August 15, 2006

BradyGames Launches Connected Strategy Guides

2K’s Prey and THQ’s Saints Row First Releases

BradyGames, the go-to source for video game strategy, hints and secret codes for the top-selling video games, announced the launch of BradyGames’ Connected Strategy Guides. The new online strategy will complement BradyGames’ printed guides by combining text, audio and video content into an immersive, entertaining and informative resource for gamers and will be available 24/7/365 at www.bradygames.com at no additional cost to the gamer.

The first two titles in the BradyGames’ Connected Strategy Guide line will be 2K’s Prey and THQ Inc.’s Saints Row (www.saintsrow.com). Prey will include over half a dozen video strategy guides highlighting boss fights, key battles and solving some of those difficult puzzles as well as featuring several exclusive wallpapers for download. Saints Row will include video strategies for the tough missions and downloadable wallpapers.

“The Connected Strategy Guides will enhance and complement BradyGames’ print and electronic guides and bring strategy to gamers in a new, more powerful way,” said David Waybright, vice president and publisher, BradyGames. “We’re gamers and we know what gamers want! The portability and accessibility of the content allow gamers to view it on multiple platforms including handheld and console gaming systems, and media devices such as the iPod.”

BradyGames’ Connected Strategy Guides enhance the strategy guides by including video, audio or additional strategy features online. These connected, online strategy features will focus on alternative methods of getting through the toughest areas, interviewing developers and designers about design techniques, artistic direction, trouble areas and gameplay features and provide exclusive wallpapers and downloads not featured in a strategy guide. Understanding the dynamic universe of multiplayer gaming, BradyGames’ will arm online community members with strategies and tactics as they progress and their gameplay experience evolves.

“BradyGames is unique in its ability to recognize the areas that are of the toughest or coolest to focus on” continues Waybright. “Talking to a level designer about how they developed some of the tough areas of a game, and linking this to the strategy guide will make the overall experience more informative and entertaining. The addition of video offers a visual advantage to our readers for timing combos perfectly, finding those secret snipe spots on multiplayer maps or getting through those trouble spots that you just need to see in action in order to understand.”

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