20 April 2004: In2Games, which will launch the revolutionary Gametrak® 3D control system for PS2 in Q3 this year, today announces a change of name for the launch title, previously codenamed Black Wind. Henceforth, the first-person beat-em-up game will be known as Gametrak®: Dark Wind.
The name change was prompted by a statement made by a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda, which spoke of a "Black Wind of death" against the west.
In order to avoid potentially negative publicity for the product, its distributors and retailers, In2Games has taken the decision to change the name at this early stage.
About In2Games
In2Games is dedicated to creating new and exciting gaming experiences through the creative combination of hardware and software. The company was started in 2000 by Elliott Myers, formerly Development Manager at Leda Media Products, creators of the Gamester brand, the largest third-party peripherals manufacturer in Europe. The team has a long history in innovative games hardware design and manufacture, including the creation, for Konami, of the BeatMania DJ controller and their own dance mat. In2Games now combines the team's expertise in hardware design and manufacture with leading-edge software development, resulting in a new range of console products offering gamers brand-new experiences.
About Gametrak
Gametrak® is a revolutionary new controller for PS2 which gives users precise and intuitive control in 3D space - unlike camera technologies, Gametrak® allows movement forwards and backwards as well as up, down, left and right, and does all this without any time delay or processor overhead. Instead of a complex and intimidating series of buttons and joysticks; fighting games will enable users to physically punch opponents using boxing gloves; sports games will allow users to pick up and play using real golf clubs or tennis rackets; adventure games will become totally immersive as users are able to manipulate 'virtual' onscreen objects with their hands. Gametrak's unique design means that it can be offered to consumers at a genuinely mass-market price, bundled with specially developed games, the first of which will be Dark Wind, a first-person perspective fighting game.
About Dark Wind
Dark Wind is the first game to be developed from scratch to use Gametrak® technology. Being developed by leading UK studio Atomic Planet Entertainment, Black Wind is the first totally immersive fighting game - you punch, you slap, you block, you maim -intuitively, with no confusing buttons or inaccurate joysticks - in full 3D. Dark Wind will be launched on PS2, bundled with a Gametrak® controller, in 2004.