[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]
7th September 2010: Supermassive Games
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today announces details of a deal with FL Interactive, the
online arm of The Football League, as part of a major marketing
campaign supporting the launch of exciting new football title
‘Big Match Striker’. The deal forms a key part of a
campaign that will run over the coming months, driving football
fans to download the free PC game and join the community at
www.bigmatchonline.com.
The deal with FLi promotes the game and the brand to core
football fans via FLi’s managed portfolio of 82 football club
websites. This includes branding of the Player Profile and
Squad/Team sections across websites of eight Premier League,
Championship and League 1 & 2 club websites.
The wider marketing campaign includes promotions on national
football websites, leading fan-run sites, football print titles and
adverts across a myriad of sites represented by Sportsyndicator.
There is a fully integrated PR and social media campaign handled by
Boom! In total the campaign will set out to reach around eight
million football fans every month over the next 12 months.
Geraint Orchard-Bungay, Supermassive Games
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Online Publishing Director, commented: “The commitment
shown by Supermassive Games to Big Match Striker by undertaking
such an ambitious marketing campaign underlies our belief in the
game. We have focused our attention on the core football fan and
the grassroots of the game.”
Matthew Harrison, Business Development, FLi, commented:
“We’re very pleased to have agreed this deal with
Supermassive Games and to help launch what is an excellent and
exciting new style of football game. It’s exactly the type of
challenge that any hardcore football fan will relish so we look
forward to spreading the word about Big Match Striker at clubs all
over the country.”
Big Match Striker, due for its official launch in September, is
aimed at football fans of all ages, testing their tactical and
strategic skills and their football knowledge. Players enter
competitive leagues, answering both historical and
constantly-updated questions on the 92 clubs.
***ENDS***
For more information on Supermassive Games and Big Match
Striker, interview requests and assets please contact Boom!
justin@boomdialogue.com or
david@boomdialogue.com
+44 (0) 207 520 0887
www.boomdialogue.com
About Big Match Striker
Big Match Striker is a free-to-play downloadable PC football
game where fans battle head to head in the ultimate championship of
tactics and trivia. Players succeed in the game by answering a
selection of both constantly updated and historic football
questions from English football’s top four tiers, keeping the
game concurrent with the real-life action. Players can win
possession and tackle the opposition by responding quicker to
questions, requiring a good level of football knowledge and quick
thinking.
The reward for winning matches is gaining fans and in-game
currency. This can be strategically used to buy players, upgrade
stadiums and even install hot dog vans to attract more fans and
progress to the league’s higher echelons.
Players will need to combine all the skills of chairman,
manager, player and fan as the title blends the best in football
management strategy and animated trivia games. The exciting new
title is highly competitive and will challenge all levels of
football fans’ knowledge and strategic skills as they battle
in one-on-one leagues to meet the game’s main objectives - to
win titles and silverware, and attract more fans to their club.
Player interaction is a key aspect of the game experience. The
game’s main entry point and community will be hosted online
and will contain regular news and features from the game’s
editorial team, weekly podcasts with lively chat and debate on the
game’s latest talking points and discussion forums for
players to interact with each other. The initial game download and
subsequent updates will be available from the game website,
www.bigmatchonline.com
About Supermassive Games
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Headquartered in Guildford, England, Supermassive Games
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Limited is a leading independent UK developer of interactive
entertainment. Established in 2008 by highly-respected industry
veterans, the business now employs more than 85 talented
individuals developing cutting edge video games. More information
about Supermassive Games Limited can be found on the
company’s website,
www.supermassivegames.com
About The Football League
FL Interactive is the digital wing of The Football League and
manages and develops the internet and mobile rights of The Football
League and 82 participating clubs (including 8 from the Premier
League, 65 from The Football League and 9 Non-League clubs).
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