IN2GAMES ENTERS DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENTS WITH SONY AND ARDISTEL
16th September 2004: In2Games, creator of the revolutionary Gametrak motion-sensing control system, and publisher of the forthcoming PS2 Gametrak titles Dark Wind, Real World Golf, and Gametrak: Party, today announces partnerships with Sony Italy and Ardistel in Spain.
Sony and Ardistel will distribute the award-winning Gametrak:Dark Wind hardware/software bundle to all major Spanish and Italian retail outlets from October.
Gametrak, recently on public display for the first time at the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany and Game Stars Live in London, consistently pulled some of the biggest crowds at these shows.
"We have made it our mission to work with the best distributors across Europe for this unique product," commented Elliott Myers, In2Games' MD. "To add Ardistel and Sony to our list of partners represents a very exciting step forwards for Gametrak."
Gametrak will launch across Europe in October, with a UK launch price of £69.99, bundled with Dark Wind, the exclusive fighting game from Atomic Planet.
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About In2Games
In2Games is dedicated to creating new and exciting gaming experiences through the creative combination of hardware and software. The company was started in 2000 by Elliott Myers, formerly Development Manager at Leda Media Products, creators of the Gamester brand, the largest third-party peripherals manufacturer in Europe. The team has a long history in innovative games hardware design and manufacture, including the creation, for Konami, of the BeatMania DJ controller and their own dance mat. In2Games now combines the team's expertise in hardware design and manufacture with leading-edge software development, resulting in a new range of console products offering gamers brand-new experiences.
About Gametrak
Gametrak is a revolutionary new controller for PS2 which gives users precise and intuitive control in 3D space - unlike camera technologies, Gametrak allows movement forwards and backwards as well as up, down, left and right, and does all this without any time delay or processor overhead. Instead of a complex and intimidating series of buttons and joysticks; fighting games will enable users to physically punch opponents using boxing gloves; sports games will allow users to pick up and play using real golf clubs or tennis rackets; adventure games will become totally immersive as users are able to manipulate 'virtual' onscreen objects with their hands. Gametrak's unique design means that it can be offered to consumers at a genuinely mass-market price, bundled with specially developed games, the first of which will be Dark Wind, a first-person perspective fighting game. In 2005, In2Games will launch golf, dancing, mini-games and baseball products for Gametrak.
About Dark Wind
Dark Wind is the first game to be developed from scratch to use Gametrak technology. Being developed by leading UK studio Atomic Planet Entertainment, Dark Wind is the first totally immersive fighting game - you punch, you slap, you block, you maim -intuitively, with no confusing buttons or inaccurate joysticks - in full 3D. Dark Wind will be launched on PS2, bundled with a Gametrak controller, in 2004.