Crave
Entertainment
and
Professional
Bull Riders,
Inc. Enter
the Chute
Newport
Beach, CA --
Jun 19, 2007
-- Crave
Entertainment,
a leading
publisher of
console
videogames,
and
Professional
Bull Riders,
Inc. (PBR)
announced
today that
they will
team up to
bring all
the
bone-crunching
excitement
and
edge-of-your-seat
suspense of
professional
bull riding
to videogame
consoles.
The
"Toughest
Sport on
Dirt" has
become the
fastest
growing
sport in
America. The
PBR holds
hundreds of
thrilling
events
throughout
the United
States and
in Mexico,
Canada,
Brazil and
Australia,
many of
which are
broadcast on
Versus, Fox
Sports and
NBC.
"The sport
of bull
riding has
gained
tremendous
momentum
over the
past few
years,
attracting a
huge
international
audience as
well as
heavy duty
corporate
sponsors,"
said Rob
Dyer,
President of
Crave
Entertainment.
"We feel the
skill and
tenacity
needed to
stay on a
bucking bull
will
translate
perfectly to
the
videogame
arena."
"We are
extremely
excited to
announce our
newest
licensing
partnership
with Crave
Entertainment,"
says Sean
Gleason, CMO
of PBR.
"Crave has
spent a lot
of time
getting to
know the
intricacies
of the PBR
brand and
the sport of
bull riding
and they get
it! We are
looking
forward to
working with
their
creative
team to
translate
the
adrenaline
rush and
action
inherent in
our sport to
the major
console
platforms.
It's going
to be a wild
ride."
The game
will be
available on
multiple
gaming
platforms,
and is
expected to
ship in Fall
2008. For
more
information
please
contact
Michael
Meyers,
Michael
Meyers
Public
Relations at
925 551 8080
or Denise
Abbott, PBR
at 719 471
3008.
About PBR
More than
100 million
viewers tune
in each year
to the PBR
on FOX, NBC,
VERSUS and
on a host of
foreign
networks
across the
globe. With
approximately
500 hours of
prime time
programming
annually PBR
ranks among
the most
prolific
sports on
air, in
addition to
attracting
over one and
one half
million live
event
attendees
each year
with its
multi-tiered
event
structure
which
includes the
marquee
Built Ford
Tough Series
presented by
Wrangler,
the U.S.
Smokeless
Tobacco
Company
Challenger
Tour, the
Enterprise
Rent-A-Car
Tour, and
the
Discovery
Tour,
designed
specifically
for entry
level
contestants.
The PBR is
headquartered
in Colorado
Springs,
Colo., and
has over
1,200 PBR
bull riders
compete in
more than
300 PBR
sanctioned
competitions
in the
United
States,
Australia,
Brazil,
Canada, and
Mexico.
About Crave
Entertainment
Based in
Newport
Beach,
California,
Crave
Entertainment
is a
subsidiary
of Handleman
Company.
Crave, a
publisher of
videogame
entertainment
products
creates
games for
the major
console
platforms
including
PSP® (PlayStation®Portable)
system,
Nintendo
DS(tm), Game
Boy®
Advance,
Nintendo
GameCube(tm),
Wii(tm), the
PlayStation®
game
console,
PlayStation®2
computer
entertainment
system, the
Xbox® video
game system
from
Microsoft
and the Xbox
360(tm)
video game
and
entertainment
system from
Microsoft.
For more
information
about Crave
Entertainment,
please visit
www.cravegames.com.