El Segundo, CA - May 30, 2000 - Mattel Interactive announced its selection of Treyarch to develop Max Steel, a third-person adventure video game based on the cartoon superhero. Treyarch will develop Max Steel for the Sega Dreamcast and PC for a scheduled release in Winter 2000.

"Max Steel is a great game character, a young, hi-tech James Bond," said R.E.D.'s Paul D. Cunningham. "We are excited to have helped secure the Max Steel development deal for a talented game company like Treyarch."

Treyarch was founded in 1996 and has since grown from 4 employees to more than 80. It has developed a wide variety of games on various platforms, including Dreamcast, Playstation, Nintendo 64, PC, and soon to include Playstation2. Treyarch has developed or is currently developing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Triple Play 2000, Draconus, Die By The Sword, Dragon's Blood, Olympic Hockey and Die By The Sword: Limb From Limb expansion pack.

R.E.D. is the interactive game industry's leading representation company and assists talented interactive game developers in securing development agreements with publishing companies.

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