Editing Theryon Wars (section)

====Official announcement====
<big>SPANIARD BLEND WILL DEVELOP A PLANET IN ENTROPIA UNIVERSE</big>


* Spaniard Blend is currently the only Spanish company that has become Planet Partner of MindArk, the owner of Entropia Universe. 


Madrid, april, the 14th of 2011.-  Pyxel Arts has announced today an agreement with MindArk PE AB, the  Swedish company owner and developer of Entropia Universe, to develop a  planet through its games developer studio, Spaniard Blend. With this  agreement, Pyxel Arts becomes the only Spanish company that currently  has managed to become a Planet Partner, the name that MindArk gives to  the companies that develop planets for Entropia Universe.


Entropia Universe was launched in January 2003 and has grown to more than 1 000,000 registered accounts from over 200 countries. It is the only virtual universe with a true Real Cash Economy (RCE).  The currency, Project Entropia Dollars (PED), has a fixed exchange rate  of 10:1 with the U.S. Dollar. The business model is unique as it is  based on micropayments, meaning that the client software is free to  download from the Internet, and there are no monthly subscription fees,  thus Entropia Universe provides a way for new players to immediately  start exploring without having to deposit money. Virtual funds acquired in Entropia Universe can easily be exchanged and then withdrawn into real-world funds. The business model has been very successful; The 2010 turnover of Entropia Universe topped $422,000,000.


MindArk provides the Planet Partners  with the technology to develop the planets in the virtual world and  controls and maintains the platform. Spaniard Blend is going to develop with this technology a planet set in a Sci Fi environment.  The players can access to all the planets of the Entropia Universe with  a single account and this allows them to go from one world to another.  This provides the future planet of Spaniard Blend, a potential users  base over than one million.


"We are very proud of the agreement with  MindArk and, of course, of having manage becoming Planet Partners.  Entropia Universe is a solid platform and we absolutely trust their  current and futures possibilities; for us, developing a planet is a  challenge and an opportunity and we are going to give the best of us in  this project to surprise the players", comments Rafael Espinosa de los  Monteros, CEO of Pyxel Arts.


Original PDF file of the official press release: [[:File:Spaniard_Blend_will_develop_a_planet_in_Entropia_Universe.pdf]]