We’ve had the distinct pleasure of working with Square Enix on TWO amazing titles for PSP this year, Tactics Ogre which shipped earlier this Spring, and now Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection which is now available and is being received by top gaming media with great review scores! Read more
“I don’t mind dying, but I’ll be damned if I die early and miss out on time with my son simply because I couldn’t stop eating crappy food or because I was too lazy to get my ass off the couch.”
– MavPR Partner Matt Frary in GamerFitNation’s True Gamer of the Week Profile
One of your favorite young video game sites, GamerFitNation, has selected Maverick PR Partner Matt Frary as their “True Gamer of the Week” this week. This is a totally fitting title and the perfect site to profile Matt, because his nearly obsessive man-love of P90X has kept him neatly trim for more than 7 months now. We’d post a picture of his rock-hard abs here, but it would be far too overpowering for teh Internets to handle.
Tomb Raider Trilogy released a couple of weeks ago and we here at Maverick PR were a bit excited to jump into the fray and do a little bit of work with one of the most iconic video game characters of all time.
Tomb Raider Trilogy combines three awesome Tomb Raider games into one amazing package for PlayStation 3. And if that’s not enough for you, all of the games have been re-mastered in HD to make them look even better than before. Still not enough? Well, don’t pick up that phone because the package also includes some PS3-exclusive items like avatar rewards and a special theme.
It’s an amazing deal — so if you missed the games on PS2, go get this now. If you played them on PS2 and love Tomb Raider, go get this package now. Don’t believe us – and really – why would you? Just read some of the reviews!
I don’t know, you might’ve heard that some Japanese company is about to release some new version of some video game platform that everyone seems to love… errr… or something, like, I think it has 3d??
The crack crew from Maverick PR East — and that means MavPR Partner Matt Frary — took on the monstrosity that is PAX East this year with the good folks from Eidos-Montreal and Square Enix. Armed only with the mighty MavPR Canon EOS Rebel T2i, a tripod and a pop-up Deus Ex: Human Revolution banner, we conquered the show with media interviews and an enormous stage presentation of the best RPG-shooter of 2011!
Hello, Old Friend
Well, we may not exactly be taking over the planet but we certainly plan to promote some cool new games as Atari gets back into gear this year.
Of course, the Maverick team has deep roots with Atari and the Fuji. Atari just so happened to be Maverick’s very first client back in 2005. We worked with the team to promote the sequel to one of the greatest RPGs of all time (Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2) as the franchise transitioned from Bioware to Obsidian Entertainment.
Needless to say, we’re super excited to be working with our friends again…Erik, Matt and Brandon back together!
We’ll be working with the studio on their latest digital download title — The Undergarden.
Atari's The Undergarden
Stay tuned for more.
We’re really excited to be working on one of the biggest and most important franchises in video games – Deus Ex. With Deus Ex: Human Revolution, this awesome blend of FPS action and RPG gameplay comes to current generation systems, bringing along exciting new human augmentations, and choose-your-own-gameplay fun — play stealth, run-and-gun, hacking… whatever you like.
We’ll be in Germany next week with Square Enix helping them to show off the game at GamesCom in Cologne. In the meantime, enjoy the newest trailer, which shows off gameplay publicly for the very first time.
GameSpot's Exclusive Look Hits on the X360 Page
GameSpot – along with a handful of other outlets – nabbed a private demo with us last week and had a chance to delve deeper into Square Enix’s upcoming action game, Mindjack. All of this during a first look preview tour Maverick put together in San Francisco.
While all of the outlets we visited will be posting their thoughts on the game shortly, including 1UP, Gamepro, GamesRadar, Worthplaying, and many more, GameSpot is first out of the gate with their exclusive first break, along with a new video and exclusive video interview with Square Enix’s Johnny Fournier.
If you’re not familiar with Mindjack, it is an unusual game that combines single and multi-player action in to a unifying, intense and always different experience. The way I try to explain this is imagine that you fire up your single player campaign as normal but at any time, you might discover the enemies your are battling and squad mates fighting by your side are controlled by other gamers somewhere in the world through Xbox Live and Playstation Network. Now THAT’s good AI. 🙂
Take a look at the video interview on GameSpot below – some pretty cool stuff happening in the world of Mindjack. And be sure to visit the game on it’s Facebook Page and “Like” away!
Dungeon Siege III for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3
It’s been five years, but Dungeon Siege III is finally in production! Square Enix has partnered with Obsidian Entertainment to bring us the latest installment in the Dungeon Siege series.
The other good news is Chris Taylor and Gas Powered Games will remain involved throughout the development process to provide key insight and game continuity. That said, Obsidian Entertainment was a perfect choice to carry the DS torch forward with a great track record on a host of other major RPG franchises including KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights, Fallout, etc.
Needless to say, we’re really excited to be working with both Obsidian Entertainment and Gas Powered Games again.
Check out some of the latest concept art for Dungeon Siege III:
ASTRO Gaming A30 Audio System in July OXM
The editors at Official Xbox Magazine (OXM) got to spend some time with ASTRO Gaming’s latest on-ear, on-the-go, headset — the A30 Audio System — this past month.
The result: an 8.5 out of 10!
ASTRO was just shy of an Editor’s Choice award…something we plan to rectify next time around!
Overall, the editor’s loved the new ASTRO cans. Here are some quotes:
“…you’ll love what you hear.”
“…at this price point you won’t do a whole lot better than the A30s. The sound quality is amazing: the basses boom, the highs are wonderfully clear, and all of it comes from a pair of super-comfy headphones.”
“Amazing sound quality.”
“Incredibly comfortable headset to wear.”
That about says it all. The review appears in the July issue of Official Xbox Magazine.
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