Video Game Tour to Visit U.S. College Campuses
A 25-stop Spring College Tour of U.S. colleges and universities begins on Saturday, March 5th in Pullman, WA at Washington State University and runs through Thursday, April 28th at the University of Arizona.
The tour is presented by Game Live Events, and give college students the opportunity to preview this Spring's latest videogame and PC game releases, as well as be able to play unreleased betas and gold builds of this year's new titles. New titles on display include major releases from EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 2 and MVP Baseball 2005, EA GAMES TimeSplitters Future Perfect, Oddworld Stranger's Wrath and Burnout 3: Takedown, EA SPORTS BIG NBA Street V.3 and FIFA Street. Ubisoft's new Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory will be presented on multiple HD screens. Midway will be previewing the nationally anticipated Unreal Championship(R) 2 and Area 51. LucasArts will showcase the highly anticipated "Star Wars" Republic Commando that lets you explore the elite world of the "Star Wars" military where your most important weapon is your squad. The U.S. Army's "America's Army: Special Forces" PC game will be featured on 6 fully networked high-speed computers for high action game play. In a special tour presentation, Majesco will be featuring their new title Psychonauts and Sammy Studios will premier Darkwatch. Vivendi Universal will be showcasing fully playable builds of their new spring titles: SWAT 4 and FlatOut.
More than 20 titles will be featured on a state-of-the-art, interactive 'GamePort' system from publishing partners Electronic Arts, U.S. Army, Midway LucasArts, Vivendi Universal, Majesco, Sammy Studios and Ubisoft. The GamePorts will feature over 40 LCD and Plasma televisions supplied by Norcent, the Official Electronics Partner of the tour.
2005 Spring Tour Media Partners include G4 -- video game television, the cable TV network dedicated to video games, which has signed on again as the Official Broadcast Media Partner. Game Informer Magazine is the Official Print Partner, IGN, the game & lifestyle site, is the Official Internet Partner and EB Games is the national Tour Retail Partner.
Admission is free and game play is unlimited. For complete details of the tour, including tour locations, event times, and the latest list of games included on the tour, visit www.gameliveevents.com.