ACTIVISION
ANNOUNCES
VIGILANTE
8®: ARCADE
FOR XBOX
LIVE ARCADE
Santa
Monica, CA –
February 14,
2008 –
Activision,
Inc. (Nasdaq:
ATVI)
announced
today the
next
installment
in the
classic
vehicular-combat
franchise
Vigilante
8®,
Vigilante 8:
Arcade for
Xbox LIVE
Arcade.
Licensed and
developed by
Isopod Labs,
Vigilante 8:
Arcade is an
all new
remake of
the original
game,
featuring
online play
with up to
eight
players and
a host of
new content,
taking full
advantage of
next-generation
technologies.
The title is
scheduled
for release
via download
on Xbox LIVE
Arcade for
Xbox 360
this spring
and has not
yet been
rated by the
ESRB.
For more
information
and
exclusive
updates on
Vigilante 8:
Arcade,
please visit
www.v8arcade.com.
About Isopod
Labs
Founded by
Peter
Morawiec and
Adrian
Stephens in
January
2007, Isopod
Labs, LLC is
a new R&D
studio
aiming to
deliver
innovative
games and
software via
online
downloads
and
traditional
distribution
channels,
for console,
PC, and
handheld
platforms.
Along with
Cary Hara,
the trio
represents
the core
developers
behind the
original
Vigilante 8
series of
games.
About
Activision
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.
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.
In this
release,
they are
identified
by
references
to dates
after the
date of this
release and
words such
as
"outlook",
"will,"
"remains,"
"to be,"
"plans,"
"believes",
"may",
"expects,"
"intends,"
and similar
expressions.
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 in
its fiscal
year 2008,
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,
foreign
exchange
rates,
integration
of recent
acquisitions
and the
identification
of suitable
future
acquisition
opportunities,
the timing
and
successful
completion
of the
combination
of
Activision
and Vivendi
Games, the
combined
company's
success in
integrating
the
operations
of
Activision
and Vivendi
Games in a
timely
manner, or
at all, and
the combined
company's
ability to
realize the
anticipated
benefits and
synergies of
the
transaction
to the
extent, or
in the
timeframe,
anticipated.
Other such
factors
include the
further
implementation,
acceptance
and
effectiveness
of the
remedial
measures
recommended
or adopted
by the
special
sub-committee
of
independent
directors
established
in July 2006
to review
our
historical
stock option
granting
practices,
by the Board
and by
Activision,
the outcome
of the SEC's
formal
investigation,
the
consummation
of the
proposed
settlement
of the
derivative
litigation
filed in
July 2006
against
certain
current and
former
directors
and officers
of
Activision
relating to
Activision's
stock option
granting
practices,
and the
possibility
that
additional
claims and
proceedings
will be
commenced,
including
additional
action by
the SEC
and/or other
regulatory
agencies,
and other
litigation
(unrelated
to stock
option
granting
practices)
and any
additional
risk factors
identified
in
Activision's
most recent
annual
report on
Form 10-K
and
quarterly
report 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.
Activision
and
Vigilante 8
are
registered
trademarks
of
Activision
Publishing,
Inc.