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Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition

Official trailer released ahead of game's launch later this month.

Today, Jim and Bob, the famous commentators of Blood Bowl, present Blood Bowl Legendary Edition through the official trailer, less than a month away from the game’s release on PC.

This video is a unique opportunity to discover the numerous novelties featured in this Legendary Edition, after a previous version that has already attracted over 600.000 gamers worldwide in 2009.

Those considering the Legendary Edition as a simple extension of the game released in 2009 will certainly be surprised, as Blood Bowl Legendary Edition offers an incredible content with all the races from the original Games Workshop tabletop game, that are finally playable. Indeed, 11 new playable races with a unique style are joining the 9 existing ones, bringing a wide variety and a huge interest in this new Blood Bowl game. Players will also enjoy discovering the stunning new stadiums for a total of 9 gorgeous Blood Bowl arenas. New champions are also emerging as well as battalions of cheerleaders in fury, new game modes, a new campaign and many novelties and improvements making Blood Bowl Legendary Edition, the ultimate version that all the Blood Bowl fans dreamt of!

About Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition

A brutal team sport unfolding in a fantasy world based on Warhammer and American football, Blood Bowl is an incredible, brutal game in which no holds are barred as you lead your team to the Blood Bowl final! Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition is the ultimate Blood Bowl edition! 11 new playable races join the 9 races already available in the 2009 edition: Undead, Amazon, Ogres and 9 other races enter Blood Bowl's tournaments. All 20 races have their personal style, tactics and unique skills which give each game a diversity rarely seen in a strategy game. New and more impressive stadiums welcome all these new teams: from the snowy Norse stadium to the creepy interior of a crypt, a change of scenery is guaranteed!

A new Story mode is also introduced, in which players will play as a freelance coach. They will have to lead several famous teams and take up many challenges through a story revealing the origins of Blood Bowl, the Old World and its many races that relentlessly compete with each other in merciless games. A newly scripted tutorial will teach all new comers everything they need to know about coaching a Blood Bowl team! In order to stay as close as possible to the official rules, many additions and updates have been made to better match the latest Blood Bowl Rulebook, used in all official board game official tournaments.

Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition will be released end of October (retail and digital download).

About Focus Home Interactive

Founded in 1996, Focus Home Interactive is an independent French publisher based near Paris, France. Known for the quality, diversity and originality of its catalogue, Focus has published and distributed original titles that have become benchmark titles worldwide -- such as Blood Bowl, Sherlock Holmes, TrackMania , Runaway and sports games like Cycling Manager and Virtual Skipper. For additional information about the company and its video games, please visit the official website:

http://www.focus-home.com

About Cyanide Studio

Founded in 2000, Cyanide is a privately-held video game development studio. It employs a total of 70 staff, divided between its headquarters in Paris, France, and its subsidiary studio in Montreal, Canada. Best known for its sport management sims such as the popular Cycling Manager series and Pro Rugby Manager, Cyanide also developed Blood Bowl the video game adaptation of Games Workshop's well-known board game. 2010 will see the release of Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition, the ultimate edition of Blood Bowl, as well as the new edition of Pro Cycling Manager – Tour de France 2010, a major evolution of the series since its creation! Finally, the studio is currently working on the video game adaptation of A Game of Thrones, the famous best-seller novels written by George R.R. Martin.

http://www.cyanide-studio.com

About Games Workshop

Games Workshop is the world's largest tabletop wargames company. Based in Nottingham, UK, it designs, manufactures and distributes its range of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 games, miniature soldiers, novels and resin models through more than 330 of its own Hobby centers, mail order, Internet and independent retail channels in more than 50 countries worldwide. Further details on the company can be obtained at http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/

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Copyright © Games Workshop Limited 2010. Blood Bowl, Games Workshop, Warhammer, the foregoing marks' respective logos, and all associated marks, logos, places, names, creatures, races and race insignia/devices/logos/symbols, vehicles, locations, weapons, teams and team insignia, characters, products, illustrations and images are either ®, TM and/or © Games Workshop Ltd 2000-2010. Used under license. All Rights Reserved. All other trademarks, logos and copyrights are property of their respective owners. Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE, and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. "PSP" logo is registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Nintendo DS is trademark of Nintendo.

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