GUITAR HERO®
III: LEGENDS
OF ROCK
CHARITY
CHALLENGE TO
BENEFIT
STARLIGHT
STARBRIGHT
CHILDREN’S
FOUNDATION
Highest
Scoring
Rockers Win
An
All-Expense
Paid Trip To
Southern
California
For Tour Of
Neversoft’s
Studio
SANTA MONICA
– April 30,
2008 – Rock
out for a
good cause!
Activision,
Inc. (Nasdaq:
ATVI) has
partnered
with the
Starlight
Starbright
Children’s
Foundation
to host a
Guitar Hero®
III: Legends
of Rock
charity
challenge
benefiting
seriously
ill children
and their
families.
Now open for
registration
at
www.GuitarHero.com,
fans will
compete to
get the
highest
score
possible
playing
Monster’s
“Matchbook
Romance”
during the
Guitar Hero
III: Legends
of Rock
challenge.
Activision
will donate
up to
$55,000 to
the
Starlight
Starbright
Children’s
Foundation
by donating
up to $1 for
each
participant
who
registers to
play in the
event, and
$100 for
every 1,000
points
scored by
the
challenge’s
highest
individual
score. The
funds will
go directly
to
Starlight’s
programs,
helping
seriously
ill children
and their
families
cope with
their pain,
fear and
isolation
through
entertainment,
education
and family
activities.
During the
same time
period,
Activision
is also
sponsoring a
second,
private
Guitar Hero
III: Legends
of Rock
challenge,
specifically
for the
seriously
ill
teenagers
and their
siblings
that are a
part of
Starlight’s
Starbright
World online
community.
The
highest-scoring
rocker from
the Guitar
Hero
community
and the
highest-scoring
rocker from
the
Starbright
World
community,
at the close
of the
competition
will receive
an
all-expense
paid trip
for two to
Southern
California
and a tour
of Neversoft
Entertainment
– the
developers
of Guitar
Hero III:
Legends of
Rock.
All Guitar
Hero fans
interested
in
participating
should visit
www.guitarhero.com
before 7:59
PM (EDT) on
May 2nd,
2008 to
sign-up.
Both
competitions
kick-off at
8:00 PM
(EDT) on May
2nd, 2008
and will
conclude at
7:59 PM
(EDT) on May
5th, 2008.
For
additional
details on
the event,
prizing or
rules,
please visit
www.guitarhero.com.
For
additional
information
about
Starlight’s
online
social
network for
seriously
ill teens
and
siblings,
visit
www.starbrightworld.org.
Guitar Hero
III: Legends
of Rock
offers the
ultimate
rock
experience
with new
wireless
guitars,
freshly
added
content and
features
including a
multiplayer
action-inspired
battle mode,
grueling
boss
battles, a
host of
exclusive
unlockable
content and
visually
stunning
rock venues.
Expanded
online
multiplayer
modes allow
axe-shredders
worldwide to
compete
head-to-head
for true
rock status
as they riff
through a
star-studded
soundtrack
including
master
tracks by
legendary
artists such
as Aerosmith,
Guns 'N'
Roses, The
Rolling
Stones,
Beastie
Boys, Rage
Against the
Machine and
Pearl Jam,
as well as
original
songs by
guitar icons
Slash and
Tom Morello.
Guitar Hero
III: Legends
of Rock is
now
available
and is rated
"T" for Teen
by the ESRB.
For more
information
visit
www.guitarhero.com.
About
Activision,
Inc.
Headquartered
in Santa
Monica,
California,
Activision,
Inc. is a
leading
worldwide
developer,
publisher
and
distributor
of
interactive
entertainment
and leisure
products.
Founded in
1979,
Activision
posted net
revenues of
$1.5 billion
for the
fiscal year
ended March
31, 2007.
Activision
maintains
operations
in the U.S.,
Canada, the
United
Kingdom,
France,
Germany,
Ireland,
Italy,
Sweden,
Spain, the
Netherlands,
Australia,
Japan and
South Korea.
More
information
about
Activision
and its
products can
be found on
the
company's
World Wide
Web site,
which is
located at
www.activision.com.
About
Starlight
Starbright
Children’s
Foundation
When a child
or teenager
has a
serious
medical
condition,
everyone in
the family
is affected.
For 25
years,
Starlight
Starbright
Children’s
Foundation™
has
dedicated
itself to
helping
seriously
ill children
and their
families
cope with
their pain,
fear and
isolation
through
entertainment,
education
and family
activities.
Starlight’s
programs
have been
proven to
distract
children
from their
pain, help
them better
understand
and manage
their
illnesses,
and connect
families
facing
similar
challenges
so that no
one feels
alone.
Through a
network of
offices,
Starlight
provides
ongoing
support to
children,
parents and
siblings in
all U.S.
states and
Canadian
provinces
with an
array of
outpatient,
hospital-based
and Web
offerings.
Programs are
also
delivered
internationally
through
affiliates
in
Australia,
Japan and
the United
Kingdom. To
learn more
visit
www.starlight.org.
Cautionary
Note
Regarding
Forward-looking
Statements:
Information
in this
press
release that
involves
Activision's
expectations,
plans,
intentions
or
strategies
regarding
the future
are
forward-looking
statements
that are not
facts and
involve a
number of
risks and
uncertainties.
Activision
generally
uses words
such as
"outlook",
"will,"
"could,"
"would,"
"might,"
"remains,"
"to be,"
"plans,"
"believes",
"may",
"expects,"
"intends,"
"anticipates,"
"estimate,"
future,"
"plan,"
"positioned,"
"potential,"
"project,"
"remain,"
"scheduled,"
"set to,"
"subject
to,"
"upcoming"
and similar
expressions
to help
identify
forward-looking
statements.
Factors that
could cause
Activision's
actual
future
results to
differ
materially
from those
expressed in
the
forward-looking
statements
set forth in
this release
include, but
are not
limited to,
sales of
Activision's
titles,
shifts in
consumer
spending
trends, the
seasonal and
cyclical
nature of
the
interactive
game market,
Activision's
ability to
predict
consumer
preferences
among
competing
hardware
platforms
(including
next-generation
hardware),
declines in
software
pricing,
product
returns and
price
protection,
product
delays,
retail
acceptance
of
Activision's
products,
adoption
rate and
availability
of new
hardware and
related
software,
industry
competition,
rapid
changes in
technology
and industry
standards,
protection
of
proprietary
rights,
maintenance
of
relationships
with key
personnel,
customers,
vendors and
third-party
developers,
international
economic and
political
conditions,
integration
of recent
acquisitions
and the
identification
of suitable
future
acquisition
opportunities
the timing
and
successful
completion
of the
combination
of Vivendi
Games with
Activision,
the combined
companies'
success in
executing
planned
strategies
and
achieving
assumed
synergies
and cost
savings, and
foreign
exchange
rate
changes.
Other such
factors
include
additional
risk factors
identified
in
Activision's
most recent
annual
report on
Form 10-K
and
subsequent
quarterly
reports on
Form 10-Q.
The
forward-looking
statements
in this
release are
based upon
information
available to
Activision
as of the
date of this
release, and
Activision
assumes no
obligation
to update
any such
forward-looking
statements.
Forward-looking
statements
believed to
be true when
made may
ultimately
prove to be
incorrect.
These
statements
are not
guarantees
of future
performance
and are
subject to
risks,
uncertainties
and other
factors,
some of
which are
beyond our
control and
may cause
actual
results to
differ
materially
from our
current
expectations.
Guitar Hero®
III: Legends
of Rock ©
2007
Activision
Publishing,
Inc. Guitar
Hero and
Activision
are
registered
trademarks
of
Activision
Publishing,
Inc. All
other
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and trade
names are
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