Great Falls Tribune

Pat Douglas of the Great Falls Tribune did a story on Josh and Trevor, the Co-Founders of Add-A-Tudez Entertainment Company and Team KAIZEN. Read about it HERE! The Story covers several things, for instance:

My Evolution’s Shattered Soul Song
You read it right! LA-based rockers My Evolution (here is their website and myspace) did the theme song for our in-development game, Shattered Soul! Very soon (as in, sometime next week), the song will be available as a FREE ringtone, and the purchasable version will be available via online outlets like iTunes sometime within the next 60 days (of course, once it drops we’ll hit up Twitter, FB, MySpace and every known spot to man letting everyone know). If you want to listen to it now, head on over to My Evolution’s MySpace–it is the first song in the que! They even wrote an awesome blog post about us:

In May of this year we met Josh and Trevor Hughes of Team Kaizen video games in Great Falls Montana while touring with Static-X. The crowd was definitely bad-ass and showed ME a tremendous amount of love. After our set Josh and Trevor hung out with us at our merch booth as we signed merch for fans and told us of their new martial arts based game entitled, Shattered Soul. When we left Montana, en route to Minnesota, we noticed that Josh and Trevor had made sure to contact us at all of our available contacts such as myspace, facebook and our website myevolutionmusic.com. They wanted to get us involved with writing a song for their game Shattered Soul and they wasted no time in asking for exactly what they wanted, which is something we respect immensely. Upon our arrival home we continued our email conversations/negotiations, in which Josh asked point blank, “How do we get My Evolution officially involved with our game Shattered Soul?” We spoke about what they wanted in a song for the game and later that week, wrote the game’s official theme song. We got to show them and early version of the song live at our rehearsal room in North Hollywood when they visited LA for the Play Station Blog Meet Up Party and Sony E3 Press Conference. They LOVED it!! Next we handled the legalities, then recorded the song, and the finished product is now here!!! We are very proud of the new song and are honored that Team Kaizen (esp. Josh and Trevor) asked us to be a part of it. The song kicks ass and the game should be nothing less…..MY EVOLUTION and TEAM KAIZEN present SHATTERED SOUL!!

Go have another listen!!!

*uber nerdy geek voice* ROCK ON DUDEZ!

Happy B-Day PlayStation!
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan recently created a website, linked HERE. Has it really been 15 years? LOL I remember my 6th grade year back in 1995–my NES (the only game console I owned up to that point, GameBoy and GameGear notwithstanding) had just bought the farm. I went upstairs in a sad stupor, turned on the TV and was blown away by what I saw. I got my first taste of the infamous U R NOT E (you are not ready—the ‘e’ in the ads was colored red, thus the red ‘e’ was ‘ready’, get it?). I went to Mom and told her of my NES plight and asked her if I could have a Sony PlayStation to take its’ place. I first had to convince her that a PlayStation wasn’t some sort of PlaySkool play set where you play in a small plastic house or kitchen, then I was met with a ‘we’ll see’. The launch day for America (September 9th, 1995) came and went as the painful waiting game for my birthday (September 30th) crept on. Roughly half way between the two dates, Mom told me, “Oh honey, by the way, I got one of those PlayStations for you on launch day–we took it out of the box last night to test it. I can see why you are excited for it, it is pretty impressive!” For getting it launch day, she got (and passed on to me) a black CD titled, “Hear it NOW, Play it Later” which contained music tracks by ‘Up and Coming Sony Bands’ (including Korn before they actually got big–to my knowledge all the other bands flopped) as well as tech demonstrations of the PlayStation’s power (including a fun mode where you control a walking T-Rex). I still have that CD proudly on display in my room! Thanks to PlayStation, I experienced my first true 3D fighting extravaganza (still have my original copy of Battle Arena Toshinden in near-mint condition), my first heartfelt story telling experience in a game (currently have my original copy of Final Fantasy 7 in near-mint, plus a Japanese International Edition in shrink-wrap, a second glitched American copy and a digital copy) and I also got my first E3 experience (both the show and Sony’s Press Conference) out of being a fan of PlayStation. Been an awesome 15 years, can’t wait to see what the next 15 brings!

Happy Holidays!
Well, 2009 is less than 30 days from being purely in the history books–and I can’t wait for 2010! FF13. White Knight Chronicles. Bioshock 2. God of War 3—all in the first 3 months!!!!! WOOHOO! Not to mention, we here at TK will keep toiling away on our tech demo as we inch closer to being able to repitch to Sony. Exciting times indeed! Happy Holidays everyone–may 2010 make 2009 look like a simple proof of concept

Josh, Trevor and the TK Crew