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The following is issued on behalf of the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited:
To promote digital game culture to the public, the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited (Cyberport) today (June 21) invites game lovers to join the "CosPlay Competition" this summer. Participants will have a chance to become the main characters in their favourite games.
"CosPlay", which is a short term for "costume play" in Japanese, is a recent popular youth activity of dressing up, together with using tailor-made tools, make-up and body languages, as their favourite characters in popular titles of games or animation.
With state-of-the-art technology and advanced facilities, Cyberport will produce a 30-second movie clip in a specially made digital virtual setting for each finalist. The movie clips will be put in multi-media channels and the Internet for promotion and public voting. The public can also cast their votes on the on-site performance of the finalist CosPlayers, making the whole competition even more exciting. The best 10 participants will each receive $1,000, and the final champion will win two round-trip air tickets to Japan.
The application deadline is July 20. Final results will be announced at the CosPlay Show at Cyberport on August 27. For more information and download of application form, please visit www.cyberport.hk.
Cyberport Cosplay Competition is one of the activities in Cyberport Game & Fun Expo 2006 which will be held from August 25 to 27. Details of the expo will be announced later.
About Hong Kong Cyberport
Hong Kong's IT Flagship is a US$2 billion (HK$15.6 billion) landmark project managed by Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited and wholly owned by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The project is being developed on a 24-hectare site at Telegraph Bay in the southern district of Hong Kong Island. It comprises four office buildings, a five-star hotel, a retail entertainment complex, and a deluxe residential development, aiming at creating an interactive environment that will be home to a strategic cluster of about 100 IT companies and 10,000 IT professionals.
Cyberport won the internationally acclaimed Intelligent Building of the Year Award 2004 in New York City, which is given to commercial buildings that have used broadband and information systems technology to add demonstrable value in the form of advanced services and merits to its tenants. For more information, please visit www.cyberport.hk.
Ends/Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Issued at HKT 12:03
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