New York, NY – April 7, 2008 – MTV Games, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), announced today that Rock Band™(www.rockband.com) and MTV2 (mtv2.com) will hit the road as the presenting co-sponsors of platinum-selling rock act, Flyleaf (www.flyleafmusic.com) and chart topping alt rock act Seether, (www.seether.com) on their co-headlining tour this Spring kicking off in Denver, CO on April 8th. A perennial gold-selling artist, Seether currently has two top ten hits at active and modern rock radio simultaneously with “Fake It” and their follow-up smash “Rise Above This”. After scoring 3 top ten hits at modern and active rock radio on their eponymous smash debut, Flyleaf is finally mining pay-dirt at Top 40 radio with their haunting ballad, “All Around Me”

“Sponsoring the Seether and Flyleaf tour is another way for us to give Rock Band fans the opportunity to connect with the bands they love and provide a stage for them to live out their rock fantasies,” said Paul DeGooyer, SVP DVD, Gaming and Audio, MTV. “By supporting this tour, it allows us to expose great young talent like Flyleaf, who are a true Rock Band success story. The inclusion of their single “I’m So Sick” in Rock Band has helped propel them from gold to platinum selling artists.”

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