Austin, TX (24 January 2012): The City of Austin, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) and the British Consulate-General in Houston are leading a group of innovative Austin-based digital media and gaming companies on a two-day showcase of London’s Tech City, one of the fastest growing tech clusters in the world and the largest in Europe.

The British Consulate-General and UKTI invited the Mayor of Austin, Lee Leffingwell, to lead the delegation. Representatives from nine Austin-based companies, including Appconomy, the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN), Phunware, Portalarium, Replay Games, Ricochet Labs, Small World Labs, Spredfast, and Third Cousins Media will participate in the visit.

“Austin attracts talent and innovation; as a result we are on the cutting edge of digital trends that could spread worldwide. The visit will allow some of Austin’s entrepreneurs to experience London’s Tech City, Austin’s digital media and gaming counterpart, first-hand,” said Mayor Leffingwell. “We look forward to working with and further improving trade and economic relations with the UK.”

The group will participate in a two-day programme that will introduce them to Tech City and their UK digital media and gaming counterparts, as well as attend workshops about setting up operations in London and hear from some US-based companies that have successfully entered the UK market.

“We are proud to be representing the best of Austin’s start-up scene to our London counterparts,” said Andy Jones, Business Development Director at Small World Labs. “This will be a great opportunity not only to showcase what we’re doing and explore potential new business opportunities here in the UK, but to learn and take some ideas back with us to Austin.”

The visit is timed to coincide with a pre-South By Southwest Interactive briefing for 40 UK-based companies that will be attending the conference through the UKTI. Both Mayor Leffingwell and the digital media companies taking part in the mission will have an opportunity to meet and address these potential partners.

A friendship agreement between the London Borough of Hackney and the City of Austin will also be signed. The friendship agreement seeks to intensify co-operation between the City and Borough in the high-tech sector; London’s Olympic legacy and event industry and Austin’s forthcoming Formula One race; sustainability; and between the fledgling Digital Shoreditch festival and South by Southwest.

Commenting on the mission, Eric van der Kleij, CEO of TCIO, said: “Hosting such a talented group of entrepreneurs to Tech City is a great chance for us to showcase London, but to also look for growth opportunities. Austin has really established itself as a hub of innovation and this mission will lay the foundation for increased collaboration and partnership between our thriving technology communities.”

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For more information on the Tech City Investment Organisation, please contact: 020 7413 3751 or pressoffice@techcityuk.com.

The Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) was created in March 2011, following Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement of the Tech City initiative in the ‘Silicon Roundabout’ area of East London. TCIO was set up by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and is designed to help the existing cluster of tech-digital and creative companies flourish. Tech City stretches out from the financial heart of the City of London to Stratford and the Olympic Park in East London, and is the fastest growing technology cluster in Europe. The TCIO team is a　unique combination of experienced entrepreneurs and UKTI business specialists. Their role is to help　existing companies succeed, as well as attract global business, entrepreneurs and high-value investment to the digital capital of Europe. For more information, visit www.techcityuk.com or www.ukti.gov.uk/techcity or follow us @techcityuk

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is the Government Department that helps UK-based companies succeed in the global economy. We also help overseas companies bring their high quality investment to the UK’s economy – acknowledged as Europe’s best place from which to succeed in global business. UKTI offers expertise and contacts through its extensive network of specialists in the UK, and in British embassies and other diplomatic offices around the world. We provide companies with the tools they require to be competitive on the world stage. For more information on UKTI, visit www.ukti.gov.uk or telephone +44 (0)20 7215 8000. For latest press releases, visit the online newsroom at www.ukti.gov.uk/media.

About the British Consulate-General in Houston The British Consulate-General in Houston covers Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. They work to promote and develop the commercial, political, and academic links between this area and the UK. For more information, please visit http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/houston

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The original Leisure Suit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards is coming to a new generation of devices through creator Al Lowe and the Replay Games team.

Leisure Suit Larry Leaves Lockup!

Players (and “playas”) all over the world dropped to their knees today, surprisingly to pay homage to the master, the original top dog, the Casanova of computer games, Larry Laffer. Yes, the louche, lascivious, luckless but lovable star of Leisure Suit Larry is back — in his original incarnation.

Larry’s original creator, Al Lowe, is working with the team from Replay Games to bring the original Leisure Suit Larry game to a whole new generation of netbooks, tablets and mobile devices — starting with Intel’s Appup.com marketplace, where you’ll find it this summer, on a device near you.

The new release is the 1991 remake of Larry’s original scorching adventure Leisure Suit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards, which improved the game’s original 16-color EGA graphics into achingly gorgeous 256-color VGA graphics, the 3D high-def of its day.

Now a whole new generation of fans can join Larry, cruising the streets of Lost Wages, pushing his luck, looking for love and Miss Right. Or maybe Miss Wrong.

The original Larry game sold far too well to be a cult classic; it was a best-selling ground-breaking, award winner. Upon the game’s initial release, it sold badly, very badly. Prurient, prudish retailers thought its shocking content would end civilization, be a bad influence on children and maybe even lead to ‘you-know-what’. Al Lowe almost considered getting a real job. For a while.

But the game’s laugh-out-loud humor, simple, engaging gameplay and just plain fun, led to great word-of-mouth until, over a year after the game was released, it achieved huge commercial and critical success, selling millions of copies. It even won the Software Publishers Association’s Best Fantasy, Role Playing Or Adventure Game award for 1987.

From his palatial penthouse apartment, high above the teeming streets of Lost Wages, Al Lowe offered these insights into Larry’s success and return to the big leagues: “It’s no fun telling people who want to play your games that their only recourse is to pirate them. Finally, Larry leaves his digital dungeon to delight those too young (or too smart) to play it way back when.” Al expects a whole new generation of gamers to relate to a guy who’s so out of touch he thinks a leisure suit is hip. “Men love the games because no matter how much of a loser they are, they’re not as big a loser as Larry. And women love the games because, well, they’ve all dated a jerk like Larry.”

Paul Trowe, CEO of Replay Games, said, “So many people enjoyed and were influenced by Larry’s original adventure that it’s an absolute pleasure to bring the smooth-talking charmer back to his legions of fans, a whole new generation of players and unimpressed women in bars and nightclubs everywhere. Working with Al means you can be sure the game is exactly how he intended it to be seen. It plays as smoothly as one of Larry’s pick up lines. We’re delighted, no, thrilled to be releasing Leisure Suit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards for a device near YOU, in the very near future.”

Larry will be looking for love in all of the wrong places within the next several weeks. Watch this space for updates….

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