Kuma\War

Moby ID: 38631

KUMA\WAR PUTS PLAYERS IN THE FRONTLINES

OF REAL INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT

Innovative Online PC Game Now Available at www.kumawar.com

New York, NY (March 30, 2004) - Kuma Reality Games, a leading broadband games company, has launched its first reality-based game, Kuma\War. Created using real-world missions from breaking news events, the subscription-based online service is a tactical, squad-based game that brings top stories from the war on terror directly to the consumer's PC.

Kuma\War delivers real-world news events in a way never-before-seen in the world of video or computer games. Just weeks after a military event occurs somewhere around the world, Kuma\War will create a re-enactment of the conflict, using advanced 3D gaming tools, and deliver the mission to a subscriber's computer. At launch, Kuma\War will give players a "boots on the ground" experience of recent military missions, such as Uday and Qusay Hussein's Last Stand in Mosul, Iraq, Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, and an amazing recreation of a large scale bank robbery thwarted by American troops in Samarra, Iraq, November 2003.

"Kuma\War enables consumers to experience actual missions of real soldiers in the war on terror," said Keith Halper, CEO of Kuma Reality Games. "Players have to devise the tactics and make the hard choices in some of the most important events of our time. For our subscribers, we make the headlines real."

Downloaded via a broadband connection, in addition to new missions, subscribers will receive automatic updates and intelligence information on a weekly basis to assist them in battle. Kuma\War will launch with five missions, and then add additional assignments in the weeks to follow, such as part two of the Samarra Bank Heist and the Korean Spy Sub Incident: ROK The Enemy Within.

Prior to embarking on each mission, players are given intelligence gathered from around the world, in the form of a video news show, technical specifications for the weapons used, a chronology of the battle, and even a satellite photo of the battlefield. Expert military analysis is also provided to the player, to give a strategic and tactical perspective of the historical event. Sources for the intelligence include the Associated Press, declassified Department of Defense documents, and a decorated team of military advisors.

As a salute to the men and women in uniform who have served their countries, Kuma will also proudly donate $1 of all paid subscriptions to The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which was created to assist the families of the nation's fallen heroes killed in duty. To learn more about Fallen Heroes, please visit:

www.i-fhf.org

In further support of military personnel, during its launch promotion, Kuma Reality Games is offering a free subscription to everyone with a ".mil" email address.

Kuma\War is available for download at www.kumawar.com and can be purchased for a $9.99 per month subscription fee.

ABOUT KUMA REALITY GAMES

Kuma Reality Games builds re-creations of real-world events using advanced gaming tools. Kuma\War, the first Kuma Reality Game, is now available online. Each month, Kuma subscribers will receive playable missions, video news shows, extensive intelligence gathered from news sources around the world, and insight from a decorated team of military veterans. Kuma\War is a first and third-person tactical squad-based game that provides multiple updates monthly to the consumer's computer to reflect unfolding events in the real world. Kuma Reality Games, headquartered in New York, New York is a privately held company.

Source:

Press release

KUMA\WAR MISSION BRIEFING:

Kuma\War Launches Samarra Bank Heist Part 2

Players Experience Part Two Of The Large Scale Bank Robbery

Thwarted By American Troops In Samarra, Iraq

New York, NY (April 12, 2004) - Kuma\War, an online game service featuring accurate recreations of real world events in the war on terror,has launched its newest mission, Samarra Bank Heist Part 2.

The latest mission, Samarra Bank Heist Part 2, takes place in the end of November 2003, one of the deadliest months for coalition forces since the start of the war in Iraq. Members of the United States' 4th Infantry Division are guarding coalition cash convoys swapping out old Iraqi dinars for new ones printed without Saddam Hussein's image.

In a previous mission, Samarra Bank Heist Part 1, players fought off guerrilla forces as they attempted to ambush the cash convoys at the Samarra bank . U.S. troops with unrelenting firepower.

In the coming weeks, Kuma\War will release missions based on the unfolding events in Fallujah. Kuma\War also plans to release two new missions to coincide with the anniversary of the Iran Hostage Crisis, which will present the U.S. military's actual plan for freeing the hostages. Kuma\War is available for download and free trial at www.kumawar.com and can be purchased for a $9.99 per month subscription fee.

Kuma Reality Games is offering a free subscription to everyone with a".mil" email address until June 30th.

ABOUT KUMA REALITY GAMES

Kuma Reality Games builds re-creations of real-world events using advanced gaming tools. Each month, Kuma subscribers receive playable missions, video news shows, extensive intelligence gathered from news sources around the world, and insight from a decorated team of military veterans. Kuma\War is a first and third-person tactical squad-based game that provides multiple updates monthly to the consumer's computer via a broadband connection, to reflect unfolding events in the real world. Current playable missions include: Uday and Qusay Hussein's Last Stand in Mosul, Iraq, Parts 1 and 2; Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan; Samarra Bank Heist, Parts 1 and 2. Kuma Reality Games, headquartered in New York, New York is a privately held company.

Source:

Press release

KUMA\WAR MISSION BRIEFING:

Kuma\War Launches Fallujah Police Station Raid

Players Fight Off Dozens of Insurgent Fighters

In Re-creation Of Fallujah Attacks

New York (April 16, 2004) - Keeping with its promise to deliver missions just weeks after a military event occurs, Kuma\War, an online game service featuring accurate re-creations of real-world events in the war on terror, has launched its newest mission, Fallujah Police Station Raid.

Fallujah Police Station Raid re-creates the ferocious assault by insurgents on a Fallujah police station on February 14, 2004. After an hour-long RPG and heavy machine gun assault, insurgents stormed the building and, moving from room to room, shot every police officer they could find. In this brutal attack, 17 Iraqi police officers were killed and 87 prisoners were released. Players will experience this ambush as the Iraqi civilian police force defending against guerrilla forces.

A second Fallujah mission in development for release in the coming weeks is Fallujah Abizaid Attack, the February 12, 2004 assassination attempt made on General John P. Abizaid, commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East at an Iraqi Civil Defense outpost.

Kuma\War will also be releasing two new missions in the following weeks to coincide with the anniversary of the Iran Hostage Crisis, which will present the U.S. military's original plan for freeing the hostages.

Kuma\War is available for download and free trial at www.kumawar.com and can be purchased for a $9.99 per month subscription fee.

Kuma Reality Games is offering a free subscription to everyone with a ".mil" email address until June 30th.

ABOUT KUMA REALITY GAMES

Kuma Reality Games builds re-creations of real-world events using advanced gaming tools. Each month, Kuma subscribers receive playable missions, video news shows, extensive intelligence gathered from news sources around the world, and insight from a decorated team of military veterans. Kuma\War is a first and third-person tactical squad-based game that provides multiple updates monthly to the consumer's computer via a broadband connection, to reflect unfolding events in the real world. Current playable missions include: Uday and Qusay Hussein's Last Stand in Mosul, Iraq, Parts 1 and 2; Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan; Samarra Bank Heist, Parts 1 and 2; Fallujah Police Station Raid. Kuma Reality Games, headquartered in New York, New York is a privately held company.

Source:

Press release


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