Cary, NC -- (PR NEWSWIRE) -- (Tuesday, July 09, 2008) -- Oasys Mobile, Inc., a leading provider of premium mobile entertainment, announces the global launch of Sid Meier’s Pirates!, a mobile adventure game based on 2K Games’ long standing Sid Meier’s Pirates! franchise. This title is available for consumer purchase through multiple wireless carrier services.
Originally launched in 1987, Sid Meier’s Pirates! captivated computer gamers with its innovative and open ended game play. Having acquired a loyal following through the years, it was remade in 2004 for PC and console gaming systems. Now after two decades of success gamers can finally play this exciting adventure on their mobile phone.
Sid Meier’s Pirates! mobile brings the world famous PC and console game to your mobile phone. Utilizing integrated aspects from the original game, consumers can live the life and career of a pirate by building a reputation using strategy and skill while plundering ships, attacking towns and bringing the seas under control.
“Sid Meier’s Pirates! has been a long standing success and we are excited to continue the trend through expansion into the mobile industry. It is an honor to be the first mobile game developer to bring this 2K title to mobile consumers. This adaptation of the original is expected to thrill gamers, enabling them to enjoy all the exciting action and adventure on the go,” Doug Dyer, CEO, Oasys Mobile, Inc.
About 2K
2K Games is a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
About Oasys Mobile
Oasys Mobile, Inc. is an industry leading developer as well as a publisher and aggregator of premium mobile games, mobile media applications, and services. A cutting edge approach to mobile technologies enables Oasys Mobile to provide a unique, high-quality, compelling, and user-friendly mobile entertainment experience.
Oasys Mobile prides itself in working with the very best in the wireless industry by developing top-ranked franchise games and applications based on relationships with the following well-established brands: Mattel®, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: War of Two Cities, Railroad Tycoon, and Pirates!, Phil Hellmuth, AROD™, The Wall Street Journal® and Hooters® Calendar.
With over 30 branded titles representing all major categories, we provide a broad and diverse product line which is distributed through an extensive domestic Carrier network accounting for 97% of all wireless subscribers.
For more information, go to www.oasysmobile.com.
2K Games and related logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Sid Meier’s Civilization IV, Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution, and associated trademarks and trade dress are owned by, and used under license from Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.© 2008 2K Games.
Oasys Mobile, Inc.
Nichole Lemieux, 919-807-5600
nicole.lemieux@oasysmobile.com
SOURCE: Oasys Mobile, Inc.
