THE GAME FACTORY has reached agreement with Paws, Inc. to develop
and publish yet another Garfield game for the GBA format, and is set for release
in April 2006. Paws, Inc. is a privately-owned company and the sole owner of
the copyrights and trademarks for Garfield and the Garfield characters.
Garfield and His Nine Lives is a fantastically entertaining game
for all ages, playing through twelve exciting platform games with different environments.
All the games have interactive environmental elements, and hidden areas that
reward players to go and explore. Garfield and His Nine Lives is full of the
humour, light-heartedness and fun you are sure to find in the company of Garfield.
The game play encourages teamwork, and helping the less fortunate. So come and
join in on the fun, because the world's laziest cat is back!
GARFIELD was born on the comics pages on June 19, 1978. The brainchild
of cartoonist Jim Davis, GARFIELD is a humorous strip centred around the lives
of a fat, lazy, cynical orange cat who loves lasagne, coffee and his remote control.
GARFIELD was introduced
to the world in just 41 newspapers, but soon became the fastest growing and most
widely syndicated comic strip ever. Today, the strip appears in more than 2570
newspapers, and is read daily by 263,000,000 people around the globe. The success
of the comic strip spawned a popular animated TV show, "Garfield & Friends," which
is currently in worldwide syndication. Moreover, Garfield enjoys a healthy product-licensing
program, with nearly 650 manufacturers cranking out thousands of products depicting
Garfield and the rest of the gang. Garfield's vast empire stretches into 111
countries, and includes a popular web site, www.garfield.com.
In 2004, Garfield had
his debut on the big screen, and GARFIELD THE MOVIE became a USD 198 million
box office success. The sequel, "GARFIELD
2" is planned
for release this summer.
"We are very satisfied with our agreement with Paws, Inc.," says
Henrik Mathiasen, Managing Director of THE GAME FACTORY. "In 2005, we released
Garfield - the Search for Pookey, which proved to be a huge success in Europe.
The title was published in North America recently, and is on its way to achieving
similar popularity in that market too. Garfield is loved and adored all over
the world – an
ideal character for a platform game, and we are in no doubt that Garfield and
His Nine Lives will also be a success!"
The coming year will see more Garfield games from THE GAME FACTORY
distributed on a number of platforms, so you can start looking forward to them
already!
About THE GAME FACTORY
THE GAME FACTORY is a worldwide publisher of video and computer games based on
leading international children's characters. THE GAME FACTORY® has its HQ
in Aarhus, Denmark, with subsidiaries in London, UK, and Santa Monica, California.
THE GAME FACTORY is a subsidiary of the K.E. Mathiasen Group A/S, which is the
largest Nordic distributor in the toy sector.
For further information about the company and our products, please
visit:
www.gamefactorygames.com
