Milan, Italy – 22nd May, 2009 – Black Bean Games announces the finalised title for the first game in the NewU franchise, NewU Fitness First Personal Trainer. It is due for release on WiiTM in September 2009 and has been developed by Lightning Fish Games and in partnership with the respective industry leading brands Fitness First and You Are What You Eat™.
The title NewU Fitness First Personal Trainer incorporates the Fitness First branding directly. This is to reflect not only the level of involvement they have had with the development of the product, but also to assure customers that NewU is a REAL fitness experience. All exercises are demonstrated by real video of qualified Personal Trainers.
NewU Fitness First Personal Trainer considers well-being as a perfect balance between physical exercise and a healthy nutritional eating, the latter having been designed by the experts at You Are What You Eat™.
“This important decision is just the first step in a series of marketing activities and strong synergies that are being executed in conjunction with Fitness First globally wherever NewU Fitness First Personal Trainer will be launched.” – Fabrizio Vagliasindi, Head of Marketing, Black Bean Games.
“We hope this product will not only complement what members find when they come to a Fitness First, but also encourage the “new to exercises” person to take the next step and join the gym” – John Gamble, Managing Director, Fitness First.
The product web site (www.newu.me) reveals NewU Fitness First Personal Trainer’s strong yet extremely clear and sophisticated look, based on NewU look and feel.
About Black Bean Games
Black Bean Games is the publishing label of Lago S.r.l., which is part of the Leader Group. Leveraging 20 years of market experience and knowledge, Black Bean is ideally positioned to launch games coming both from internal and external development teams, harnessing strong licenses, original IPs and focusing on three main areas: Racing, Family & Lifestyle and Action-Adventure games.
For further information about Black Bean and its products, visit the following web site:
www.blackbeangames.com
About Lightning Fish Games
Lightning Fish Games is a videogame developer specialising in family-oriented titles for Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and smartphones. Established in June 2008, in Banbury, United Kingdom, Lightning Fish was founded by Simon Prytherch, Mike Montgomery and David Hunt. Despite being a new company, the team have previously released over a hundred games and been responsible for games that have sold tens of million of units.
For further information about Lightning Fish Games please visit the following website
www.lightningfishgames.com
About Fitness First
Fitness First is the largest privately owned health club group in the world with over 540 Fitness First clubs worldwide reaching over 1.4 million members in 19 countries. In the UK alone there are 164 Fitness First clubs with over 425,000 members.
Fitness First is a member of the Fitness Industry Association (F.I.A), the industry trade body which represents both private and public organisations that are involved in the fitness industry, visit www.fia.org.uk.
About All Interactive Entertainment
Based in the Gold Coast of Australia, All Interactive Entertainment (AIE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of All Interactive Distribution (AID) and holds the exclusive distribution rights for games by System 3, 505 Games, Black Bean Games, and N3VRF41L throughout Australia and New Zealand.
All Interactive Distribution was established in 1994 and over the last 15 years has grown into one of the largest distributors of interactive entertainment product in Australia. AID also acts as a sub-distributor for all of the video games and DVD publishers in Australia and distributes, on behalf of Nintendo, into the New Zealand market.
www.allinteractive.com.au
www.aie.allinteractive.com.au
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