Comes the First-Ever
Aggressive Inline Skating Game for the Next-Generation Platforms
GLEN COVE, NY,
November 6, 2001 – Building upon its stellar line up of extreme sports
franchises, Acclaim Max Sports, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
(NASDAQ.SC: AKLM),
today announced the addition of
Chris Edwards Aggressive
Inline for the next-generation hardware platforms. Currently
in development with Z-Axis, the creative team behind Acclaim’s award-winning,
million unit-selling franchise
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX,
Chris Edwards
Aggressive Inline will be the first-ever aggressive inline
skating game when it launches in the summer of 2002.
“We are thrilled to expand
upon the breadth of our diverse product offerings from the Acclaim Max Sports
brand and once again work with Z-Axis to deliver another benchmark title in
the genre,” said Steve Felsen, senior brand director for Acclaim. “With
nearly 30 million inline skaters in the United States and more than $250
million generated in revenues annually from equipment manufacturer’s sales,
Chris
Edwards Aggressive Inline
is a perfect extension of our extreme sports
portfolio.”
Chris Edwards Aggressive Inline
is a trick-based action sports game featuring extreme sports legend Chris
Edwards, the founding father of aggressive inline skating, as well as other
high-profile skaters such Taig Kris, Jaren Grob and Shane Yost.
Gamers can play as one
of their favorite inline stars, as they master and explore an array of
fully-interactive levels, each filled with pedestrians, traffic systems and
outrageous gravity-defying challenges.
Chris Edwards Aggressive
Inline
will be available in the summer of 2002 across all
of the next-generation platforms. For more information regarding this title,
as well as Acclaim’s entire 2001 holiday season lineup, visit
www.acclaim.com.
Based in
Glen Cove, N.Y., Acclaim Entertainment,
Inc., is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and mass marketer of
software for use with interactive entertainment game consoles including those
manufactured by Nintendo, Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft
Corporation as well as personal computer hardware systems. Acclaim owns and
operates six studios located in the United States and the United Kingdom, and
publishes and distributes its software directly in North America, the United
Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Australia and the Pacific Rim. Acclaim also
distributes entertainment software for other publishers worldwide, publishes
software gaming strategy guides and issues “special edition” comic magazines
from time to time to support its time valued brands, Turok and Shadow Man.
Acclaim’s corporate headquarters
are in
Glen Cove, New York and
Acclaim’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ.SC under the symbol AKLM.
For more information please visit our website at
www.acclaim.com.
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