Kokoro Clover Delivers Cartoon-Inspired Platforming to Switch, Steam August 4

Season 1 of Japanese Platformer Series Unveils New Content, English Debut

TOKYO — 28 July, 2022 — Kokoro Clover Season 1, the 2D platformer inspired by Japanese Sunday morning cartoons developed by Hikoteru and published by Phoenixx, gets ready to steal hearts on Steam for PC and Nintendo Switch on Thursday, 4 August, 2022.

Treffy, a young spirit summoner itching to go on adventures, comes across malevolent treasure Hunter Valx Vulcan and his partner in crime Necoco one morning as she picks herbs for her grandfather. Strange phenomena disturb the peaceful forest where she lives since, as she stumbles upon the Kokoro Clover, which lets her use magic and transform into elemental spirits. An incredible adventure unravels where many antagonists seek to claim the “Kokoro Clover for themselves as Treffy tries to understand its secrets.

Experience a world of gorgeous pixel art world inspired by Sunday morning Japanese cartoons with fun, uplifting music. Run, jump, and shoot mana to beat monsters along the way. Dance with the surrounding creatures to collect moves through 12 exciting chapters. With the help of friendly spirits like Dee the water spirit, Sal the fire dragon spirit, and more, use Treffy’s powers to change her appearance or transform into strong inspirited versions of herself with her spirit friends’ attributes to defeat those that want the Kokoro Clover for themselves.

Initially released in two separate parts on Steam and only available in Japanese, Kokoro Clover Season 1 contains an all-new chapter along with the previously-released content in one package, all localized in English and on Nintendo Switch for the first time. Take in the whole story of Kokoro Clover in Story Mode, or just skip straight to the action in Adventure Mode. Use coins collected during the adventure to unlock new power-ups, cards, dances, and new characters, and tackle Boss Rush and Mini-Game Modes!

“I am astounded by the attention Kokoro Clover has gathered outside of Japan and am glad everyone can enjoy both the previously-released and brand new content in English,” says Hikoteru, solo creator of Kokoro Clover. “In Japan, Sunday morning cartoons are a big part of our upbringing, and we know many western fans know this joy as well!”

Kokoro Clover releases on Nintendo Switch and Steam for PC on Thursday, 4 August, 2022, for $18.99 with support for English and Japanese language text. Pre-orders are available now on the Nintendo eShop, with a 10% launch discount.

For more information, join the official Kokoro Clover Discord server.

About Phoenixx

Established in 2019 by industry veterans, Phoenixx aims to support innovative and creative developers from Japan and worldwide. Its mission is to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one creator, game, and community at a time.

To learn more, visit the Phoenixx official website, Phoenixx Facebook page, and follow @Phoenixx_inc on Twitter.

NETMARBLE’S CASUAL SHOOTING GAME GOLDEN BROS RELEASES TODAY ON IOS, ANDROID, AND PC

Participate in Limited-Time Events and Earn Special Rewards to Celebrate the Grand Launch

LOS ANGELES – JULY 28, 2022 – Netmarble, a leading developer and publisher of high-quality mobile games, has announced its casual shooting game Golden Bros is now available on the App Store, Google Play, and PC (via CUBE Launcher).

The game features quick, intense combat that lasts within 3 minutes. Players will experience 3v3 crypto battles that will drive them to team up and defeat their opponents. A team’s momentum can change at any time as Bros will randomly acquire Capsule Abilities during gameplay that can greatly affect the match’s outcome. Players will need to adapt quickly to the abilities they obtain on the battlefield, strategically build their own configurations, and adopt diverse tactics to outwit their opponents.

To celebrate the game’s grand launch, players can enter several limited-time events and obtain special rewards including:

• Bros Pass Event (July 28 – August 26): Upon clearing specific in-game missions, special rewards will be offered: Lady Thunder Gene x 450, Emotes x2, Portraits x2, and Name Tag x2
• Jennifer PvE Event (August 8 – 14): Play as Jennifer and defeat the Boss stage to receive these special rewards: Jennifer Gene x150 and Emote x1
• Mission Event (August 15 – 21): Players will need to complete in-game missions in order to receive the following rewards: Master Kung Gene x 150, Equipment Chest x2, and Equipment Selection Chest x1

While 9 special costumes would draw much attention from the fans, with various ratings for Jennifer, Sugar-Sugar, Lady Thunder, and Margaret to wear into battle, depending on the costume rating, players will obtain various specs in terms of durability, token earning rate and more.

Based on the results from the early access period, the game has made improvements in an effort to provide a more stable, rewarding gaming experience. For those who played during the early access period, their earnings for early access token, ‘eGBP’ will be automatically exchanged to ‘Red Gadget’ (100 eBP -> 1 Red Gadget) upon the Grand Launch. Additionally, maintaining a higher tier will allow for more opportunities to mine GBC and act as a deterrence for intentional defeat in matches, bot activity, and account creation abuse.

Golden Bros, developed by Netmarble F&C, is the latest release from Netmarble to apply blockchain technology, and related updates to be revealed progressively. Players can utilize a range of game features including an easy control system, intuitive combat rules and multiple maps to create different strategies during their battles. Loaded with a number of unique and fun ‘Bros,’ new experiences await players in each match thanks to short battle periods and the ability to construct their own growth tree through various skill configurations. The game supports multiple languages including English, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Thai, French, and German.

Visit the Discord, Facebook and Twitter pages for the latest information on Golden Bros. The official website can be found here: https://goldenbros.netmarble.com.

About Netmarble Corporation

Established in Korea in 2000, Netmarble Corporation is a top developer and publisher pushing the boundaries of the mobile gaming experience with highly innovative games including Marvel Future Revolution, Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds, Lineage 2: Revolution, The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross, Blade & Soul Revolution and Marvel Future Fight. As a parent company of Kabam, and a major shareholder of Jam City and HYBE (formerly Big Hit Entertainment), Netmarble strives to entertain audiences around the world with a variety of mobile games based on its powerful franchises and collaborations with IP holders worldwide. More information can be found at http://company.netmarble.com.

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RimWorld Console Edition Launches Tomorrow, Putting The Fate Of The Colony In Your Hands

Experience your own dramatic rise and fall in RimWorld Console Edition

Middlesborough, UK. (July 28, 2022) — The next critically-acclaimed console port from developer and publisher Double Eleven (Rust Console Edition, Prison Architect Console Edition) is finally here.

Launching tomorrow for $39.99, RimWorld Console Edition has received rave reviews (10/10 Windows Central, 80/100 Common Sense Media, 85/100 God Is A Geek) and promises to bring PlayStation and Xbox players one of the most engaging and enthralling sim experiences available. Preorders are available now at rimworld.double11.com/preorder. 

One of PC gaming’s most popular sim titles since its official release in 2018, RimWorld offers an organic storytelling experience like no other. From the beginning of a game, players will pick a starting location for their three randomly generated colonists on a randomly generated planet. From there, the lives of those colonists are in the hands of the player and whichever AI storyteller they’ve chosen. 

Check out the RimWorld Console Edition launch trailer:

As players navigate these characters through each trial and tribulation thrown their way – whether a sudden bout of plague hits their colony or a horde of man-eating monkeys invade – a story will slowly unfold. Heroes will rise among the colonists, those who perform acts of daring seemingly on a whim. Tensions will rise as colonists interact with one another, building their own social relationships or romances. And inevitably, a challenge will arise that takes some kind of toll, leaving players to pick up the pieces for those who survive. 

Driving these stories forward are RimWorld’s three intelligent AI storytellers: Phoebe Chillax, Cassandra Classic, and Randy Random. With each throwing their own unique blend of challenges at players, no two games of RimWorld Console Edition are ever the same. To ensure that players can comfortably navigate RimWorld’s litany of menus and complex UI during even the most intense situations, Double Eleven has worked closely with RimWorld developer Ludeon Studios to expertly translate the game’s PC controls to gamepad. Console players will feel right at home as they fend off invasions of mechs or decide the fate of a berserking colonist. 

With a mountain of content already available, players can further bolster RimWorld Console Edition by purchasing its Digital Deluxe version, which comes with the Royalty DLC. Adding a brand-new faction to the game, The Empire, players will be able to antagonize the highly advanced civilization for a chance to steal their weapons and armor or ally themselves and join The Empire’s court. Doing so brings all the benefits that befit a noble in RimWorld’s universe, including amazing psionic powers. New threats, advanced prosthetics and modifications, and more are brought to RimWorld Console Edition’s bustling world with the addition of the Royalty DLC.

Build your colony, guide them best you can, and create unique stories that can’t be experienced anywhere else when RimWorld Console Edition launches on PlayStation and Xbox consoles tomorrow.

For more information about RimWorld Console Edition please visit rimworld.double11.com 

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About Double Eleven Double Eleven Limited are a full-service games publisher and developer based in Teesside. Since becoming an independent publisher, they have focused on bringing great games like Minecraft Dungeons, Prison Architect, Goat Simulator and Rust to new platforms and audiences. Double Eleven has also developed a strong reputation for technical skill, working on games such as the Lego Harry Potter series (PS4/XB1/Switch), Crackdown 3 (Windows 10), and has just announced that they are working with Bethesda to bring new adventures to The Wasteland in Fallout 76.

Watch the 25-minute gameplay video and listen to the Kuklam Studios developer commentary to get a glimpse of the horror you’re about to face onboard the Ascendancy spaceship. 

Add the game to your Steam Wishlist (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1460010/Cryospace/) to prepare for your mission once the game launches.

CRYOSPACE – MAIN FEATURES

• Explore the shipwreck. Scout for resources, including oxygen, weapons, and anything else that will increase your chances of survival.
• Team up with your crew members. Find survivors on this almost-destroyed derelict, arm them, and prepare them to fight.
• Use your wits to stay alive. Solve puzzles, avoid traps, or set them against whatever is hunting you. Remember, only the smartest ones will stay alive.
• Load, shoot, repeat. Dangerous alien life forms, never in your scariest dreams imagined existed, are playing at home. You’re a guest, or rather, an invader. As such, you’re not welcome – be assured they will let you know that.

CRYOSPACE – THE PLOT

Whether you call it a stroke of luck or a bad omen, the fact remains that you’re the only person awakened from cryo-sleep on a massive starship navigating through space, far from other planets, vessels, or celestial bodies. You’re not alone, however – the ship is filled with deeply sleeping workers, soldiers, and other colonizers sent to populate the far corners of the universe. The plan was simple. Arrive at your destiny, start a colony, and become a legend. However, something went horribly wrong, and here you are. Here, forced to remember at all times not to breathe too deeply, to save oxygen, forced to scout for resources for distribution to the crew members you were forced to awaken. You must decide whose skills are essential for survival, and worst of all, who should get back in the freezer. Besides your troops, there is clearly someone or something else here, something you were not prepared to face. Now the choice is yours – you can lay low and eventually die, as you won’t last long without exploring the ship and hunting for resources. Or, you can get out there and at least give it a shot, literally and figuratively. Whatever you do, remember to keep quiet. Space might be silent, but on a spaceship, your enemies can always hear your scream.

Cryospace is being developed by Kuklam Studios and will be published on PC by Games Operators.

More information about the game can be found on Steam.

About Kuklam Studios

Kuklam Studios is a small team of passionate game developers who worked, among others, at CD Projekt RED. The studio has launched a few titles thus far, the best known being Cartonfall. https://www.facebook.com/Kuklam-studios-162018707749220/

About Games Operators

Games Operators is a publishing company that invests in, releases, and promotes video games. The company helps develop innovative and unique video games like 911 Operator, Radio Commander, 112 Operator, BE-A Walker, and Transport INC. by getting involved in projects at various levels of progress – from the conceptual phase to nearly-finished products. http://www.gameops.pl/

Ryu Games, creators of Flame, reveal distribution partnership with chain gamemaker HitBox Games
 
SAN FRANCISCO, California – July 28, 2022 – First AAA-quality fast-paced hack and slash RPG in the blockchain Swords of Blood is coming to Flame, a growing Web3 games store and marketplace currently in beta. Ryu Games announced the new distribution partnership with HitBox Games on the heels of announcing several other partnerships for its Flame platform with top chain gaming developers, Ulti Arena, Mirai Labs and Steem Monsters. Starting today, early access players can download Swords of Blood through the Flame platform, which offers a seamless onboarding and playing experience for Web3 games.

Ross Krasner, CEO of Ryu Games, said: “Building player trust in Web3 gaming is critical, and to achieve this, we need an infrastructure that is frictionless, connected and consistent. Flame is our answer to building that player trust with a multi-chain wallet, store and launcher of PC games that users onboard through a simple social login. We’re now building scale with key partnerships like HitBox Games and we’re excited to be helping bring the widely popular Swords of Blood game to millions of players interested in Web3 games worldwide.”

Mariusz Szynalik, Game Development Director at HitBox Games, said: “There’s a tremendous amount of untapped potential for Web3 games in the market today, and in part due to player access, friction with wallets and more. Flame is helping us reach audiences with a better onboarding experience, and we’re thrilled to be bringing Swords of Blood to the platform today.”

Flame continues to add highly popular Web3 titles to its platform, most recently, with the additions of Ultimate Battle Arena, Minionverse, Splinterlands and Pegaxy.

For more information about Ryu Games and Flame, please join the beta waitlist and join the Flame channels on Telegram and Discord.

About Ryu Games
Based in San Francisco, Ryu Games is the creator of Flame — a launcher for Web3 games. Ryu Games is changing the way people play Web3 games by making onboarding and playing as seamless as any Web2 game. For more information about the Flame platform and its growing catalog of titles, visit https://flamestore.xyz.

Survive an Ultra-Brutal Reality Game Show from a Future Dystopian Hellscape in Homicidal All-Stars

Good Shepherd Entertainment and Artificer’s original turn-based strategy IP debuts on Steam and GOG.com later this year

AMSTERDAM — July 28, 2022 — Good Shepherd Entertainment and developer Artificer have revealed Homicidal All-Stars, a single-player, turn-based strategy game set in a dystopian future where citizens and convicts alike compete to survive on a brutal reality game show. This deep tactical experience featuring unique heroes and villains in an over-the-top bloodsport of guts and gore will launch on PC via Steam and GOG.com later this year.

Homicidal All-Stars is a hugely popular sensation for a future society torn apart by extreme income inequality, rapacious corporations, climate change, civil unrest and war. As a contestant, you must survive deadly urban arenas packed with lethal traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed killers. Defeat your enemies, become a star, and you could win it all!

Every episode of Homicidal All-Stars delivers a hellish new obstacle course with a distinct theme and challenges. Evade and disarm traps, overcome ambushes, explore for helpful sponsorship packages, and be on guard for especially nasty surprises from the show’s director. When the mayhem is over, you’ll head backstage to rest and recuperate: record a confessional, chat with your fellow challengers and the show’s crew, then level up and customize your loadout for the next night of lethal dangers for the audience’s amusement.

KEY FEATURES:

• Challenging Strategy Gameplay: Dive into a full campaign featuring deep tactical combat mechanics that will test your skills across a variety of hand-crafted levels.
• Create Your Perfect Squad: Build your team from a range of classes with their own skill trees, and customize their loadouts with powerful weapons, implants and utilities to take on each episode’s challenges. Level up your characters and discover unique strategic synergies to survive.
• Face Ruthless Enemy Rivals: An array of vicious killers outfitted with heavy weapons and cutting-edge cyborg augments will force you to adapt your tactics to emerge victorious.
• Survive a Spectacle of Gore & Violence: The heartless, bloodthirsty masses love watching players get dismembered by sadistic traps, environments and ambushes. Unleash bloody finishing moves and fiery explosions to dazzle the audience as they cheer on, but watch out for special surprises from the director, who delights in breaking the rules to keep the crowd hooked.
• Become a Legend: Defying death through skillful play will make you a star. Grow your fame, gain new fans, and sign sponsorship deals to unlock bonus rewards to help you win the show.
• A Classic Revenge Story: Experience over-the-top, American Gladiators-style action and attitude inspired by sci-fi epics like RoboCop, Escape from New York and The Running Man.
• Twitch Audience Integration: Twitch streamers can invite their viewers to join the carnage, voting in real time on events they’d like to see in game. Will their beloved fans help them out in a pinch and keep the hype train rolling? Or will they choose violence and send the streamer to their doom?

Homicidal All-Stars is available to wishlist now on Steam and GOG.com. For more on the game, visit www.HomicidalAllStars.com, and keep up with the latest updates on Discord.

About Good Shepherd Entertainment

Good Shepherd Entertainment is an award-winning independent game publisher based in the Netherlands. The company has built a robust global footprint, shepherding talented and innovative development teams to create games that delight, surprise, challenge, and – most importantly – entertain. We’ve done this by pairing creators with writers, musicians and IP powerhouses and through strategic partnerships with some of the industry’s most notable names, including Devolver Digital, Croteam and Perfect World. In addition to the critically acclaimed John Wick: Hex, GSE’s selection of titles include Monster Train, Phantom Doctrine, the Transport Fever series, Hard West, and the upcoming Hard West II. www.GoodShepherd.games

About Artificer

Artificer is a Warsaw-based studio founded by the team responsible for Hard West and Phantom Doctrine. Artificer is equipped to punch above its weight class: the studio consists of over 40 talented developers, including many award-winning veterans who have previously worked on numerous acclaimed titles, including Call of Juarez, Outriders, The Witcher, Dying Light, Shadow Warrior 3 and the Dead Island series.

Led by the “measure twice, cut once” philosophy, with immense devotion to hand-crafted work and strongly established turn-based experience, Artificer are ready to present you with their new upcoming turn-based title: Homicidal All-Stars.

Vol. 3 Eden Treaty: Ch. 3 “Our Stories” welcomes a new student and 1,200 Pyroxene celebration gift

SEOUL – July 28, 2022 – A shocking turn of events unfolds just before the Eden Treaty can be signed in the latest Blue Archive main story update “Vol. 3 Eden Treaty: Chapter 3 ‘Our Stories’” from publisher Nexon, released Wednesday, July 27. Along with the update, new student Nodoka (Hot Spring) has been added and in-game currency Pyroxene will be gifted to players who log in by Tuesday, Aug. 2.

This update tells the story of Sensei and his students signing the Eden Treaty to reveal Trinity General School’s traitor. As everyone breathes a sigh of relief after the traitor is placed behind bars, a shocking turn of events unfolds and sends Trinity into chaos.

Alongside the main story update, players can recruit special student Nodoka (Hot Spring) from the Red Winter Federal Academy’s Spec Ops No. 227. Nodoka (Hot Spring)’s EX Skill allows her to heal any ally with the lowest health within a circular range by throwing snacks at them.

All players who log-in by Tuesday, Aug. 2 will receive 1,200 Pyroxene; players who log-in seven days straight will be given 100 Pyroxene each day until Tuesday, Aug. 9. On the seventh day, the 3★ Furniture Twinkling Christmas Tree that increases café Comfort will be rewarded.

Blue Archive‘smain story “Vol. 3 Eden Treaty: Chapter 3 ‘Our Stories’” first half update details can be found in the official community forum and social media pages.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EN.BlueArchive

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EN_BlueArchive

Discord: https://discord.gg/bluearchiveglobal

About NEXON Co. Ltd.
Founded in 1994, NEXON Co., Ltd. (Nexon) (3659.TO) is a company engaged in the production, development and operation of online games and Virtual Worlds. First listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December 2011, Nexon was placed on JPX400 in 2015 and added to the Nikkei Stock Index 300 in 2017. In 2020, Nexon was added to the Nikkei 225. Nexon currently has more than 45 live games on multiple platforms including mobile and available in more than 190 countries. Major game franchises include MapleStory, KartRider and Dungeon&Fighter. In 2021, Nexon completed the acquisition of Embark Studios AB, a company based in Stockholm, Sweden, developing multiple projects for global release.

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Increased 100-Player Server Cap, Expanded Derelict Missions, Anvil Centurion Vehicle, and AI Planetary Navigation Offer New Gameplay Opportunities in the ‘Verse

LOS ANGELES – July 28, 2022 – Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) today released Star Citizen – Alpha 3.17.2, bringing new content and features to the expanding ‘verse. Available for download later today, Alpha 3.17.2 introduces the all-new Siege of Orison dynamic event, expands explorable derelict ships and outposts, implements the first iteration of AI Planetary Nav Mesh, adds the drivable Anvil Centurion anti-aircraft vehicle, and more. Today’s update also doubles the capacity of servers from 50 to 100 players per server, allowing more pilots to participate in large-scale dynamic events, tournaments, and PvP encounters.

Siege of Orison is a dynamic event set in an entirely new location in the atmosphere of the Crusader gas giant. Players are invited to join the fight against Nine Tails pirate forces and engage in fast-paced FPS and vehicular combat to gain control of significant new floating platforms, requiring teamwork and creative strategies to achieve victory.

The update also introduces more solo-focused criminal activities with the addition of illegal delivery missions, which can be accessed once pilots have earned a reputation as a trustworthy business partner for outlaw factions. Illegal delivery missions provide greater rewards but come at higher risks including a greater chance of being interdicted by security forces while in-transit.

The first iteration of AI Planetary Nav Mesh has been completed and deployed in the Alpha 3.17.2 update, allowing NPCs to navigate planetary surfaces outside of major cities and even land ships to drop off other NPCs such as troop reinforcements to defend an outpost. Explorable derelicts in Star Citizen have also been expanded considerably with a new Reclaimer Point Of Interest (POI) on microTech, a new wreck-site in space including new mission types, and the introduction of five derelict colonial outposts throughout the Stanton system. These new missions and locations make use of the Planetary Nav Mesh, with derelicts having a chance of being occupied by hostile NPCs eager to defend their territory and the rewards hidden within. 

Star Citizen – Alpha 3.17.2update key features include:

• Siege of Orison Dynamic Event: In this new dynamic event, the Nine Tails outlaw group has taken control of Crusader Industries’ corporate sales platforms by establishing a no-fly zone to prevent access by air. The Siege of Orison is set in an all-new location across four sprawling, highly-detailed platforms that, when combined, offer a massive area nearly equal to that of its own landing zone. The event is primarily focused on FPS combat, with players working together to help Crusader Industries take back control of the platforms and disable the inverter device by eliminating the Nine Tails Lieutenants on each platform to draw out the challenging Nine Tails Commander.
• 100-Player Server Capacity: The maximum numberof players on a server has been doubled from 50 to 100 players! This increase adds new emergent gameplay for large group activities including space battles, races, and more. This represents the next step on the road to implementing Server Meshing, while CIG continues to work on ongoing network and stability improvements.
• New Derelict Reclaimer POI and Missions: A new derelict Reclaimer POI has been added to microTech for players to explore, offering new mission types and loot. The new location supports the AI Planetary Nav Mesh, allowing for the introduction of combat missions featuring NPCs. An additional space derelict Reclaimer has also been added with three new custom mission types.
• Derelict Colonial Outposts: Recently shown off to the Star Citizen community in a development livestream, the outposts are finally ready for pilots to explore! Five derelict colonial outposts have been added across the Stanton system, with their design based on the homesteads first shown at CitizenCon 2021.
• AI Planetary Navigation: The first iteration of the Planetary Navigation Mesh is now live, allowing NPCs to navigate the varied terrain of planets and even land dropships to deliver troop reinforcements. The tech will serve as the foundation for future content planned for Star Citizen.
• Anvil Centurion: Control the skies with the Anvil Centurion, now available to drive in-game! This short-range anti-aircraft vehicle houses both the pilot and a dedicated gunner and features four energy weapons with unlimited ammunition to dominate local airspace. The Centurion is a must-have for any combined-arms forces, providing critical support for ground troops.
• Illegal Delivery Missions: Expanding the existing courier and delivery missions, all-new illegal variations have been added to the game. Once players have built a reputation as a reliable business partner doing legal missions for outlaw factions, they’ll earn the opportunity to pursue a career transporting illicit goods. These missions offer greater rewards, but come with additional risks of being interdicted by security forces or encountering other criminal players who want the illicit goods for themselves.

Star Citizen combines classic space sim and FPS gameplay with boundary-pushing visuals in a massively multiplayer setting of unprecedented fidelity. Live how you want to live: shift paths from cargo hauler to outlaw, explorer, or any other role, whenever you want. Explore multiple planets and moons, including vast cities and underground caverns, all created with a unique combination of procedural planet technology and complementary hand-crafted design.

For further information, including how to download and play Star Citizen, visit the official website. Enlist today and join this ever-expanding universe by visiting the game’s Welcome Hub and Guide System for tips on how to play. Keep up to date with Star Citizen development via the game’s Progress Tracker and roadmap. Millions of players from around the world have already joined to help CIG build the most ambitious game ever made. For continued updates, follow Star Citizen on Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube.

About Cloud Imperium Games

Cloud Imperium Games is a new kind of independent studio dedicated to delivering AAA games outside the established publisher system. It was founded in 2012 by renowned visionary game developer Chris Roberts (Wing Commander series, Freelancer, Privateer), Sandi Gardiner, and international media lawyer and producer Ortwin Freyermuth (Carlito’s Way, Shattered, Das Boot – Director’s Cut), with industry veteran and studio director Erin Roberts (Lego videogame series, Starlancer, Privateer) joining the team in 2013. Cloud Imperium Games is creating Star Citizen, a record-shattering, largely crowdfunded space sim, and Squadron 42, a Hollywood-caliber, story-driven single-player game set in the same universe. Cloud Imperium Games operates in “open development” – sharing progress and updates in near real time. This paradigm-shifting development process (game development usually occurs behind closed doors) gives the community an unprecedented look at Star Citizen and Squadron 42’s development and allows direct feedback and interaction between players and developers, thereby ensuring that the games being developed are what players want to play.

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Leave Earth in the past and ascend to the heavens in humanity’s last hope for survival

Wiesbaden, Germany – 28th July 2022. It’s nearly time to ascend to the cloudscape, because today, indie publisher Assemble Entertainment revealed a 20th September 2022, launch date for Sphere – Flying Cities, the one-of-a-kind sci-fi survival game leaving Early Access and coming to Steam and GOG. 

Unlike your typical post-apocalyptic city-builder, Sphere – Flying Cities introduces a unique plot twist: humanity’s last bastion isn’t on the decimated surface of Earth but in the skies! Utilizing novel anti-gravity technology, players manage the well-being of humanity’s last inhabitants in their very first flying city.

Soar through the sky as the denizens of the arial city rebuild, restructure, and protect the last semblance of society. Additionally, the full release of this sky-faring sci-fi title will see new features such as a fully fleshed-out story campaign, six new building blueprints to discover, a completely revamped tutorial, and a terrifying new threat — ice storms.

Check out the newest trailer:

About Sphere – Flying Cities 

Inspired by James Blish’s novel “City in Flight”, Sphere – Flying Cities employs a distinct mix of strategy, survival, and city-building simulation elements. Players are put in the position of Commander, whose sole purpose is to maintain order and see to the survival of mankind. In the near future, the planet is thrown into turmoil when Earth’s moon is struck by a colossal asteroid. In the wake of this destruction, the world’s surface is rendered totally uninhabitable. Facing complete annihilation, humanity makes one final and desperate attempt to survive — thanks to newly-created anti-gravity technology, the first (and likely final) faction of flying cities ascends as the ultimate bastion of the human race.

Key Features

• A City in the Clouds: Construct your city with numerous retro-futuristic buildings, utilize the resources available from the unique sky-vironment, and send out drones to harvest (sometimes rare!) resources and repair buildings to keep everyone’s head in the clouds
• The Sky’s the Limit: The anti-gravity device and its deflector-shield are the only things protecting the city from (un)natural disasters; maintaining it means the difference between life and certain doom
• For the Greater Good: Assuring the safety of your city’s denizens is of paramount importance — tend to their needs by supplying food, healthcare, and shelter, as well as undergoing rescue missions. However, keep in mind that you won’t be able to save every building – nor every colonist.
• Write Your Own Story: Each decision you make, turn you take, and building you create chronicles your own narrative in this compelling near-apocalypse scenario. Define your experience by the paths you follow and determine how your city’s story ends.

Developed by Hexagon Sphere Games and published by Assemble Entertainment, Sphere – Flying Cities is available now on Steam Early Access and GOG for £14.99 / €17.99 and will launch fully on 20th September 2022. Add the game to your wishlist here.  

Keeping in line with their philanthropic nature, Assemble Entertainment has partnered with Atmosfair, an environmental development organization that focuses on clean energy climate protection projects, to offer a unique Save the World edition of the game. Including a mini-artbook and in-game cosmetics, a portion of this edition’s profits go directly to the charity.

Interested in learning more about Sphere’s development? Check out the Devlog #3: Tech-tree redesign and more Quality Of Improvements to learn more about Sphere’s development.

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About Assemble Entertainment

Founded in 2016 and based in Wiesbaden, Germany, Assemble Entertainment is an independent games developer best known for the survival city-builder Endzone – A World Apart, that challenges players to survive and thrive following an environmental apocalypse, and the modernized Leisure Suit Larry series, featuring two new entries in the iconic decades-spanning saga. 

Despite the company’s short history, Assemble Entertainment has won the German Developer Award twice — in 2020 and 2021— in the category “Best Publisher.” Assemble Entertainment organizes GermanDevDays, an annual conference held in Frankfurt, Germany since 2016 that attracts more than 1,100 attendees from across the German-speaking video game development industry. The event also includes the GermanDevDays Indie Award, where indie development teams across Germany can participate in varying categories to win a cash prize for their projects. The event is hosted by Stefan Marcinek, CEO and Founder of Assemble.

Download Chernobylite Short Story: The Arrival for free, take advantage of a week-long promotion, and support the crowdfunding campaign to help bring the Black Stalker plushie to life.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 28th, Kraków, Poland.

A year has passed since the survival horror RPG Chernobylite launch, and what a year it’s been! Both The Farm 51 and All in! Games have worked hard on constantly updating the game and enhancing it with free and paid content to make sure Chernobylite is everything gamers wanted it to be. After 365 days and 7,360 Steam reviews resulting in a “Very Positive” rating, it’s time to sum up what both teams have achieved.

During this past year, Chernobylite was not only enriched with a new map, a new weapon, and a new game mode, but gamers also had new types of monsters to face, plenty of skins to choose from, and dozens of new side missions and activities to enjoy.

As usual, the developers don’t plan to stop there and have already planned new content to be added to the game by the end of this year. That content starts with a digital narrative called Chernobylite Short Story: The Arrival, featuring Sashko – the main protagonist’s companion – now available for free on Steam and GOG. You’ll also be able to get the base game and all its previously released DLCs for 30% off during a week-long promotion starting on August 1st.

The Farm 51 has also prepared a special surprise to celebrate the anniversary and launched a crowdfunding campaign on Makeship to bring to life the one and only Black Stalker plushie! The campaign will last until August 25th and will be the only chance to get this limited, 16-cm-tall, fluffy mascot that comes with a blaster and a backpack. While 0% radioactive, it’s 1000% sweet and will most certainly raise the cuteness overload alerts in your house.

There’s also good news for those of you who are less into gaming goodies and more into tech. Starting today, Chernobylite now supports AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 on DX12

ABOUT CHERNOBYLITE

Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG, set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned recreation of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone. You’ll take on the role of Igor, a physicist and ex-employee of the Chernobyl Power Plant, returning to Pripyat to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his fiancee, 30 years prior. Compete with a hostile military presence and other stalkers, face supernatural creatures as well as a harsh and unforgiving environment in your search to uncover the truth. Get ready for a thrilling adventure of survival, conspiracy, horror, love, and obsession. Will you survive your fears?

ABOUT THE FARM 51

The Farm 51 is a Polish video game developer known for projects such as Get Even, World War 3, Chernobyl VR Project, and Chernobylite. Established in 2005 by three game dev veterans (Kamil Bilczyński, Robert Siejka, and Wojtek Pazdur), the company has expanded to over 100 talented employees and continues to grow, creating games for PC, consoles, and mobile. For more information, visit: http://www.thefarm51.com

ABOUT ALL IN! GAMES

All in! Games is a publicly traded video game publishing and production house based in Krakow, Poland. Founded in 2018, the team creates and supports local and international games for PC and consoles. All in! Games’ portfolio features titles such as Chernobylite (The Farm 51), Backfirewall_ (Naraven Games), Exo One (Exbleative), Paradise Lost (PolyAmorous), and many more. For more information, visit: https://www.allingames.com/