Tel-Aviv, Israel -  January 19th  2010 – Corbomite Games announced today about their new formed relationships with several Israeli rock bands and record labels in joint efforts to produce and sell songs through the “Rock Band Network” which is included as part of the series of “Rock Band” games by Harmonix and MTV.  Corbomite Games have opened up LehakatRock.com, a portal for their songs portfolio.
Songs expected to be available later this year when the Rock Band Network opens up.
 
Corbomite games’s first two released songs will be “Push Me” and “All Eyes On Me” by “The Carsitters” an Israeli rock band, one of several Israeli bands whose songs will be adapted into Rock Band.
More songs from bands like Eatliz and Rockfour will be made through a partnership with “Anova Music”, an Israeli Record Label. Other Israeli bands and artists to be included are Efrat Darky, a Tel Aviv based singer/songwriter and actress, and FeelAboutT, The first Israeli band to have ever take part in the prestigious “17th Los Angeles Music Awards” and to have won the title “Best Rock Band Of The Year”.

 
“Making songs for Rock Band is so much fun,” said Oded Sharon, CEO of Corbomite Games “especially since I’m a musician myself and an avid Rock Band player. Combining our skills and experience in creating and designed games and our musical talents gives us the best approach to creating the best arrangements adapting existing songs into Rock Band gameplay.”
 
“We truly believe in new and creative distribution forms,” Said members of The Carsitters, “and it is why this new posibility for international promotion under such a popular brand is so exciting.”
 
“This could be a real breakthrough for all artists” said Udi Niv from Anova Music “as a new platform of exploring and selling music will soon be available for all.”
 
Lehakat Rock, which literally means Rock Band in Hebrew will become the leading portal for Israeli Rock Bands and artists to announce and promote their bands and songs to the Rock Band gamer community and will include announcements and details about the bands and songs that are planned to be sold through the Rock Band Network.
For more information on Lehakat Rock please visit http://LehakatRock.com
 
About The Carsitters,
The Carsitters are an energetic pop-rock band. The group’s material is based on various artistic and musical influences, forming into hot and fresh pieces, leaving the clichés and saccharine out of the equation.
The ‘Sitters new album “No Time” (Released 26.8.09 in the Major Israeli label “Helicon”), is a quality rhythmic pop album, filled with many musical layers along with sincere, everyday’s reality lyrics, taken from moments in life. 
The band accumulated its mileage regarding live performances, both locally and internationally, by touring in Europe and Israel, they had gained local success and also professional contacts .
http://www.thecarsitters.com/

About Anova Music,
The Israeli music production company Anova Productions Ltd. was established in 2006 with the goal of representing and promoting top Israeli alternative/independent rock and folk music talent in the local and international music market.
Anova’s primary aim is to advance Israeli popular musical art by departing from mainstream commercially-oriented management/record company strategies and focusing on artistic development. Anova believes that through support of the artistic process, its artists will continue to create and record new material of the highest caliber.

About FeelAbouT
FeelAbouT (Feel About) is a powerful, energetic and exciting Rock band who gets the crowd pumped up and captured by its unique and powerful vocals, tightness production and sound.
http://feelabout.com/

 
About Corbomite Games,
Founded in 2006, Corbomite Games is a game development studio that began by creating episodic adventure games. Corbomite employs an ace team of industry veterans, including Israeli comics creator and mini-celebrity Uri Fink. A team of talented writers, artists, musicians, and software engineers with years of experience in computer and role playing games, round out the team.
Corbomite Games currently has two episodic comedy adventure game series in production, “Pizza Morgana” and “Zbang”, an Action-adventure game called “Heavenly Hell” and now adding this third series “Knights in Shining Armor” into its games portfolio. The studio is led by Oded Sharon, an experienced game maker and musician with a passion for adventure games, Music based games, RPGs and MMOs. For more information, on Corbomite Games, please visit: http://corbomitegames.com
Contact information:
 

Corbomite Games
press@corbomitegames.com

A new episodic adventure game that will take you on the path of king hood.

Tel-Aviv, Israel - December 15Th 2009 – Fluff Entertainment and Corbomite Games today announce the development of a new point and click adventure game series “Knights in Shining Armor: our king’s tale“. Chapter one is expected to be available in Winter 2010 for PC.

Set in a dark medieval fantasy post war world, the story follows a young Prince Rupert on his way to king hood, through a foreign and hostile land. Arriving by ship on this new continent, Rupert must traverse it alone and reach its capital in order to prove his worth and take his princess. Along the way he encounters strange places and people alike. 

“We are very excited to be taking part in this new project” said Oded Sharon, CEO of Corbomite Games “this gives us an opportunity to produce more episodic adventure content with different kinds of storytelling and art styles from our ongoing comic series Pizza Morgana, Zbang, or Heavenly Hell”.

Knights in Shining Armor: our king’s tale features high resolution 3d rendered backdrops and classic-style point and click game mechanics. The game lets you explore a new medieval continent, meet its people and guide Rupert trough his journey.

For more information on Knights in Shining Armor: our king’s tale, please visit:
http://www.kisaworld.com

 
About Fluff Entertainment,
Fluff Entertainment is a new independent game development studio that aims to produce adventure games.
Fluff Entertainment is currently working on its first title “KISA: our king’s tale” a classic-style adventure, set in a dark fantasy world.

 
About Corbomite Games,
Founded in 2006, Corbomite Games is a game development studio focusing on episodic adventure games. Corbomite employs an ace team of industry veterans, including Israeli comics creator and mini-celebrity Uri Fink. A team of talented writers, artists and software engineers with years of experience in computer and role playing games, round out the team.
Corbomite Games currently has two episodic comedy adventure game series in production, “Pizza Morgana” and “Zbang”, an Action-adventure game called “Heavenly Hell” and now adding this third series “Knights in Shining Armor” into its games portfolio. The studio is led by Oded Sharon, an experienced game maker with a passion for adventure games, Music based games, RPGs and MMOs.
 
For more information, on Corbomite Games, please visit:
http://corbomitegames.com

Contact information:
For Inquires about KISA World
contact@kisaworld.com

 
Corbomite Games
press@corbomitegames.com
 

When we heard that Harmonix will release Rock Band Network, our enthusiastic team jumped at the opportunity to get involved in one of our all-time favorite games.  We started making tracks of our own of music from our games, and have been making a few tracks for Israeli bands and independent artists using the Rock Band creation tools that Harmonix has released.

We are looking to make many more songs in the near future, before the Rock Band Network store opens.

If you represent a record-label, or you’re an independent artist, we are here for you; willing to put all our knowledge, skill and resources to get your music out for the Rock Band crowd, in the best possible way.

Please contact us, for your first step into the Rock Band community.

More details at:

http://corporate.corbomitegames.com/rock-band

Get Teleported Away Into a Magical Dimension at Pizza-morgana.com

TEL-AVIV, Israel - August 16th, 2009 - Get ready for order-in comedy with Pizza Morgana, a new episodic adventure game series from Corbomite Games, debuting today at: http://pizza-morgana.com. Monsters and Manipulations in The Magical Forest, the first of five digitally distributed games, is now available for $8.95. The full season price is $34.95 and additional episodes will be delivered over the next several months.

Pizza Morgana is a new comedy that will make you drop your toppings off. It lets you play the charming tale of a young girl who is accidentally teleported into a magical dimension filled with monsters, vampires, faeries, and daemons, which all just happen to be employed as pizza delivery guys.

“With episodic gaming, the adventure game genre has been resurrected from the dead,” said Oded Sharon, CEO of Corbomite Games. “We’re going to deliver it, one slice at a time, with our cast of undead, mystical, and simply monstrous cast of characters. The unique and creative vision of the original Uri Fink comic book takes new form in our game, full of laughter, satire, and sarcasm at every turn. Fans of the Pizza Morgana series, adventure gamers, and girls looking for a strong female character to identify with, will find the outrageous situations and interactions incredibly fun.”

Pizza Morgana: Episode One - Monsters and Manipulations in The Magical Forest allows you to play through the events that lead to Jackie’s teleportation into the world of TerraMagia and thereafter. This episode introduces Abbie Positive, the pizza delivery vampire that acts as Jackie’s guide through the magical world, and a Watcher, who is a robotic hybrid cop that enforces TerraMagian laws. Enjoy multi-linear game play with hilarious consequences by playing parts of the game as Jackie or as Abbie Positive, the vampire.

Monsters and Manipulations in The Magical Forest also features voice acting by famous Hollywood actors, Mia Alon as Jackie, Claudia Christian as Abbie Positive, and Robin Atkin Downes as the Watcher. Among their many onscreen and in-game appearances, both Claudia Christian and Robin Atkin Downes are Babylon 5 alumni, and veteran voice recording actors in the game industry.

To Buy Pizza Morgana or download the free demo, please visit:

http://pizza-morgana.com

About Pizza Morgana

Based on the popular comic series of the same name, Pizza Morgana is a 2½ D point and click episodic adventure game that lets you play the charming tale of a young girl who is accidentally teleported into a magical dimension filled with monsters, vampires, faeries, and daemons, which all just happen to be employed as pizza delivery guys. And they all work for an arch wizard (and chef), named Morgan! Corbomite Games is delivering the episodic adventure series directly to consumers through digital distribution from the game website at: http://pizza-morgana.com

About Corbomite Games

Founded in 2006, Corbomite Games is a game development studio focused on episodic adventure games aimed at the casual game and girl games markets. Corbomite employs an ace team of industry veterans, including comics creator and mini-celebrity, Uri Fink. A group of talented writers, artists and software engineers with years of experience in computer and role-playing games, round out the team.

Corbomite Games currently has two episodic comedy adventure game series in production, Zbang, and Pizza Morgana. The studio is led by Oded Sharon, an experienced game maker with a passion for adventure games and MMOs. For more information, please visit:

http://corbomitegames.com

Contact information:

Corbomite Games

press@corbomitegames.com

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Get ready for some Pizza Morgana news and goodies, this week!

Oded

Corbomite Games has been chosen as one of the finalists in the Seedcamp Tel-aviv event that’s taking place  on 29th January 2009, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. 

We’re very excited to be part of this event and hope to have a great time netwokring and synergizing with other Israeli start-ups.

Thanks for choosing us!

Everyone here at Corbomite Games (And Jackie too) want to wish you Happy Holidays!

It’s the First Israeli Games Unconference, and I will be showing the audience some sneak peeks of the first episode of Pizza Morgana there.

The unconference is open to the public, so if you want to get to see bits of the game for yourself, I’ll be happy to personally see you there at the event.

Oded