About Frontier
Frontier employs over 100 people, based in Cambridge, UK and is one of the games industry's leading independent developers, having built upon the innovative creations of founder David Braben, co-author of the seminal 'Elite'. Frontier works with a number of top publishers and is also currently developing for PlayStation® 2, PSP, Xbox®, PC, and Java mobile phone handsets as well as the next generation of games consoles.
Frontier has a proven reputation for original game design and commercial success. It received three BAFTA nominations and several awards for its recent console games "Dog's Life" and "Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo", and scored a Christmas 2004 No.1 position in the USA with its RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3 PC game, which has also been the recipient of various awards and a prestigious Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences
nomination and is still high in the US PC charts 18 months after its release. Frontier holds the publishing rights for Aardman Animations' 'Wallace and Gromit' characters on mobile phones. RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Soaked!", the first expansion pack for RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3, was released in June 2005 and went on to win 'Expansion Pack of the Year' award from PC Gamer magazine in the US, with a second expansion pack "RollerCoaster
Tycoon 3: Wild!" released in November 2005. Frontier's game of the Oscar® winning 'Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-rabbit' was published by Konami in September 2005. More information on Frontier can be found at www.frontier.co.uk.
A propos d’Infogrames Entertainment et ATARI
Infogrames Entertainment, (« IESA ») est la société mère du Groupe Atari, cotée à la Bourse de Paris Euronext (code ISIN : FR-0000052573) et détient 2 filiales principales : Atari Europe, filiale non cotée, et Atari, Inc., filiale américaine elle-même cotée sur le Nasdaq (ticker : ATAR). Le Groupe Atari est une major internationale qui produit, édite et distribue dans plus de 60 pays dans le monde, des logiciels de loisirs
interactifs couvrant l’ensemble des segments du marché pour toutes les plates-formes de jeux existantes (Microsoft, Nintendo et Sony), et les cédéroms PC. Le Groupe Atari dispose d’un catalogue de titres grand public articulé autour de franchises originales (Alone in the Dark, V- Rally, Test Drive, Roller Coaster Tycoon,…) et licences internationales (Dragon Ball Z, Dongeons & Dragons,…).
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