KONAMI Konami Digital Entertainment

NEWS

The Major Leagues unveiled in POWER PROS 2010
Officially licensed POWER PROS for mobile phones
goes to North America!

May 18, 2010

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

KONAMI has released the mobile phone app “POWER PROS” in the North American market under official licensing agreements with Major League Baseball Advanced Media*1 and the Major League Baseball Players Association*2 (hereafter: MLBAM/MLBPA) . The app will be distributed from May 6th for iPhone/iPod touch while apps for other platforms will follow.

Title Platform
MLB® POWER PROS TOUCH 2010iPhone/iPod touch
MLB® POWER PROS  2010 Plan to distribute for mobile phones


This exciting new app includes the 30 MLB teams, and replicates team logos and uniforms under officially licensed rights from MLBAM. Also, with the rights attained through our license with the MLBPA, most active Major League player names and individual attributes are included. The title features many gameplay possibilities, including a "Seasons" mode to play a full schedule of games from Opening Day to the World Series and a "Custom" mode to create and play new teams.

KONAMI distributes the “POWER PROS” series to the North American Market to expand the series worldwide and deliver its exciting baseball-action content to people everywhere.

MLB® POWER PROS TOUCH 2010
Title Screenshot for iPhone/iPod touch


*1 Established in June 2000 following a unanimous vote by the 30 Major League Baseball club owners to centralize all of Baseball’s Internet operations, MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM) is the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball. MLBAM manages the official league site, www.MLB.com,and each of the 30 individual Club sites to create the most comprehensive Major League Baseball resource on the Internet. MLB.com offers fans the most complete baseball information and interactivity on the web, including up-to-date statistics, game previews and summaries, extensive historical information, online ticket sales, baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles, fantasy games, live full-game video webcasts and on-demand highlights, live and archived audio broadcasts of every game, Gameday pitch-by-pitch application, around-the-clock hosted and specialty video programming and complete blogging capabilities. MLB.com offers more live events on the Internet than any other website in the world.
*2 The Major League Baseball Players Association (www.MLBPLAYERS.com ) is the collective bargaining representative for all professional baseball players of the thirty Major League Baseball teams and serves as the exclusive group licensing agent for commercial and licensing activities involving active Major League baseball players. On behalf of its members, it operates the Players Choice licensing program and the Players Choice Awards, which benefit the needy through the Major League Baseball Players Trust, a charitable foundation established and run entirely by Major League baseball players. Please visit the Players Trust channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/MLBPlayersTrust

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