Glu Mobile to Return to the Ring With Super KO Boxing!; Leading Mobile Entertainment Publisher to Punch Out Competition With Retro, Arcade-Style Boxing Thriller.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Glu Mobile Glu Mobile is a leading global publisher of mobile games. Its portfolio of top-rated games includes original titles Super K.O. Boxing!, Stranded and the Ancient Empires franchise, and titles based on major brands from Atari, Harrah's, Hasbro, Microsoft, PlayFirst, PopCap Games, , a leading creator and global publisher of mobile entertainment, today announced that its San Mateo studio has been bulking up for a return to the ring with an original title, Super KO Boxing! The retro, arcade-style boxing game is sure to deliver serious nostalgic appeal. Get ready for the main event when the game launches on wireless carriers worldwide in July 2006. "We set out to create the most over-the-top, hilarious and fun mobile game available," said Robert Nashak, chief creative officer, Glu Mobile. "With a cadre of eclectic pugilists rendered in crisp, colorful, comic book-style graphics, this game is a knockout -- looking more like a game you'd expect to find on a traditional handheld system rather than on a mobile phone." Glu is no stranger to the ring. The company's initial campaign into the mobile boxing world was in 2003 when it launched FOX Sports Boxing, which received a rating of 9.0 from IGN IGN Ignored (Status) IGN Institut Geographique National IGN Ignition IGN Instituto Geografico Nacional (Spain) IGN Imagine Games Network IGN In-Game Name (gaming) .com and was called "as rock-solid as Ali's abs" and "an absolute gas to play." More recently, Glu strapped on the gloves during the 2004 presidential election with Bush vs. Kerry Boxing, a politically charged satire that featured a real-time "pugilist poll" that tallied which candidate had won more bouts. Glu expects Super KO Boxing, with its combination of incredible graphics and winning game-play, to further solidify the company as the undisputed heavyweight champion of mobile boxing. For more information, please visit www.glu.com. About Glu Mobile Glu Mobile is a leading developer and global publisher of mobile entertainment. Glu's portfolio of games, ringtones, wallpapers and information applications include both original titles and entertainment based on major brands including Atari, Cartoon Network For Cartoon Network outside of the United States, see . Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. , FOX Sports Interactive, PopCap Games, Twentieth Century Fox and Celador International. Based in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , with offices in London and Hong Kong, Glu is funded by top venture firms NEA NEA abbr. 1. National Education Association 2. National Endowment for the Arts NEA (US) n abbr (= National Education Association) → Verband für das Erziehungswesen , BA Venture Partners, Granite Global Ventures, Sienna sienna: see ocher. Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners, and by Time Warner Investments. Consumers can find fresh entertainment created exclusively for their mobile phones wherever they see the 'g' character logo or at www.glu.com. GLU MOBILE, GLU, and the 'g' character logo are trademarks of Glu Mobile. All other names and trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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