SIERRA TEAMS WITH
INTEL AND IGAMES TO CROWN EMPIRE EARTH’S WORLD CHAMPION
Massive International
Tournament with Grand Prize of up to $100,000 Begins in September
BELLEVUE, WA
(August 1, 2002) – Sierra(tm) Entertainment, Inc., a studio of the Games
division of Vivendi Universal Publishing, today announced that it is working
with Intel Corporation and iGames as co-sponsors of a worldwide tournament
that will bring gamers together to crown the world’s best Empire Earth(tm)
players this September.
The Empire Earth
World Championships consist of a series of tournaments held internationally,
culminating in a Championship Tournament where the best of the best Empire
Earth combatants will face off in hopes of winning the Grand Prize of
US$20,000 and a chance to increase that amount to US$100,000. The
Championship Tournament will highlight the upcoming expansion pack to Empire
Earth, Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest(tm).
The tournament
will begin with regional competitions held in more than a dozen different
countries across the globe. Winners of each regional final will move on to
national competition and national winners will be sent to the Empire Earth
Worldwide Championships in Munich, Germany in October where the greatest
conqueror of our time will be crowned.
Competition
rules and further details about the Empire Earth World Championships can be
found online at
http://www.empireearth.com/ beginning August 15th, 2002.
The Empire Earth
World Championships will highlight Sierra Entertainment’s upcoming expansion
pack to its award winning real-time strategy game, Empire Earth. Released in
November 2001, Empire Earth is a worldwide hit, with more than one million
copies sold. The game has won numerous industry awards, including PC Game of
the Year honors from GameSpy.com, a "Gold Award" accolade by PC Action
magazine in Germany, and a "Trophy Award" for special achievement in gaming
from PC Team magazine in France.
Empire Earth:
The Art of Conquest includes three new single-player campaigns set in ancient
Rome, the Pacific Theater of World War II, and Asia in the 22nd
century. In addition, each of the 21 pre-designed civilizations in the game
gains a unique special power, building, or unit. Examples include: the
Kingdom of Italy’s Metallurgy power, which allows them to pay building costs
with gold or iron interchangeably; Great Britain’s S.A.S. unit will be able to
plant demolitions and swim across water; and the United States’ market
building will allow that civilization to trade abundant resources for scarce
ones.
In
Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest, gamers can become the greatest conqueror of
all time by creating, building, and leading a civilization to transcend the
ages – from the discovery of fire, to flight, to the next frontier: space.
From
Prehistory to the Space Age of the 22nd Century, Empire Earth
serves up gaming on an epic scale. Empire Earth and Empire Earth: The Art of
Conquest cover over 500,000 years of human history, from the discovery of fire
to the laser battles of the future. Each player takes control of a fledgling
civilization and strives to forge the greatest of all empires.
Empire Earth:
The Art of Conquest is optimized for the Intel(r) Pentium(r) 4 processor.
Gamers with a PC equipped with a Pentium 4 processor will experience smoother
animation, more lifelike video, and ultra-realistic environments.
About iGames
iGames is an
organization of independent and franchised game centers working together to
prosper as a whole. iGames has established strong relationships with a broad
group of industry leaders in order to provide a wide variety of products,
services and programs to member game centers and gamers. By working as a
group, game centers are able to attain larger discounts, provide better events
and make a big impact on the games industry. Some of the products and programs
facilitated and/or developed by iGames include software licensing, hardware
discounts, exclusive game previews / demos, classes, game launch events,
tournaments, leagues and WAN parties. More information can be obtained at
www.igames.org.
About Sierra
Sierra Entertainment, Inc.,
http://www.sierra.com , a studio of
the Games division of Vivendi Universal Publishing, is one of the original
developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment
software. Based in Bellevue, WA, Sierra is renowned for releasing critically
acclaimed and award winning titles that represent a wide variety of computer
entertainment on game consoles and PC platforms.
