– NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe to Launch High-Octane Survival Action Title, Coming in 2011 – 

BARCELONA, SPAIN – 12 May 2010 – NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. chose today’s LEVEL UP event in Barcelona to confirm the forthcoming European and PAL region release of anticipated survival action title God Eater, coming to Australian shores in 2011 exclusively for  PSP® (PlayStation®Portable).

God Eater re-imagines the post-apocalyptic world with an original and dramatic story of human survival against overwhelming odds. The earth has been trashed by unpleasant mutant beasts known as the Aragami and man’s only hope against them is the God Arc weapons and the God Eaters who wield them.  Players will create their own hero and do battle with over 37 different enemies, picking up items along the way to customize their weapons, guns, bullets and shields, boosting their strength and stamina in the massive scale fights.  

The furious pace of the gameplay will send players hurtling through over 125 missions, demanding quick thinking for tactical shifts between weapons to slash, shoot and devour some seriously imposing enemies. Bullets can be customised to alter their strength, patterns and elemental type for wildly effective super attacks.

The original Prey Attack adds a new strategic level as players transform their God Arc to Burst Mode, boosting their stats and special bullets to launch potent attacks. Players can hunt with AI controlled party members or join hunting parties with up to four players via ad hoc connection, or connect the PSP to a PlayStation®3 and play online using adhocParty in cooperative mode.

If you’ve ever wondered what a god tastes like, you won’t have to wait long to find out.

For more information about NAMCO BANDAI Partners Australia New Zealand and its line up, please visit www.namcobandaipartners.com.au   

‘GOD EATER’ FOR PSP CONFIRMED FOR EUROPEAN RELEASE

– NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe to Launch High-Octane Survival Action Title,

Coming in 2011 –

BARCELONA, SPAIN – 12 May 2010 – NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. chose today’s LEVEL UP event in Barcelona to confirm the forthcoming European and PAL region release of anticipated survival action title God Eater, coming to Australian shores in 2011 exclusively for  PSP® (PlayStation®Portable).

God Eater re-imagines the post-apocalyptic world with an original and dramatic story of human survival against overwhelming odds. The earth has been trashed by unpleasant mutant beasts known as the Aragami and man’s only hope against them is the God Arc weapons and the God Eaters who wield them.  Players will create their own hero and do battle with over 37 different enemies, picking up items along the way to customize their weapons, guns, bullets and shields, boosting their strength and stamina in the massive scale fights.  

The furious pace of the gameplay will send players hurtling through over 125 missions, demanding quick thinking for tactical shifts between weapons to slash, shoot and devour some seriously imposing enemies. Bullets can be customised to alter their strength, patterns and elemental type for wildly effective super attacks.

The original Prey Attack adds a new strategic level as players transform their God Arc to Burst Mode, boosting their stats and special bullets to launch potent attacks. Players can hunt with AI controlled party members or join hunting parties with up to four players via ad hoc connection, or connect the PSP to a PlayStation®3 and play online using adhocParty in cooperative mode.

If you’ve ever wondered what a god tastes like, you won’t have to wait long to find out.

For more information about NAMCO BANDAI Partners Australia New Zealand and its line up, please visit www.namcobandaipartners.com.au  

INTERVIEWER
Are you so at home being a father?

ROBERT DE NIRO
Well, I’m not, I’m not at home. I think, you know, it’s tough. Eh, there are good moments and not so good moments. Anybody who has children knows that. So, it’s just life. I, I needless to say, but as long as you have children, there’s going to be a problem. You know, that’s something.

INTERVIEWER
Uh, speaking to, I mean, preaching to the choir because I’m, I’m a mother, too, and I have a thirty year-old…

ROBERT DE NIRO
Mm-hm.

INTERVIEWER
…and he is a handful.

ROBERT DE NIRO
Mm.

INTERVIEWER
How many do you have?

ROBERT DE NIRO
I have five and two grandkids.

INTERVIEWER
You have to give me a lesson.

ROBERT DE NIRO
Yeah. I, I don’t, I don’t know if I can, but I–

KIRK JONES (overlapping)
(chuckles)

INTERVIEWER
So, um, being a father, being a parent, eh, is just as much joy as, as it is a pain. Uh, what were the highlights for you as a parent and what were the down points that you really needed to resolve?

ROBERT DE NIRO
Oh. There’s so many. But, you know, I just got my twins’ report cards yesterday and I read them and they’re pretty, pretty…I’m very impressed, and had a meeting with their teachers. So, I was, that was a good moment. (chuckles)

KIRK JONES (overlapping)
That’s good. (chuckles)

INTERVIEWER
Mine faked my signature.

ROBERT DE NIRO
Oh, really? Okay. Well, that’s– (chuckles)

INTERVIEWER
And the principal called me and said…

ROBERT DE NIRO
Oh, boy.

INTERVIEWER
…”You know, uh, Mrs. [name], you always, uh, sign your name in yellow marker and print.”

ROBERT DE NIRO
Oh.

KIRK JONES
Crayon.

ROBERT DE NIRO
Yeah. Yeah.

INTERVIEWER
And what were the down moments? When you really had to go deep in you and just find something that–?

ROBERT DE NIRO
Well, you know, that, uh, even the ones that I would talk about, you know, eh, when the kids are not behaving or doing what you expect of them or what you’d hope that they’d want to do because you know in the long run for them, it’ll, it’ll, they’ll be better off, uh, whatever that is. Having, eh, having some, knowing that they, uh, i-if they know what they want to do in their lives, it helps. The way you un-, I understand it, they don’t know. Uh, you can’t, um, you can’t, um, I can’t force the kids to be anything other than what they want to be.

INTERVIEWER
Nobody can.

ROBERT DE NIRO (overlapping)
I like them to do…so, I’m, I’m pretty easy about that. I’d rather negotiate with them about if you want this; then give me that. Let’s– as opposed to being, um, punishing and stuff like that.

INTERVIEWER
Um, on the other hand, you know, I think, many, many years ago, let’s say a few decades ago, the family was more together.

ROBERT DE NIRO
Mm.

KIRK JONES
Mm.

INTERVIEWER
And I think the world goes, uh, it’s not the right way for families because we, we’re driven apart.

ROBERT DE NIRO
Yeah.

INTERVIEWER
We have too m-, too, too many things to do and we just don’t have the time to dedicate to our kids and to this relationship. What do you do about that?

ROBERT DE NIRO
Uh, I, I don’t know. Kirk might have something to say about that.

KIRK JONES
I think it’s, I think it’s a really good point. I, I think not so long ago, maybe thirty, forty years ago, I think communities were much stronger and that people tended to not move away so quickly or, or, you know, but now, as soon as kids hit teenage years, their first thought is to escape the area in which they grew up and work in another country or work halfway across the country. Um, and I think it’s, I, I think all that’s good about living in a community, um, is perhaps being lost in, in the modern world. You know, I s-, I, when I go back to Italy now I still see that there are, um, there is, uh, there are smaller communities and there are, uh, communities which, eh, which are, um, still surviving, and I think it’s a much healthier, um, environment to grow up in and, you know, and to stay in with the support of a community, rather than everyone just kind of heading off on their own.

INTERVIEWER
Uh, it’s very true. My son told me, um, when he was what, uh, twenty-three, he said, “I want two things. Number one: I don’t want, uh, to be what you me to be, and I want to move away from you as far as I can…

KIRK JONES
Mm.

INTERVIEWER
…in a different zip code possibly,” but there is still love.

ROBERT DE NIRO (overlapping)
(chuckles)

KIRK JONES
Yeah.

INTERVIEWER
So, how do you keep the love there when there is physical distance still?

ROBERT DE NIRO
That’s a good question. I liked my kids to be all around. I don’t like them to be off here and there unless they really have a, a reason or a job that pulls them there. Uh, I, I, I think the Italian thing is really good because the communities stay together and other, there are other countries and other cultures that have this, obviously. They stay together. You know, the whole family lives in different apartments in a ho-, in a building or something, that’s all nice stuff if you can do it. Uh, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

INTERVIEW ENDS

** Everybody’s fine is released to DVD 2 June 2010**

Adds new maps, characters and gameplay mode

Sydney, Australia – May 12, 2010 – 2K Games announced today the Rapture Metro Pack*, the second installment of post-launch downloadable content for the critically acclaimed BioShock®2 is now available from both the Xbox® LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 800 Microsoft Points and from the PlayStation®Network for $15.95(AU) and $18.90(NZ). All content will be arriving on Games for Windows – LIVE Marketplace at a later date for 800 Microsoft Points. The latest downloadable package extends and enhances the multiplayer experience by adding more glimpses into the award-winning world of Rapture. Future expansions into the world of BioShock 2 are slated to arrive over the coming months and will expand upon the single player experience of Rapture.

The Rapture Metro Pack* introduces six new maps that take place over areas from the single player portion of BioShock 2.  In addition, 2K Games has also released two separate BioShock 2 multiplayer expansions. The first, which is available to download for free, is an all-new game mode called Kill’em Kindly* – a new fast-paced experience where players must fight to the death using nothing but golf clubs. The second, the Character Pack*, adds two new characters to the multiplayer gameplay and is available for 160 Microsoft Points or $3.45(AU) and $3.90(NZ)

Rapture Metro Pack* (800 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE and 15.95(AU) and 18.90(NZD) on PlayStation Network; coming soon to Games for Windows-LIVE for 800 Microsoft Points)

• Six new maps
• Rank increase to level 50
• Rebirth feature that will give players who have reached Rank 50 the option to rank down
  to level 1 and receive a special mask
• Three new achievements/trophies

Kill’em Kindly* (Free for download on Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network; coming soon to Games for Windows-LIVE)

• All-new melee-based game mode where players fight to the death using golf clubs

Character Pack* (160 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE and $3.45(AU) and $3.90(NZ) on PlayStation Network, coming soon to Games for Windows-LIVE for 160 Microsoft Points)

• Two new characters for use in multiplayer: Zigo the Fisherman and Blanche the Actress

In the coming months, 2K Games will also publish downloadable content that extends the single player experience, providing new insight into the world of Rapture. These packages will expand the narrative, and introduce new tools and challenges that extend the lore and fiction of the failed utopia under the sea.

Bioshock 2’s first downloadable package, Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack*, is currently available for download from both the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows-LIVE for 400 Microsoft Points, and from the PlayStation Network for $8.45(AU) and $9.50(NZ)

About BioShock 2

BioShock 2’s multiplayer modes provide fans with an engrossing prequel experience that expands upon the fiction of Rapture’s origins. Set during the year before Rapture’s descent into chaos, players assume the role of a Plasmid test subject for Sinclair Solutions, a key provider of Plasmids and Tonics in the underwater city that was first explored in BioShock. Players will enter into areas from the original title as they struggle to gain superiority and fight for survival in franticly paced battles.

The single player mode serves as a sequel to the original game and provides fans with an unsettling storyline, dazzling visual design and the evolution of the genetically enhanced shooter gameplay. Set almost a decade after a grueling civil war consumed the once magnificent city of Rapture, evil reverberates through the halls and a wickedness once thought gone forever returns along the Atlantic seaboard. An unspeakable series of kidnappings from local seaside communities by an unseen monster leads to the repopulation of Little Sisters in Rapture’s failed utopia under the ocean. Players must step into the boots of one of gaming’s most iconic characters, the Big Daddy, as they traverse through the fallen city, fending off attacks from an army of genetically modified Splicers, while searching for escape and the key to their survival.

BioShock 2 is currently available for Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Games for Windows-LIVE and is rated MA 15+ by the Australian Classification Board. For more information on BioShock 2 please visit www.bioshock2game.com, www.cultofrapture.com and www.somethinginthesea.com.

* Requires standalone BioShock 2 product in order to be played.

2K Games is a division of 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

About Take-Two Interactive Software

Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a global developer, marketer and publisher of interactive entertainment software games for the PC, PlayStation®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Wii™, Nintendo DS™, iPhone™, iPod® touch and iPad. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly owned labels Rockstar Games and 2K, which publishes its titles under 2K Games, 2K Sports and 2K Play. The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at www.take2games.com.

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– Be a Front Room Action Hero with the Latest in the Hit Family Trainer Series from NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe Coming this Spring 2010 – 

BARCELONA, SPAIN – 12 May 2010 – NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. worked up a sweat at today’s LEVEL UP event in Spain with the announcement of the latest instalment in the hit Family Trainer series, Family Trainer: Treasure Adventure, coming exclusively to Wii this Spring 2010.  Packed with even more physical challenges to get those limbs swinging and a classic Hollywood action adventure look, there’s more reasons than ever to get everyone up off that sofa and remind yourselves why god gave you arms and legs.

Family Trainer: Treasure Adventure sends players on a heart-pounding hunt across continents in search of hidden treasures. With 24 different multiplayer activities to throw yourself into, mastery of the Family Trainer Mat peripheral is a must as you jockey the Wii Remote^TM through the series of hair-raising active adventures, find the treasures, and become a fully-fledged Family Trainer action hero.

Journey through a distinctly Family Trainer version of the great outdoors, from dense twilight jungle to lava-flooded caves and frozen ice pack, all strewn with unexpected hazards. Cunning Vs or co-op multiplayer challenges include Horseback Chase, Deep-Sea Diving, Three-Legged Run, and even Cycle Glider which sends players high into the air on a bicycle-powered flying machine.

Family Trainer: Treasure Adventure is stuffed with brand new gameplay modes and adventuring possibilities, with over 70 riotous missions to keep everyone entertained. In Party Mode up to eight players will compete against each other in a variety of lively challenges, battling it out to bag 1^st prize and an avalanche of in-game money.  Adventure Mode invites players to become intrepid treasure hunters, scouring the four corners of the globe for valuable trinkets, with completed missions in turn revealing yet more thrilling new terrains to explore.

There’s never any shortage of treasure to dig up, with collectible Family Trainer Medals, Badges and  Exercise Points, all of which can be exchanged for new costumes and accessories for your characters, plus a whole load of fun unlockables peppering your progress through the game.

Family Trainer: Treasure Adventure requires the Family Trainer Mat, a durable eight button peripheral that lets players control the on-screen action with their hands and feet when used together with the Wii Remote. With frantic challenges for up to four-players, Family Trainer: Treasure Adventure is a fun way to get your body moving and indulge in some pure action hero chaos with your friends and family.

For more information on NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe and its line up, please visit www.namcobandaigames.eu.

About NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe 

NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. is a leading software publisher producing a broad catalogue of high quality interactive entertainment for console and PC gaming platforms and online which is marketed and sold in 50 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australasia.  The company is a part of the NAMCO BANDAI group of companies known for creating and publishing many of the industry's top video game franchises including Tekken™, Dragon Ball®, Naruto™, SOULCALIBUR™, One Piece™, RidgeRacer™, Ace Combat™ and Tamagotchi™. 

“Family Trainer” is a trademark of NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.

(c) 2010 NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.

A New Level of Dragon Ball Handheld Multiplayer Battling Coming Exclusively to PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) this Spring 2010  

BARCELONA, SPAIN – 12 May 2010 – Pulling the trigger on its second Dragon Ball barrel at today’s LEVEL UP event in Barcelona, NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. announced a new fighting game heading exclusively to PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) across Europe this Spring 2010, Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team.

Stuffed with authentic scenes and a myriad of exciting missions, Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team follows the original Dragon Ball story from the Saiyan Saga to the Majin Buu Saga for maximum fan satisfaction.

Of course no Dragon Ball fighting came is complete without multiplayer battling, and for the first time ever Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team lets up to four players team up for white-knuckle two Vs two tag team battles via PSP Network system. 

Alongside the two fiery battle modes, other new gameplay features include the sensational Dragon Walker Mode which lets players jump straight into an adrenaline-fuelled fight with enemies they encounter. The overhauled control system has been optimised for ease of use, meaning anyone can have fun with the game from the very first bout.  Tag team battling is about to get energised, Dragon Ball style.

For more information about NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe and its line up, please visit www.namcobandaigames.eu.

About NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe 

NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. is a leading software publisher producing a broad catalogue of high quality interactive entertainment for console and PC gaming platforms and online which is marketed and sold in 50 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australasia.  The company is a part of the NAMCO BANDAI group of companies known for creating and publishing many of the industry's top video game franchises including Tekken™, Dragon Ball®, Naruto™, SOULCALIBUR™, One Piece™, RidgeRacer™, Ace Combat™ and Tamagotchi™. 

© Bird Studio/Shueisha, Toei Animation

Game © 2010 NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.

Published by NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe SAS

“PlayStation”, the “PS” Family logo and “PSP” are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Memory Stick Duo™ may be required (sold separately).

May 12^th 2010 – Today Halfbrick is happy to announce the permanent price drop of their action-puzzle game Echoes for PlayStation Minis. Released in November 2009, Echoes became a critical success garnering a Metacritic score of 79 overall and a cult fan following.

Since the release of Echoes, Halfbrick has launched a total of four PlayStation Minis. To celebrate, a permanent price drop down from $2.99 has now taken effect in both USA and Europe. PSN gamers can now download Echoes for just $0.99 in the USA or €0.99 in Europe. It is fully playable on both the PSP and PS3, and the bargain price point makes Echoes the cheapest game of any kind on the entire PlayStation Store!

Players control Charlie, a girl transported to a dream world while studying art, and finds herself in a series of bizarre and surreal levels. To complete each level, the player must collect crystals and avoid the deadly Echoes which spawn and follow the player’s previous movements. Gameplay quickly becomes fast-paced strategic action as more complex paths are taken and the Echoes begin to close in!

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHXaZQf3ys

About Halfbrick

Halfbrick is a professional game development studio based in Brisbane, Australia. Founded in 2001, it has developed popular titles for the Game Boy Advance, PSP, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS, with expansion into XBLA, PS3 and iPhone development. For further information, please visit www.halfbrick.com and follow on Twitter, Youtube and Facebook!

Dreambox Games are a new game development studio company from Valencia, Spain whose goal is to produce projects for all platforms, Wii, PS3, Xbox360.

Their  first game, being developed for Wiiware digital download is Robox, a 2D game developed on an alien planet, where the player will find both: an action adventure and exploration as well as a more strategic mode similar to a puzzle.

You can get much more information and the first pictures of the game by visiting their website http://www.dreamboxgames.com

G4C 7^th Annual Festival begins New York May 24-27, 2010 

New York, NY (May 10, 2010) – Games for Change (also known as G4C), the leading global advocate for making and supporting digital games in the public interest, announced today that Gobion Rowlands, the Chairman of Red Redemption Ltd, the Oxford, England based independent developer of socially positive computer games that brought climate change to the international gaming marketplace, has been named a member of its Board of directors. He is the first non-USA Director.

Gobion Rowlands said “I am extremely proud to join the board of such a dynamic and game changing festival and organization. Games for Change is known worldwide as a unique global leader promoting the use of social impact games to tackle the challenges facing us in the 21st century to educate and entertain.”

Games for Change will host its 7^th Annual Festival in New York City May 24 – 27 at Parsons  The New School of Design located at 66  West 12th Street in Manhattan. This year’s Festival http://www.gamesforchange.org/fest2010 has attracted a star studded lineup of speakers including its keynote presentation by Aneesh Chopra, the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Other confirmed speakers include former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, “Law and Order: SVU” executive producer Neal Baer, Army Brig. Gen. Loree K. Sutton, Director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) and Digital pioneer Alan Kay.

Alex Quinn, Executive Director of Games for Change said “We are thrilled to have Gobion join the Games for Change Board of Directors.  Our organization will benefit tremendously from his international perspective and expertise as an award-winning producer of socially positive games.” The Games for Change Festival is the only festival dedicated to the growing movement of Digital Games for Social Change; convening leaders from government, philanthropy, academia and the game industry to raise the sector of impact-focused games.

 Gobion Rowlands environmental gaming industry expertise has led him to be appointed a “Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts” (FRSA) in 2008, a “Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society” (FRGS) and a “Fellow of the Royal Institution” (FRI) in 2010 and an ‘in demand’ speaker and writer on numerous subjects including serious computer games, social enterprise, climate change and communication. Red Redemption’s newest climate change game is “Fate of the World” due for release in the 3^rd quarter of 2010. http://www.red-redemption.com.