Digital Playground Dominates 2008 Empire Awards with 10 Trophies!

“Pirates II”, “Babysitters” & “Cheerleaders” Take Half the Empire Awards, Including Best Overall DVD, Viewer's Choice & Best Selling!

February 21, 2009 --- VAN NUYS, Calif. --- The 2008 Empire Award results were revealed and Digital Playground, the leading XXX studio received 10 awards in a very elite 21 categories. Premiere online adult retailer Adult DVD Empire's annual awards are a direct indication of their consumers' preferences, making its awards coveted in the adult industry. Ground-breaking director Joone's blockbuster movie Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge garnered awards for Best Overall DVD, Viewer's Choice (with over 40% of the fan vote), Best Blu-ray™, Best DVD Extras, Best DVD Menu Design, Best DVD Commentary, Best DVD Audio Quality, and the Editor's Choice Award. Acclaimed director Robby D.'s mega-hit Babysitters is the Best Selling DVD, while his followup Cheerleaders has the Best DVD Video Quality of 2008. “Digital Playground has always been a leader when it comes to quality, but 'Pirates II' was so overwhelmingly above and beyond what any other studio this year. It's perhaps no shock that they swept most of the awards,” says Shannon Nutt, Adult DVD Empire Editorial Director.

To view the complete list of awards, visit www.EmpireAwards.com

FFor more information about Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge, visit www.PiratesXXX.com

Shannon Nutt adds, “The fact that 'Babysitters', which was released in 2007, was Adult DVD Empire's best-selling title of 2008 shows what kind of staying power and popularity the release has had. Likewise, 'Cheerleaders' was released very early in 2008, so the fact that voters remembered the pristine quality of its video is another nod towards the superiority of Digital Playground's releases.”

Samantha Lewis, Digital Playground’s CEO says, “The Empire Awards are an accurate indication of consumers' opinions of our titles. I'd like to thank all our fans who voted for 'Pirates II' for the Viewer's Choice and helped make 'Babysitters' the Best Selling DVD. Thank you to Jeff Rix, Mike Barry, and Shannon Nutt, as well as the entire Empire staff for their continued support of Digital Playground.”

Joone, the writer and director of Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge states, “Digital Playground is a filmmaker's company, so we always pay great attention to every cinematic detail. It's an honor to receive every award in a technical category.” Robby D. adds, “'Babysitters' was the first of the vocation series, so it's great to see how many horny people out there have embraced it.”

Digital Playground's previous Empire Awards include: Best Overall DVD Studio (2001, 2004, 2005), Best Feature (Forbidden Tales, Rush), Viewer's Choice (Forbidden Tales, Island Fever 3, Jesse Jane: Erotique, Pirates, Rush), Best Selling DVD (Island Fever, Island Fever 3, Pirates), Best Overall DVD (Pirates), Best All Sex DVD (Island Fever, Island Fever 3, Island Fever 4, Jesse Jane: Erotique), Best Video Quality (Island Fever, Island Fever 4, Pirates, Rush), Best DVD Commentary (Island Fever 3, Rush), Best DVD Video (Island Fever 3), Best DVD Audio (Loaded, Pirates, Rush, Babysitters), Editor's Choice (No Limits, Pirates), Best DVD Menu Design (Pirates, Babysitters), Best DVD Extras (All Star), Best Interactive DVD (Virtual Sex with Devon, Virtual Sex with Janine, Virtual Sex with Jesse Jane, Virtual Sex with Teagan Presley, Virtual Sex with Tera Patrick), Best HD DVD (Babysitters).

Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge stars Digital Playground's beautiful contract girls Jesse Jane®, Shay Jordan™, Katsuni™, Stoya™, Riley Steele™ and Gabriella Fox™. The film costars the international talents of Belladonna, Sasha Grey, Jenna Haze, Brianna Love, Abbey Brooks, Shawna Lenee, Rhylee Richards, Brea Lynn, Shyla Stylez, and Veronica Rayne. Evan Stone, Tommy Gunn, and Steven St. Croix reprise their ground-breaking roles from the original Pirates. The film also includes industry studs Manuel Ferrara, James Deen, Marco Banderas, Mick Blue, Ben English, and Charles Dera.

All hands are on deck for the epic, blockbuster Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, directed by award-winner Joone, and produced by Joone and his business partner Samantha Lewis. The film released on DVD on September 27 and Blu-ray™ on November 7.

About AdultDVDEmpire.com:

Since 1997, Adult DVD Empire has been the place to shop online for adult DVDs. Five-time winner of the AVN Award for Best Retail Website (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008) and AVN Online’s award for the Best Online Retail Site (1999), Adult DVD Empire features over 85,000 Adult products and virtually every new adult DVD release can be found on their site. They also offer a wide selection of Video on Demand (VOD) and novelty items as well as Adult DVD Rental and Used DVD buyback and sales. With 29 million screenshots, 10,000 in-house reviews, thousands of customer comments and scene-by-scene breakdowns of selected titles, customers can learn everything they need to know about a title before they place their order. An easy to navigate website, outstanding customer service, massive selection, great prices and FREE SHIPPING have established Adult DVD Empire as the most respected and the largest online retailer of adult DVDs in the world. Visit the Empire at AdultDVDEmpire.com.

About the Empire Awards

On January 16th, 2001, the first ever Adult DVD Empire Awards were handed out live on The Tera Show, marking the beginning of the only awards show (currently) devoted entirely to Adult DVD. Nominated and selected by a group of top adult critics, including many of those you'll find on Adult DVD Empire, the first Empire Awards were an instant hit with fans, studios and talent alike, as almost all applauded the nominations made by the selection committee, and few could argue the merits of the winners.

The Adult DVD Empire Awards were established because we felt that no one else was celebrating and recognizing the achievements that the adult studios were making on the digital format, particularly in the areas of video/audio quality and bonus features, which is what the DVD format is all about. An Empire Awards for "Best Feature", for example, merely doesn't mean the movie is good, but that the video/audio quality and extras are exceptional as well.

Now in its ninth year, the Empire Awards are among the most sought after in the adult DVD community, and have earned the respect of the industry and fans alike.

Past Shows

2007: Winners | Nominees
2006: Winners | Nominees
2005: Winners | Nominees
2004: Winners | Nominees
2003: Winners | Nominees
2002: Winners | Nominees
2001: Winners | Nominees | Show
2000: Winners | Show

About Digital Playground:

Digital Playground is the world leader in adult filmmaking and interactive formats boasting the largest HD library available, as well as sexy and powerful novelty lines to compliment blockbuster films. Since the Company’s inception in 1993, Digital Playground has earned over 300 awards, currently garners more than 80% of high definition sales within the adult market, and is a leading provider of Blu-ray™ titles. Female owned and operated, Digital Playground emphasizes quality first, employing fastidiously high production values in erotic film for women, men and couples. Digital Playground’s commitment to excellence, innovative technology, brilliant full-length productions and exclusive Contract Stars are the secrets to its success and makes Digital Playground the most highly demanded supplier of content for hotel, IPTV, cable, pay-per-view and mobile networks worldwide.

For more information visit Digitalplayground.com, Myspace.com/digitalplayground or Twitter.com/dpxxx

For additional information please contact:
Digital Playground – Marketing / PR
pr@digitalplayground.com
818.376.8488

Digital Playground - Sales
sales@digitalplayground.com
818.376.8488

Digital Playground Movies @