Oxygen Interactive Announce UK Retail Release Date for Multi-Award Winning Title Time Of Defiance

Oxygen Interactive, the UK based computer game publisher can today announce the release date for the retail version of the multi-award winning Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy Game – Time Of Defiance.

Oxygen signed the World Wide rights for this hot property earlier in the year from experienced developers and 2003 “Develop” Award nominee’s Nicely Crafted Entertainment. Nicely Crafted have been developing this ambitious title and during its download only status have attracted over 30 000 registered fans of the game.

Time of Defiance is an online-only massively multiplayer strategy game in real-time set across the huge landscape of a shattered world. Players Fight for conquest of the islands and mine their mineral wealth to expand their empire.

Every other empire you encounter is another human and will remember the deals you didn't deliver on and the promises you broke. Treachery, propaganda and trade are just as important as your fighting strategy.

The title has already picked up a stack of award including

• 5/5 Starburst Magazine • 8.8/10 Loaded.Inc • Editors Choice Gamers Pulse • 80% Daily Game • 9/10 OMGN

Oxygen have planned a comprehensive marketing campaign which will see this highly anticipated title launched into the High Street on 7th November 03.

Please visit http://www.nicelycrafted.com/todc /

About Oxygen Interactive Oxygen Interactive is a computer games publisher of excellence, formed in 2002 by the Play X Europe Group. Headed by Industry Veteran and Play X MD Jim Scott to maximise his 16 years of industry knowledge. Scott has gone full circle back to his original love for making great games that gamers want to play. Scott began his career by developing games for his first publishing label – Beyond Belief, which published numerous games on early platforms such as the Spectrum.

Headquartered in Northamptonshire, UK, Oxygen Interactive’s strengths lie in Play X’s strong experience of sales and distribution across every major territory. Oxygen has furiously recruited key management staff, representing the very highest levels of expertise and knowledge within the industry.

Oxygen Interactive have aggressively formed partnerships with global third parties and currently are working with experienced development teams on high priority products for a worldwide market. To date, Oxygen has successfully launched 4 products into the European market since its inception, with its most recent title charting within the Top 20 for 4 weeks.

About Nicely Crafted Nicely Crafted Entertainment Limited (NiCE) is a privately held multi-player online computer games (MMOG) company based in Cambridge, UK. Nicely Crafted develops, markets, maintains and hosts the client / server games; players connect to the NiCE servers to play. NiCE has created Time of Defiance, a one-of-a-kind online massively multi-player strategy game in real time. Time of Defiance encapsulates large scale empire building where people play against other human beings. With no “artificial limits”, players are totally absorbed in the product, playing up to four weeks on one game. NiCE operates on a unique, proprietary software system, called AliceServer. NiCE aims to create virtual realities for entertainment that are indistinguishable from reality itself.

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