Create your own television channel!

11 avril 2007

For the first time in a video game, you get to manage and develop your own television channel!

There are four television channels sharing the local city network and vying for a share of the viewing figures. As the big boss of the channel you have to win the special prize, awarded every four years, for bringing in the largest audience and highest satisfaction ratings.

To do this you have to deploy everything at your disposal:

- Hire and fire presenters, actors and directors.

- Purchase studios to make your programs

- Produce your own shows, TV-movies, and series, etc.

- Change programming as you see fit

- Run the administration and train your teams

- Arrange for advertising for the channel and its programs,

- Negotiate advertising time for ads on your channel.

Above all, you have to decide, in response to opinion polls, what programs will go out on your channel - their format and target, etc - to try to become the king of rating figures.

There are big decisions to make, and you're going to have to make them. So get ready, a nation of under-50s housewives is yours for the taking (in a manner of speaking)!

Features

· 30 different communities, all potential targets with their own centres of interest. Sound out people in the street or in their homes, whenever you want, to gauge their opinions.

· 4 rival channels ready to try anything to win over viewers.

· A realistic viewing figure system and a simple, comprehensive analysis tool.

· 10 buildings accessible around the whole town (program store, advertising agency, bank, etc) plus a vast 3D city.

· 20 highly detailed rooms (control room, studio, archives, etc).

· A kit for creating innovative and simple programs.

· Intuitive tools for managing, planning and producing programs.

Game information

· Genre: Management - simulation

· Release date: Q2/Q3 2007

· Co-publishers: RTL Enterprises GmbH / Nobilis

· Age rating: +3 (PEGI)

· Format: PC

· System requirements: Windows® 98SE/2000/XP, CPU Pentium® III, 512MB RAM, graphics card 64 MB compatible DirectX® 8.1, 650MB free disk space

· 1 player

· Official website: www.tvgiant-thegame.com

Nobilis Contacts

Nobilis - 46-48 Chemin de la Bruyère - 69570 Dardilly - www.nobilis-france.com

Audrey Settelen - Junior Product manager - asettelen@group-nobilis.com

Christine Pestel - Senior Product manager - cpestel@group-nobilis.com

Christelle Chandavoine - International Sales Manager - cchandavoine@group-nobilis.com

Corinne Haudot - International Sales Manager - chaudot@group-nobilis.com

About Nobilis:

Nobilis Group, founded in Lyon in 2001, is specialized in the publication and distribution of video games, video game accessories and interactive DVD. Nobilis produces multi-platform games for PC, XboxTM, PlayStation®2, PSPTM, GameCubeTM, Nintendo DSTM, Game Boy®Advance and interactive DVD.

Nobilis has distribution subsidiaries in France (Nobilis France in Lyon), Spain and Portugal (Nobilis Iberica in Madrid), Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg (Nobilis Benelux) and Italy (Rome).

Some of the most prominent partners that feature in Nobilis' catalogue are 1C Company, Agetec, Akella, Aspyr, Buka, Capcom, Cenega, City Interactive, Enlight Software, Focus, Frogwares, JoWood, Lago, Lighthouse, RTL, Zuxxez...

Nobilis Publishing' own games include "Destination: Treasure Island" (PC), "The Secrets of Da Vinci: The forbidden Manuscript (PC), "The Secrets of Atlantis: the Sacred Legacy (PC), "Mountain Bike Adrenaline featuring Salomon" (PlayStation®2), "Moto Racer 3 Gold Edition" (PC), "Coffee Break" (PC), "Coffee Break2" (PC), "Wild Water Adrenaline featuring Salomon" (PlayStation®2),

Nobilis is as well a producer and distributor for console accessories by the intermediary of its brand Subsonic for platforms such as: Xbox 360, PlayStation®2, PlayStation®3, Nintendo Wii, GameCube, PSP and Nintendo DS.