3s and
satellite radio, the video blogging phenomenon is growing at a rapid clip.

About The Public Eye (www. LOS ANGELES, Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games)
today announced the appointment of Danny Hammett as Senior Vice President of
Value Line Publishing for North America. VU Games also maintains strategic relationships with
industry leading content partners, including NBC Universal and Twentieth
Century Fox.

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com/interactive/web_awards/finalists.99 for
console games and $19.

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With sources scattered around the globe, we
share news, commentary, humor and just plain feel-good stories that capture
the imagination and ingenuity of people everywhere. O'Neil, VU Games' President, North America. He founded Head Games Publishing in 1994,
focusing on outdoor leisure action games and the value line business segment.
In 1997, Mr. 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. VU
Games' library of over 700 titles features owned intellectual properties
including Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo and World of Warcraft from Blizzard;
Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon , Empire Earth, Leisure Suit Larry, Ground
Control and Tribes.

These games can be spoofs that aim to entertain through satire.

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PRESS RELEASE South by Southwest Interactive Hosts Annual Web Awards

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Created and produced by a Vancouver, Wash.
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The video broadcast is intended to fill the demand for news and
entertainment content, by an increasingly mobile generation, including
individuals who want their news and information in smaller, bite-sized
chunks .com) is a global developer, publisher
and distributor of multi-platform interactive entertainment .

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Hammett has held numerous senior level executive positions in the
interactive entertainment industry .

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Scheduled for Sunday evening, March 13, at
the Downtown Austin Hilton, the event is the highlight evening event of the
five-day conference."

Judges will select the best of the best of this year's Web pages across 16
categories including Humor/Satire, Weblog, and Animation .

This category does not contain sites about video game humor.

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I can only hope I'm geek enough
to do them justice. Votes can be cast
once a day at
http://www. O'Neil.

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Finalists for the Web Awards have been posted
online at http://www.

Vivendi Universal Games Appoints Danny Hammett SVP of Value Line Publishing for North America

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"SXSW Interactive brings together the Web's most creative and
innovative thinkers -- and the Web Awards is the night where these
people honor the best of the best on the Internet," says SXSW Web Awards
Coordinator Shawn O'Keefe.
Today we acknowledge the continuing evolution
of traditional print and broadcast media and the efforts of citizen
journalists with the debut of The Public Eye, www.

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SXSW Interactive Festival

Scheduled March 11-15, the SXSW Interactive Festival brings together
uber-geeks and digital creatives from around the world for four days of
keynote speeches, panels, the iF! Trade Show & Exhibition , and numerous
exciting evening activities.tv, a new
video blog presented by host Kristin Reilly .

Since the Public Eye began officially posting daily Webcasts on October 18,
it has offered business and technology news, commentary on popular culture
and humorous sketches to inform and entertain . In his new role, Mr.99 and below for PC games.