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Virgin
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Playlogic
and Virgin PLAY Announce Joint Venture in the
UK
AMSTERDAM,
Netherlands, May 29 /PRNewswire
- PlayV
Ltd to distribute titles in the UK
Today
publisher Playlogic Entertainment Inc. (OTC Bulletin
Board: PLGC) and publisher/distributor Virgin
PLAY announced their joint venture PlayV Ltd.
(Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071119/PLAYLOGICLOGO
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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: info@playv.co.uk
Web: 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 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: rvanduivenbode@playlogicint.com
For
further information about Playlogic, the games
she publishes and develops, artwork and press
information, please visit our press section on
www.playlogicgames.com
Web sites:
http://www.playlogicgames.com
http://www.playv.co.uk
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