Latest NewsWSC Real 08 out 14th November on Wii Hydrophobia Teaser Trailer WSC Real Website goes live WSC Real 08 at The Crucible Steve Davis is Nicole Kidman?! Blade Interactive Announces a New Funding Deal with Total Asset Ltd Says Deborah Jones of Blade Interactive. "Let no one in the video games market underestimate what Blade is doing at the moment. We have unparalleled technology with Infinite Worlds TM and HydroEngine TM. We are IP owners and IP developers and now also publishers. We have the wherewithal to send shock waves through this industry… and we have the funding in place to see it through. We are absolutely delighted with our new association with Total Asset Limited who we see as trusted business partners" George Alexander from Total Asset Limited adds "Total Asset Limited has for some time been actively seeking robust IP holders in the video games business who seek to extend the range of their activities. We couldn't be more pleased with our deal with Blade Interactive Studios and the World Snooker Championship brand which we see as one of the top 10 sports brands in the market place" Koch Media and Blade Interactive cue up a new snooker experience in 2008 The news follows the announcement that Blade Interactive has made a siginificant strategy change in moving away from publishing its products through publishers (previous incumbents being Codemasters and SEGA), and now will publish all formats of the game itself. The new updated versions of the most popular snooker brand on console will be developed entirely using Blade's new Infinite Worlds™ technology. This has produced a striking new experience which is bigger, better looking, faster and smoother than ever before. As befits the new look of the product Blade have created a punchier title abbreviating the established brand from World Snooker Championship 2008 to WSC Real™ - Season 2008. The formats will launch to coincide with the World Snooker Championships in April next year. Following the tradition of the historic brand, which has already sold over 2 million copies, the new products will be also exclusively endorsed by the governing body of World Snooker. "We're very proud to have been chosen by Blade to handle this esteemed license. We are also particularly pleased that Blade have recognized our position on the world market, which fits perfectly with developers who wish to take the monolithic step to being publishers of their own IP" commented Craig McNicol, MD of Koch Media. Says Peter Jones, Joint MD Of Blade Interactive - "I am delighted to confirm that Koch Media will be the exclusive distributors of the WSC: Real. Koch are in a league of their own - the success of the Wii hardware launch is testimony to their marketing and administrative prowess". Blade Interactive comes out of the Closet World Snooker Championship is the official game of the World Championships with the exclusive endorsement of World Snooker Limited and has to date notched up over 2 million units over its 7 iterations. Blade has benefited vastly from the millions spent on its pioneering next-gen title Hydrophobia™ and the next version of the snooker brand will be developed entirely using Blade’s new Infinite Worlds™ technology. This has produced a striking new product which is bigger, better looking, faster and smoother than ever before. As befits the new look of the product Blade have created a punchier title abbreviating the brand from World Snooker Championship 2008 to WSC Real™ – Season 2008. Says Deborah Jones of Blade Interactive, “Blade is a company that is changing fast and this is a crucial step in our expansion plans. We are very excited at the prospect of publishing ourselves. As individuals we are no strangers to publishing and this is a natural step for us” Blade is in advanced discussions with a number of potential distributors to handle WSC Real™ 2008 worldwide and an announcement will be made imminently. Snooker coming to Nintendo DS Blade announces its middleware ambitions HYDROPHOBIA UNVEILED! HydroEngine Revealed! Blade lands Top Talent Chart Success for World Snooker Championship 2007 Blade Interactive move into Mobile Gaming The new division has signed a major new deal with I-play for a number of new mobile games the first of which will be the mobile version of Blade's acclaimed World Snooker Championship series. Says Peter Jones, Joint MD of Blade Interactive; "This is the first of a number of new initiatives from Blade; we have established a new mobile division as part of a major ramping up of Blade's scale of operations and its presence in the market place. Cue sport games have been a major genre of mobile gaming for some years and our objective is simply to dominate this niche just as we have in the video games market. The new title will make good use of our exclusive snooker license with the World Snooker Association and will feature the top 32 players with motion captured animation and real tournaments including of course the World Championships. Our entire focus is quality. We want to raise the bar for mobile gaming. To that end we are delighted with our new relationship with I-play who have exactly the same focus on quality games" The game will launch in March prior to the World Championship finals at the Crucible. A new Pool game and Strategy puzzle game will follow later in the year. |
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