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2K Sports Scores Super-Sized Rock Royalty for The BIGS(TM) Soundtrack.


Legendary Rockers Including Jane's Addiction, Motorhead, The Stooges, and Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots (abbreviated STP) was a popular Grammy Award-winning American hard rock band in the 1990s and early 2000s, consisting of Scott Weiland (vocals), brothers Robert (bass guitar, vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitar), and Eric Kretz (drums, percussion).  Complement Larger-Than-Life Baseball Video Game

NEW YORK -- 2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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: TTWO TTWO Take Two Interative Software, Inc. (stock symbol) ), today announced that The BIGS, the over-the-top MLB MLB Major League Baseball
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[R] title with heroically portrayed players and plays that defy physics, will feature a line-up of big name rock bands to complement the video game's super-sized gameplay. Every artist featured in the all-star cast provides a guitar-heavy tune, including Jane's Addiction, Stone Temple Pilots, Rollins Band and White Zombie.

"In The BIGS, everything is to the extreme, from the colossal baseball players to the surreal stadiums, so we wanted a soundtrack that would capture the magnified nature of the game," said Tim Rosa, 2K Sports' Director of Brand and Lifestyle Marketing.

Track listing:

* Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

* Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You

* Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size

* Killing Joke - Millennium

* Rollins Band - Tearing

* White Zombie - More Human than Human

* Midnight Oil - Dreamworld dream´world`   

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* Fu Manchu - Hung out to Dry

* Motorhead - Ace of Spades

* The Stooges - Down On The Street

* Primus - Jerry Was A Racecar race·car  
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* Blue October - Somebody

* Satellite Party - Insanity Rains

* Highbench - Satisfied

The BIGS brings blazing graphics to huge proportions with larger-than-life player models and ballparks. Featuring fantastic pitching, batting, and fielding animations, gamers can also take advantage of spectacular power-ups with outrageous special effects. As a standard for all major 2K Sports titles, The BIGS features online play for up to four players, making it a grand slam for online baseball battles.

The BIGS will be available this summer for the Xbox 360[TM] video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION[R]3 and PlayStation[R]2 computer entertainment systems, PSP (PlayStation Portable) See PlayStation. [R] (PlayStation[R]Portable) system, and Nintendo's Wii[TM]. The BIGS is rated E for Everyone.

For more information, log onto http://www.2ksports.com.

About Take-Two Interactive Software

Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
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City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a global developer, marketer, distributor and publisher of interactive entertainment software games for the PC, PlayStation[R] game console, PlayStation[R]2 and PLAYSTATION[R]3 computer entertainment systems, PSP[R] (PlayStation[R]Portable) system, Xbox[R] and Xbox 360[TM] video game and entertainment systems from Microsoft, Wii[TM], Nintendo GameCube[TM], Nintendo DS[TM] and Game Boy[R] Advance. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly owned labels Rockstar Games, 2K and 2K Sports, and Global Star Software; and distributes software, hardware and accessories in North America through its Jack of All Games subsidiary. Take-Two'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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