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Virtual World Entropia Universe Partners With NVIDIA to Provide Enhanced Visuals for Game Play
| Source: Entropia Universe
GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN--(Marketwire - August 19, 2008) - Entropia Universe
(www.entropiauniverse.com), the award-winning 3D online virtual universe
for interactive entertainment, social networking, and e-commerce, today
announced that Entropia Universe will be part of NVIDIA's "The Way It's
Meant to Be Played" program, which ensures consumers of the highest quality
gaming experience when running NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics hardware
inside their PC.
As a result of joining the "The Way It's Meant to Be Played" program,
NVIDIA will work closely with Mindark, developer of Entropia Universe, to
enhance the visual effects within the game. By taking advantage of the
latest technologies offered by GeForce GPUs, and the implementation of the
Crytek® engine to the Entropia Universe platform set to launch later this
summer, gamers will experience an immersive, exciting online experience.
"We are thrilled to be working with NVIDIA and look forward to a prosperous
future together," said David Simmonds, Business Development Director of
Mindark, developer of Entropia Universe. "The expertise that the NVIDIA
team has to offer is so valuable to us as we strive to continually provide
the best gaming experience for our players."
In addition, NVIDIA is offering Mindark thirty GeForce 9800 GT GPU-based
graphic cards, which will be put into select Entropia Universe loots for
players to scavenge during their online exploits.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the
inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates
breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers,
game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and
consumer market with its GeForce graphics products, the professional design
and visualization market with its Quadro® graphics products, and the
high-performance computing market with its Tesla™ computing solutions
products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices
throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit
www.nvidia.com.
About Entropia Universe
Entropia Universe was launched in January 2003 and has grown to over
720,000 registered accounts from over 200 countries. Its business model is
entirely unique as the client software is free to download from the
internet and there are no monthly subscription fees. As the only virtual
universe with a real cash economy whose currency, the PED, has a fixed
exchange rate of 10:1 with the US Dollar, Entropia Universe provides a
means for new players to immediately start exploring and earning real cash
without having to deposit money. A key feature is that the funds acquired
in Entropia Universe can easily be withdrawn into real-life cash.
Entropia Universe is a registered trademark of Mindark PE AB. Mindark
supports and monitors the services and maintenance of the Entropia Universe
platform. The real cash economy business model has been very successful and
Mindark PE AB has been profitable since 2004. The 2007 turnover of Entropia
Universe was over 400,000,000 US Dollars.
For more information, please visit www.entropiauniverse.com. For more
information about Entropia Universe's developer, Mindark PE AB, please
visit www.mindark.com.