“GAMERIOT” announces special “gamespot” sweepstakes for its national SUMMER AND FALL 2004 tour

World’s Largest Traveling Video Games Festival Partners with GameSpot to Offer Free Tricked-Out Car, Multiple Computers and More in Online Gamer Sweepstakes

(Los Angeles, CA) – August 9, 2004 – Games Media Properties, a leading creator of video game entertainment and media, today announced that it has partnered with leading gaming content and services site GameSpot for a special “GameSpot On the Road” sweepstakes for gamers across the USA at GameRiot www.gameriot.com , the world’s largest traveling video games festival and competition. With great prizes like a fully tricked-out Scion xA car and Alienware® Aurora™ computer systems, thousands of gamers across the country will compete by entering on either the www.gameriot.com  or www.gamespot.com  websites. GameSpot www.gamespot.com  is a sponsor of GameRiot’s third national tour, “Spike TV Presents GameRiot Powered by Xbox”, which is expected to entertain nearly a quarter of a million gamers from June 24 to October 24, at over 80 dates in 18 cities across the nation. The event offers casual to hardcore gamers the chance to “be the first to play” new and unreleased titles in a high intensity, stimulating multimedia environment with prizes, free giveaways and the fabulous GameRiot Girls! Contestants, who must be 18 years old as of June 9, 2004, can enter to win up until 8:00AM PST on February 1, 2005; after which the lucky winners will be announced.

The “GameSpot On the Road” sweepstakes features unique prizes. The grand prize is the “ultimate gaming car”, a fully loaded Scion xA with all the best features, plus some gamer-centric options. In addition to its 1.5 liter, 16 valve, in-line 4 cylinder engine and all the amenities, the grand prize car will also feature a state-of-the-art Memphis sound system, Kenwood in-dash video screen/AM/FM/CD/DVD player; and a brand new Xbox console with four controllers. Two first prizes will also be awarded, consisting of an Alienware Aurora full tower in cyborg green case. The perfect system for gamers, this fully-loaded unit comes equipped with an AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 processor, 1GB Corsair DDR PC 3200 registered memory, NVIDIA 5950 video card, 16x DVD-ROM, Seagate Barracuda 80GB 8MB case SATA hard drive, Microsoft Windows XP operating system, and cyborg green Microsoft multimedia keyboard and intellimouse.

“The ‘GameSpot on the Road’ sweepstakes is hot,” said Matthew Ringel, Executive Producer of GameRiot and President of Games Media Properties. “The prizes are just mind-blowing. Once again, GameSpot shows that it is the place where gamers go to know and to WIN! We know the sweepstakes will be a big hit.”

“GameRiot offers us an unprecedented opportunity to reach gamers exactly where they live and play,” said Laurel Skillman, Vice President of Marketing for GameSpot. “With a simple registration form that takes all of a minute to fill out, thousands of gamers all over the US will make the ‘GameSpot on the Road’ sweepstakes one of the hottest crazes this summer and fall.”

“Spike TV Presents GameRiot Powered by Xbox” combines intense competitions, an exciting audio and visual environment and the GameRiot Girls to create the ultimate party atmosphere. The GameRiot 2004 Summer and Fall Tour is presented by SpikeTV, the First Network for Men, and will feature the hottest releases from Microsoft, ESPN Videogames, Vivendi Universal Games, and other leading game publishers. A full list of tour dates, titles and ticket information can be found at www.gameriot.com. 

About Games Media Properties LLC:

Games Media Properties is dedicated to the creation of new properties, programming and marketing opportunities around video game content, competition and lifestyle. A venture of the William Morris Agency, the company was founded in 2002.

About Gamespot:

GameSpot (www.gamespot.com), which includes GameFAQs, Game Rankings, and GameSpot DLX, is the leading source for game information. GameSpot sites offer free access to tens of thousands of PC and video game reviews from expert editors, news stories, previews of the hottest upcoming games, game downloads, video streams, guides, and hints. GameSpot Complete, a premier subscription-based online information service, provides gamers a suite of benefits including high-speed downloads, access to high-resolution video content, printable strategy guides, game discounts, and enhanced game tracking and other personalization tools- all in a non-intrusive ad environment.

About Spike TV:

Spike TV, the first network for men, is available in 87 million homes and is a division of MTV Networks. MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), owns and operates the following television programming services -- MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, mtvU, VHI, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, MTV INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 12 digital services, all of which are trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.

About Xbox:

Xbox (http://www.xbox.com/) is Microsoft’s future-generation video game system that delivers the most powerful games experiences ever. Xbox empowers game artists by giving them the technology to fulfill their creative visions as never before, creating games that blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Xbox is now available in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

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