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The folks at Phillips have been promoting their game-oriented multi-media hardware amBX for some time and now the company is cutting the division's cords and letting it loose. Today Phillips announced that the amBX team (based in the UK) is now spinning off into their own stand alone business, amBX UK Limited.

In case you are not familiar with amBX it's basically a series of speakers, lights and fans that react with amBX enabled games like Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway, Far Cry 2 and the upcoming Legendary and Velvet Assassin. This new business move will enable amBX to continue to expand to support more games as well as support films, TV shows and other media outlets

Philips has been promoting their amBX PC gaming ambiance hardware for some time and today the company revealed that Indie game maker Introversion Software will support amBX in their upcoming strategy game Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest.

The game itself is a multiplayer version of Introversion's award winning Darwinia. According to the press release, "The addition of amBX to the digital world of Multiwinia will allow players to experience all kinds of multicoloured lighting, air movement and rumble effects." Introversion seems to be rather keen on the amBX effects with team member Byron Atkinson Jones saying, "Think sprite carnage on a massive scale, a lot of colour, a lot of flash explosions and plenty of fast and furious action-based gameplay to get stuck into." Multiwinia is due for release in September.