THE Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME SHONEN JUMP CHAMPIONSHIP SET TO ROCK THE NEW YEAR
IN THE CITY OF ANGELS – LOS ANGELES ON JANUARY 9-10


EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – December 4, 2009 – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (KDE) will unleash the world's best-selling trading card game on the City of Angels (Los Angeles, CA) with the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME (TCG) SHONEN JUMP Championship on January 9. KDE is committed to starting off the 2010 Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG competitive season with a bang by hosting a premier event in the second largest metropolis in the United States.

KDE's SHONEN JUMP Championship in Los Angeles takes place January 9-10 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The registration fee is $20, and each player will receive five Stardust Overdrive booster packs just for participating. The top three finalists from the SHONEN JUMP Championship will receive the highly sought-after “Dark End Dragon” SHONEN JUMP Championship Prize Card, as will two other finalists from bonus events held on Sunday.

“The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME has sold more than 22 billion cards worldwide and we fully expect that kind of excitement from Duelists to carry over to the SHONEN JUMP Championship in Los Angeles,” commented Yumi Hoashi, Vice President of Card Business for Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. “We designed the SHONEN JUMP Championships to be enjoyed by as many players as possible and they continue to be the most celebrated events we hold each year.”

Those who cannot make this SHONEN JUMP Championship will be able to follow round-by-round coverage online at www.yugioh-card.com/en/events.

SHONEN JUMP Championship Los Angeles details: The Los Angeles Convention Center SHONEN JUMP Championship will start promptly at 8:00 a.m. for registration with Round One beginning at 10:00 a.m. The top 16 finalists for the SHONEN JUMP Championship, along with the top Duelists of the Sunday Regional Qualifiers, earn invites to participate in their respective countries' 2010 National Championships.

The Los Angeles stop in the SHONEN JUMP Championship tour will offer exciting Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG side events for both Saturday and Sunday which include Win-A-Mat tournaments for all ages, and Dragon Duel tournaments for Duelists aged 12 and under. There will also be 2010 Regional Qualifier tournaments on Sunday.

SHONEN JUMP Championship prizes:

• 1st place – A “Dark End Dragon” SHONEN JUMP Championship Prize Card, Trophy, Paid travel and accommodations for the winner's 2010 National Championship (if underage, travel and accommodations for the winner and a guardian), a SHONEN JUMP Championship Top 16 Game Mat, and a one year subscription to SHONEN JUMP magazine.

• 2nd place – A “Dark End Dragon” SHONEN JUMP Championship Prize Card, 32 GB personal music player with docking station and speakers, a SHONEN JUMP Championship Top 16 Game Mat, and a one year subscription to SHONEN JUMP magazine.

• 3rd place – A “Dark End Dragon” SHONEN JUMP Championship Prize Card, videogame console with a copy of a Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Wheelie Breakers, a copy of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Tagforce 4 videogame, a SHONEN JUMP Championship Top 16 Game Mat, and a one year subscription to SHONEN JUMP magazine.

• 4th place – A videogame console with a copy of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Wheelie Breakers, a copy of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Tagforce 4 videogame, a SHONEN JUMP Championship Top 16 Game Mat, and a one year subscription to SHONEN JUMP magazine.

• 5th – 8th place – A personal videogame console with a copy of 2010 WCT game: YGO! 5D's World Championship 2010 Reverse of Arcadia, a SHONEN JUMP Championship Top 16 Game Mat, and a one year subscription to SHONEN JUMP magazine.

• 9th – 16th place – A copy of 2010 WCT game: YGO! 5D's World Championship 2010 Reverse of Arcadia, a SHONEN JUMP Championship Top 16 Game Mat, and a one year subscription to SHONEN JUMP magazine.

For more information on Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME or the SHONEN JUMP Championship series, please visit www.yugioh-card.com.

KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, INC. HELPS DUELISTS PROTECT THEIR FAVORITE CARDS WITH NEW Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
TRADING CARD GAME CARD SLEEVES AND PORTFOLIOS

High-Quality Glossy Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's TRADING CARD GAME Sleeves
Available for the First Time in North America

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – (December 1, 2010) – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (KDE), the makers of the wildly popular Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME (TCG), know Duelists enjoy showing off their card collection just as much as crushing an opponent. With this in mind, KDE is pleased to make available to players in the United States new high-quality card sleeves with the most current and remarkable Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s monster, starting with “Majestic Star Dragon” from Stardust Overdrive!



The card sleeves are the first products to be released in a proposed new line of card game accessories from KDE in 2010. The card sleeves, (MSRP $3.99), are the perfect way to show off your collection to other Duelists. The 50-card pack of sleeves is enough to protect most Duelists’ Decks.

In addition, the company is also releasing a binder-sized ten-page card portfolio (each page has nine pockets) designed to protect and highlight individual collections. The nine-pocket U.S. version is in contrast to previously released versions, which hold only four cards per page. The nine-pocket “Majestic Star Dragon” Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG portfolio will have an MSRP of $9.99.

The new Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG card sleeves and nine-pocket portfolios will be available in January 2010.

For more information on Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME or the new card sleeves and portfolios, please visit www.yugioh-card.com.

MACHINA MAYHEM Structure Deck Preview

Mark your calendars and get ready to roll out! Coming next February, the MACHINA MAYHEM Structure Deck will be available for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME.

The MACHINA MAYHEM Deck includes a computerized army of high-tech robots and vehicles that you can use to run over your opponents. All of the monsters in MACHINA MAYHEM are Machine-Type monsters. Several of them are also Union Monsters.

Union Monsters were first introduced back in 2003 with the Magician’s Force booster set. These monsters have the ability to attach themselves to other monsters as Equip Cards, giving the monster they attach to additional effects. Also, if a monster that has a Union Monster attached to it would be destroyed, the Union Monster takes the hit, and gets destroyed instead. Attaching Union Monsters to your strongest cards can help stop them from being destroyed. Just imagine your Machine-Type Union Monsters combining and transforming each other into bigger and
better machi
nes!

The main monster from this Deck is the brand new “Machina Fortress” card. This new Machine has 2500 ATK and can be Special Summoned from your hand or Graveyard by discarding 8 or more Levels’ worth of Machines.

In order to Summon “Machina Fortress,” you can either discard lots of little Machines, as long as the total Levels are 8 or higher. Or you can discard one big Machine, like the Level 10 “Machina Force” (also included in this Deck). To give you more ways to Summon “Machina Fortress” if you’re playing this Deck right out of the box, we’ve also included the Level 8 “The Big Saturn,” a monster first seen in the pages of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga, and never before available for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG.

Once it’s on the field, “Machina Fortress” has 2500 ATK, so it can take down just about anything except the biggest monsters from your opponent’s Deck. But if your opponent does manage to take “Machina Fortress” out, your monster goes down swinging! If destroyed by battle, “Machina Fortress” destroys 1 card your opponent controls. And if “Machina Fortress” is targeted by your opponent’s monster effect, your opponent has to discard a card.

In addition to “Machina Fortress” and “Machina Force,” MACHINA MAYHEM includes 5 other Machina monsters – 7 in all. If you’ve been reading the Yu-Gi-Oh!-R Manga, you might have seen some of the other Machina monsters that will be pulling into store shelves this February. Machina monsters work together to Special Summon and protect one another. They also work well with regular Machine-Type monsters, and MACHINA MAYHEM includes plenty of those, too.

Besides all the new Machina monsters, MACHINA MAYHEM also reprints several older and sometimes hard-to-get cards, including “Blast Sphere,” “Cyber Valley,” “Card Trader,” “Time Machine,” and “Dimensional Prison.” So it will be easy to add these to your collection if you don’t already have them.

So get ready to buckle up in a few months with MACHINA MAYHEM!