Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions: South Park confirmed and first details revealed

2Waytraffic, part of Sony Pictures Television, and South Park Digital Studios proudly announce that Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? will join the celebrations for South Park’s 15th season with an exclusive new range of co-branded, downloadable video games called Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions. The Emmy® award-winning series South Park will be the first licensed question pack. 2waytraffic owns and licenses the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? format around the world.

The DLC package has been developed by award-winning games development studio doublesix digital that is developing and releasing the game in association with Deep Silver, the interactive gaming division of Koch Media. The South Park DLC package will be released alongside the main game on PlayStation®3 and the Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

Fans can look forward to hundreds of specific questions based on the South Park universe, as well as a fully themed Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? studio and featuring an original South Park introduction. The Millionaire set host, audience - including main South Park characters - lifelines and contestants are all themed around the classic cartoon. This pack also includes five player avatars, especially designed by South Park, alongside hundreds of questions taken from across all 15 seasons of the show. Even the Phone-A-Friend lifeline features characters from the South Park world.

Based on the world’s most successful TV game show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions retains all the excitement and atmosphere of the original programme.

Contestants participate in the fastest finger round and then scale a mountain of questions in the quest for that elusive virtual million, making judicious use of the three classic lifelines - Fifty-Fifty, Ask The Audience, and Phone-A-Friend. It’s a social experience, too: up to four friends can compete locally to outdo each other, with each person’s score dependent on their speed.

But the standout feature of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions is the introduction of special licensed question packs featuring the biggest names from movies, TV and much more, all of which will be made available as DLC to bolt on to the main game.

The first Special Edition pack, South Park, will be released along with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions and a Who Wants To Be A Movie Millionaire? theme pack later this year via PlayStation®Store and Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, with more to follow in the future.

South Park launched on August 13, 1997. The series is syndicated in more than 130 territories and translated into 30-plus languages. Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are executive producers, along with Anne Garefino, of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning South Park. Frank C. Agnone II is the supervising producer. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers. South Park's Web site is www.southparkstudios.com.