Crave Entertainment Launches Extensive Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter Web Site; Futuristic World Comes Alive Inside this Unique Site.Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 27, 2002 Crave Entertainment Crave Entertainment is an American video game company. It was founded in 1997 by Nima Taghavi. Its headquarters is in Newport Beach, California. It is a division of Handleman Corporation, which acquired the company in 2005. , a leading publisher of videogame entertainment, today announced the official Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter Name for a category of persons who are offered a promised gratuity in return for "hunting" down and capturing or killing a designated target, usually a person or animal. Web site, www.huntthemdown.com, dedicated to its game being launched Fall of 2002. Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter, an original title from Crave, offers a compelling combination of first person action and arcade space combat, as Mace Griffin unravels a deep, and dangerous, mystery. "This Web site has been specially designed to immerse gamers in the dynamic, futuristic universe in which Mace operates," said Mark Gersh, Product Manager at Crave Entertainment. "The game's backdrop is one of corporate, political and religious intrigue and this site provides an opportunity to explore this new, and very elaborate, universe." Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter is set hundreds of years in the future, where Mace Griffin, an elite government ranger, becomes a bounty hunter and sets out to discover the truth behind his team's ruin. The game utilizes the proprietary "Tusk" engine which allows two key gameplay innovations: the movement within and between different types of environments, and seamless transitions between first person action and arcade space combat. Many of the species, weapons, locations, ships and characters from the game will be introduced in the context of the universe through news stories and sub-sites posted on the Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter Web site. The anticipated release for both the Xbox and PC platforms is third quarter 2002. The PC product will be co-published with Electronic Arts. About Crave Entertainment Based in 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. , Crave Entertainment is a privately held publisher of videogame entertainment products. The company's best-selling line-up features top brands and franchises such as Ultimate Fighting Championship This article covers the organization itself. For the inaugural event which went by the same name, see UFC 1. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts (MMA) organization, currently recognized as the largest MMA promotion in the world. and Tokyo Xtreme Racer Tokyo Xtreme Racer, known as Shutokou Battle (首都高バトル) in Japan and Tokyo Highway Challenge in Europe, is one of the first launch games released for Sega Dreamcast in 1999. . Crave produces games for the major console platforms including GameBoy(R) Advance, Nintendo GameCube The Nintendo GameCube (GCN) is Nintendo's fourth home video game console, belonging to the sixth generation era. The system itself is the most compact and least expensive, next to the Dreamcast, of the sixth generation era consoles. , the PlayStation(R) game console See video game console. , PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox(TM) video game system from Microsoft, and for the PC. For more information about Crave Entertainment, visit http://www.cravegames.com. About Electronic Arts Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS ERTS Electronic Arts, Inc. (stock symbol) ERTS Earth Resources Technology Satellite (US NASA) ERTS Embedded Real Time Systems ERTS Enhanced Remote Transit Shed ), with headquarters in Redwood City Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif., is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, Electronic Arts posted revenues of more than $1.3 billion for fiscal 2001. The company develops, publishes and distributes software worldwide for the Internet, personal computers and video game systems. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS(TM), EA GAMES(TM), EA SPORTS BIG(TM) and EA.COM(SM). More information about EA's products and full text of news releases can be found on the Internet at http://www.info.ea.com. About Warthog Warthog plc is one of Europe's leading independent software games developers. Based in Manchester, U.K., the company has been profitable since creation and prides itself on its highly experienced 200 strong development team, whose combined experience covers more than 1,500 games titles across all major platforms and most games genres. Note to Editors: Electronic Arts, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS BIG and EA GAMES are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. EA.COM is a service mark of EA.com Inc. Xbox is a trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. Xbox and Microsoft are trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. |
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