Infogrames Doing Well

Infogrames issued a press release earlier tonight announcing the closing of its fiscal year. Since it mentions Neverwinter Nights and how well it’s selling, I thought I’d post it:

INFOGRAMES CLOSES OUT FISCAL YEAR WITH RELEASE OF MAJOR TITLES ACROSS ALL PLATFORMS
June 27, 2002

NEW YORK, June 27 — With the June 30th close of its fiscal year approaching, Infogrames, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFGM) has unleashed a slate of titles that includes some of the year’s most hotly anticipated games.

On June 25th, Infogrames shipped 825,000 units of “Stuntman,” the latest action/driving game from the Company’s own Reflections Interactive, the developers behind the hugely successful “Driver”(TM) franchise. Released for Sony’s PlayStation® 2 computer entertainment system, “Stuntman” has been described as “unique, powerful and mesmerizing” by Game Informer, which also declared, “We need more games like this.”

Infogrames also shipped “Splashdown”(TM) for the Xbox(TM) video game system from Microsoft on June 25th, and on June 28th will ship “Men In Black(TM) 2: Alien Escape” for the PlayStation® 2 to correspond with the release of “Men In Black 2”, the motion picture, over the upcoming holiday weekend.

Earlier in the month, Infogrames released “Neverwinter Nights”(TM) for the PC, shipping 500,000 units in North America, with an additional 500,000 shipped to other territories around the world. Since hitting retail store shelves on June 18th, “Neverwinter Nights” has already sold through 125,000 units, has generated reorders for an additional 100,000 units to date, and has been the #1 Best Seller at retailers across the U.S. June also saw the release of Infogrames’ “Test Drive”® for the Xbox; “Stuart Little 2″(TM) for the PC; “Backyard Baseball(TM) 2003” for the PC and Macintosh; and “Nicktoons(TM) Racing” for Nintendo’s Game Boy® Advance (GBA).