San Francisco, CA (August 23,2004) -- Eidos, one of the world's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, announces it has secured the distribbution rights to LEGO Star Wars with Giant Interactive Entertainment Ltd for all countries except Japan. The game will be released in April 2005 for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Xbox video game system from Microsoft, PC and Game Boy® Advance. LEGO Star Wars combines two childhood favourites, LEGO and Star Wars®, to create an innovative and exciting action-adventure title designed for young gamers. The game is based on The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and the eagerly awaited Star Wars ®: Episode III Revenge of the Sith T, slated for worldwide release in May 2005.
Under an agreement between LucasArts and Giant Interactive Ltd, LEGO Star Wars is currently being developed by Traveller's Tales for the PlayStation®2, Xbox and PC. Amaze Entertainment is developing the Game Boy Advance version. Mike McGarvey, CEO of Eidos says: "This signing of a title with such wide spread appeal and recognition is a major coup for Eidos. We look forward to working with Giant on maximising the game's potential."
News source: NVmax.com
Under an agreement between LucasArts and Giant Interactive Ltd, LEGO Star Wars is currently being developed by Traveller's Tales for the PlayStation®2, Xbox and PC. Amaze Entertainment is developing the Game Boy Advance version. Mike McGarvey, CEO of Eidos says: "This signing of a title with such wide spread appeal and recognition is a major coup for Eidos. We look forward to working with Giant on maximising the game's potential."
News source: NVmax.com
What's New in This Release:
· - New JPG option: Auto-rotate image according to EXIF info (Properties->JPG)
· - New advanced batch resize options: Set long/short side, load/save settings
· - New options for DigiCam RAW formats (Properties->PlugIns)
· - New options for multipage extract (View->Multipage images)
· - Option to use eBay search in the toolbar (Properties->Misc 3)
· - Option to show common shell folders in Thumbnail directory tree
· - Support for CR2/X3F formats (Properties->PlugIns, see also i_plugins.txt)
· - Option to sort files using the XP sort order (for names with digits)
· - New PlugIn for DXF/DWG/HPGL formats : CADImage.DLL (Shareware, see i_plugins.txt)
· - New hotkey: Shift+L = Lock/Unlock Zoom (fullscreen mode too)
· - New/changed hotkeys: CTRL+P = print, CTRL+PageUp = previous multi-page, CTRL+PageDown = next multi page, Shift+T = toolbar edit field, Shift+M = send by email, CTRL+Shift+B = Batch scanning; (removed: CTRL+N)
· - New options for toolbar edit field (file filter, see help file)
· - New options for batch IPTC mode
· - Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
· - Some minor bugs/features fixed/added
Notice the August 23rd date for the press release.
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