The Five Millionth Monkey Approaches!
Freeverse To Give Away Special iPod Mini To Celebrate Solitaire Milestone.
NEW YORK -- September 24, 2004 -- Freeverse Software today announced that ranked games of Burning Monkey Solitaire are approaching the five million mark. Freeverse will award the person who plays game number five million a special iPod Mini, personalized with Burning Monkeys hand-drawn by artist Steven Tzé.
A special counter page has been set-up to track the number of games played and can be viewed at
http://www.burningmonkey.com/countdown.php
At the current rate of play, the five millionth game will be reached this November.
Burning Monkey Solitaire is the hugely popular suite of solitaire card games for Mac OS and Windows featuring joke-telling chimps, singing gorillas, flaming arrows, and flying pigs.
Burning Monkey Solitaire is $24.95 SRP and available at the Apple Stores, Amazon.com and better Mac Retailers. It is also available directly from Freeverse.com.
More information, rankings, and a list of easter eggs can be found at
http://www.burningmonkey.com/
Military Strategy Game for Mac Released in North America.
"Strategy Gaming has never been so sweet!" - GameSpy
New York -- September 20, 2004 -- Virtual Programming and Freeverse Software today announced that the unique strategy game, Massive Assault, is now shipping to retailers in North America. Massive Assault is a fully 3D turn-based strategy game set in a futuristic world of, missiles, mechs, and mayhem. With 26 different land, sea and air units, huge 3D landscapes and 6 different planets on which to battle, Massive Assault is a strategy gamer's dream.
With Massive Assault you can play against the top-notch AI, or with your friends via hot-seat or over the internet. The game combines the best elements of turn-based war gaming with a unique "secret ally" political feature that can disrupt even the best laid battle plan.
Ian Lynch Smith, President of Freeverse has said "Not since Delta Tao's Strategic Conquest has the Mac seen a military strategy game that's this simple to pick-up and truly fun. But Massive Assault is in a class by itself when it comes to the variety of units, cool graphics, depth and re-playabilty. We're thrilled to be bringing Massive Assault to Mac gamers in North America".
Massive Assault is $39.95 SRP and is now available from Freeverse.com and your better Mac retailers.
System Requirements include Mac OS X 10.2 or later. 600MHz G3 or better, and a 32mb OpenGL 1.3 compatible video card.
A Quicktime trailer of the game is available on Apple's Games Trailer page at
http://www.apple.com/games/trailers/massiveassault/
Visit the Freeverse Massive Assault page at
http://www.freeverse.com/mass/
Massive Assault was developed by Wargaming.net, is published for the Mac by Virtual Programming (http://www.vpltd.com/), and distributed in North America by Freeverse.
For More Information Contact:
Colin Lynch Smith
Colin@freeverse.com
(212) 939 - 3549