Crave Entertainment Signs 7 Top Poker Pros to Exclusive Deals for World Championship Poker 2: Featuring Howard Lederer for Xbox(R), PlayStation(R)2, and the PSP(TM) System
Exclusive Character Likenesses of the World's Top Poker Players Let's You Truly Play With the Pros
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2005-- Crave Entertainment, a leading publisher of console videogames, today announced that they have signed 7 top poker professionals, including Howard Lederer, Greg Raymer, Clonie Gowen, Amir Vahidi, Paul Darden, Robert Williamson III, and tournament director Matt Savage to exclusive agreements so that their character likenesses, play styles and iconic signature personality traits can be incorporated into World Championship Poker 2: Featuring Howard Lederer. Howard's sister, womens' champion Annie Duke, is also featured in the game. World Championship Poker 2, the follow up to one of the best selling titles for the first half of 2005, will be available for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, PSP(TM) (PlayStation®Portable) system and Xbox video game and entertainment system from Microsoft with an MSRP of $19.99.
"The World Championship Poker franchise has been phenomenally successful for Crave," said Rob Dyer, president and COO. "We've locked up some of the world's top poker players, so they'll only be featured in WCP2."
Developed by Point of View, World Championship Poker 2 features a much more detailed one player game, where you now have to work your way up the ranks, starting in your mom's basement. Once you start winning and accumulating money, you can spend your winnings on increasingly better pads, and furnishings. Hit a losing streak, and you may have to hock your stuff to stay in the game.
About Crave Entertainment
Based in Los Angeles, California, Crave Entertainment is a privately held publisher of videogame entertainment products. Crave produces games for the major console platforms including Game Boy® Advance, Nintendo GameCube(TM), the PlayStation® game console, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, and for the PC. For more information about Crave Entertainment, please visit http://www.cravegames.com.
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