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Acclaim Max Sports Expands Its Extreme Lineup With 'Chris Edwards Aggressive Inline'.


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GLEN COVE Glen Cove, city (1990 pop. 24,149), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island, at the entrance to Hempstead Harbor; settled 1668, inc. as a city 1918. , N.Y.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2001

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Top Selling Dave Mirra Dave Mirra (born April 4, 1974 in Chittenango, New York) is an American BMX athlete and business owner. Dave Mirra is known as BMX's most dominant athlete and arguably the most dominant extreme athlete of all-time.  Franchise, Comes the First-Ever

Aggressive Inline Aggressive Inline is an inline skating video game released in 2002. The game features professional inline skaters, including Chris Edwards, Eito Yasutoko, Franky Morales, and Taïg Khris.  Skating Game for the Next-Generation Platforms

Building upon its stellar lineup of extreme sports extreme sports

Sports events characterized by high speed or high risk. Such sports include aggressive inline skating, wakeboarding, street luge, skateboarding, and freestyle bicycle events (wherein tricks such as back flips are performed on a bicycle).
 franchises, Acclaim Max Sports, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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.SC: AKLM AKLM Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (stock symbol) ), today announced the addition of Chris Edwards Chris Edwards may refer to one of the following persons:
  • Chris Edwards (skater), California-based inline skater
  • Chris Edwards (musician), (born 1981), bassist for Kasabian
  • Chris Edwards (Oregon politician), Oregon State House, District 14 Representative
 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 Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX is a video game released in 2000 featuring Dave Mirra and other professional BMX riders. It was developed by Z-Axis Ltd. and published by Acclaim, and was released on the PlayStation, Dreamcast, Game Boy Color and the Windows PC. , 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.

About Acclaim Entertainment

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 Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 26,622. Part of the early 20th century Gold Coast of the North Shore, Glen Cove has a diverse population.  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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