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Established: 1981 Members of staff: 160 Based: Lille, France
Key territories: France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, UK, Australia, Scandinavia
BIGBEN INTERACTIVE
THIS French accessories supplier has a big presence in Europe. It stocks both officially licensed products like Hello Kitty DS cases and its own manufactured peripherals such as a Wii exercise bike. For fans of kids’ icon Hello Kitty, BigBen provides the official Hello Kitty branded 3DS, DSi and DSi XL Case (RRP £14.99) which hits shelves on May 11th. Alongside these licensed
products, the firm also sells the 3DS Flip & Play case (RRP £7.99) which comes packaged with a retractable
stylus and is available in blue, black or red. This lets gamers play the 3DS instantly without having to remove it from the case.
Wii owners can also exercise and game at the same time with the Cyberbike Magnetic Edition. The exercise bike comes with a Cycling Sportsgame, where users must ride around and clean up pollution plaguing each of the game’s 18 levels. The original Cyberbike was a huge hit for BigBen selling 100,000 units in Europe alone.
The Wire Microphone Double
Pack for Wii (RRP £19.99) presents an ideal margin maker alongside sales of Wii music games such as We Sing, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, U-Sing, Disney Sing Itand Rock Band.
And for PS3 gamers the Six Axis Bluetooth Controller (RRP £34.99) is a high quality offering with a metallic finish and a built-in rechargeable battery.
It is available in an assortment of colours from blue to black and red to white.
Website:
www.bigben.eu
Contact: Paul Millar
pmillar@bigben.fr
[INFO: REALTIME DISTRIBUTION]
Supplier of Razer products Established: 1989
Members of staff: 100+ in Warrington, 20 in Huntingdon
RAZER
RAZER builds accessories for the competitive gamer from controllers to PC gaming mice.
Kicking off its Easter range is the Razer Onza Tournament Xbox 360 controller (RRP £49.99), distributed in the UK by Realtime.
This has two fully programmable multi-function buttons on the shoulder area and backlit action switches. It’s also compatible with the PC.
The two analogue sticks can be adjusted by twisting them one way to make them more resistant for steadier control, or in the other
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direction to loosen them, enabling quicker, fluid movements. This allows gamers to customise their experience to suit their playing style, helping them pull off those all- important Street Fightercombos or headshots in Call of Duty. For online gamers there’s the Razer Chimaera 2.4GHz headset (RRP £129.99) which has 12 hours worth of battery life.
This comes with a base station that doubles up as a charging dock and storage unit, and like the Onza, it’s also compatible with both Xbox 360 and PC.
Dedicated PC gamers will need a dedicated mouse, and the Razer Naga Epic mouse and Megasoma mouse mat are just the tickets. The Naga has 17 customisable buttons –making it ideal for MMO gamers – and can be used either with or without a wire. It has three interchangeable side panels. Finally the Razer Anansi (£99.99) complements the range. It’s a keyboard designed for MMO games, just like the Naga Epic mouse, and boasts seven thumb modifier keys and five macro keys on the left of the keyboard.
Based: Warrington, Huntingdon
Key territories: UK Contact: 01480 435881 Website:
www.realtimeonline.co.uk
www.mcvuk.com
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