Kuju Brighton's Continuing Success
Growing Studio Adds More Staff and Three New Titles
7th June 2006. Brighton, UK. Kuju
Entertainment (AIM: KUJ) today announced the continuing
success of its Brighton studio with the signing of two major
new titles and recruitment of an additional 20 staff.
Kuju Brighton specialises in the creation of games in
social/lifestyle genre, primarily for PlayStation 2 and
PlayStation Portable, with their most recently announced PSP
title 'Traxion' picking up an IGN Award (Technical
Excellence) at this year's E3. The game is due to be
published by LucasArts later this year.
Ed Daly, Head of Kuju Brighton, commented, "We are delighted
to be working with LucasArts on this exciting, innovative
game which, by aiming squarely at music fans, fits with our
mission to reach out to new audiences."
In preparation for the full-scale production of Traxion and
the two new titles at the studio, there have been several new
hires including Ste Curran, Creative Director on Traxion,
Nick Rodriguez, Producer on another new title. Martin Newing
has been promoted to Producer for yet another new project and
Ange Fenge has been promoted to Project Manager for SingStar®
games. The studio is continuing to hire.
Ian Baverstock, CEO of Kuju Entertainment, added, "The huge
success of Kuju Brighton has been the direct result of
pulling together a great team of people with enormous passion
for the Lifestyle games that the studio specialises in. We
are really excited about the prospects for their future
titles."
Kuju Brighton has recently completed EyeToy®: Play 3 and
SingStar®: Rocks in collaboration with Sony London
Studio.
IGN said," Traxion is such the thing that the PSP needs right
now. Traxion makes gameplay out of your MP3 collection. The
game will feature at least two dozen ways of interacting with
your music in mini-games and semi-interactive music
presentations. Some of the ideas presented in this mix of
musical mini-games are pretty normal -- fun stuff like a drum
kit or a Frequency-like beat mashing game, for example. But
Traxion also gets pretty freaky too. A music-based fighting
game? Music-based puzzle play? There are dozens of these
kinds of ideas packed into the game, and the beauty of it is
that each game will be different depending on what tracks you
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About Kuju Entertainment
Kuju Entertainment, one of Europe's leading independent game
developers on console and PC platforms, operates five studios
in the UK and has been creating top-rated games for over
sixteen years. Kuju maintains specialist console/PC divisions
in the action, strategy/tactical, lifestyle, simulation and
flight action genres as well as a separate division for
conversion projects.
Kuju Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuju plc.
Kuju plc is listed on London's AIM market (LSE AIM: KUJ)
www.kuju.com
About LucasArts
LucasArts, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, is a leading developer
and publisher of interactive entertainment software worldwide
for video game console systems, computers and the Internet.
Based in San Francisco, Calif., as well as on the Internet at
www.lucasarts.com, LucasArts was created in
1982 by George Lucas to provide an interactive element to his
vision of a state-of-the-art, multifaceted entertainment
company.
Lucasfilm Ltd. is one of the world's leading film and
entertainment companies. Founded by George Lucas in 1971, it
is a privately held, fully integrated entertainment company.
In addition to its motion-picture and television production
operations, the company's global activities include
Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound, serving the
digital needs of the entertainment industry for
visual-effects and audio post-production; and Lucas
Licensing, which manages the global merchandising activities
for Lucasfilm's entertainment properties. Additionally, Lucas
Online creates Internet-based content for Lucasfilm's
entertainment properties and businesses. Lucasfilm's
motion-picture productions include five of the 20 biggest
box-office hits of all time and have received 19 Oscars and
53 Academy Award nominations. Lucasfilm's television projects
have won 12 Emmy Awards. Lucasfilm Ltd. is headquartered in
San Francisco, Calif.