Half-Vampire Video Game Villainess from “Darkwatch” Bares it all in Playboy’s October Pictorial

Carlsbad, CA - September 10, 2004 - Sammy Studios, Inc., a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content, today released the provocative image of Tala created exclusively for a pictorial in the October issue of Playboy Magazine. A pivotal character in "Darkwatch," the upcoming Vampire-Western first-person shooter (FPS) video game, Tala bares more than her fangs in the men's magazine spread dedicated to sexy video game leading ladies. The revealing image, capturing her dangerous sensuality as a half-vampire seductress of Native American descent, is the work of Sammy Studios' in-house team of artists working in conjunction with Brain Zoo Studios of Van Nuys, California. The image appears in a pictorial accompanying the article "Gaming Grows Up" in Playboy's upcoming issue, hitting newsstands this month. "Darkwatch" is slated for release on the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system and Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft(R) in spring 2005. The game is not yet rated.