{"id":20610,"date":"2012-05-08T16:50:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T06:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=20610"},"modified":"2012-05-08T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T06:51:50","slug":"activision-publishing-and-twentieth-century-fox-consumer-products-to-debut-new-family-guy-video-game-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=20610","title":{"rendered":"ACTIVISION PUBLISHING AND TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX CONSUMER PRODUCTS TO DEBUT NEW FAMILY GUY VIDEO GAME THIS SPRING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The Emmy\u00ae Award Winning Hit Animated Comedy Coming to Consoles Later This Year<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youngmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/familyguybacktothemultiverselogo.jpg\" width=600><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sydney, Australia \u2013 May 8, 2012 \u2013 <\/strong>The hilarious Griffin family and their friends from Quahog are coming to gaming consoles this fall in an all-new <em>Family Guy<\/em> video game from Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products and Activision Publishing Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activision.com\">ATVI<\/a>).\u00a0 Appropriately titled <strong><em>Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse<\/em><\/strong>, the title will offer gamers an interactive <em>Family Guy<\/em> experience inspired by one of the most popular and notable episodes in the series\u2019 history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFans of <em>Family Guy<\/em> will love that we\u2019ve taken some of the series\u2019 most iconic and memorable moments and built them into an impressive and uncensored video game\u201d said David Oxford, Executive Vice President, Activision.\u00a0 \u201cAnyone who watches the show will appreciate how much we have adhered to its rich and twisted universe and characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Family Guy <\/em>is one of the most-watched and influential shows of the last decade, reaching over 33.5 million viewers weekly in the U.S., and is the number one TV show on Facebook with more than 40 million \u2018likes\u2019.\u00a0 In the U.S., the series is the number one TV franchise on DVD with more than 25 million copies sold.\u00a0 The new console game from Fox and Activision intends to tap into the core components of the <em>Family Guy<\/em> spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Godsick, President of Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products said, \u201cWith Activision at the helm, we\u2019ve found a world class partner for a <em>Family Guy <\/em>console<em> <\/em>video game.\u00a0 <strong><em>Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse<\/em><\/strong> will utilize the source material, including the talented voice cast and writers, authentic humor and subversive spirit of the series, giving fans a whole new way to interact with their favorite show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More details about the console game will be announced in the near future.\u00a0 To find out all the latest news please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activision.com\">www.activision.com<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information on the animated series, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyguy.com\">www.familyguy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About FAMILY GUY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FAMILY GUY follows the adventures of endearingly ignorant dad Peter Griffin and his hilariously odd family of middle-class New Englanders \u2013 wife Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and dog Brian \u2013 in Quahog, Rhode Island.\u00a0 The animated series, which features the voice talents of Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green and Mila Kunis, is a 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century Fox Television production.\u00a0 Seth MacFarlane is creator\/executive producer.\u00a0 Mark Hentemann and Steve Callaghan serve as executive producers\/showrunners, while Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild are executive producers.\u00a0 Become a fan of FAMILY GUY on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/familyguy\">www.facebook.com\/familyguy<\/a> and follow the series on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/familyguyonfox\">www.twitter.com\/familyguyonfox<\/a> (@familyguyonfox).<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recognized industry leader, Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products licenses and markets properties worldwide on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Twentieth Television and Fox Broadcasting Company, as well as third-party lines.\u00a0 The division is aligned with Twentieth Century Fox Television, one of the top suppliers of primetime entertainment programming to the broadcast networks.<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About Activision Publishing, Inc.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products.<\/p>\n<p>Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, China and the region of Taiwan.\u00a0 More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company\u2019s website, <a title=\"http:\/\/www.activision.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.activision.com\/\">www.activision.com<\/a>.\u00a0 <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emmy\u00ae Award Winning Hit Animated Comedy Coming to Consoles Later This Year Sydney, Australia \u2013 May 8, 2012 \u2013 The hilarious Griffin family and their friends from Quahog are coming to gaming consoles this fall in an all-new Family Guy video game from Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products and Activision Publishing Inc., a wholly<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=20610\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20612,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20610\/revisions\/20612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}