Popular Sports and Entertainment Brands Go Mobile, Including WWE Mobile
Madness(TM) and Baseball (working title)
LOS ANGELES, May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sprint (NYSE: FON, PCS)
and THQ Inc. (Nasdaq: THQI) today announced plans to provide wireless
customers with the ability to play games based on some of the video game,
entertainment and sports industry's most popular franchises on 3G-enabled
PCS phones through the Sprint Third Generation (3G) Network. Sprint,
which operates the largest all-digital, all-PCS nationwide network and is
the fastest growing wireless carrier, will launch the Sprint Third
Generation Network later this summer.
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The agreement between THQ and Sprint signals the transition from,
text-based games to graphic, full-color brand name games on a wireless
network.
In addition to WWE Mobile Madness(TM), Snood(R), MotoGP and Baseball
(working title), several popular Intellivsion(TM) brands including
Astrosmash! and Skiing will also be available.
"As the fastest growing wireless carrier for fifteen consecutive
quarters, Sprint continues to set the pace for the wireless industry.
Our clear leadership combined with the quality, brand-name content from
THQ makes a formidable force in the evolving wireless game market," said
Chip Novick, Sprint vice president of consumer marketing for the PCS
division. "Sprint and THQ will give gamers the valuable chance to play,
check scores and challenge buddies to maintain bragging rights clear
across the country."
"As a leader in the interactive entertainment space, THQ is committed
to hitting every segment of the market, providing consumers with fun and
compelling gaming experiences wherever they are," said Doug Dyer, general
manager THQ Wireless. "This new agreement with wireless leader Sprint
ensures that we utilizing the best in mobile technology for the millions
of gamers that are constantly on the go."
At launch, Sprint expects faster wireless data speeds and
enhancements for existing applications and services when using a
3G-enabled device. The Third Generation Network establishes a platform
for later releases of new and more robust applications as data speeds
increase including advanced games, email with attachments, enhanced
messaging, video and audio clips, high-speed Internet browsing and
digital imaging. Specifically for games, it enables Sprint to move the
game experience from the text-based games of today to graphic, full-color
brand name games on 3G-enabled PCS Phones using the Java 2 platform,
Micro Edition (J2ME(TM)).
For more information please visit http://www.sprint.com/mr .
About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving more than
26 million business and residential customers in over 70 countries. With
approximately 80,000 employees worldwide and more than $26 billion in
annual revenues, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering
and deploying state of the art network technologies, including the United
States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network. Sprint's
award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone is being extended to key global
markets to provide customers with a broad portfolio of scalable IP
products. Sprint's high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers
fast, dependable, nonstop access to the vast majority of the world's
Internet content. Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent digital,
nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States, already serving the
majority of the nation's metropolitan areas, including more than
4,000 cities and communities.
About THQ
THQ Inc. develops and publishes interactive entertainment software
worldwide for a variety of hardware platforms including PC CD-ROM,
wireless devices, and those manufactured by Sony computer Entertainment
America Inc., Nintendo and Microsoft. The THQ web site is located at
http://www.thq.com . The THQ Wireless site is located at
http://www.thqwireless.com .
Java, J2ME and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other
countries.
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SOURCE Sprint PCS
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CONTACT:
Media - Nancy Sherrer, +1-913-762-7032, or
+1-913-706-9051 (PCS), or Nsherr02@mail.sprintpcs.com, or Bit Vo
(Sprint), +1-913-762-7033, or +1-816-729-7891 (PCS), or
Bvo01@mail.sprintpcs.com, both of Sprint; or Liz Pieri of THQ
Media Relations, +1-818-871-5061
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