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Reflexive Anniversary
free game give away continues...
Reflexive Entertainment is pleased to continue the month-long full
version give away of Ricochet Xtreme to celebrate its ninth anniversary.
Having begun less than a week ago, more than 10,000 copies of Ricochet
Xtreme have been given away as 'party favors' to guests at Reflexive.com.
Lake Forest, CA – October 20, 2006 – In 1997, a group of friends created
a game company so they could make games on their own terms. With a
desire to develop their own ideas and a passion to make the best games
available, Reflexive Entertainment was born on October 15th, 1997.
Created at a time when the Internet was young, broadband was a dream,
and 95% of us felt pretty cool just to have a dial-up modem, Reflexive's
immediate focus on creating a game distributed by download over the
Internet made them a pioneer in what would come to be known as Digital
Distribution.
“In the early years we were trying to sell to a market that didn't exist
in a way that hadn't been done before. Figuring out how to do things
that we take for granted now, like processing the order, distributing
the game and shrinking the download size were a big deal. People were
still a bit leery of buying things on the Internet, there weren't many
websites carrying the games and slow dial-up speeds made making large
downloads prohibitive,” said Reflexive CEO Lars Brubaker. “We feel lucky
to have been in a position to learn how to make digital distribution
work as we overcame the many obstacles we encountered. The lessons we
learned have become very valuable as digital distribution has matured.
We've used the information as we've expanded from the PC to the Xbox and
from just distributing our own games to also helping developers
distribute their games.”
As a part of Reflexive's Anniversary Celebration, Reflexive made the
full version of Ricochet Xtreme, one of the first widely successful
digitally distributed games, available for free to everyone through
Reflexive's website: www.reflexive.com. Since Reflexive began giving
away the 'coolest party favor ever' less than a week ago, more than
10,000 copies of Ricochet Xtreme have been given away. Reflexive has
appreciated the wonderful response and the hundreds of thousands of
visitors who've 'dropped by' to wish Reflexive a 'Happy Anniversary.'
The party isn't over! Reflexive is excited to continue our anniversary
celebration and Ricochet Xtreme give away through November 15th 2006,
giving everyone plenty of time to get away from work and to come join in
on the party!
About Reflexive Entertainment:
Founded in 1997, with one goal in mind - to make great games, Reflexive
Entertainment (www.reflexive-inc.com) is known for its top-selling
Ricochet and Big Kahuna casual game franchises (with over 30 million
total downloads) and its Xbox 360 downloadable game of the year Wik:
Fable of Souls. In addition to developing games, Reflexive has created
one of the largest casual game distribution networks in existence with
more than 500 affiliates distributing a huge catalog of over 550 games
to a rapidly growing audience that downloads millions of games each
week.
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