MAJESCO SHIPS ACCLAIMED ‘PHANTOM DUST’ WITH
INTENSE ACTION VIA XBOX LIVE
FOR $19.99
Popular Anime-Inspired Action/Strategy Debuts
Exclusively Xbox
EDISON, N.J., March 15, 2005 – One of Japan’s most
critically acclaimed games arrives stateside, as Majesco (NASDAQ: MJES), a
provider of diversified offerings and content for digital entertainment
platforms, today announced Phantom Dust
has shipped to retail stores nationwide. Available exclusively for
the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, for a suggested retail
price of $19.99, Phantom Dust
features Xbox Live™ support,
enabling players to compete, trade skills, and share statistics online.
“First introduced in Japan,
Phantom Dust quickly became a hit
for its unique combination of fast-paced action, striking graphics and
competitive multi-player capabilities via Xbox
Live,” said Ken Gold, Majesco’s
vice president of Marketing. “This offering of a highly entertaining product
at an attractive price-point appeals to both hardcore gaming fans as well as
the casual, mass-market audience.”
In Phantom Dust,
gamers assume the role of the “gifted one” trying to unlock the events of the
recent apocalypse, causing the near-destruction of the human race. Players
emerge from underground to find that the surface is covered with mysterious
particles called Phantom Dust, and is inhabited by creatures which embody
people’s worst nightmares. Players utilize supernatural skills to defeat
opponents, and regain lost memories.
Phantom Dust
highlights include:
-
Earned a score of 34 out of 40 in Famitsu
Magazine in Japan, and awarded the Silver Award from Electronic
Gaming Monthly. -
Compete in over 100 single-player missions and
fast-paced, multi-player action via
Xbox Live;
-
Gain over 300 skills to blast and damage
opponents, steal their skills, and neutralize their psychic abilities;
-
Enable Live
features to play in tournaments, check statistics on leader boards, trade,
sell or ante skills and download new skills; -
Multiple online game modes including
“Cooperative Multiplayer” and “Free for All” and utilize pre-built arsenals
to immediately engage players; -
Earn points in
Live battles and use them to buy
new skills; -
Use psychic-skills on surrounding environments
to cause more harm to opponents; -
Players interact with other characters and their
surroundings to discover more about their world, their skills and
themselves; -
Choose strategy based on environment, battle
mode, personal style and your opponent’s abilities; -
Developed by Microsoft Game Studios, Japan
Additional information on
Phantom Dust can be found online at
the official website:
http://www.phantom-dust.com.
About Majesco
Headquartered in Edison, NJ, Majesco Holdings Inc.
(NASDAQ:
MJES)
is a provider of diversified products and
content for digital entertainment platforms. The Company’s three main product
lines are Games, including highly anticipated titles
Advent Rising and
Psychonauts; Videos, which
highlights the Company’s platform-independent video compression technology;
and Gadgets, which includes innovative digital entertainment products like the
Wireless Messenger for Game Boy® Advance. More information about
the Company can be found online at
www.majescogames.com.
About Xbox
Xbox (http://www.xbox.com)
is the video game system from Microsoft that brings people together for the
most exhilarating game and entertainment experiences. Xbox delivers an
expansive collection of breakthrough games, powerful hardware and the unified
Xbox Live online service. The new tagline, "it’s good to play together,"
captures the spirit of Xbox as the social hub of the new digital entertainment
lifestyle. Xbox is now available in North America, Asia, Europe and
Australia.
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About Xbox Live
Xbox
Live, which launched in the United
States Nov. 15, 2002, allows gamers to play multiplayer Xbox games with other
gamers everywhere via a broadband connection. With a built-in hard drive and
Ethernet port, the Xbox console is the only video game system built from the
ground up for online gaming, negating the need to buy additional, costly
peripherals or upgrades. Xbox Live
enables gamers to easily find their friends; talk to other players during game
play through the Xbox Communicator headset; download current statistics, new
levels and characters to their Xbox hard drive; and play online—all exclusive
features to Xbox Live.
Xbox is a registered trademark of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
