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BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

2D fighter to get a release in Australia and New Zealand via N3V Games.

BLAZBLUE CONFIRMED FOR AUSTRALIA

Gold Coast: 4th December 2009. N3V Games together with All Interactive Entertainment (AIE) are pleased to announce that they will be releasing BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger across Australia and New Zealand on PLAYSTATION®3 and Xbox 360®.

BlazBlue is a new experience in 2D fighting games making exceptional use of the power behind the Next Gen consoles and online gameplay networks. The game is created by Arc System Works, the Japanese developers behind the critically acclaimed, long running Guilty Gears fighting franchise which began in 1998.

BlazBlue has been hailed as the “game that every self-respecting console fighting fan should play”. It has already enjoyed huge success in Japan and critical acclaim in North America with over 70% of reviews rating the game as 90% or higher, three giving it a perfect score!

N3V Games will be publ ishing the Zen United line-up including the much anticipated BlazBlue.

“We have a fantastic line-up going forward into Christmas and are starting the first half of 2010 aggressive with 3 monster titles with BlazBlue being one of them! The Zen titles are a welcome addition to N3V’s line-up and we will be working very closely with them to make all their releases a great success. We have big plans for BlazBlue upon release that I’m positive all the OZ gamers out there will enjoy - so keep up to date via our website and the BlazBlue Australian site which will be active come December.” - Paul Olsen (N3V Games - Production Head).

In the PAL version all characters have an “Unlimited” unlockable and there are new character colours. Online, the PAL version is completely compatible with US and Japanese networked players.

Features:

For those new to the fighting action genre, the game has been specifically designed so that it’s easy to pick up at the beginning, with an ever increasing depth which introduces new and more demanding skills.

The game features an all-original Goth-anime cast with intricately detailed hand drawn high-Definition character sprites. And they are a unique bunch indeed.

A Plethora of Defensive and Offensive Options at Your Disposal - Take advantage of Barriers, Counter Assaults, Rapid Cancels, Barrier Bursts, Ukemi Tactics and Distortion Drives to turn the tide of battle.

Drive your way to victory! Use the unique “Drive Attacks” specific to each character to decimate your opponent.

Console-Exclusive Content - Brand new music, animations, backgrounds, and a fully fleshed-out story mode have been made exclusively for the console release.

Online Battle - Train your skills online through ranked and player battles.

ABOUT N3V GAMES:

Established in 2006 - head office in Gold Coast, Australia, N3V Games has built up a large partnership world wide as an independent games publisher. These partnerships consist of companies such as: 1C Company, Akella, CDV, DTP, EA, Endgame, Focus, Frozenbyte, GFI, Half Brick, Hot Head, Idea, JoWooD, Koch, Kylotonn, Lexis Numerique, Lighthouse, Merscom, Monte Cristo, Nintendo, Nobilis, Noviy Disk, Paradox, Playlogic, PQube, Real, Sony, Stardock, Techland, Timetrip and The Games Company just to name a few.

If you’re looking for publication or distribution for your PC or console title(s) then please get in contact with us as we would be interested in evaluating your product for World Wide rights and/or Australia and New Zealand.

www.n3vgames.com

ABOUT N3V ONLINE SHOP:

N3V has just released a brand new shop focused on providing gamers and entertainment lovers the most cost effective and greatest range of products to purchase online. Browse the shop to see that we have crammed it full of fantastic PC and console games as well as the latest and greatest DVD and Blu Ray movies! With a lightning fast distribution system in place and the highest quality control you will have no problems getting your orders on time and in the best conditions!

http://shop.n3vgames.com

ABOUT ALL INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT:

Based on the Gold Coast of Australia, All Interactive Entertainment (AIE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of All Interactive Distribution (AID) and holds the exclusive distribution rights for N3V Publishing in Australia and New Zealand. More information on AIE can be found at www.aie.allinteractive.com.au

All Interactive Distribution was established in 1994 and over the last 15 years has grown into one of the largest distributors of interactive entertainment product in Australia. AID also acts as a sub-distributor for all of the video games and DVD publishers in Australia and distributes, on behalf of Nintendo, into the New Zealand market. More information on AID can be found at www.allinteractive.com.au

ABOUT ZEN UNITED

Zen United is a consortium of Japanese and Asian game developers targeting European Markets. Zen United provide international business development and culturisation (localisation + naturalisation) services to independent, high quality, long standing studios to establish foundations for European business and a pipeline to collect feedback from European markets.

www.zen-united.biz

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