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SOURCE: Big Entertainment, Inc.
Big Entertainment's bigE.com Website Today Launches Video Gaming Store Featuring New Sega Dreamcast(TM) System and Games
Sega Dreamcast Products to Attract Video Gaming Consumers
BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Entertainment (Nasdaq: BIGE - news) announced today that its entertainment e-commerce web site, bigE.com, today launched its comprehensive video-gaming store to correspond with the release of the Sega Dreamcast system, shipping today nationally for the first time. The new store, found at bige.com, will feature products for a wide range of gaming formats, including the highly anticipated Sega Dreamcast system.
Online, all 18 Dreamcast games are now featured on the bigE.com site, along with special promotions. In addition, useful game reviews are available on the site to assist customers with their selection.
According to Mitchell Rubenstein, Chief Executive Officer of Big Entertainment, the video gaming store introduces bigE to a growing segment of consumers -- quality- and cost-savvy gamers. ``We at bigE are eager to establish ourselves as a trusted source for video gaming merchandise and reviews.' In an effort to better achieve this status, the video gaming store will also be accessible from Big Entertainment's popular Hollywood.com website, found at hollywood.com .
Sega's Dreamcast console is considered the industry's most impressive gaming system to date. Among its features are sharp 3D graphics, built-in 56kbps modem for Internet gaming, and 64-voice CD-quality audio.
Games, systems, and accessories for additional gaming formats are also available on the bigE site. Consumers can shop online for merchandise for the Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation, and Nintendo Gameboy -- the format which features the new Pokemon ``Yellow Pikachu' Special Edition Game, soon to be available at the bigE gaming store. New formats are planned to be added to the gaming store as they are introduced.
The bige.com website is one of the largest online studio stores, offering a wide variety of entertainment merchandise.
About Big Entertainment
Big Entertainment, Inc. was founded by Mitchell Rubenstein and Laurie S. Silvers, who earlier founded the Sci-Fi Channel(TM). Big Entertainment owns Hollywood.com, bigE.com, Baseline (pkbaseline.com), and Showtimes.com, Inc. aka CinemaSource, a combination of movie-related Internet businesses that are being combined under the ``Hollywood.com' brand. Hollywood.com (www.hollywood.com) is a premier movie website; bigE.com (www.bige.com) is a leading online movie studio store; Baseline (pkbaseline.com) is one of the largest online databases of movie information; and Showtimes.com, Inc. aka CinemaSource is the nation's largest provider of movie showtimes to the Internet. Big Entertainment also owns entertainment properties created for it by best-selling authors and media celebrities, including Leonard Nimoy and Mickey Spillane.
CBS Corporation and BigE recently announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for CBS to receive a 30% ownership interest (with warrants to purchase an additional 5% ownership position) in Big Entertainment in exchange for $105 million of promotion, advertising, content and other consideration.
The matters discussed herein that are forward-looking statements are based on current management expectations that involve risks and uncertainties that may result in such expectations not being realized. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risks described in Big Entertainment's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sega Dreamcast is a trademark of Sega of America.
SOURCE: Big Entertainment, Inc.
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ooks great. Perfect timing. Selling Pokeman game.
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