Gameloft for brands, the world’s leading creator of gamified experiences for brands, is proud to be main sponsor of IAB PlayFronts 2023, which takes place on March 8 – 9 at the Quorum by Convene in New York, NY.
IAB PlayFronts is an annual exclusive marketplace dedicated to showcasing the advertising and partnership opportunities in the gaming industry. Bringing together the top leaders of the gaming industry, streaming platforms, ad tech enablers, and creative and media agencies.
During its segment on March 9, Gamelofts’ Managing Director North America, Casey Campbell, will present some key information and trends from the gaming sector as well as the results of a brand-new study that will positively impact the way advertisers handle in-game advertising strategies.
Explore a vast open world and take on ferocious enemies in Systemic Reaction’s new action roguelite
STOCKHOLM – Feb. 23, 2023 – Systemic Reaction has announced that Ravenbound, the open-world action roguelite set in a Scandinavian fantasy land, will launch on PC via Steam on March 30, 2023, for $29.99. Check out the new release date trailer to catch a glimpse of the treacherous journey that awaits!
Ravenbound is an action-packed roguelite set in Ávalt, a beautiful fantasy world filled with dangerous creatures inspired by Scandinavian folk tales. You are the Vessel, and within you is the Raven – a powerful weapon forged by the ancient gods to rid the land of darkness. Use skill and wit to defeat ferocious enemies, become stronger and wiser with each run, and save Ávalt from the monsters that threaten its existence.
Key Features
A Beautifully Deadly Open World: Freely explore a unique fantasy world inspired by Scandinavian folklore on foot or on the wings of the Raven. Choose where to go and which challenges to undertake, but beware: this land and its creatures are ever-changing, giving rise to new foes, locations, and trials when you may least expect it!
Intense Action-Roguelite Combat: Arm yourself with steel imbued with magic and face off against fantastic creatures like trolls, huldras, and the fearsome undead draugr in fast-paced, up-close combat where tactics are everything. Each Vessel has just one life to sacrifice, but the abilities you attain will benefit the next Vessel that rises in your place.
Play Your Cards Right: Ravenbound’s deck-building feature gives you access to more powerful gear and weapons with each new life. Expand your deck when you die, but pick carefully: these are the cards your next Vessel will draw. Improve your deck to give each Vessel the best chance to survive and bring the Raven closer to victory.
Big changes are coming to Fortuna III when Season 3 of the PvPvE extraction shooter launches on March 29
BERLIN — Feb. 23, 2023 —The Cycle: Frontier’s third season is coming soon, and YAGER is planning on making it a blast with the introduction of MK II weapons. Unlike the current roster of weapons that can be bought or crafted on Prospect Station, these exciting new arms can only be found on Fortuna III, rewarding players for good play and exploration. This new system will help the game expand its variety of weapons across the board, making rarer weapons more available to players while filling in gaps in the current line-up. You can learn all about MKII weapons in today’s new developer update video.
In the march to Season 3, YAGER has been taking special care to improve The Cycle: Frontier and make it more fun for everyone. First and foremost, the team continues to deliver new features in The War on Cheats, including recent additions like the Cheating Victim Compensation system (to help players regain items lost to cheaters), Trusted Status with Shielded Matchmaking, and a variety of upgrades to improve cheat detection and reporting. There have also been a number of changes to make the gameplay experience more accessible, including a revamped tutorial, stability enhancements, and the ability to reconnect to sessions after a disconnect.
YAGER is also working to upgrade the experience provided by the game’s offworld player hub with new changes for Prospect Station. To give this home away from home a more dynamic, lived-in feel, Season 3 will bring a variety of visual and architectural redesigns, as well as a reimagined daily presence for the lives of NPCs.
Season 3 lands on March 29, 2023, featuring improvements to the matchmaking system, new campaign quests, Fortuna III’s first-ever flying enemy (the Howler), free loadout runs, and more.
The Cycle: Frontier’sSeason 2 is currently underway, featuring new campaign missions, gear perks, the New Fortuna Pass, and a variety of game, balance, and anti-cheat improvements.
About The Cycle: Frontier
Available on Steam and the Epic Games Store, The Cycle: Frontier is a free-to-play PvPvE extraction shooter driven by suspense and danger. Prospect for resources and other riches on an abandoned alien world ravaged by a deadly storm, inhabited by monsters, and frequently raided by other ambitious prospectors.
For more on The Cycle: Frontier, visit https://thecycle.game. Keep up with the latest updates by following the game on Twitter and YouTube, and join the conversation with the devs on Discord.
About YAGER
YAGER was founded in 1999 by five enthusiastic developers and artists, focusing on creating immersive and thrilling games. Making beautifully crafted games that amaze players with the richness of their worlds, where there are multiple ways to succeed and progress their characters, and where all of this continues to evolve after launch, where novelty and drama are just around the corner, making our games immensely fun to play, talk about and watch. Today, 22 years after our founding, a highly skilled international team of game enthusiasts is working to build YAGER’s vision of immersive and engaging games.
Experience the Madshot rogue-lite shooter in this standalone game release
Milan, Italy – 23rd February 2023.Indie publisher HOOK and developer Overflow are thrilled to announce that Madshot Road to Madness, the fast-paced, rogue-lite shooter is now available on Steam for £2.69/€2.99/$2.99. Madshot Road to Madness is a standalone gaming experience inspired by the Early Access launch of Madshotwhere fans can experience the new vertical style acrobatic survivor gunplay gameplay before entering the Early Access version. Gamers who have already purchased the original Madshot game on Early Access will be able to access Road to Madness for free through the game and in their Steam library.
Madshot Road to Madness pits you head-to-head against endless abominations while moving stylishly through a Lovecraftian nightmare. Combine a multitude of unlockable weapons, abilities and upgrades in order to survive as long as possible, and reach the top of the leaderboards. To see if you’ve got what it takes to take on this unfathomable challenge, there is a demo available to download on Steam to try out the awesome acrobatic rogue-like shooting action for yourself. Check out some of the unlockable weapons, ultimate abilities and sidearms available, with around 150 upgrades at your disposal as you battle through endless hordes of hideous enemies.
Watch the trailer for Madshot: Road to Madnesshere
Madshot Road to Madness is a stand-alone spin-off game of the acrobatic rogue-like shooter Madshot, and takes you on an adrenaline-fueled, back-flipping ride to right the wrongs unleashed in your bid for eternal life. Prepare to face off against horrific monsters and survive multi-phased boss battles on an ever-changing road to freeing your city from the mighty Cthulhu. Equip endless upgrade combinations and use your acrobatic fighting skills to fight through a procedurally generated world full of hideous opponents where every playthrough throws out new challenges in an ever-changing gameplay experience.
The road to madness starts here – Play as an alchemist and metaphysician who meddled with dark forces one time too many. Dragged into an infinite abyss of madness and monsters. How will he escape?
You are in Control – Doge, roll, dash, wall jump, flip while simultaneously shooting. Madshot: Road to madness offers fluid and responsive movement so you’re always in control of the mayhem.
Endless hordes – Slaughter, Subdue, and control endless hordes of enemies. Get the highest score possible, challenge your friends or climb the online leaderboards.
Create lethal combinations – There’s a big focus on synergies between unlockable weapons, sidearms, upgrades, and ultimate abilities. Discovering the right combinations will be vital.
Madshot Road to Madness is now available as a standalone game experience via Steam for £2.69/€2.99/$2.99. Gamers who already own Madshot on Early Access can access Road to Madness for free via the game in their Steam library. Madshot is now available via Steam Early Access with an SRP of $19.99/ €19.99/ £17.99.
BRISTOL, UK – February 23, 2023 – Embark on a journey to save Cardrasil the Life Tree and discover an enchanting fantasy adventure in Aces & Adventures, a deckbuilding RPG with poker-powered combat, available today on Steam.
Aces & Adventures is an immersive fantasy RPG that pairs up poker-powered combat with strategic deckbuilding, leveraging players’ familiarity with playing cards to offer gameplay that’s immediately rich, yet intuitive to casual card gamers.
Play as 5 distinct characters across 13 thrilling, story-driven campaigns and multiple procedural adventures, all on a magical tabletop in a mysterious grove. Carefully craft your deck, unlock powerful new traits and use tactical poker-powered attacks to defeat enemies and mythical bosses in a fully-narrated fantasy adventure, or jump into the roguelite procedural mode where the adventure is never the same.
FEATURES:
Fast-paced gameplay delivered in highly consumable 10-20 minute sessions.
5 characters, each with their own library of abilities and 30 levels of advancement.
Unlock powerful traits and equipment as you progress through your journey.
13 fully-voiced campaigns and 4 games for a total of 52 levels of escalating challenge.
Build your own decks, and upgrade your abilities to Elite and Legendary potency.
“When we set out to blend poker with a deckbuilder, we didn’t know what to expect. We were amazed by how well the two complimented each other, and we hope you’ll be amazed too,” said Enrique Dryere, co-founder, Triple.B.Titles. “Starting as a physical card game that we’ve brought to life on-screen, the variety of gameplay styles and delicate balance of strategy and randomness are sure to please fans of card games, while the finely crafted story and presentation will appeal to RPG fans everywhere.”
Aces & Adventures is available today on Steam for $19.99 USD / €19.50 EUR / £16.75 GBP with a further 20% launch discount for a limited time.
About Triple.B.Titles Triple.B.Titles is a family-operated studio based in Texas that has been making highly replayable indie games since 2012.
About Yogscast Games Yogscast Games is the independent publisher dedicated to independent developers, founded in 2017 by The Yogscast.
PARIS — Feb. 23, 2023 —Hotel Renovator, the new simulation game from developer Two Horizons and Focus Entertainment that lets you design the hotel of your dreams, is about to open its doors for PC on March 7—to an interior that screams “renovate me ASAP”! But before then, you can learn all about your new career as a virtual hotel designer with real-world, San Francisco-based interior designer Noz Nozawa, who sat down to play the game and give fans some helpful advice on artful makeovers.
Hotel Renovator Interior Designer Preview:
Hotel Renovator’s Story Mode takes you on a challenging journey to make a successful business and popular destination from what starts out as a rather sad-looking hotel. You’ve inherited this property from your missing grandfather, and you’ll get to learn more about the mysteries of his past while progressing through the game.
For a more carefree experience, Sandbox Mode lets you unleash your creative instincts fully, just as Noz Nozawa does in today’s new video. Join her as she discovers the endless possibilities the game has to offer, reacting, sharing tips, and finding herself nicely accommodated for choice with over 2,000 items, from wall and floor panels to decoration and furniture. You’ll have a wealth of options to choose from across a variety of patterns and colors to help you express your own vibrant style.
Hotel Renovator will let your creativity run even wilder by offering mod support post-launch. Get ready to create and share unique content, lending and drawing inspiration from a community of like-minded renovators!
Hotel Renovator releases March 7 on PC and later this year on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Pre-order now on Steam and the Epic Games Store to get a limited-time 20% discount on the title and unlock the “Palace Furniture Set” DLC with your purchase!
The Leading Video Game Database Relaunches with New Features and Functionality, Positioning the Contributor-Driven Platform for Long-Term Success
New York, NY (February 22, 2023) – Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today the launch of a new and improved MobyGames website, built from the ground up.
The launch of the improved website comes less than one year following Atari’s acquisition of MobyGames, which came with the commitment to invest in improving the platform. The support from Atari enabled the MobyGames team to accelerate the development of the new site, which adds updated functionality for ease of use and an optimized approval workflow. The new desktop and mobile user interface make it easier to explore and contribute to the database. In addition to more robust game data, users with a MobyGames account can rate, review, and manage their game collection.
“I know the team at MobyGames is very excited about the new platform, and I want to thank them for the effort and passion they put into this important industry resource, ” said Atari CEO Wade Rosen. “MobyGames will continue to grow and expand, but this release is a major step forward.”
“I want to thank everyone in the MobyGames community who played such an important role in helping test and provide feedback during the development of the platform,” said Jeremiah Freyholtz, General Manager, MobyGames. “With Atari’s support, I am confident we’ll continue to improve the site and provide an increasingly valuable resource for gamers and game industry professionals.”
Atari and the team behind MobyGames are pleased to share that all game and account information, contributions, game collections, reviews, images, and more have been successfully migrated to the new website. These include:
323,918 games across 311 platforms
5,506,997 credits
1,015,236 industry professionals
45,642 companies
746,299 images of cover art and packaging
989,793 screenshots taken by players
894,894 images of promotional art
To stay up-to-date on all things Atari and retro pop-culture, follow Atari on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
About Atari
Atari is an interactive entertainment company and an iconic gaming industry brand that transcends generations and audiences. The company is globally recognized for its multi-platform, interactive entertainment and licensed products. Atari owns and/or manages a portfolio of more than 200 unique games and franchises, including world-renowned brands like Asteroids®, Centipede®, Missile Command®, Pong®, and RollerCoaster Tycoon®. Atari has offices in New York and Paris.
Atari shares are listed in France on Euronext Growth Paris (ISIN Code FR0010478248, Ticker ALATA).
MobyGames is a renowned video game database resource for video game information spanning back to the late 1950s and serves as the authoritative source for information about video games and the individuals or organizations behind them. Similar to the role IMDb plays in the film and television industry, MobyGames provides in-depth and accurate video game credits and information for titles ranging from new Triple-A games, to classic retro titles, to small indie projects. Thanks to a dedicated community of contributors, the MobyGames database is constantly updated and moderated.
Following its launch on mobile devices, where over 90,000 users have played the game, the Imaginatios universe is now also coming to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Steam digital storefronts with a new premium adventure packed with new features that will be available this spring.
BookyPets Legends is an adventure, exploration and collecting videogame, designed to encourage reading among children from 7 to 12 years old in an easy and fun way.
Now reading can also be a game for your children thanks to our exclusive methodology, GameReaging®, for the development of a reading habit, which has been scientifically validated.
BookyPets Legends transports children to the other side of the universe, the magical kingdom of Imaginatios which is inhabited by all the characters from fairy tales, and by magical creatures with book-shaped wings, the BookyPets!
The game consists of freeing the BookyPets, who have been trapped by 3 evil monsters (Fear, Laziness, and Selfishness), by reading hundreds of proverbs, fables, tales, legends and children’s novels, in order to get keys and open the cages in which they are locked up. They will be helped by numerous fairytale characters, although some of them will also try to thwart the mission!
BookyPets seamlessly blends reading into the gameplay and narrative of the video game to encourage children to read. Now, reading and playing will be one and the same.
Key features:
Game mechanics based on the most popular games for children aged 7 to 12 (RPG, Tower Defense, Collecting, etc.).
More than 50 BookyPets to rescue, collect and evolve. The Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Unicorn, the Blue Mermaid and the Winged Lion are just some of them – children won’t stop reading until they manage to rescue them! The habit and passion for reading are already underway!
Character editor with dozens of customizable elements to create your own in-game avatars.
More than 2,200 fantasy readings: traditional proverbs and sayings, classic and modern tales, fables, and children’s novels.
Your children will get rewards for each reading: spells, energy and keys to free their BookyPets. In addition, there are special rewards for daily reading.
Information about the children’s progress and the readings they have done: number of words read, new vocabulary, type of readings done…
All the game texts and readings are bilingual: available in Spanish and English.
BookyPets is the first video game that encourages reading in boys and girls between 7 and 12 years old. Based on its own methodology (GameReading ®) to generate the reading habit and the development of skills, it proposes a fantastic adventure of exploration and collecting, with more than 2,200 bilingual readings.
BookyPets is an app and game for Nintendo, PlayStation and Steam with a worldwide presence and especially in Spain, the US and LATAM whose contents and readings are available in Castilian Spanish and English.
Vertigo Games delivers two high-octane VR experiences to PlayStation®VR2: After The Fall and Unplugged: Air Guitar, both available today. But that’s not all—get ready to slay a horde of demons in Hellsweeper VR later this year.
Sydney, Australia, February 23, 2023 – Vertigo Games, the VR publishing and development arm of the PLAION Group, is thrilled to celebrate the launch of the PlayStation®VR2 headset by releasing the award-winning titles After the Fall and Unplugged: Air Guitar for the new platform, and by bringing Hellsweeper VR to the PS VR2 in Q2 of 2023. Whether through the co-operative shooting action of After the Fall, the headbanging rhythm challenges of Unplugged: Air Guitar, or the intense demon-slaying combat of Hellsweeper VR, Vertigo invites players everywhere into the immersive world of virtual reality. Check out the launch trailers below:
After the Fall Launch Trailer
Unplugged: Air Guitar PSVR2 Trailer
Hellsweeper: VR PSVR2 Trailer
AFTER THE FALL
In After the Fall, team up with a maximum of three friends to take on a snowbreed, post-apocalyptic environment filled with chilling zombie attackers. With intense four-player co-op and cross-play at its core, After the Fall offers action-packed gameplay that has been refined and enhanced to match the technical capabilities of the PlayStation®VR2. For players that already own the PS VR1 digital version of the game, upgrade for free to the digital PS5 version of the game and get the PlayStation exclusive Road warrior skin, valid for both the regular and deluxe editions. Other new features include:
Additionally, the Descension update will launch simultaneously with the launch of PS VR2 for all platforms. As the title’s biggest update yet, Descension adds two new maps (Hospital and Subway), and a range of quality of life fixes. After the Fall: Complete Edition is now available on PS VR2, which includes the Frontrunner Season, Reclamation update and Descension Update.
UNPLUGGED: AIR GUITAR
Unplugged: Air Guitar is the critically-acclaimed and Quest VR Game of the Year 2021-winning VR guitar game produced by the lead guitarist of the celebrated Guitar Hero franchise. Featuring hit songs from rock legends like Weezer, The Offspring and Ozzy Osbourne, Unplugged: Air Guitar invites you to shred your way into rock and roll history, with integrated VR support and global leaderboards to showcase your skills. The game’s signature guitar gameplay has been fully redesigned around the PlayStation VR2 Dual Sense controllers to bring the award-winning virtual guitar experience to the PlayStation VR audience, with over 55 songs to rock and Steel Panther’s Satchel there to help guide you to the heights of fame!
HELLSWEEPER VR
From the creators of Sairento VR,Hellsweeper VR is a roguelike first-person combat game where you take on the role of an undead immortal, tasked with entering hell with the sole mission of eliminating its twisted souls. With its combination of intense locomotion, arcade-style action and semi-realistic physics, Hellsweeper VR allows you to unleash your power like never before. Juggle enemies in the air, rip them in half using psychic powers, use a lopped-off enemy limb as a club, release concussive blasts to smash enemies into a bloody mess of smithereens—no matter your style of play, the destructive possibilities are endless, arriving to the PlayStation VR2 in Q3!
To stay up to date about After the Fall,Unplugged: Air Guitar, Hellsweeper VR and Vertigo Games’ other VR titles, join the community on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and sign up for the VR newsletter on http://vertigo-games.com.
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Platforms: Meta Quest 2, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®VR2, Steam, and Viveport
About Vertigo Games
Vertigo Games, the VR publishing and development arm of the global PLAION Group, is a multi-platform VR publisher and developer with offices in Rotterdam & Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Los Angeles, California. With teams in the areas of development, publishing and LBE (location-based entertainment) distribution, the company offers a portfolio of quality VR games that provide novel, powerful and full-featured gaming experiences both inside of the home, as well as outside of the home through its leading LBE content provider and management platform SpringboardVR. Games include Vertigo Studios’ evergreen brand Arizona Sunshine®, the epic VR action FPS After the Fall® and the music game Unplugged VR®. Upcoming games include the highly anticipated Hellsweeper VR. Vertigo Games is a PLAION (previously Koch Media) Group company. http://vertigo-games.com
About Mixed Realms
We are a Singapore based game development studio focused on developing our own IP. We develop video games and virtual worlds for all kinds of gaming formats and platforms. Our first game released in late 2016 – Sairento VR – became one of the best-selling VR games globally. Highly regarded by the gaming community and critics, it is also one of the very few commercially successful virtual reality games. We love engaging gamers. It’s customary for us to consult and discuss ideas with them since we began the journey as game developers years ago. We believe in building games that gamers want to play, hence your opinions matter to us. While we are responsible for coming up with the core concepts and master plan for the game, you can play a vital role in bringing about changes and new elements. As such, we welcome all your feedback and suggestions and will consider all carefully.
Sydney, Australia – 23 February 2023 – Playing as detective Doe, the player must unravel the mysteries of Mato Anomalies when the visual novel with JRPG influences launches on the 10th of March 2023. To celebrate the upcoming launch, Prime Matter and Arrowiz have published the official music video produced by Mi Jiayu, and featuring Qi Zhang, the singer and voice artist of the character Mist.
The sound of Mato Anomalies here:
Throughout the game’s anime-inspired visual novel storyline the player, together with their companions, will discover many secrets while working to unravel the mysteries that the neo-noir city of Mato has to offer. Detective Doe must find a way to stop the dark forces that are plotting behind the scenes of this neon-filled backdrop.
The game will release digitally on PlayStation® 4, PlayStation® 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S, Nintendo Switch, and PC (only on Steam) on 10th March 2023. Physically, Mato Anomalies will release on PlayStation® 4, PlayStation® 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch on 17th March 2023 in Australia and New Zealand.
Established in 2016 by creatives and executives from CCP, Take-Two, Marvel Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Arrowiz is a global video game developer with offices in Shanghai, China and Irvine, California. Initially established to develop products for the VR market with BEATS FEVER (published by Sunsoft in Japan and by Arrowiz globally), the team reimagined its focus towards story-driven video games, with its initial launch HERMITAGE: STRANGE CASE FILES (published by Bilibili for China and by Giiku Games globally) becoming the best-selling Chinese visual novel on Steam in 2019. Arrowiz aims to create innovative, original games and transform world-famous stories into wonderful experiences for global audiences.
About Prime Matter:
Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Prime Matter is the premium gaming label dedicated to delivering a range of diverse and immersive games from amazing gaming development talents all around the globe.
Working across projects of all styles, scopes and sizes, single-player, co-op to live ops, from producing to publishing, from ambitious teams taking their first step that need full support without compromising their dream to larger established successful studios searching that next step in the global market and building of brands.
Prime Matter looks to lead through creativity, expression and passion, with games that will grip and enchant with enthralling story-telling, winning an audience with its incredible moments and larger-than-life experiences. Prime Matter is a proud member of the PLAION Group, formerly known as Koch Media.
