ELSPA works with local authorities to catch Internet crooks

Friday 29 July 2005 – An anti-piracy operation carried out in Staffordshire at 10.30 yesterday morning by local Trading Standards officers, Police and an investigative officer from ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) marks the third raid in as many days in a crackdown on criminals using the Internet for piracy.

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Schanz International Consultants (SIC) and Danish developer Tabula Rasa Games signed up together for SIC to license exclusively, the gripping 3rd person Tactical Action Game “Hannibal -Vengeance of Carthage”.

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Let the worm-on-worm violence commence! Everyone’s favourite invertebrates are back in Worms 4: Mayhem and it’s out today for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC!

You can also sample the worms of mass destruction right now with the online multiplayer demo, available for from www.codemasters.co.uk/worms
(in Downloads).

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For the first time, American Pump It Up players are getting to compete for cash prizes and exclusive merchandise with the debut of the United States Pump It Up Championship Series, sponsored by video game publisher Mastiff, Andamiro, and Coin it Up. The next leg of the U.S. series will be The Battle of New Orleans, held this weekend in Houma, LA. The U.S. Championship will be held in Charlotte, N.C. on September 24, 2005, and winners of the U.S. series will get a chance to compete at the World Festival in Seoul this November. Winners of the World Festival bring home upwards of US$10,000 and earn the title of World Pump It Up Champion.

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DemonWare today announced that it is providing support for the Xbox 360 and multiplayer titles being released on the platform. Having worked closely with Microsoft for the last 6 months on the 360 dev-kits, DemonWare is the first network middleware company to offer a full next-gen solution to developers and publishers for networking and all technical aspects of online gameplay.

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Square Enix announced today that their upcoming Xbox360 version of their hugely successful multi-platform MMORPG will be on show to the attendees of the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, which runs from August 17-21. Presentations will take place at both Square Enix’s own stand, situated within the NGL Gaming Arena, and at Microsoft’s Xbox stand. European gamers will get their first look at the next generation gateway to the world of Vana’diel where 500,000 other players from across the globe already adventure.

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Do your gaming fingers long for the excitement of a new challenge? Are you ready to take your gaming to the next level playing against people not processors? It’s just possible Xbox Live could save your gaming life – and Xbox will give you a free gift just for signing up.

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Are you ready to become a combat fighter ace and fly directly into World War II’s most incredible airborne battles? It’s nearly time to take off with Heroes of the Pacific(tm), coming this September for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC.

Heroes of the Pacific puts you in the cockpit of a massive variety of authentic US and Japanese military aircraft with the speed and firepower to blaze a trail of death across the skies. See them in action in the new video now available online at www.codemasters.co.uk/heroes

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With the recent release of the NPD TRSTS sales data for June, THQ Inc. is celebrating the overwhelming success of it’s original property Destroy All Humans! as it teleports up the charts.  Crypto, the most feared alien in the universe, has led THQ to new sales heights and has delivered above and beyond projected sales figures.  Released on June 21st for the Sony PlayStation 2  and the Microsoft Xbox, Destroy All Humans! has achieved a Top 5 Sales Ranking on each respective platform for the month of June after only a few weeks of sales. Read the rest of this entry

Entertainment software developer and publisher NovaLogic, Inc. is giving gamers the chance to step inside the combat boots of America’s elite warriors.  “ Delta Force® – Black Hawk Down®,” the company’s highly anticipated tactical shooter, is now available at retail stores nationwide with a portion of all game sales going to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Rated “T” for teen by the ESRB, the game is available for the Xbox® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system from Sony. Read the rest of this entry