Become an "Age of Conan" Barbarian with Big Stage Entertainment and GGL Global Gaming.Big Stage Technology Puts Your 3-D Face on "Age Of Conan" Video Game Content for Personalization of Game Images, Animated Clips and Video. Share the Experience and You Could Win Free "Age of Conan" Subscriptions LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Big Stage Entertainment, Inc., the leading service for consumer projection of self into digital life, and GGL GGL Global Gaming League GGL Gigolo (gaming) GGL Global Gemological Laboratory Global Gaming, one of the world's largest social communities for gamers, have teamed up to offer gamers the ability to put their faces into exclusive content from the Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures video game by Funcom. The experience is available on a GGL Global Gaming minisite on BigStage.com and is being promoted across GGL Global Gaming communities, with additional support from Funcom. "We're excited to offer fans of the popular Age of Conan game the ability to literally see themselves as part of the fantasy action," said Phil Ressler, Big Stage Entertainment CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "GGL Global Gaming clearly understands the future of immersing gamers into the entertainment they are most passionate about and letting them share the experience across their online life, from MySpace and Facebook to YouTube. Big Stage Entertainment looks forward to continuing to lead video game innovation by taking our personalization technology in-game soon." Big Stage Entertainment offers the most realistic Web-based 3-D facial modeling technology available to consumers. The Company's proprietary technology automatically maps the contours of the face from a few digital photos. The resulting realistic, animated 3-D model called an @ctor is created and inserted into digital media in just minutes, making you the star of completely personalized interactive entertainment experiences. Beginning today, Funcom's Age of Conan game is featured on the new GGL Global Gaming channel on BigStage.com. There PC gamers can create animated Big Stage "@ctors" to be inserted into a variety of Age of Conan content including still images, animated clips and video. Additional Big Stage solutions support Macintosh, iPhone and other digital media and gaming platforms. As part of the experience, @ctors can be instantly accessorized with hairstyles, eyeglasses eyeglasses or spectacles, instrument or device for aiding and correcting defective sight. Eyeglasses usually consist of a pair of lenses mounted in a frame to hold them in position before the eyes. , hats and helmets before being seamlessly integrated using advanced animation technology into Age of Conan content selected by the user. Personalized Age of Conan content can then be shared with friends, family and colleagues through email, Web embeds and direct posting to social networks. People 17 years or older with registered accounts on both BigStage.com and GGL.com who share their Age of Conan image or video the most times will win one of 17 free Age of Conan subscriptions plus in-game bonus items. For more details on how to enter and Official Rules, click here. "This technology provides us with a unique way to personally engage around a game title," said Ted Owen, CEO of GGL Global Gaming. "We are always focused on new ways to enhance the gaming experience, and improve the gamers' lifestyle. Partnering with Big Stage to bring this option to the Conan community and gamers everywhere is an innovative way to add another layer of fun and interaction." The massively-multiplayer online role-playing game role-playing game n. A game in which players assume the roles of characters and act out fantastical adventures, the outcomes of which are partially determined by chance, as by the roll of dice. (MMORPG (Massively Multiuser Online Role Playing Game) A role playing game on the computer played by many people. An MMORPG differs from a regular computer role playing game because its environment is perpetual. ) Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is based on the world and works of acclaimed author Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22 1906 – June 11 1936)[1] was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. . In Age of Conan, players live, fight, and explore the dark and brutal world of King Conan King Conan is a collection of five fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1953. . Age of Conan is the winner of multiple industry awards including 'Best Online Game' at E3 and the Games Convention The Games Convention (sometimes called the Leipzig Games Convention, and abbreviated as GC) is an annual video game event in Leipzig, Germany, first held in 2002. Besides videogames, the event also covers Infotainment, Hardware and Edutainment. , and was the 3rd bestselling PC game in the US last year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. NPD NPD New Product Development NPD Nouveau Parti Démocratique (Canada) NPD Narcissistic Personality Disorder NPD Norwegian Petroleum Directorate NPD Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands sales data. "Age of Conan is a beloved title with a highly devoted player base, so Funcom is pleased to be working with GGL Global Gaming and Big Stage Entertainment to offer fans a whole new way to personalize their profiles and messaging," said Morten Larssen, Funcom vice president of Sales and Marketing. "We expect that not only will the current fans of Age of Conan love to put themselves into content featuring the game's characters, but that fans of the Conan character and Robert E. Howards universe will do the same." About Big Stage Entertainment, Inc. Big Stage Entertainment, Inc. is a media technology company that enables the projection of self into digital life. With Big Stage Entertainment products and services, consumers can create a photorealistic Having the image quality of a photograph. , 3-D, animated @ctor of themselves to insert into digital media including video games See video game console. , video clips and still images, as well as to represent themselves in online communities. Through its PortableYou program, Big Stage Entertainment enables third parties to seamlessly integrate its 3-D facial modeling system into video games, virtual worlds, Web sites, mobile apps, kiosk-based systems and more to personalize everything from entertainment to communications. At BigStage.com, anyone can generate a free, animated 3-D @ctor from a few digital photos and save it to use in any Big Stage-enabled media. Headquartered in South Pasadena South Pasadena (păs'ədē`nə), city (1990 pop. 23,936), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1888. Medical supplies, clothing, and transportation and electronic equipment are manufactured. , CA, Big Stage Entertainment investors include Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures and Tech Coast Angels. For more information, please visit www.bigstage.com. About GGL Global Gaming GGL Global Gaming is an online gaming See gaming. network providing millions of gaming fans with a unique social/interactive platform where they can connect, compete & manage their gaming lives across hundreds of game titles on all game platforms. Founded by gaming fanatics and lead by a collection of gaming insiders, GGL works in partnership with leading game publishers and developers to provide users with access to game play data and statistics related to their own personal gaming experiences. With 2.5 million registered gamers and more than 20 million monthly unique users across their properties, GGL has been a major part of the growth of the video gaming industry and culture since the company's launch in 2003. About Funcom Funcom is an independent developer and publisher of online games for PC, consoles and mobile platforms. Funcom has provided outstanding entertainment since 1993 and continues to expand its track-record of more than twenty released games. Recent titles include 'The Longest Journey', 'Anarchy Online' and 'Dreamfall: The Longest Journey'. For corporate information please visit www.funcom.com. Funcom is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange An exchange founded in 1819 and trading stocks, bonds, and stock options that is considered the options market of Norway. under the ticker FUNCOM. About Conan Properties International Conan Properties International LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Paradox Entertainment Inc., controls rights to Conan, many associated characters and the Hyborian world, as created by Robert E. Howard and various rights expanded upon by many acclaimed authors and artists. Many consider Conan the world's best-known fantasy character. For more information about Conan Properties International LLC, visit www.conan.com. For information about Paradox Entertainment Inc., visit www.paradox-entertainment.com. Legal Disclaimer: @ctor, BackStage, iStage and PortableYou are trademarks or registered trademarks of Big Stage Entertainment, Inc. All other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners Documents and/or Photos available for this release: Big Stage Entertainment high resolution logo GGL Global Gaming High resolution logo Just upload regular digital photos to BigStage.com to put yourself into the title role of the popular MMORPG game Age of Conan; share the video for a chance to win a free subscription on GGL Global Gaming. To view supporting documents and/or photos, go to www.enr-corp.com/pressroom and enter Release ID: 203268 |
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