Montreal,
Canada. October 17, 2005 – Interactive software publisher,
Meridian4 is thrilled to announce that it has signed a deal with Atari
to exclusively distribute their games in North America throughout all
retail channels, starting with the Sci-Fi Action/RPG – Space Hack.
"Atari
is excited to deliver Meridian4 titles to consumers in North
America," stated Ezra Chen, Vice President, Product Acquisition at
Atari. "We believe the first title, Space Hack, will find an eager
audience among both sci-fi and action gaming enthusiasts alike."
"We
are extremely pleased to have Atari as our North American distribution
partner for our titles. Their knowledge and expertise of the North
American market will help us make Space Hack and all of our games a
great success." said Andrew Sher, CEO at Meridian4, "We are
confident in their abilities, and we are looking forward to working with
them over the long term."
Space
Hack will be available on November 15th, 2005 in all major retail stores
at $19.99USD and is rated Teen by the ESRB. The game is currently
available for trial on www.meridian4.com.
About
Space Hack
Space
Hack is a sci-fi Action/RPG title with real-time 3D graphics. The story
puts gamers on a colony transport ship that suddenly gets trapped inside
a Black Nebula, but that's only their first problem. While trapped, they
get boarded by aliens that take over the ship and begin to kill and eat
the colonists.
Playing
the role of a tough, gristled ex-military man, gamers will struggle to
reach an
emergency
transport module at the far end of the ship to free the remaining
colonists, hacking and slashing their way through hordes of alien
creatures along the way.
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About
Atari
New
York-based Atari, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATAR) develops interactive games for all
platforms and is one of the largest third-party publishers of
interactive entertainment software in the U.S. The Company's 1,000+
titles include hard-core, genre-defining franchises such as DRIVERTM,
The MatrixTM, StuntmanTM and Test Drive®; and mass-market and
children's franchises such as Nickelodeon's Blue's CluesTM and Dora the
ExplorerTM, and Dragon Ball Z®. Atari, Inc. is a majority-owned
subsidiary of France-based Infogrames Entertainment SA (Euronext –
ISIN: FR-0000052573), the largest interactive games publisher in Europe.
For more information, visit www.atari.com.
About
Meridian4
Meridian4
is an interactive software publisher located in Montreal, Canada. We are
a new publishing company, with new ideas and a different approach to
forming partnerships with developers. The difference is we actually form
a partnership – a true relationship characterized by mutual
cooperation and responsibility to achieve the best possible performance
for their products. For more information, visit www.meridian4.com.