Madrid, April 21, 2006. Virgin PLAY announced today that it will publish the videogame Final Armada in all European territories; the title will be released for PlayStation® 2 and PlayStation® Portable videogame systems. The Spanish videogame company has concluded an agreement with the development Studio I-Imagine Interactive to publish the game in Q3 2006.

I-Imagine Interactive is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa; was established in 1999 and are licensed developers for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Game Cube, Gameboy Advance, and PSP.

“Final Armada is the first PS2 and PSP game to be developed in South Africa, and we are excited to be working with Virgin PLAY to release it throughout Europe" said Dan Wagner, Managing Director and founder of I-Imagine Interactive. “This is the start of what we hope to be a continuous collaboration with the first distribution and publishing company of video games in Spain.” 

Virgin PLAY’s Managing Director, Paco Encinas, added: “It’s another important step in the Virgin PLAY's international strategy and growth plans of the company, to publish games developed by top studios. We work with the best to satisfy our public.”

Final Armada is a futuristic vehicular combat game that combines high-paced, frantic multi-vehicle combat with skilled strategy and story based missions; to deliver a power packed sci-fi combat adventure. You will take control of the Aggressor, a powerful and sophisticated transforming combat vehicle of mass destruction.

About Virgin PLAY:

Virgin Interactive's Spanish office opened its doors in 1995, under the control of Mariele Isidoro and Paco Encinas. In 1996 it distributed, amongst other titles, Resident Evil 1 for PSX, which sold 112.000 units, and Command and Conquer for PC, which achieved sales of 69.000 copies. In 1997, it repeated its success with Command & Conquer Red Alert, of which it shipped 82.000 units, and Resident Evil 2, selling 138.000 copies. VIE Ltd. fused with Interplay Europe in February 1999. The resulting company was later acquired by Titus in December, 1999. In 2001, Virgin Interactive Spain obtained distribution rights to products from Midway, 3DO, LSP and Midas. In May 2002 Tim Chaney and Paco led the purchase of the Spanish company and changed its name to Virgin PLAY.

Some recent successes of the company have been Baldur's Gate, Spy Hunter, Top Gun, Shadow Hearts, Heroes of Might & Magic IV, Mortal Kombat, Manhunt, Max Payne 2, Obscure, etc. Virgin PLAY is, at present, the only Spanish distributor of video game and some of its affiliated companies are; Midway, MC2, Ignition (SNK), Koei, Empire, Novalogic, Avalon, Hip Interactive, etc www.virginplay.es