Sammy Studios Introduces 16-Player Fighting Game at IronPhoenix.com; Official Site Launch; New Screens

Sammy Studios' Web Site Introduces World of "Iron Phoenix™", Changing the Face of Fighting on Xbox Live this Holiday

LOS ANGELES, CA - May 12, 2004 - Sammy Studios, Inc., a developer, publisher and global distributor of interactive entertainment content, today launched the Web site dedicated to the upcoming 16-player online fighting game Iron Phoenix at www.ironphoenix.com. Designed by Beck Interactive, Inc., the site highlights the video game promising to bring a new experience to 3D fighting as the first-ever online multiplayer fighting game. Iron Phoenix introduces a number of new elements to the fight genre with squad-based melee combat, wire-fu style Kung-Fu fighting, a weapons-based moves and combos system and team play that includes the ability to string together combos between characters. Players will battle with more than ten playable characters and nine unique weapons in massive battle arenas, with beautiful indoor and outdoor environments set in a mythical ancient China. Iron Phoenix will also offer a rich single-player mode, with a story and setting drawn from classic martial arts epics. Developed by InterServ International, Inc., exclusively for the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft®, Iron Phoenix brings multiplayer Kung-Fu fighting to Xbox Live™ in Holiday 2004. The title has an MRSP of $49.99 and is not yet rated.