Tala Revealed in Playboy Magazine Company: Sammy Studios Product: Darkwatch: Curse of the West Sammy Studios, Inc. has released the provocative image of Tala, created exclusively for a pictorial in the October issue of Playboy Magazine. A pivotal character in Darkwatch, the upcoming Vampire-Western FPS, Tala bares more than her fangs in the men's magazine spread dedicated to sexy video game leading ladies. The revealing image, capturing her dangerous sensuality as a half-vampire seductress of Native American descent, is the work of Sammy Studios' in-house team of artists, working in conjunction with Brain Zoo Studios. The image appears in a pictorial accompanying the article "Gaming Grows Up" in Playboy's upcoming issue, hitting newsstands this month. Darkwatch is slated for release on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in Spring 2005. The game is not yet rated. Tala plays an important role in Darkwatch as a femme fatale with equal lusts for blood and power. In Darkwatch, gamers play as Jericho Cross, an outlaw gunslinger pulled into the ranks of a vampire-hunting secret society, when he is inadvertently bitten by a vampire lord. Sensuous and dangerous, Tala becomes Jericho's evil muse after luring him into a moment of passion, where she urges him to bite her, making her into a powerful half-vampire like himself. Introducing a unique reputation judgment system that brings a RPG element to an FPS, Darkwatch puts players in situations where they can overcome the evil flowing in Jericho's veins to save the American West from damnation, or succumb to it and join Tala in a reign of darkness. The first internally developed game from Sammy Studios, Darkwatch promises to bring great game play variety and innovations to the FPS genre. -Red Dawg, GameVortex Communications AKA Alex Redmann Related Links: Official Darkwatch Website Sammy Studios Website