Fantasy Flight Games licenses Tekken 6 characters for Universal Fighting System TCG
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) announced today that it has reached an agreement with Namco Bandai, Inc., to feature the characters from
Tekken 6
for FFG's
Universal Fighting System
(
UFS
) trading card game.
"
Tekken
is the biggest, best selling fighting game in the world, and it makes perfect sense to include it in
UFS
," said Steve Horvath, VP of Marketing and Communications for Fantasy Flight Games and co-creator of
UFS
. "We are honored that Namco Bandai has allowed us to use some of the most well-known characters in videogames, and we know that
UFS
players will be very excited about it as well!"
"In addition,
UFS
Set 13 will be released months before the videogame," Horvath added. "
UFS
will be many players' first chance to see the new characters in
Tekken 6
!"
Tekken 6
will be released on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in Autumn 2009, and will be included in
UFS
Set 13 in June 2009.
The
Universal Fighting System
TCG features characters from fighting videogames battling each other for supremacy. Since 2005,
UFS
has released 11 different sets featuring characters from famous videogame licenses including
Street Fighter
,
Soul Calibur IV
,
DarkStalkers
,
The King of Fighters
, and
Samurai Shodown
.
About Fantasy Flight Games:
Roseville, Minnesota’s Fantasy Flight Games is a publisher of board, card, and role-playing games. Since it was founded by Christian T. Petersen in 1995, Fantasy Flight has published hundreds of successful titles, including
Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game
, the
Lord of the Rings
series of board games; board and card games based on H.P. Lovecraft’s
Cthulhu
mythos and George R. R. Martin’s
A Game of Thrones
, and many original board games such as
Twilight Imperium
,
Runebound
, and
Descent: Journeys in the Dark
.
For more information, visit the Fantasy Flight Games website at www.fantasyflightgames.com.
For further information:
Fantasy Flight Games
Jeremy Stomberg
[email protected]
Phone: (651) 639 1905