Midway Tackles Mature-Themed Football With BLITZ: The League

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<span style=\'font-size:27pt;line-height:100%\'>Midway Tackles Mature-Themed Football With BLITZ®: The League™</span>


New Football Game to Feature Level of Intensity Not Found in Licensed Sports Products

CHICAGO – February 22, 2005 – Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading interactive entertainment software publisher and developer, announced today the development of Blitz: The League, a new, unlicensed videogame exposing the harsh realism and troubling, behind-the-scenes stories of a fictional professional football league. Blitz: The League has been in development at Midway\'s Chicago studio for the past year in collaboration with a writer from ESPN\'s controversial \"Playmakers\" TV series. Blitz: The League goes behind the glitz and glamour of the game through a revolutionary campaign mode that explores the on-field violence, off-field fallout and front-office politics of professional football. Blitz: The League is scheduled for release Winter 2005 on multiple videogame console platforms.

\"Midway\'s Chicago studio has laid the foundation over the past year for what is the ultimate alternative to watered down NFL sanctioned football games,\" said Steve Allison, chief marketing officer, Midway. \"No longer bound to the NFL license, there will be no league restrictions on content and gamers will finally experience what makes playing a football videogame really fun: off-field controversies, dirty hits, excessive celebrations and much more. Blitz: The League buyers will be assured of one thing - our game will include all the gameplay and fun the NFL won\'t allow.\"

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