16:42 (BST), 26/03/2008
Martial Arts: Capoeira
Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS
TWELVE INTERACTIVE, a leading Italian console game developer, and SOLUNA, Rome’s foremost capoeira organization met this weekend with motion capture manufacturers ANIMAZOO to work on TWELVE INTERACTIVE’s second multi-platform title MARTIAL ARTS: CAPOEIRA. MARTIAL ARTS: CAPOEIRA will be released on Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation®2, PSP™. and PC by Graffiti Entertainment in Q4 2008.
"It was not only an honour but also great fun working with Soluna,” comments Giuseppe Crugliano, Managing Director of Twelve Interactive. "The passion and professionalism with which Soluna operate, together with the motion capture technology of Animazoo, has generated some stunning new input for the game."
Mestre Pudim, founder of Soluna, says, "We are very impressed by Twelve Interactive’s dedication to getting so much variety, realism and capoeira spirit into the game. We are very excited to be involved and look forward to the release of MARTIAL ARTS: CAPOEIRA in 2008."
Sarah Lawton-Hurst
PR Manager at Twelve Interactive
sarah@twelvegames.com
Tel.: +39 (0)962 29656
Giuseppe Crugliano
Managing Director of Twelve Interactive
info@twelvegames.com
Tel.: +39 (0)962 29656
Twelve Interactive http://twelvegames.com is a leading Italian game development company founded in 2003 by Giuseppe Crugliano. In just a few years the company has become one of the most important console game developers in Italy, thanks to CID The Dummy (previously Crash Dummy), an action platformer for Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PSP™., PlayStation®2 and PC, out in May 2008, published by Oxygen. The company is a Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation®2, PSP™. and PLAYSTATION®3 developer, and the staff is made up of 20 full-time employees, plus external contractors.
Twelve Interactive uses high profile technology for game development, such as VICIOUS ENGINE ( www.viciousengine.com).
Grupo Soluna http://www.soluna.it is one of Italy’s foremost capoeira organizations. Established in 1993 and based in Rome, the group is run by its founder Mestre Pudim and C-Mestre Ratinho. It has a branch in Cagliari, headed by C-Mestre Mussa and is responsible for the organization of two of the most important annual capoeira events in Europe.
For further information please contact:
Osvaldo Da Silva
Mestre Pudim
Tel./Fax : +39 06 35506232
Email: soluna@fastwebnet.it
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