Copenhagen, Denmark — September 20, 2011 — Today, Ubisoft^® and CBS Consumer Products announced the development of an all-new video game based on the top-rated drama series, NCIS. The game will be available worldwide for the Xbox 360^® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation^®3 computer entertainment system, Windows PC and Wii™ system, this October 27, 2011. It will also be released at the same date, in EMEA territories only, for the Nintendo 3DS™.

For the first time ever, the world of the NCIS TV drama series comes to life on home and portable gaming consoles and Windows PC. Fans can play as their favorite characters from the NCIS series and search for clues to solve complex murder, espionage and terrorist cases. The game features four original NCIS episodes written and developed with the writers of the hit TV show.

• PLAY AS THE CAST, BE PART OF THE FAMILY – Take on the role of your favorite character from the NCIS team and use their special skills and field expertise to solve the crime. Investigate crime scenes as agents Ziva David and Tony DiNozzo, conduct forensics analyses as Abby Sciuto, perform victim autopsies as Ducky Mallard, interrogate and break suspects as special agent Gibbs, and use satellite tracking to apprehend bad guys on the run as special agent McGee.
• EMBARK ON YOUR OWN NCIS ADVENTURE – Written with the writers of the hit TV show, embark on an all-new NCIS story arc complete with four original NCIS episodes. Travel to exotic environments, from a casino in Atlantic City to a luxury hotel in Dubai. Discover exciting connections between the four cases as you crack each one, and work toward solving the entire investigation.
• TOTAL IMMERSION INTO THE WORLD OF NCIS – Use your guts and cutting edge technology to solve cases. Engaging mini-games and activities keep you on your toes: scour crime scenes for clues, collect evidence, use the latest forensic tools to perform autopsies, and conduct dramatic interrogations of your most promising suspects. Put the clues together using your wits to deduct the truth!
• EXPERIENCE NCIS TEAM CAMARADERIE – Bond with your favorite NCIS characters and experience the group’s humor, personality quirks and defining characteristics. Interact with the characters through compelling layers of storyline and dialogue designed to make you an integral member of the team.

The NCIS video game is based on NCIS, the #1 rated drama series on television in the US, averaging 20 million primetime viewers. NCIS is currently in its ninth season and airs in more than 120 territories worldwide.

July 7, 2011 (London, UK) — Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax® Media company, today confirmed that it will publish Dishonored™, an all-new first-person action game under development at Arkane® Studios. Dishonored will be the first project for the studio since being acquired by ZeniMax in 2010.

Under the direction of co-creative directors, Raphael Colantonio, lead designer on Arx Fatalis®, and Harvey Smith, lead designer on Deus Ex®, Dishonored is set for release on Xbox 360^®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and Games for Windows® in 2012.

“At Arkane we have a passion for creating deep, immersive game experiences,” said Colantonio. “To be able to finally share details of our project is both extremely exciting and satisfying.”

The game will also be featured in magazine cover stories around the world throughout late July and the month of August. Check the official site for updated details: www.dishonored.com.

Copenhagen, Denmark – July 14, 2011 – Ubisoft unveiled new product details for Your Shape™: Fitness Evolved 2012, the sequel to 2010’s top fitness game on Kinect™ for Xbox 360®. Developed by Ubisoft Montreal, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 delivers one of the most extensive video game fitness offerings on the market that includes the most precise and efficient tracking system and over 90 hours of engaging fitness content, including Floor exercises tracking and over 10 hours of dance and martial arts special classes. Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 will be available exclusively on Kinect in November 2011.

The Your Shape fitness games series return with an upgraded extraction system using Ubisoft’s innovative player projection technology. The enhanced feedback system not only tracks what you are doing wrong, but now offers suggestions on how to adjust your moves to achieve the optimal workout. The player’s full body is scanned and tracked during the training session to allow players to see themselves in the Your Shape universe and monitor every step of their progress.

“Ubisoft is building upon the Kinect technology with Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 to revolutionize fitness gaming once again,” said Ubisoft Spokesperson. “This is the first game for Kinect that is able to track floor movements, allowing our developers to expand on the list of available activities and incorporate push-ups and sit-ups into the routines.”

Your Shape 2012 will introduce a variety of new activities that allow fitness gamers the opportunity to customize routines to fit their individual workout goals. Players will choose from a collection of fitness dance classes and targeted workouts including martial arts, boot camp and Zen sessions and fun mini-games including jump rope. In addition, Your Shape 2012 will also include a brand new dynamic and interactive feature called Run the World. This activity virtually simulates interval running along the streets of a 3D rendition of your favorite city such as New York and Paris.

The online fitness portal, Your Shape Center, is a community where players can monitor their fitness and wellness goals, challenge their friends and see how they compare against players from around the world on the global leaderboards. Players will be able to motivate each other and praise friends’ accomplishments on Facebook, and engage with other users to share fitness challenges and stay inspired and engaged throughout the workout campaign.

For more information on Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012, please visit: www.yourshapecenter.com.

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO (December 1, 2010) – SEGA® Europe Ltd. and SEGA® America Inc., are pleased to announce Binary Domain™, an original squad-based shooter by Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator behind some of SEGA’s most well-known video game franchises, including the critically acclaimed Yakuza series. Binary Domain puts players in the middle of a fast-paced and intense battle for humanity in robot-invaded 2080 Tokyo. Fighting through the derelict lower levels of the city, players control an international peace-keeping squad that soon starts to question their surroundings and the choices they made. Are the robots becoming more human, or are humans becoming more like machines?

“What I wanted to create this time was a dramatic and energetic sci-fi shooter. When you hear sci-fi you may think of cold, clinical environments but with Binary Domain I wanted to combine this with a deep human drama” commented Toshihiro Nagoshi. “The keyword we have in mind for this project is “Life”. I wanted to make something that will be accepted by both the Japanese and Western markets and this fundamental theme is something everyone knows, but which the full extent of can be difficult to grasp.”

Binary Domain’s central theme of life is also key to the way the innovative AI system is being developed.  The highly advanced AI will make the battlefield a more compelling experience than ever before and players will have to plan their moves strategically and carefully in order to progress through the hostile environments of the game.

“We are excited and proud to have Toshihiro Nagoshi working on Binary Domain,” commented Gary Knight, Senior Vice President of Marketing at SEGA of Europe and SEGA of America. “The game is being developed in Japan yet it is designed for a global audience and will take players into an exhilarating story wrapped into a unique, action-packed shooter experience in a fresh new setting.”

The Consequence system:

What is it?

Consequence is a gameplay system unique to Binary Domain that combines gameplay elements and AI to create different in-game experiences based on your actions, your choices and your words. The fundamental element of The Consequence System is trust.

Certain actions will raise a characters trust and others will lower it. These reactions take place both in combat and when talking to your team outside of the missions.

Conversation can be divisive, often setting one squad member against another, and your choices will have an impact on their opinions of you and their actions throughout the story of Binary Domain.

This isn’t a simple choice of go it alone or work as a team, each squad member has a different personality and will respond differently to your actions, meaning there’s no right and wrong, just your way of play.

How do you influence it?

The Consequence system allows you to speak to characters directly using a headset: Issuing orders, responding to dialogue and holding conversations. The game features voice recognition in 6 languages. And for those who need a little quiet while they play, you can also use the gamepad to issue orders and hold conversation.

It’s also as much about what you do as what you say. Charging forward alone, covering your friends or leaving them exposed can have different consequences beyond the obvious. Some characters might respect you acting alone, proving yourself as a leader. Others will damn you for breaking ranks and not following orders. It all depends on you reading your team, and their opinion of you.

What makes it different?

Unlike other games with dialogue or personality systems Binary Domain’s Consequence System is not a simple choice of good or bad or right and wrong.

You’re not being asked to choose between a clearly good and a clearly bad response at random plot points. Your constant attitude to the people in your squad and catering to (or Not) their personality in both dialogue and combat affect their views of you.

Consequence is an iterative system that builds based on your actual in-game behaviour, aggression, courage, cowardice, pace and your dialogue with the other members of your squad.

Binary Domain is being developed by SEGA Japan and Yakuza-creator Toshihiro Nagoshi for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. For more information on SEGA games please visit www.sega.com

SANTA CLARA, Calif., (Oct. 20, 2009) – Leading video games publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., announced INVERSION™ for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. Developed by Saber Interactive, INVERSION takes players on a whirlwind journey complete with nonstop firefights and a suspense-filled storyline. Packed to the brim with action, INVERSION also introduces revolutionary gravity-wielding combat, zero gravity environments, vector changes, and a unique destructible cover system. INVERSION is planned for release in 2010.

INVERSION is a third-person co-op shooter that combines hard-hitting, adrenaline-pumping action with a revolutionary gravity manipulation engine. Featuring the Grappler weapon, players will be able to manipulate gravity for their own purposes. The Grappler can be used in countless combat situations by maneuvering massive objects as shields or projectiles, and moving camped enemies out of concealed cover so they can be blasted away. The Grappler is also a key tool for tactical situations and puzzle solving as players can lift, move, or create cover objects at their whim. The awesome power of gravity is right at players’ fingertips. Additionally, INVERSION is one of the first games to feature Havok Destruction which bestows INVERSION with massively destructible environments including an elaborate cover system.

Set in the near future, the tranquil peace enjoyed by mankind shatters with an unforeseen invasion by an unknown enemy called the Lutadore. Armed to the teeth with futuristic gravity-controlling weapons, the Lutadore easily overrun the city’s defenses. Unbeknownst to all, mysterious anomalies have surfaced in conjunction with the invasion. Random regions in the city have entered zero gravity or have suffered vector changes, throwing the world into topsy-turvy chaos. Assuming the role of Davis Russel, a hotheaded 28-year-old cop, or Leo Delgado, Davis’ neighbor, players will embark on a journey through the disorienting war-ravaged, gravity twisted streets of their home town and beyond, to find Davis’ missing child.

“INVERSION will turn the shooter genre upside down, literally,” said Todd Thorson, director of marketing and public relations, NAMCO BANDAI Games America. “Saber Interactive’s innovative gravity manipulation feature will blow away any preconceptions of what a contemporary shooter should be.”

“Working with NAMCO BANDAI Games on a project of this caliber is a complete thrill,” said Matthew Karch, CEO of Saber Interactive. “We are doing things in INVERSION that most people didn’t think possible on the current generation of consoles. We can’t wait to get INVERSION in the hands of gamers across the world.”

“We are delighted to see Havok Destruction incorporated as an important gameplay element in INVERSION,” said David O’Meara, Managing Director for Havok.  “The talented team of developers and artists creating INVERSION has really embraced the Havok Destruction technology and we can’t wait to see the final results.”

For more information about Inversion, please visit www.namcobandaigames.com.

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO— 23^rd August 2011—SEGA® of Europe Ltd. and SEGA® of America, Inc. announced that Virtua Fighter™ 5, the latest title in its celebrated fighting franchise, will see a grand update and expansion released as a standalone title for both Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.and PlayStation® Network. The new game, entitled Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, will contain a full overhaul of Virtua Fighter 5’s mechanics, balance and animations, along with new game modes, new dynamic fighting arenas, a massive collection of customisable character items and two all-new characters added to the roster. Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown is expected to be available in Summer 2012.

“Virtua Fighter 5 has always been an authentic arcade fighter, even when played from the comfort of a home console. And, like any proper arcade dynasty, we’ve continued to support, expand and tweak the game in the years since its release,” said Haruki Satomi, Vice President of Digital Business at SEGA of America and SEGA Europe. “With Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, we get to bring the ultimate expression of competitive one-on-one gaming to console players in one perfect package.”

Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown contains the definitive version of VF5, refined over the years since its original arcade debut. The new release also adds an extensive list of features never before seen on consoles. VF5FS will include:
 

• The Perfect Fighting Experience: Virtua Fighter 5’s signature style of hand-to-hand combat, with revised mechanics, balance, timing and more, along with simplified controls for new players while retaining the depth that veterans demand
• Dynamic and Interactive Arenas: Fighting areas in new shapes and sizes, including arenas with fences and walls that are different for every round – take unexpected advantage of fighters’ new wall-based moves, or break through the fences with special attacks
• A Mode for Every Fight: Dominate the leaderboards with Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown’s extremely responsive one-on-one online battle system, widely praised for having little latency, or take on an army of opponents yourself in a new single-player mode
• Customized Combatants: Enter the ring with one of 19 playable characters, including fan favorite Taka-Arashi from Virtua Fighter 3 and an all-new character, Jean Kujo, and customize them with unique costume and character items

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