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SPAWN®: ARMAGEDDON SINGS HELLISH TUNE WITH ONE OF TODAY’S HOTTEST ARTISTS

Namco’s Spawn: Armageddon Features Music From Marilyn Manson’s New Album

SAN JOSE, Ca. (November 11, 2003) – Interactive entertainment publisher Namco Hometek Inc. announced today that Spawn: Armageddon, the Todd McFarlane-inspired action adventure title, will feature music from one of today’s most talked-about and controversial musicians, Marilyn Manson.  In what is seen by many to be the perfect pairing, Manson’s title “Use Your Fist and Not Your Mouth” from the album The Golden Age of Grotesque is featured in the Spawn: Armageddon video game soundtrack.  Video game fans will have an opportunity to enjoy the gothic-like Spawn: Armageddon soundtrack in the game this November when the title ships for the Nintendo GameCubeTM, the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft.

“We anticipate Spawn fans everywhere will be just as excited about our recent collaboration with Marilyn Manson on the Spawn: Armageddon project as we are,” said Stacey Hirata, Director of Marketing for Namco Hometek Inc.  “With a unique personality such as Spawn’s, we were faced with the challenge of implementing a soundtrack that not only made sense to the game’s theme, but one that also added to the already established dark storyline.  In Marilyn Manson, we feel like our team was able secure the very best talent that music had to offer and we hope Spawn enthusiasts will agree.”

Spawn: Armageddon is a 3rd person action/adventure title, based on Todd McFarlane’s best-selling comic book character.  With a dark, shadowy storyline that encompasses the first 99 comic books in the Spawn series, Spawn: Armageddon will feature Spawn’s infamous living symbiotic costume, Hell Powers, Agony – the axe that can only be wielded by Spawn, and an arsenal of weapons including a missile launcher, sawed off shotgun, mini-guns, sub machine guns and more.  Encountering enemies such as the Meat Puppet, Angel Warrior, Berserker and the Whip Demon, Spawn must battle his way through 23 missions with interactive and destructible environments as he struggles to break free from the forces of Heaven and Hell.

“Spawn is a very distinctive character that has an attitude all his own, and I am ecstatic that they have found music that can match the attitude of our character,” said Todd McFarlane, creator of the Spawn comic book series.  

For additional information on Spawn: Armageddon visit www.namco.com
 

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About Namco Hometek Inc.
Namco Hometek Inc. is the U.S. consumer division of Namco Limited, a Tokyo-based world leader in the high-tech entertainment industry. Based in San Jose, CA, Namco Hometek Inc. is an award-winning video games publisher for the next generation game consoles.  Namco has created some of the industry's greatest video game franchises: Tekken®, SOULCALIBUR®, Dead to Rights®, Pac-Man WorldTM, Ridge Racer®, Time Crisis® and Ace Combat®.  For more information about Namco and its products log onto www.namco.com.

About Spawn
Spawn is comic book first published by McFarlane and friends who spun off from the mainstream comic publishing industry in 1992.

Spawn is a dark hero, troubled with the dual aspects of good and evil found in all people. With an appeal to adults, Spawn broke the mold in American comics, selling 1.7 million in its first issue. Published on a monthly basis, Spawn has continuously gained new fans, and is now read by people in 80 countries around the world, translated into 30 languages. It has established the surprising record of a total of 24 million sales in the US.

Aspiring to bring this character to perfection as a toy, Todd McFarlane started up a toy manufacturer in 1994 and began selling Spawn figures. Featuring details not found on any other toy, Spawn toys became a huge hit, igniting a global boom in figures. A total of 2.8 million figures have been sold around the globe, with new products coming out one after the other.

Spawn also developed into a television animated series, broadcast on American cable networks, and was made into a Hollywood film in 1997. Announcements have been made for a theatrical movie at the end of 2004.

About Syncope Entertainment
Syncope Entertainment provides comprehensive music supervision and music licensing services for film, television, video game and advertising industries.  Syncope offers a full range of music services from working with composers to commissioning top-selling recording artists to create original music for a game.  Founded in 1999 with its base of operations in Los Angeles, Syncope has worked on over 100 top selling video game titles for leading game publishers which include: "Splinter Cell", "Mortal Kombat", "Spiderman 2", "Mission Impossible", "Tomb Raider", among many others.
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