Playlogic and Virgin PLAY Announce Joint Venture in the UK
29 Mai 2008 - 2:43PM
PR Newswire (US)
PlayV Ltd to distribute titles in the UK AMSTERDAM, Netherlands,
May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today publisher Playlogic
Entertainment Inc. (OTC:PLGC) (BULLETIN BOARD: PLGC) and
publisher/distributor Virgin PLAY announced their joint venture
PlayV Ltd. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071119/PLAYLOGICLOGO ) PlayV
Ltd, a sales, marketing and distribution business, will bring PC,
console and handheld products from both parties to the UK market
and also offer flexible pro-active PR, marketing and sales
solutions to additional development and publishing partners looking
to penetrate the UK retail market with their products. From its
headquarters in Luton, Bedfordshire, UK, PlayV Ltd will provide
national PR, marketing, sales and account management alongside
financial management and administrative office support. PlayV Ltd
will supply its products to a broad customer base that includes
well known specialists, multiples and independent retailers as well
as major dot com online companies. The new structure will be fully
operational by the 1st of July 2008 and will be headed up by
industry veteran David Hope, who has been previously responsible
for the successful setup of various UK distribution companies.
Playlogic's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Pierre Thiercelin
comments: "We are very pleased to enter into this partnership with
Virgin PLAY. PlayV will allow both companies to make up
considerable ground in the UK and further establish their presence
in the market." PlayV's Managing Director David Hope comments:
"Alongside our core first party business we are also keen to work
with relevant third party developers and publishers looking to get
their products into the UK market without the hassle and expense of
setting up their own operation. PlayV Ltd offers a custom ready
sales, marketing and logistics solution and can penetrate the whole
retail market." Company and Contact Details PlayV Ltd 210A, Ground
Floor The Village, Butterfield Great Marlings Luton LU2 8DL UK
Email: Web: http://www.playv.co.uk/ ABOUT PLAYLOGIC: Playlogic
Entertainment, Inc. is an independent publisher of entertainment
software for consoles, PCs, handhelds, mobile devices, and other
digital media. Playlogic distributes its products worldwide through
all available channels, online and offline. Playlogic, who
currently has approximately 80 employees, is listed on the OTCBB
under the symbol "PLGC" and is headquartered in New York and
Amsterdam. Its internal game development studio is based in Breda
(The Netherlands). Playlogic's portfolio includes games that are
being developed by several teams at the Playlogic Game Factory,
Playlogic's in-house development studio based in Breda, as well as
games developed by a number of studios throughout the world with
approximately 400 people of external development staff. The
Playlogic Game Factory also develops first party titles for Sony
Computer Entertainment Europe. Playlogic publishes quality games,
working with leading technology to produce digital entertainment
from concept to finished product. Playlogic plans to publish 20
titles during 2008. ABOUT VIRGIN PLAY: Virgin Interactive
Entertainment Espana S.A. commenced trading in 1995 with Mariele
Isidoro and Francisco Encinas at the helm, a subsidiary of Virgin
Interactive Entertainment Ltd, at the time, a VIACOM company. Over
the next five years, VIE Espana became a leader in the videogame
sector launching monster hits such as: Resident Evil 1&2,
Command and Conquer, C&C: Red Alert, Driver and Baldur's Gate.
In May of 2002, Tim Chaney and Francisco Encinas lead a management
buyout from then owners Titus Interactive and renamed the company
Virgin PLAY and became the exclusive distributor in the Spanish and
Portuguese markets for companies such as: Midway, Ignition (SNK),
Take2, Playlogic, Koch Media, Koei and D3P just to name a few.
Virgin PLAY's first publishing projects, starting in 2005, were
Torrente 3, Dead & Furious and Final Armada -- all became
commercial successes. The company has added on to their catalogue
with titles such as Donkey Xote, Snow X Racing (2007), The
Crusaders(2008) and forthcoming in 2008 is Real Madrid -- Real
Life, Mind Your Language, Pocoyo and Lola Y Virginia, which will be
published under Virgins new brand: V.2Play. FORWARD LOOKING
STATEMENTS: This release contains statements about PLAYLOGIC's
future expectations, performance, plans, and prospects, as well as
assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these
statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties,
including without limitation, business and economic conditions and
trends; fluctuations in operating results; reduced customer demand
relative to expectations; competitive factors; and other risk
factors listed from time to time in the company's SEC reports.
Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the
result of these and other important factors relating to PLAYLOGIC'S
business and product development efforts, which are further
described in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at
http://www.sec.gov/. Any forward-looking statements are based on
information available to PLAYLOGIC on the date of this release, and
PLAYLOGIC assumes no obligation to update such statements. FOR MORE
INFORMATION Playlogic International Robert A. van Duivenbode / IR
& Corp. PR Officer T: +31 20 676 03 04 M: +31 6 53 53 00 10 E:
For further information about Playlogic, the games she publishes
and develops, artwork and press information, please visit our press
section on http://www.playlogicgames.com/
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071119/PLAYLOGICLOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Playlogic Entertainment
Inc. CONTACT: Robert A. van Duivenbode, IR & Corp. PR Officer
of Playlogic International, +31-20-676-03-04, or mobile,
+31-6-53-53-00-10, Web site: http://www.playlogicgames.com/
http://www.playv.co.uk/
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