Half-Vampire Video Game Villainess from “Darkwatch”
Bares it all in Playboy’s October Pictorial

Sammy Studios, Inc., a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment
content, today released the provocative image of Tala created exclusively for
a pictorial in the October issue of Playboy Magazine. A pivotal character in
“Darkwatch,” the upcoming Vampire-Western first-person shooter (FPS)
video game, Tala bares more than her fangs in the men’s magazine spread dedicated
to sexy video game leading ladies.

The revealing image, capturing her dangerous sensuality as a half-vampire seductress
of Native American descent, is the work of Sammy Studios’ in-house team of artists
working in conjunction with Brain Zoo Studios of Van Nuys, California. The image
appears in a pictorial accompanying the article “Gaming Grows Up”
in Playboy’s upcoming issue, hitting newsstands this month. “Darkwatch”
is slated for release on the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system
and Xbox® video game system from Microsoft® in spring 2005. The game
is not yet rated.

Tala Playboy Shot
Tala – Of course, we don’t expect those black marks in Playboy.

Tala plays an important role in “Darkwatch” as a femme fatale with
equal lusts for blood and power. In “Darkwatch,” gamers play as Jericho
Cross, an outlaw gunslinger pulled into the ranks of a vampire-hunting secret
society when he is inadvertently bitten by a vampire lord. Sensuous and dangerous,
Tala becomes Jericho’s evil muse after luring him into a moment of passion where
she urges him to bite her, making her into a powerful half-vampire like himself.
Introducing a unique reputation judgment system that brings a role-playing game
(RPG) element to an FPS, “Darkwatch” puts players in situations where
they can overcome the evil flowing in Jericho’s veins to save the American West
from damnation, or succumb to it and join Tala in a reign of darkness.

The first internally developed game from Sammy Studios, “Darkwatch”
promises to bring great game play variety and innovations to the FPS genre.
For more information on the game, please visit the official “Darkwatch”
web site at www.darkwatch.com.

©2004 Sammy Studios, Inc. Darkwatch and all related trademarks are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Sammy Studios, Inc. All rights reserved.

About Sammy Studios, Inc.
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Sammy Studios creates
original video games and publishes internally and externally developed game
titles in North America. The company will release the biggest portfolio of games
ever to be published under its brand in 2004, and will make its internal development
debut with the anticipated cinematic first-person shooter “Darkwatch”
in early 2005. Sammy Studios is the videogame subsidiary of Sammy Corporation
of Tokyo, Japan, an entertainment and amusement conglomerate that is one of
the top-rated companies traded on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
For more information, please visit www.sammystudios.com.

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