Sorrent Awarded Best Sports Game of the Year at Second Annual Wireless Gaming Awards at CTIA WIRELESS 2005.NEW ORLEANS -- Atari's Deer Hunter for Mobile Takes Top Honors in Competitive Sports Category Sorrent, Inc., a leading creator and global publisher of mobile entertainment, today announced that it has received the award of Best Sports Game for 2005 as part of The Second Annual Wireless Gaming Awards, also known as The Mobies, for its game, Atari's (Nasdaq: ATAR) Deer Hunter for mobile. Presented by GameSpot Mobile and Wireless Gaming Review at CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. Wireless 2005 in New Orleans, The Mobies are designed to showcase and recognize the most innovative, well designed, and technically accomplished mobile games of 2004. The Mobie Award winners were chosen from more than one hundred submissions and judged on criteria including: gameplay, aesthetic value and replay-ability. Gameplay covers a broad spectrum of characteristics that, in total, determine how fun the game is to play. Aesthetic value addresses the technical and artistic proficiency of the game's graphics and sound in comparison to its competition. A game with high replay-ability will be able to sustain the user's interest and participation over the course of time. "Sorrent has a history of creating and publishing the best games and entertainment for the mobile phone, and we're thrilled that Deer Hunter won The Mobie for Best Sports Game of 2004," said Robert Nashak, vice president of production, Sorrent. "Deer Hunter's award, as well as the nomination of DRIV3R for mobile, is a testament to the strength of Sorrent's relationship with Atari." With Deer Hunter for mobile, gamers hunt whitetail, black tail and mule deer mule deer Large-eared deer (Odocoileus hemionus) of western North America that lives alone or in small groups at high altitudes in summer and lower altitudes in winter. Mule deer stand 3–3. in three of the best hunting locations in North America. Several features of the game include context-sensitive hunting tips and guidance during game play, ensuring that any level of hunter can become an expert; selection from two modes of game play, either the instantly rewarding "Quick Hunt" mode or the extensive and challenging "Hunting Trip" mode; the virtual Trophy Room, featuring images, point-size and score per buck, where gamers can save their top deer; and a variety of firearms, from rifles to bows. Exceptional graphics and effects of the game include zoomed targeting, moving clouds, and the ability to hunt in various seasons, from the heat of summer to snowy winters. "Once again, Sorrent has surpassed our expectations in bringing an Atari title to the mobile platform," said Wim Stocks, EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition of Sales and Marketing for Atari, Inc. "With Sorrent's demonstrated ability to publish compelling games for cell phones, we were confident that the result would be engaging game play true to the original experience." About Sorrent, Inc. Sorrent is a global publisher of award-winning wireless entertainment based on original and licensed properties including Atari, Viacom, Cartoon Network, FOX Sports, and Twentieth Century Fox. Sorrent games are available to more than 800 million mobile subscribers via 90 carriers worldwide, across platforms including Java, BREW and i-mode. Sorrent also develops and publishes mobile games under the Macrospace brand as well as offering a complete end-to-end mobile gaming solution via ProvisionX, the most widely deployed Java download service worldwide. Sorrent is 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. and has offices in London and Singapore. Founded in 2001, Sorrent has attracted top tier venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] including 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, Sienna sienna: see ocher. Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners. For more information, visit www.sorrent.com. About Atari New York-based Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) develops interactive games for all platforms and is one of the largest third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software in the U.S. The Company's 1,000+ titles include hard-core, genre-defining games such as DRIV3R(TM), Enter the Matrix(TM), Neverwinter Nights(TM), Stuntman stunt·man n. A man who substitutes for a performer in scenes requiring physical daring or involving physical risk. stuntman n → especialista m stuntman (TM), Test Drive(R), Unreal(R) Tournament 2004, and Unreal(R) Championship; and mass-market and children's games such as Backyard Sports(TM), Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues(TM) and Dora the Explorer Dora the Explorer is an animated television series that is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network. A pilot episode for the series aired in 1999, and Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. (TM), Dragon Ball Z “DBZ” redirects here. For the meteorological term, see dBZ (meteorology). Dragon Ball Z (ドラゴンボールZ (R) and RollerCoaster Tycoon(R). Atari, Inc. is a majority-owned subsidiary of France-based Infogrames Entertainment SA (Euronext - ISIN Isin (ĭs`ĭn), capital of an ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites and the Amorites (c.2025 B.C.). The phase from c.2025–c.1763 B.C. : FR-0000052573), the largest interactive games publisher in Europe. For more information, visit www.atari.com. |
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