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Press Release MAY.05.2004 Leading video game developer launches CodeBaby-enabled website to give users a sneak peek of the highly anticipated action-RPG Jade Empire.
EDMONTON, AB, Canada Leading video game developer BioWare™ today unveiled a sneak peek of Jade Empire™, a groundbreaking new game for Xbox, using CodeBaby™ virtual agent technology to create an interactive 3D demo on the BioWare website. The CodeBaby-enabled website gives fans an advance taste of the unique martial arts fighting styles and game play they can expect to see when the action-Role Playing Game (RPG) Jade Empire is released for the Xbox game platform.
“One of the most exciting new features in Jade Empire is the ability for players to master more than 30 martial arts, weapons, and magic fighting styles,” said Greg Zeschuk, Joint Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BioWare Corp. “CodeBaby’s technology provides us with the sophisticated, web-based 3D platform we need to properly showcase the Jade Empire characters and their distinctive martial arts techniques,” said Ray Muzyka, Joint CEO of BioWare Corp.
BioWare is a leading video game developer whose past successes include the award winning Star Wars:® Knights of the Old Republic™, Baldur’s Gate™ and Neverwinter Nights™. Jade Empire will be published by Microsoft and the action-RPG is generating significant anticipation within BioWare’s dedicated user community. The 1.8+ million strong members of the BioWare Community will be invited to visit the Jade Empire website (http://www.jade-empire.com) to experience the CodeBaby demo.
“We’re pleased that BioWare has chosen CodeBaby technology as the preferred platform to debut Jade Empire,” said Shaheel Hooda, CEO of CodeBaby. “The BioWare deployment is unique in the way they’re using CodeBaby to demonstrate their Jade Empire characters and game play, and generate excitement in the new game.”
Hooda added, “CodeBaby’s technology is very versatile, and CodeBaby interactive virtual agents can operate effectively across a wide variety of applications including entertainment, eGovernment, banking, and online retailing to name a few. CodeBaby virtual agents can be used to increase online sales transaction closure rates, provide automated tech support and reduce call center costs, offer assistance in filling out complicated online forms, and help to deliver effective online training.”
To see BioWare’s CodeBaby-enabled demo, visit the official Jade Empire site:
http://www.jade-empire.com and click on the ‘Interactive Fighting Styles’ link.
About CodeBaby
CodeBaby is a leader in web-based virtual agent technology, and enables corporations to integrate state-of-the-art, interactive 3D characters with their websites and online services. The CodeBaby™ Production Studio is a development platform that allows a company to design and deploy a 3D interactive character – to serve as a virtual assistant, sales agent, help agent, host or tutor. CodeBaby virtual agents can benefit a wide range of industries and services, including online banking, health care, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), forms management, telecommunications services and online entertainment. By hosting a virtual agent on a website, a company can interact with their customers more effectively and offer a higher level of online customer service, making the Internet and technology more enjoyable and easier to use. Additional information about CodeBaby is at http://www.codebaby.com.
About Bioware
BioWare Corp. is an electronic entertainment company that develops computer and console games. BioWare’s developers are currently hard at work on the action-RPG Jade Empire™ (http://www.jade-empire.com), a BioWare-created intellectual property to be published by Microsoft for the Xbox. Two other untitled projects, both featuring other new, original BioWare intellectual properties, are also in development for PC and console. Star Wars:® Knights of the Old Republic™, published by LucasArts and released July 18, 2003, for the Xbox and November 18, 2003, for PC, is currently enjoying critical praise and great commercial success with its opening weekend launch ending with Microsoft proclaiming the title as the fastest selling Xbox game in history. Neverwinter Nights™: Hordes of the Underdark™, the second official expansion for the critically acclaimed PC role-playing game Neverwinter Nights, published by Atari, was released on December 2, 2003, and has enjoyed critical success. Previously published projects include: the award-winning Neverwinter Nights™, the genre-defining Baldur’s Gate™ role playing game series for the PC, MDK™2 for Dreamcast and PC, MDK™2: Armageddon for PlayStation®2 and Shattered Steel™. BioWare information can be found online at www.bioware.com
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