Icon Games announces 'Spinout' for Sony PSP and PS2

For immediate release

Icon Games, a UK based independent developer dedicated to creating innovative original games with a focus on compelling game play and lavish visuals, today announces its new PSP title 'Spinout', a fresh original racing title in which the player races their spherical craft (Xorb) around a selection of high-rise courses.

Spinout is an all action arcade racer featuring wild stunt courses; huge arenas and platform style game play, all taking place at heights that will give you vertigo. Race your Xorb around tracks suspended high above sprawling cities and lush vistas but don't miss a turn. It's a long way down.

The game will be complete for PSP & PS2 late 2005.

Game Features

• Amazing sense of height and scale as you race hundreds of metres above ground.

• Multiplayer mayhem, with up to 4 players; unleash an explosive range of weaponry and take part in several competition modes.

• Daring Aesthetic Bonuses - special stunts, moves, impacts and risk awards are received by the player for dazzling and daring manoeuvres.

• 54 vertigo inducing race courses and 4 race classes - set within 9 fully interactive game environments.

• WIFI 'Best Times' sharing & merging between friends (PSP only).

• Customise your Xorb - over 2 million unique combinations possible.

• Real-time damage system - with deformable Xorb meshes.

• Rigid body dynamics inject environmental physics into every course to create a fully immersive and believable experience.

• Powerful special effects engine that delivers spectacular visual effects including Motion Blur, Bloom and beam particle effects.

• Unlockable rewards and secrets - new courses, Xorb skins & body styles, player outfits and extra game modes.

Notes to editors

Screenshots of the game and a company logo image can be downloaded from http://www.icongames.com/spinout.zip

About Icon Games

Oxfordshire UK; ICON is an independently owned studio founded in 2002. Previous games include 'International Pool Championship' and 'International Snooker Championship' both for PS2 - published by PlayIt. - Yes we know what your about to say. These aren't exactly "innovative original games with a focus on compelling game play and lavish visuals". However they are a carefully planned part of the difficult Independent Developer life-cycle. We knew that the games would provide us with a sound financial basis and the technology could then be used to develop our new titles.

Contact: Richard Hill-Whittall at Icon Games (PR@icongames.com).