According to Scholastic News, "Video games ruled the toy-testing day at Scholastic! Taking top honors by far was TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue."

TY the Tasmanian Tiger^TM 2: Bush Rescue^TM won some awards this weekend at the annual Australian Game Developers Conference held in Melbourne, Australia.

TY the Tasmanian Tiger^TM was honored by being named among the top ten scoring games in FamilyFun.com`s 2004 Video Game of the Year program.

TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue has hit stores in North America, Europe and Australia on PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and Gameboy Advance. It features open ended gameplay, huge worlds, vehicles, mechs and lots of boomerang action as well as multi-player cart racing!

Alias has announced that Australia`s largest game developer Krome Studios, is moving its entire game development pipeline to Maya® after extensive research of the industry`s top game development tools. Krome Studios has chosen Maya®, an Academy Award winning software, as a complete pipeline solution combining world-class support, learning tools and custom training.

Electronic Arts® (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world's leading interactive entertainment software company today announced that TY the Tasmanian Tiger^TM 2: Bush Rescue^TM has begun to ship to retail outlets via a co-publishing partnership with KROME Studios under the EA GAMES brand. The title is available for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, the Nintendo GameCube^TM and the Nintendo Game Boy® Advance.