WIZKIDS/NECA, MFV ANNOUNCE TABAPP™ ELITE
Expanded App Capabilities, Featuring DC Comics
Hillside, NJ & Cary, NC - April 4, 2013 - Game creators WizKids/NECA and MFV are expanding the TabApp™ experience with TabApp™ Elite, featuring advanced gameplay, new figures and technology. Partnering with Warner Bros. Consumer Products and DC Entertainment, the first announced physical figures include popular Super Heroes from DC Comics. The free app is set to launch this April for iPad® and select Android™ tablet devices.
In TabApp™ Elite, players will embark on a heroic adventure, taking on the role of their favorite Super Hero—navigating interactive 3D HeroClix maps, battling evil Super-Villains while earning achievements along the way. They can also call upon an ally, with the ability to activate and control more than one figure in game.
New to TabApp™ Elite is a special dock, the "ClixStation," used to transport physical figures to their digital form on the iPad or tablet device. Using the customizable ClixStation and each figure's unique HeroClix Combat Dial, players can easily swap figures and playstyles during gameplay.
At launch, TabApp™ Elite will feature Super Hero figures from DC Comics, including Superman™, Batman™ and Wonder Woman, with a Man of Steel movie collection to follow. Original HeroClix TabApp™ figures will also be fully integrated and compatible with the new app following launch.
TabApp™ Elite Starter Packs, which include the special ClixStation and starter figure, will hit store shelves this April. Players can expand their adventures with TabApp™ Elite Booster Packs, providing two additional figures, one of which can be used directly on the iPad much like HeroClix TabApp™.
Additionally, all TabApp™ Elite figures are 100% compatible with the HeroClix tabletop game and come with character cards and free HeroClix Online redemption codes.
For more information on TabApp™ Elite, visit http://www.tabappelite.com.
For updates, follow TabApp™ Elite on Facebook and Twitter.
BATMAN, SUPERMAN, WONDER WOMAN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics.
(s13)
About WizKids
WizKids/NECA, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NECA, is a New Jersey-based game developer and publisher dedicated to creating games driven by imagination. WizKids first pioneered the Combat Dial system featured in HeroClix, the most successful collectible miniatures game on the market today, with over 400 million miniature game figures sold worldwide. WizKids continues to produce new proprietary game platforms and properties including the award-winning board game Mage Knight, the groundbreaking Dice Building Game engine used in the critically-acclaimed game Quarriors, as well as the innovative Connect with Pieces puzzle building game platform. For additional information, visit http://www.wizkidsgames.com.
About MFV
MFV, majority-owned by NECA, is a game development studio dedicated to merging physical merchandise with interactive technology. MFV combines an extensive catalog of intellectual properties with a veteran team with offices in Los Altos, CA and Cary, NC.
About Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.
About DC Entertainment
DC Entertainment, home to iconic brands DC Comics (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash), Vertigo (Sandman, Fables) and MAD, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating its content across Warner Bros. Entertainment and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment and interactive games. Publishing thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world. In January 2012, DC Entertainment, in collaboration with Warner Bros. and Time Warner divisions, launched We Can Be Heroes - a giving campaign featuring the iconic Justice League super heroes - to raise awareness and funds to fight the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa.
