Hidden City Games announces Marvel License Agreement
SEATTLE (March 13th, 2006) Hidden City Games™, LLC, announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for the worldwide rights to publish a collectable throwing game and accessories featuring the Marvel Universe of Super Heroes. The products, under the three-year deal, will be marketed under Hidden City Games' Clout™ line of collectable throwing games.
Marvel has been beloved by generations of adults and kids alike. And with millions of dedicated Marvel fans worldwide, the agreement presents a unique opportunity for collectable throwing games to reach broad and mass-market players for the first time. Gaining access to these markets is widely held to be key to a game company's growth and longevity.
"This agreement presents an incredible opportunity to elevate our Clout line of collectable throwing games into the mass market," said Peter D. Adkison, CEO of Hidden City Games. "We have been actively pursuing a licensing agreement with Marvel, knowing the incredible strength and stature they can bring to making Clout a successful game. They are without a doubt a perfect fit for us."
Like the Marvel Universe, Clout is highly character-focused, with a different character on each chip, represented in exquisite, full-color artwork. And Marvel's enormous universe of interrelating characters and intertwining stories seems especially well suited to one of Clout's most innovative features: All Clout games are interplayable, meaning a player with elves chips from Clout Fantasy can play against a player using Spider-Man chips and another opponent with X-Men chips.
In addition to expanding into broader markets, Hidden City Games hopes the Marvel agreement offers another opportunity as well: that of expanding Clout's reach into new countries. Clout Fantasy is currently available in 10 languages in 56 countries worldwide.
Hidden City Games launched its flagship game, Clout Fantasy™, in over 50 countries in 2005. It is the first collectable game played with poker-size chips instead of cards. The chips are thrown and must land near other chips to affect them, making dexterity central to game play. Players must merge mental strategy with physical skill to score points and edge out their opponents. The game appeals to both kids and adults the world over, age eight and up.
The first Clout product to launch under the Marvel agreement will be released in spring 2006.
About Hidden City Games, LLC
Hidden City Games, LLC, is a privately held company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Its mission is to bring to market the best products in the collectable games industry, always looking for ways to introduce gamers to new and challenging games to play and collect. All trademarks including HIDDEN CITY GAMES, CLOUT FANTASY, expansion symbols, and the designs/stylizations associated therewith, and character names and their distinctive likenesses, are properties of Hidden City Games, LLC, in the U.S.A. and other countries. © 2006 Hidden City Games, LLC; U.S. & foreign patents pending.
About Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
With a library of over 5,000 characters, Marvel Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies. Marvel's operations are focused on utilizing its character franchises in licensing, entertainment, publishing and toys. Areas of emphasis include feature films, DVD/home video, consumer products, video games, action figures and role-playing toys, television and promotions. Rooted in the creative success of over sixty years of comic book publishing, Marvel's strategy is to leverage its character franchises in a growing array of opportunities around the world. More information about Marvel can be found at www.marvel.com
Marvel, and related characters names and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc. TM & © 2006 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved. Super Hero(es) is a co-owned registered trademark.
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