NEVES WINS
CHILDREN'S
EXCELLENCE
AWARD AND
ANNOUNCES
PRICE DROP
New Price
Point to
Drive
Accessibility
for
Award-Winning
Title
CHICAGO, IL
- March 19,
2008 -
YUKE'S
Company of
America,
subsidiary
of Japanese
game
publisher
YUKE'S
Company
Limited,
announced
today that
NEVES,
published by
Atlus for
the Nintendo
DS, has
received the
highly
coveted
"Editor's
Choice
Award" from
the editors
at
Children's
Technology
Review, a
leading
professional
source of
unbiased
reviews of
interactive
technology
for
children.
Additionally,
YUKE'S
announced
that the
unique
puzzle game
will receive
a reduction
in price to
$19.99,
effective
immediately.
NEVES is
currently
available at
select
retailers
nationwide,
including
Amazon.com
and
GameStop.com.
"Receiving
this award
signifies
NEVES'
universal
playability
and
educational
convention
for all
ages," said
Shane
Takahashi,
CEO of
YUKE's
Company of
America. "NEVES'
new price
point will
help to
reinforce
that our
intellectually
stimulating
title
reaches a
broader
audience of
casual and
hardcore
gamers
alike."
Developed
and
published by
YUKE'S and
distributed
by Atlus
U.S.A.,
Inc., NEVES
is a unique
tangram
puzzle game
that
challenges
players to
think
critically
as they
align seven
wooden block
pieces and
build
figures that
correspond
to a
silhouette,
which range
from a
simple item
like a sword
or key to
more
complicated
images such
as birds or
airplanes.
Utilizing
the touch
screen
feature of
Nintendo
DSTM, NEVES
offers a
challenging
but relaxing
puzzle
experience
to a broad
audience of
gamers. With
over 500
different
puzzles to
choose from
and four
different
modes
including
puzzle mode,
count mode,
time mode,
and versus
mode,
players will
have
countless
hours of fun
solving
puzzles of
varying
difficulty.
To play the
Adobe Flash
demo of
NEVES,
please
visit:
www.yukes.us/neves/html/about.html?label=demo_start
To download
the latest
screenshots,
please
visit:
www.triplepointpr.com/dl/yukes/NEVES_PressKit.zip
(27MB)
NEVES has
been rated E
for Everyone
by the ESRB.
About YUKE'S
Company of
America
A
wholly-owned
subsidiary
of YUKE'S
Company
Limited,
YUKE'S
Company of
America is
the
developer of
D1 GRAND
PRIX for the
PlayStation®2.
The company
is based out
of Roselle,
Illinois and
is a fully
licensed
publisher
and
developer
for Sony
Computer
Entertainment
of America,
Nintendo of
America
Inc., and
Microsoft.
For more
information
on YUKE'S
Company of
America,
please
visit:
http://www.yukes.us
About Atlus
U.S.A., Inc.
Located in
Irvine,
California
and founded
in 1991,
Atlus
U.S.A., Inc.
is a
publisher of
compelling
video games
for a
variety of
platforms,
including
WiiTM,
Nintendo
DSTM, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable)
system, Xbox
360TM, and
PlayStation®2
computer
entertainment
system.
Atlus
U.S.A.,
Inc.'s
library of
critically
acclaimed
video games
includes
Odin Sphere,
Trauma
Center:
Second
Opinion,
Magna Carta:
Tears of
Blood, and
the
award-winning
Shin Megami
Tensei
series.
For more
information,
visit
http://www.atlus.com
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