Master Ninja Tournament Breaks Records Again with Highest Registration Numbers to Date

TORRANCE, Calif., September 3, 2004‹Tecmo® and Xbox Live announced today that their online tournament for Ninja Gaiden®, the Master Ninja Tournament (MNT), has broken records once again with its second tournament in the series. The second tournament, ending earlier this week, became the reining champion of online tournaments by having the highest number of registrants through xbox.com for an online tournament in the history of Xbox Live. Beating out the MNT¹s first tournament, the second tournament had over 1,000 more registrants than its predecessor. Using the new and challenging Ninja Gaiden downloadable, Hurricane Pack: Volume I, as a platform for the second tournament increased interest in the gaming community with thousands of gamers posting their Karma scores on the worldwide leader board by the end of the tournament.