4Kids Entertainment
Chaotic® Trading Card Game Announces 25,000,000th Card Uploaded Milestone & Expanded Features To Chaoticgame.Com
Tuesday 22 July 2008
Online Game and Website Includes New Gameplay Features,
Special Effect Graphics and Sounds, Improved Security, Registration
and Parental Controls and More Universal System Requirements
NEW
The announcement was made by 4Kids Entertainment (NYSE:
The updated Website now includes a variety of new gameplay features such as the Army Builder, which supports 1 Creature vs. 1 Creature 3v3 and 6v6 armies, attack animations and sound effects and a Discard Viewer allowing both players to review all played cards during a game. Additionally, gamers have the opportunity to play Master and Standard/Apprentice Rules matches with cards from the Dawn of Perim™ OverWorld and UnderWorld Starter Decks, Dawn of Perim Secrets™, Zenith of the Hive™ and Silent Sands™ Booster sets. The revamped Traffic Light system more accurately predicts how long a player will have to wait to begin a game in the Auto Challenge wait queue. The Chaotic game engine has also gone through thorough debugging maintenance, elevating the game completion rate to nearly 98 percent.
“We know that players have been patiently and anxiously awaiting these expansions to ChaoticGame.com and we are confident that the improvements and changes we’ve made to the site will greatly enhance the experience of playing Chaotic online,” said Andi Smithers, Director of Technical Development at TC Digital.
Not only have significant features been implemented to improve gameplay on ChaoticGame.com, but system requirements were made more universal to allow more gamers the opportunity to experience playing Chaotic online. The new version can now be run on computers that do not have Direct3D/Pixel Shader 1.1 or Microsoft DirectX® installed. Further Website improvements include considerable measures to increase the security of minors and player accounts. Any changes to a player’s account, including password changes, card trades or changes to a user profile will now have to be confirmed through an email verification.
ChaoticGame.com is the destination for players to upload their Starter Decks and Booster Packs of Chaotic Trading Cards in order to challenge other players to matches online using the Chaotic Pad application. This week the Website reached another significant milestone when it surpassed the 25,000,000th trading card uploaded to the site. In addition to challenging others to matches, players can easily trade their cards, read the latest news, receive an interactive gameplay tutorial or participate in a variety of Chaotic discussion forums. The Chaotic Online Game Experience continues to increase in popularity, with nearly 2,000,000 unique visitors thus far. Over the past three months the site’s average daily matches have tripled.
Complementing the Chaotic Trading Card Game is the Chaotic animated TV series, which can be seen daily on the Jetix block of Toon Disney and Saturday mornings on the 4KidsTV block on
TC Digital Games recently launched Chaotic Battledrome Events, a national Organized Play program with events scheduled at Wizard World Philadelphia, Origins Games Fair, San Diego Comic-Con, Gen Con Indy, Fan Expo
About 4Kids Entertainment, Inc.
With U.S. headquarters in New York City, regional offices for its trading card business in San Diego, California and international offices in London, 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:
Through its subsidiaries, 4Kids produces animated television series and films, distributes 4Kids’ produced or licensed animated television series for the domestic and international television and home video markets, licenses merchandising rights worldwide to 4Kids’ owned or represented properties, operates Web sites to support 4Kids’ owned or represented properties, and produces and markets collectible trading card games. Additionally, the Company programs and sells the national advertising time in a four-hour “4KidsTV” block which airs on nearly 200 affiliated
Additional information is available on the www.4KidsEntertainment.com corporate web site and at the www.4Kids.tv game station site.
About TC Digital Games LLC
Headquartered in
The information contained in this press release, other than historical information, consists of forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. These statements may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in such statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Important factors beyond the Company's control, including general economic conditions, consumer spending levels, competition from toy companies, motion picture studios and other licensing companies, the uncertainty of public response to the Company's properties and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations.
# # #