"Major League Eating: The Game" Launches Monday, July 14, 2008 for WiiWare

Video game publisher Mastiff announced today that the first videogame based on the exciting world of competitive eating will launch exclusively for WiiWare on July 14th, 2008. Major League Eating: The Game features the world’s greatest gurgitory athletes competing across a variety of foods and venues.

As featured on ESPN during the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, NY, MLE: The Game is built much like a classic fighting simulation, with offensive attacks and defensive counter moves, MLE: The Game requires players to master a smorgasbord of weapons including bites, burps, belches, mustard gas and jalapeño flames while cramming and chewing food at a world-class pace. It’s not for the faint of heart, the slow of reflex, or those with an overly strong aversion to a Technicolor reversal of fortune. (more…)

Tim “Eater X” Janus Strikes Back With a
Win Against Conti in Major League Eating: The Game

After consuming 15.1 slices of watermelon in just six minutes, “Crazy Legs” Conti was named the World Watermelon-Eating Champion on May 20.

In a watermelon-eating contest held at the Nintendo World Store, Conti faced off against his arch-nemesis (and roommate) Tim “Eater X” Janus. Conti, ranked 11th in the world by the International Federation of Competitive Eating, was the underdog going into the competition against Janus, who is ranked 4th in the world, but when the juice had settled and the rinds had been counted, he emerged victorious, having defeated Janus by just one bite.

Janus had his revenge, however, a few minutes later when the two professional eaters competed in a virtual watermelon-eating contest in Major League Eating: The Game, Mastiff’s upcoming WiiWare™ title. Although Conti initially took the lead, with 23 watermelon slices to Janus’ 21, he overestimated his virtual stomach capacity and experienced a “reversal of fortune,” defaulting the win to Janus.

When Mastiff’s Major League Eating: The Game launches, Wii™ owners will have their own chance to test their virtual-eating capabilities. The game features the world’s greatest gurgitory athletes competing across a variety of foods and venues. Built much like a classic fighting game and deeper than a Chicago style deep-dish pizza, MLE: The Game requires players to master a smorgasbord of offensive and defensive weapons including bites, burps, belches, mustard gas and jalapeño flames while cramming and chewing food at a world-class pace. It’s not for the faint of heart, the slow of reflex, or those with an overly strong aversion to a Technicolor reversal of fortune.

Major League Eating: The Game uses the Wii Remote™ to simulate a variety of eating techniques including the cram, toss, and ‘typewriter.’ Burp-offs and Hot Potato challenges during the contests keep the competition intense and eaters on their toes.

Major League Eating: The Game is for one or two players, offers online play and a leader board.

For more information please visit the following sites:
www.mastiff-games.com
www.mlegame.com
www.ifoce.com

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Meet the Eaters - Week Three

In Mastiff’s upcoming WiiWare(tm) release, Major League Eating: The Game players control professional eaters in epic one-on-one gurgitory battles. For three weeks, we’ll be releasing information about the eaters featured in Major League Eating: The Game, including their real-life stats and accomplishments, as well as their unique strengths and vulnerabilities in the game. (more…)

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Meet the Eaters - Week One

San Francisco, Calif. - May 16, 2008 - Note to Editors: In Mastiff’s upcoming WiiWare(tm) release, Major League Eating: The Game players control professional eaters in epic one-on-one gurgitory battles. For the next three weeks, we’ll be releasing information about the eaters featured in Major League Eating: The Game, including their real-life stats and accomplishments, as well as their unique strengths and vulnerabilities in the game.

Eater bios and art can be downloaded from the MMPR ftp site at http://www.mmpr.com/MMPRFTP, inside the Mastiff folder.

Crazy Legs Conti

New York, NY
Age: 36
Weight: 215 pounds

Crazy Legs has established himself as perhaps the most prominent entertainer/eater in Major League Eating. He is not afraid to make a spectacle of himself, once having eaten his way to freedom having been buried under 60 cubic feet of popcorn. In Major League Eating: The Game, Crazy Legs’ specialties include eating Sweet Corn and attacking his opponents with a burp that wreaks havoc on their vomit meters. He’s especially vulnerable to Rotten Food.

Records:
Sweet Corn: 34.75 ears in 12 minutes
Buffet: 5.5 lbs of food in 12 minutes
Lumberjack Breakfast: 3.5 lbs pancakes & bacon in 12 minutes
Green Beans: 2.71 lbs in 6 minutes

Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas

Alexandria, VA
Age: 40
Weight: 105

Like Joan of Arc before her, Sonya Thomas is slender of stature, but mighty in strength. Since her winning debut in June of 2003 at the Molly Pitcher Nathan’s qualifier in New Jersey, Sonya’s rise in the sport has been nothing less than meteoric. Other eaters watch Sonya, dumfounded, seemingly waiting for her to assume her rightful position of absolute and unchallenged dominance. In Major League Eating: The Game, Sonya shines when eating Meatballs, and terrorizes her enemies with Invincible. She’s at her weakest, however, when confronted with Mustard Gas.

Records:
Oysters: 46 Dozen in 10 minutes
Hard Boiled Eggs: 65 in 6 minutes, 40 seconds
Cheesecake: 11 lbs in 9 minutes
Meatballs: 10 lbs, 3 oz. In 12 minutes

Tim “Eater X” Janus

New York, NY
Age: 31
Weight: 165

Forced to wear a mask to conceal his inner torment, Eater X is currently the number four-ranked eater in the world. A professional stock trader by day, Eater X has shown up at contests in all sorts of disguises. He’s called himself the whaler, the invisible man, and also competed in a bikini. At the World Posole Eating Championship, Janus assumed the personality, and dress, of Helen Hagerty, a fictional field hockey player from Bryn Mawr College. In Major League Eating: The Game, Tim uses Antacid to his advantage, decreasing his chances of a “reversal of fortune” by lowering his vomit meter. Tim is weak against Invincible, but does his best eating when faced with Burritos.

Records:
Tamales: 71 in 10 minutes
Ramen Noodles: 10.5 lbs in 10 minutes
Cannoli: 26 in 6 minutes
Burritos: 11.81 lbs in 10 minutes

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut

San Jose, CA
Age: 23
Weight: 230

Merely two years after being named 2005 Rookie Of The Year, Joey defeated six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi in the 2007 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest and is currently the number one ranked eater in the world. Chestnut has become known for his simple, levelheaded approach to the sport. Blessed with strong esophageal muscles and extremely capacious cheeks, Chestnut is widely considered the best chipmunker on the circuit. Using to his full advantage IFOCE rules that allow food placed in the mouth before time is called to be swallowed ‘in a timely fashion’ after the buzzer, Joey stuffs his cheeks in the last few seconds until they look like Dizzy Gillespie’s mid-solo, hence: chipmunk. In Major League Eating: The Game, Joey has a special talent for eating Hot Dogs, and is strong when dealing with Rotten Food. Unfortunately, a Burp can bring him to his knees.

Records:
Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs: 66 in 12 minutes
Krystal Burgers: 103 in 8 minutes
Grilled Cheese: 47 in 10 minutes
Pulled Pork: 9 lbs, 6 oz. in 10 minutes

141 Pieces Downed in Six Minutes at Press Event for Major League Eating: The Game for WiiWare

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - Apr 30, 2008 - Ingestion history has been made. Friday, April 11, 2008 professional eater, Tim ‘Eater X’ Janus, set the world sushi eating record with 141 pieces of sushi eaten in six minutes at a San Francisco press event to preview the upcoming WiiWare title, Major League Eating: The Game.

Mastiff, international publisher of videogames and interactive entertainment, under license of Major League Eating (MLE) and the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE) has created Major League Eating: The Game, which will makes its debut as an exclusive on WiiWare(TM), Nintendo’s new downloadable game service for the Wii(TM) console, which launches May 12 in North America. The game will make extensive use of the Wii Remote(TM) to simulate the fast and furious action of a professional eating competition.

From the lovely Spanish Suite of the Clift hotel in the surprisingly sunny and warm city of San Francisco, CA, Tim Janus, a 31-year-old professional stock trader from New York, NY is the IFOCE’s fourth ranked eater in the world. In addition to the record he set last week for sushi eating, Janus also holds eating records for consuming tamales, burritos, cannoli, and ramen noodles.

Starting next month, Mastiff is giving gamers a chance to take a bite out of that title and many others from the comforts of their own home with Major League Eating: The Game for Wii’s upcoming new WiiWare(TM) channel.

Like the Turducken, Major League Eating: The Game is jam packed with a cornucopia of fun food action:
· Play as any one of 10 MLE gurgitory athletes and duke it out against the CPU or against a
friend, for some two player head-to-head action MLE style.
· Once you have honed your eating skills you can take your game online using Nintendo® W-iFi
Connection and chow down against players all over the nation.
· Become MLE champ and post your score to the scoreboard for all to see.
· Over 12 different foods that will satisfy your virtual palate including: Hotdogs, Hamburgers,
Watermelon, Pizza, Shrimp, Sushi, Meatballs, Corn on the Cob and more!
· Offensive, defensive and counter attacks allow you to swallow your competition whole.

“With the help of the IFOCE and its eaters we are able to create an enjoyable and what is sure to be memorable new experience for Nintendo’s hot new WiiWare channel,” said Bill Swartz, Head Woof at Mastiff Games. “Major League Eating: The Game is sure to satisfy the virtual hunger of all gamers looking for something fresh and fun.”

For more information please visit the following sites:
www.mastiff-games.com
www.mlegame.com
www.ifoce.com

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - Apr 25, 2008 Video game publisher Mastiff awarded 16 lucky gamers each a $15 gift certificate for pizza during the first two weeks of its Major League Eating: The Game “Food of the Week” contest. This week Mastiff will be giving away eight more $15 gift certificates-this time for burgers-to gamers who have registered at www.MLEGAME.com. Believe us, you can get a pretty damn good burger for $15.

The first 16 Free Food winners were:

Week One
Lily P. - San Jose, Calif.
Marcos S. - Dix Hills, N.Y.
Caesar M. - Sylmar, Calif.
Michael B. - Cheektowaga, N.Y.
Jeremy M. - Pensacola, Fla.
Max H. - San Diego, Calif.
Brandy S. - Muncie, Ind.
Cody B. - Dorr, Mich.

Week Two
Cristian B. - Winter Haven, Fla.
Jason V. - Newport, Ore.
Hallie L. - Woodland Park, Colo.
Alexander M. - San Diego, Calif.
Gesnele P. - Roxbury, Mass.
Paul D. - Long Beach, Calif.
Rob M. - Marysville, Wash.
Hillary M. - Northbrook, Ill.

Anyone can enter Mastiff’s “Food of the Week” contest. All it takes is a visit to www.MLEGAME.com to register and (hopefully) win. Even better, Mastiff has promised not to force feed any of the winners their prizes!

About Major League Eating: The Game

Major League Eating: The Game for WiiWare(tm) features the world’s greatest gurgitory athletes competing across a variety of foods and venues. Built much like a classic fighting game and deeper than a Chicago style deep-dish pizza, MLE: The Game requires players to master a smorgasbord of offensive and defensive weapons including bites, burps, belches, mustard gas and jalapeño flames while cramming and chewing food at a world-class pace. It’s not for the faint of heart, the slow of reflex, or those with an overly strong aversion to a Technicolor reversal of fortune.

Major League Eating: The Game uses the Wii Remote to simulate a variety of eating techniques including the cram, toss, and ‘typewriter.’ Burp-offs and Hot Potato challenges during the contests keep the competition intense and eaters on their toes.

Major League Eating: The Game is for one or two players, offers online play and a leader board.

Major League Eating, the professional league which oversees all top eating events in the nation, including the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, counts among its members Takeru Kobayashi, the Japanese eating phenomenon, and American Joey Chestnut, current champion of the world.