Broadband Service, Games on Tap from Cartoon
By Maressa Brown -- Multichannel News, 4/25/2006 12:50:00 PM
Cartoon Network and VIZ Media LLC joined forces to launch Toonami Jetstream, a broadband service that provides on-demand, full-length streaming episodes of anime and action series, including Naruto and Samurai Jack.
Both companies will manage and administer acquisitions and programming for the site, set to launch July 17.
Users will have access to episodes from series including Hiraku No Go, MAR and The Prince of Tennis, all currently not available on broadcast or basic cable in the United States.
Other titles currently scheduled to be released on Toonami Jetstream include such hits as Cartoon’s original Toonami production, IGPX, and VIZ’s Megaman NT Warrior series and all-new Zoids Genesis. Additional series will be announced in subsequent months.
Additionally, Cartoon teamed up with entertainment-software groups Midway Games Inc., The Game Factory, Crave Entertainment Inc. and D3 Publisher of America Inc. to launch a lineup of new interactive games. The titles, planned for releases over the next two years, are based on some of the network’s original programming.
Midway -- which published the network’s title “Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures” in November -- expects to release a new game based on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy for console and hand-held game platforms this fall. The game is a fighting-adventure game that can be played cooperatively, in single-player mode or in multiplayer combat mode. Billy and Mandy is currently in its fifth season.
Midway will also release a game version of Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, set for 2007.
Crave will publish Nintendo of America Inc. “Gameboy Advance” games based on original series Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and Camp Lazlo for the fall.
And D3PA will produce a new game for Nintendo’s “DS” platform for Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.
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