New Fall Games on XBOX 360 from EA Sports, Microsoft, UbiSoft and THQ
SAUSALITO, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Sep 25, 2008 The country’s premier video game tour, BEST BUY G3: Games, Gear and Gadgets, is launching the second phase of its exciting new college program this fall. Over the next six weeks, the National Tour, which is presented by Best Buy and hosted by Xbox 360, GamePro and IGN, is expected to reach 40,000+ videogame enthusiasts at 20 major colleges and universities. The game technology tour will feature the latest new videogames, game technology and digital music. Apple, Dell and Alienware are also sponsors with new iPod, iMac and PC products available to the students.
The 08 College Tour will showcase the Best Buy LCD Lounge & Cyber Laptop Bar with interactive demonstrations and competitive gaming competitions. As national technology tour sponsors, Apple, Dell and Alienware will have live demonstrations of state of the art PC technologies.
Students will have the opportunity to play Gears of War 2 before its November 7th release and compete in the Gears of War 2 Wingman Challenge sponsored by GamePro Magazine and Xbox 360. Wingman is one of the many multiplayer modes new to Gears of War 2 and hosts up to 5 two-player teams that compete in points based deathmatches. The top players from each college will compete online for the grand prize: a trip to Epic Games to meet the creators of Gears of War and a Best Buy Home Theater Prize Package.
G3 reaches the core of the young adult game-playing audience - college students. These early adopters and game enthusiasts will get the first opportunity to play several newly released titles on Tour.
The Tour will be featuring top tier fall titles from: EA SPORTS – Madden NFL 09™, Tiger Woods PGA® Tour 09, NHL 09 and NCAA Football 09. Ubisoft will have the highly anticipated and ‘must have’ Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party. THQ will be featuring the legendary franchise game Saints Row 2. In addition to showcasing the new Gears of War 2, Xbox 360 will also have Halo 3 on tour. EA GAMES will be showcasing the new RockBand 2 title. The games will be displayed on more than 30+ Sharp Aquos HD LCD Televisions.
Media Sponsors represented on this Tour include: GamePro Magazine – the Official Magazine Sponsor of the Tour and IGN.com – the Official Internet Sponsor of the Tour. Sharp Aquos is the Official 2008 HD Television Sponsor of the national presentation featuring their new 1080 product line.
The Best Buy G3 College Tour launches on September 29th. The event is free admission to all college students. The full tour schedule is at www.gameulive.com.
This omnibus live event will be the 18th national tour produced by Game Live Events. The last presentation was in the Spring of ’08 – an engaging tour for video game publishers, consumer marketers and thousands of student gamers.
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