Meridian4 Signs with Atari!
For Immediate Release
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.
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.
Watch out for the North American Space Hack demo, coming soon.
For more information on Space Hack or Meridian4, contact me at:
Steve Milburn
steve@meridian4.com
www.meridian4.com
514-697-2165