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THQ Announces Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc. for Nintendo GameCube
March 5, 2002--THQ Inc. (Nasdaq: THQI) today announced it will publish "Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc." (working title) for Nintendo GameCube. Scheduled for fall 2002 release, the game will be based on the Academy Award-nominated animated film, Disney/Pixar's "Monsters, Inc." "Disney and Pixar have a legacy of creating long-standing animated motion picture classics," said Germaine Gioia, vice president, licensing, THQ. "THQ is pleased to extend our interactive videogame collaboration with Disney by bringing ' Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc.' to GameCube."
The monsters of Monstropolis learn the power of laughter in "Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc." for GameCube. Gameplay features a unique dodge ball-style match set in special stadium arenas where your favorite monsters launch an artillery of "laugh balls" at each other. In the game, Monsters learn how to bring laughter to the children they once scared with the ultimate goal of being the first monster to fill their individual laugh canister. The game also features a multi-player mode allowing up to four-player dodge ball action. About Pixar Animation Studios Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR) combines creative and technical artistry to create original stories in the medium of computer animation. In partnership with Disney, Pixar has created four of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Academy Award -winning "Toy Story" (1995); "A Bug's Life" (1998); Golden Globe-winner "Toy Story 2" (1999); and "Monsters, Inc." (2001). Pixar's four films have earned more than $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office to date. The Northern California studio's next film, "Finding Nemo," will be released in summer 2003. About Disney Disney Interactive, part of the Disney Consumer Products division of The Walt Disney Company, develops, markets and globally distributes a wide variety of interactive entertainment, educational and sports CD-ROMs and video games. For more information on Disney Interactive's products, visit www.disneyinteractive.com. About THQ THQ Inc. develops and publishes interactive entertainment software worldwide for a variety of hardware platforms including PC CD-ROM, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. The THQ Web site is located at www.thq.com. SOURCE Businesswire [] 
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