Closed Beta for Upcoming Disney and Pixar Cross-Platform Battle Racer Now Available; Hercules and Megara from Disney’s Hercules Unveiled as Playable Racers

PARIS, FRANCE – June 8, 2022 – Gameloft, a leader in the development and publishing of games, is thrilled to announce that, starting today, players worldwide can enter the PC Closed Beta for Disney Speedstorm, an upcoming free-to-play arcade racing experience. Available only on Epic Games Store and Steam, this limited time Closed Beta offers players the first opportunity to race and battle each other as iconic Disney and Pixar heroes and villains re-imagined to compete and battle each other on stunning tracks inspired by Disney and Pixar films. Disney Speedstorm will be cross-playable and available worldwide at launch on PC, Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®5 (PS5™), PlayStation®4 (PS4™), Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One consoles. Sign up for a chance to enter the PC Closed Beta and try the game ahead of its worldwide launch at DisneySpeedstorm.com.

The Disney Speedstorm Closed Beta begins on June 08, 2022, and during this time, players can upgrade and customize their characters and progress through the single player Adventure Map mode, and on weekends players can join in Online Ranked Races, where they can apply all their skills they’ve learned in the most competitive racing environment around! Leverage special grinding rails, combat items, and character’s unique abilities to be the first to cross the finish line.

In celebration of the Closed Beta rollout, ready-to-race versions of Hercules and Megara from Disney’s Hercules will also be joining the Disney Speedstorm roster of high-velocity racers. Both characters will be playable during the Closed Beta period, in addition to previously announced suited-up and race-ready characters including: Belle and the Beast from Disney’s The Beauty and the Beast, Mulan and Li Shang from Mulan, Captain Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann from Pirates of the Caribbean, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck from Mickey & Friends, and Baloo and Mowgli from The Jungle Book. Each of these characters will be playable in the Closed Beta, and screenshots and assets of the ready-to-race Hercules and Meg can be found here.

“We are thrilled to get Disney Speedstorm into the hands of players for this Closed Beta, as this marks the first occasion for us to field valuable feedback from the gaming community.” said Aska Suzuki, Game Manager at Gameloft Barcelona. “We can’t wait to see how players respond to this dynamic and exciting Disney and Pixar racing game, exploring how these characters are interpreted for this racing world, and fully playing cross-platform when we fully launch.”

Disney Speedstorm is a combat racing game featuring heroes and villains from iconic Disney and Pixar films re-imagined as racers with racetracks inspired by each of their unique worlds. Players will soon be able to put the pedal to the metal in tracks solo, or challenge friends in local split-screen and remote multiplayer modes. Players will race in the Closed Beta on breathtaking tracks based on Hercules, The Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean, The Jungle Book, Mulan, and more, and they can experience these worlds from a new dynamic perspective, tuned to fast and thrilling racing! Additionally, the action never slows down thanks to fresh content always around the corner, with a diverse array of Disney and Pixar racers added regularly, and unique tracks released often. More details will be announced closer to launch.

For more news and character announcements, please follow Disney Speedstorm social channels: 

Disney Speedstorm Official Twitter: twitter.com/SpeedstormGame

Disney Speedstorm Official Facebook: facebook.com/disneyspeedstorm/

Disney Speedstorm Official YouTube: youtube.com/c/DisneySpeedstorm

More information about Disney Speedstorm can be found at disneyspeedstorm.com.

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About Gameloft 

Leader in the development and publishing of games, Gameloft® has established itself as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms, two of which are featured in the “Top 10 iOS Games by All-Time Worldwide Downloads” from App Annie. Gameloft operates its own established franchises such as Asphalt®, Dragon Mania Legends, Modern Combat and Dungeon Hunter and also partners with major rights holders including LEGO®, Universal, Illumination Entertainment, Hasbro®, Fox Digital Entertainment, Mattel®, Lamborghini® and Ferrari®. Gameloft distributes its games in over 100 countries and employs 3,600 people worldwide. Every month, 70 million unique users can be reached by advertisers in Gameloft games with Gameloft for brands, a leading B2B offering dedicated to brands and agencies. Gameloft is a Vivendi company. 

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The ambitious sci-fi adventure game and sequel to Deliver Us The Moon is available to pre-order now on PlayStation® 5, PlayStation® 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC.

Cambridge, UK – 8 June 2022. Frontier Foundry, the games label of Frontier Developments plc (AIM: FDEV), revealed today that cinematic sci-fi adventure game Deliver Us Mars will launch on September 27 for PlayStation® 5, PlayStation® 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. At launch, the game will be available on all platforms for a suggested retail price of £24.99/$29.99/€29.99, while the PC-only Deluxe Edition featuring the base game and the original soundtrack will be available for a suggested retail price of £29.99/$34.99/€34.99. Players can pre-order any version of the game from today until launch and receive a 10% discount*.

Accompanying the release date announcement is the first Deliver Us Mars gameplay trailer – English-language YouTube links are available below:

Deliver Us Mars tells the story of Kathy Johanson, who joins the crew of the Zephyr space shuttle on a desperate mission to the Red Planet. Their goal is to save a rapidly-declining Earth by retrieving vital colonisation vessels known as the ARKs, which the shadowy organisation ‘Outward’ stole years earlier. Kathy has another personal motivation for joining the mission to save humanity, however: her father, Isaac, joined Outward on its escape to Mars after being forced to leave his daughter behind when she was a child. Now, after a mysterious message from the Red Planet hints at a connection to her past, Kathy is determined to discover its source.

Players will progress in Deliver Us Mars by conquering platforming challenges, solving complex puzzles, scuba diving, floating in zero gravity and even executing a thrilling launch sequence inside a spaceship. They’ll experience a stunning depiction of Mars as they explore its sandy planetary surface, the interiors of the enormous ARK vessels, icy valleys and abandoned colonies – not to mention sections of the game set on Earth and the Moon. With an action-packed story that mixes epic stakes, personal drama and an unsettling larger mystery, players will uncover the truth behind the disappearance of Outward’s colonists and learn the fate of Kathy’s father.

PC, PlayStation® 5 and Xbox Series X|S players can look forward to an enhanced experience featuring real time ray traced shadows and reflections, with more console-specific functionality to be unveiled before launch.

Deliver Us Mars will feature as part of the PC Gaming Show livestream on Sunday June 12, where the actress who plays Kathy Johanson will be introduced for the first time. Keep up to date on the game with the links below:

*On PlayStation® platforms, players must be subscribed to PlayStation® Plus to be eligible for the pre-order discount.

About Frontier
Frontier Developments plc (AIM: FDEV, ‘Frontier’) is a leading independent developer and publisher of videos founded in 1994 by David Braben, co-author of the iconic Elite game. Based in Cambridge, Frontier uses its proprietary COBRA game development technology to create innovative genre-leading games, primarily for personal computers and videogame consoles. As well as self-publishing internally developed games, Frontier also publishes games developed by carefully selected partner studios under its Frontier Foundry games label.

About Deliver Us Mars
The sequel to the award-winning Deliver Us The Moon, Deliver Us Mars is an atmospheric sci-fi adventure offering an immersive astronaut experience and a close-to-the-heart family drama. Explore new frontiers on a suspense-filled, high-stakes mission to recover the ARK colony ships stolen by the mysterious Outward.

About Frontier Foundry
Frontier Foundry is the games label of Frontier Developments. By forming partnerships with quality external developers and leveraging the company’s proven publishing expertise, Frontier Foundry is best placed to bring players unique and memorable new games that break boundaries and create legacies.

About KeokeN Interactive
KeokeN Interactive is a Dutch independent game developer founded in 2013 by two brothers, Koen and Paul Deetman. Envisioning the games industry as a platform to go beyond traditional gaming and create immersive experiences, KeokeN Interactive aim to develop rich and believable worlds that will make you forget your surroundings and push the boundaries of your reality. KeokeN Interactive’s first game was the well-received and award-winning Deliver Us The Moon.

Deliver Us Mars and Deliver Us The Moon are trademarks of KeokeN Interactive B.V.

Deliver Us Mars uses the Unreal® Engine. Unreal® Engine © 1998-2022, Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved. Unreal and its logo are Epic’s trademarks or registered trademarks in the US and elsewhere.

Dying Light: Definitive Edition Launches June 9

Techland Speaks Directly to the Community and Invites Them to Experience the Ultimate Adventure in Harran

Wrocław, Poland — June 8, 2022 — Dying Light has been a fantastic journey and we are grateful to the community for supporting the game with us during these last 7 years. However, we also understand the sheer number of updates and DLCs released for our game might be daunting for new and returning players. We don’t want you to miss out on any part of the full Dying Light experience.

That’s why we are proud to introduce Dying Light: Definitive Edition! This ultimate edition will premiere on June 9 for a massive discount of up to 70% off!

Dying Light: Definitive Edition will be available on all platforms as a digital release. The Nintendo Switch version will release at a later date as both a digital and retail release.

The Definitive Edition consists of the base game and all 26 DLCs (including skin bundles and expansion packs). It’s the best way to experience the amount of content and love we have poured into this game over 7 long years.

That’s not all! We couldn’t be happier with the awesome community that fully embraced their experience in the city of Harran and kept motivating us to aim ever higher. To thank you for allowing us to spend all these great years with Dying Light, we would like to present everyone with a free DLC – Harran Tactical Unit Bundle for alimited time—2 weeks after the Definitive Edition’s premiere. This offer will be available on Steam, the Epic Games Store, GOG, the PlayStation Store, and the Microsoft Store on Xbox.If you already own the Platinum Edition of the game, you will be automatically upgraded to Definitive Edition for free! You will be able to enjoy 5 new bundles at no additional cost.

This release marks an important moment in the history of Dying Light. On the one hand, it’s a nod to 7 years of immense love and support for this game; on the other, it’s the grand finale of our adventures in Harran. But let’s see what the future brings. And don’t worry—we will keep a steady reroll of previous events for you to enjoy.

Once again, we couldn’t be happier with the awe-inspiring memories this game has brought us, primarily because of our wonderful community. And yet, we also feel it’s the perfect time to move on and shift our focus towards brand-new adventures in the city of Villedor.

Yours truly,

#PeopleOfTechland

About Dying Light

A first-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open-world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam the city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected. Dying Light was published in 2015 and has been played by over twenty million people all over the world. From the creators of hit titles Dead Island and Call of Juarez. Winner of over 50 industry awards and nominations. The game whose uncompromising approach to gameplay set new standards for first-person zombie games.

About Techland

Techland is one of the biggest and best-known Polish game developers with studios in Wroclaw and Warsaw. For over 30 years, we’ve carried a tradition of providing gamers with unforgettable experiences. We’re an international team of over 400 highly-skilled professionals driven by a passion for gaming, always striving for the best quality.

We’re fueled by the support of our global community built on the foundation of successful AAA franchises such as Call of Juarez, Dead Island, or Dying Light. The gamers’ trust in our games has resulted in our newest project, Dying Light 2 Stay Human, selling more than 5 million copies across all platforms within the first month after release.

On top of continuously growing the world of Dying Light through a robust post-launch support plan for Dying Light 2 Stay Human, we’re also working on an unannounced AAA Open World Action RPG set in a brand new fantasy universe; our biggest project to date. Techland’s mission strictly determines every aspect of our work: we want to create unforgettable experiences.

CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games, GWENT: The Witcher Card Game, and Cyberpunk 2077, announce that Promised Land Art Festival is back this August 31st – September 3rd, with tickets now available for purchase via the event’s official website

Aimed at professionals working in film, gaming, and other creative industries, Promised Land Art Festival is a place for the exchange of knowledge and experience, for networking, and crossing the divide between digital and traditional arts — areas of the creative process that lie at the core of CD PROJEKT RED as a game development studio. Throughout four days of the festival, participants will have the opportunity to take part in more than 100 hours of activities, including talks, discussion panels, hands-on workshops, masterclasses, demos, as well as Q&A and networking sessions. The event will once again take place in EC1 Łódź — a former power station, modernized and now serving as a center for culture and science.

Last time around, Promised Land saw more than 600 attendees of various experience levels and from all walks of creative industry life. Speakers at the event represented some of the most recognizable names in games, films, and lifestyle such as Capcom, Disney, Pixar Animation Studios, Paramount Pictures, BioWare, MachineGames, Framestore, Digic Pictures, MPC London, Double Negative, and CD PROJEKT RED.

The studio today unveiled the first speakers for this year’s event: Harvey Newman, Daniel Lupien and Jordu Schell; with more to follow as Promised Land draws closer.

Harvey Newman is an Animation Director with nearly two decades of experience working in the game industry in studios such as Crytek, Lionhead, Creative Assembly, Axis, DICE, and Build a Rocket Boy. He’s helped to ship many award-winning titles from different leadership positions, including Battlefield V, Horizon Zero Dawn, Star Wars Battlefront, Crysis 3.

Daniel Lupien has been working in both the video game and VFX industries for the past 21 years, focusing mostly on assets. He is also a practical prop maker. He specializes in texturing and for the past eight years has been working as an Asset Supervisor at Rodeo FX — where he has worked on many franchises such as: Game of Thrones, Fantastic Beasts, Aquaman, WandaVision, and Jumanji.

Jordu Schell has been in the film & television industry since 1987. His talent as a designer and sculptor is world renowned, and his credits include: Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, 300, Hellboy, Men in Black, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Babylon 5 and many more.

Learn More About the Speakers

Tickets for Promised Land are available starting today, with a special Early Bird discount available for all until June 30th while supplies last. Each ticket grants full access to the entire roster of Promised Land activities, as well as Open Day — a one-day-only, creative industry enthusiast event with its own, separate programme. Included with each main event ticket are food & drink vouchers, as well as a welcome pack of physical Promised Land goodies.

Tickets for Promised Land are available starting today, with a special Early Bird discount available for all until June 30th while supplies last. Each ticket grants full access to the entire roster of Promised Land activities, as well as Open Day — a one-day-only, creative industry enthusiast event with its own, separate programme. Included with each main event ticket are food & drink vouchers, as well as a welcome pack of physical Promised Land goodies

Buy Promised Land Art Festival 2022 Tickets

Promised Land Art Festival is organized by CD PROJEKT RED in cooperation with “EC1 Łódź – City of culture” and the City of Łódź, Poland. More details about Promised Land are available via the official website.

About CD PROJEKT RED

CD PROJEKT RED is a game development studio founded in 2002. It develops and publishes video games for personal computers and video game consoles. The studio’s flagship titles include The Witcher series of games, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, GWENT: The Witcher Card Game and the futuristic AAA role-playing game — Cyberpunk 2077. Together with GOG.COM, a game store offering hand-picked titles for PC and Mac, CD PROJEKT RED is part of the CD PROJEKT Group. CD PROJEKT S.A. is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (ISIN: PLOPTTC00011).

About Promised Land Art Festival

Promised Land Art Festival brings together professionals working in film, gaming, and other creative industries. Focusing on the exchange of knowledge and experience, the event plays host to dozens of activities: from hands-on workshops, talks and demos, to Q&A and networking sessions. Leading and collaborating in these are speakers from some of the most recognizable brands in the industry. The festival is organized by acclaimed games developer CD PROJEKT RED, in cooperation with the city of Łódź, Poland and EC1 Łódź – City of Culture.

DIGGERGUN – A game about workers, low wages and the environment. An all-too-real life-sim.

LONDON, 7th June 2022 – Kabloop, a solo game developer, announced DIGGERGUN, an oppressive, 2D, life-sim about the cost of living crisis across the Western world. To celebrate the announcement, Kabloop has released a trailer showcasing the gameplay and life-sim elements. The trailer can be viewed here:

In DIGGERGUN players take on the role of a new graduate who has been hired by the Cornwall Mining Corporation to work as an engineer on a newly-found island off the coast of Cornwall.

After arriving, the player is quickly put to work in the lithium mines, with their employer using the flexibility clause in their contract to legally enforce it. With their employer demanding a £3,000 fee to terminate their employment contract and take them back to mainland UK, they’re left with nothing to do but dig.

Players will have to work in the mines every day, managing their time, energy and small wage as they deposit lithium or face financial penalties. With a night-and-day cycle and a complex life-sim system working behind the scenes, achieving a work-life balance has never been more important.

Using real-world economics to inform its fictional world, DIGGERGUN aims to highlight the plight of minimum wage workers amind an intense cost-of-living crisis facing the United Kingdom and much of the Western world.

There is some light in the darkness though, as the oppressive world is inhabited by a cast of unique characters from a variety of backgrounds. Will you band together with others to push back against your corporate oppressors, side with your employer to get a leg up, or just escape at the first opportunity possible?

DIGGERGUN will be coming to Kickstarter in June, where backers can get access to a level-design tool as well as other benefits. Interested backers can register their interest here. A short demo for DIGGERGUN will be released in June as well. You can learn more about the game on its Steam page, as well as add it to your wishlist here!

About Kabloop and Contact Information

Kabloop is a solo developer living in the United Kingdom who makes games highlighting political issues.

Flame launch partners include top games across chains: Splinterlands, Pegaxy and more.

SAN FRANCISCO, California – June 8, 2022 – Ryu Games today announced the beta launch of Flame, a new Web3 games store and marketplace, to better serve the PC gaming market with easily usable NFTs and cryptocurrencies. Flame is a multi-chain wallet, store and launcher of games that users onboard through a simple social login. Additionally, Ryu announced that Rick Ellis, founder of Steam, has joined the company as Chief Product Officer. He will leverage his decades long experience in console, PC and mobile gaming development to drive the growth of Web3 adoption in gaming.
 
Ellis said: “Games that use NFTs and crypto are in their infancy, but their potential has already drawn millions of gamers to play these sometimes very simple games. The past few years have seen incredible advances in reducing blockchain’s negative environmental impact and lowering the cost of transactions. Meanwhile, serious game developers are heads down building the first generation of AAA titles built around open economies. The last missing piece before mass adoption is a user experience to launch these games. The technical and UX challenges Flame is solving are going to bridge the gap between gamers everywhere and the next internet — one that is owned by the users and not central authorities.”
 
In October 2021, Valve announced bans on blockchain games and NFTs on its Steam platform, and ironically, the founder of Steam has joined Ryu Games and is working on its Steam for Web3. Before founding Sharkbite Games, Ellis started his gaming career building the dev kits for Xbox and GameCube, and then went on to build the digital distribution service and marketplace for video games that eventually became Steam and was hired by Valve Software. Over the span of his career, he developed the physics engine for Half-Life 2, worked on well-known titles like Counter-Strike and Guild Wars 2, developed the Xbox Dev Kit and also worked on the GameCube console. Ellis was also Vice President of Production at Z2, which was acquired by King.
 
Ross Krasner, CEO of Ryu Games, said: “The fact that millions of people are fighting through the friction and pain of onboarding to play crypto games and using NFTs is a testament to how fundamental a shift in blockchain tech can be to human-technology interaction. For the first time, people truly own digital assets and can interact in permissionless systems. Gaming is always first to adopt new technologies, and to me, Flame is the last missing piece before Web3 games are just ‘games.’ We’re thrilled to bring on Rick, who built Steam, which today had almost 30 million concurrent users. To put in perspective, only about 3 million people have ever interacted with an NFT.”
 
For more information about Ryu Games and Flame, please join the beta waitlist and join the 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.

Get ready for Season 1 of YAGER’s PvPvE extraction shooter, coming June 22!

BERLIN – June 8, 2022 – The Pre-Season debut of YAGER’s first-person extraction shooter The Cycle: Frontier is here, free to play today on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Experience a high-stakes mix of PvE and PvP action on your own or with friends in a dynamic sci-fi world featuring persistent maps and seamless matchmaking. Pre-Season is the perfect time to dive in before the release of Season 1 on June 22, delivering the full suite of items and rewards coming in the new edition of the Fortuna Pass.

The Cycle: Frontier’s Pre-Season launch introduces updates and improvements made possible by feedback from the game’s extensive community of over 900k players who joined during alpha and beta events, helping to make The Cycle: Frontier the most wishlisted free-to-play title on Steam.

With the beginning of the Pre-Season, YAGER has also introduced in-game Welcome Packs with a 25% discount. A total of four packs are already available for purchase: the Initiate Pack, Professional Pack, Specialist Pack and Elite Pack. Each includes unique outfits and weapon skins, plus a notable amount of Aurum, Kmarks, and gear.

There will be no wipe before the start of Season 1 on June 22, so players can keep their progress from the Pre-Season.

About The Cycle: Frontier

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 immense 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.

See more about us at: www.yager.de

Cross-Platform Play is Coming to APICO and Fans Can Purchase a Cushy Plush Beeatrice

Erie, Pennsylvania (June 8, 2022) — The worker bees have been hard at work! Today Whitethorn Games — publisher of cozy indie hits like Wytchwood, Lake, and Princess Farmer — and bee-veloper TNgineers are excited to announce their bee-loved beekeeping sim, APICO, is taking the hive to Nintendo Switch on July 7. Soon, budding beekeepers can explore Port APICO on the go, and with the addition of cross-platform play, aspiring apiarists can bring their Nintendo virtual bees to their friends’ farms on PC and other consoles with ease!

As well, the bee-utiful team at Makeship have teamed up with Whitethorn Games and TNgineers to create an adorable pollinating pal! Meet Beeatrice. Beeatrice is a lovely little plush bee that fans of APICO and bees absolutely must hive! Designed by TNgineers, Beeatrice is made with an Ultra-Soft Fleece exterior and stuffed with a fluffy Polypropylene cotton filling to ensure it keeps its shape for years to come. Each plush is numbered and tagged, making your limited edition plush even more special. Beeatrice is shipped with environmentally friendly materials and will arrive in a reusable drawstring bag.

Are you ready to provide a forever home to your very own Beeatrice? Pre-order your bumble-buddy at this link: https://shop.makeship.com/3yzp74O.  

Combining resource gathering, biology, and minigames with ideas from both real-life and fantasy beekeeping and gardening, APICO will teach players about the ins-and-outs of maintaining a healthy hive and the importance of our irreplaceable pollinating pals. The islands of APICO were once abuzz with different species of bees, and it’s up to players to rediscover lost species, cross-breed new ones, and repopulate each unique bee-ome. Progressing further into the game may also uncover some forgotten secrets — but that’s none of our beeswax.

Watch the APICO launch trailer bee-low:

To learn more about how APICO and TNgineers are supporting bee conservation efforts, and if you’d like to help as well, visit http://apico.buzz/savethebees. 

Key Features of APICO include:

• Breaking into Hives: It’s not as bad as it sounds! Collect materials, craft tools, and play fun beekeeping minigames to help rehome bees before releasing them back into the wild.  
• It Takes a Colony: Breed, collect, and conserve over 30 species of bees, like the Common Bee, the Forest Bee, and the Verge Bee. They’re all Queens in our book. 
• Bee2C Marketing: Fund the family business by making and selling honey, Apicola, and other beekeeping products. You’ll be a bee-llionaire in no time! 
• Cross-Pollination: Cross play with up to four players, regardless of where you purchase the game. Bees who work together, stay together!

APICO is now available on PC via Steam, itch.io, GameJolt, the Epic Games Store, and Humble Store, for $19.99 USD. The game will be available on Nintendo Switch on July 7, 2022.

About Whitethorn Games

We’re an indie game publisher focusing on pleasant, cozy games that can be played in pieces, that require no special skills or knowledge, and that anyone can pick up and play. We’re believers in accessibility, inclusion, and widening the audience that gets to play. We like to consider ourselves the defenders of easy games. While our games might challenge you, they’ll respect your time, they’ll make sure you can play, and most importantly, they’ll never punish you. Learn more at https://whitethorngames.com/. 

About TNgineers

TNgineers was formed in 2020 when brothers Ell and Jamie decided to develop their own projects based on their love of casual and crafting games. Their goal is to design games that are relaxing, intriguing, and semi-educational. Ell builds nice things, and Jamie makes sure he breaks them. Learn more about TNgineers and their first game APICO, by visiting https://apico.buzz. 

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Thunderful & Megagon Industries are taking you on a journey back through time with today’s free update for Lonely Mountains: Downhill, the nostalgia-fuelled Daily Rides Season 14: Blast From The Past. Embrace the fashion of bygone decades with the new outfits, accessories and a paint job in this latest update. Lonely Mountains: Downhill is available on Nintendo Switch™, Xbox One, PlayStation®4 and PC (Steam®). The game is also verified for Steam Deck.

From 90’s kids to Disco veterans, players looking for a retro-hit will find something for them as a reward for completing Season 14’s trials:

• Prepare to work up a sweat with the Aerobic Star outfit
• Blast some beats with the iconic Boombox Backpack
• Earn your stripes and get the tiger-patterned Feline Friend outfit
• Slide into the seventies with the Disco Fever outfit
• Get ready to bust a move with the Dancer outfit
• Add some flair with the Colourful Scarf Backpack
• Weave your fashion choices together with the Knitting Enthusiast outfit
• Only 90’s kids will remember the 90’s Flair paint job

Daily Rides is a cross-platform daily leaderboard competition. Each day a trail will be selected randomly, complete with new obstacles and shortcuts. The four week season offers up a new theme with unlockable cosmetic rewards for participants. Do you have what it takes to dominate the new season? Get riding and see if you can rise to the top of the leaderboard!

Keep an eye out on our Twitter, Instagram and Facebook pages to stay up-to-date on all the latest straight from the mountain peaks.

Lonely Mountains: Downhill was initially released on October 23rd in 2019. During its first year, the game has been a hit amongst players and critics alike; resulting in more than one million players (2.5 million as of December 2021). The game won awards such as “Best Indie Game” at the German Developer Awards and “Best International Indie Game” at Poznan Game Arena. Lonely Mountains: Downhill recently received two free DLCs which both add additional environments and tracks, “Riley’s Return” and “Misty Peak”.

Lonely Mountains: Downhill is available now on Nintendo Switch™, Xbox One, PlayStation®4, PC (Steam® and Windows 10 via the Microsoft store) and Mac (Steam®). Lonely Mountains: Downhill is verified for Steam Deck. A demo for Lonely Mountains: Downhill is available on Steam® and Nintendo Switch™, so if you are on the fence download it and head down the first trail of the Sierra Rivera mountain.

For more information about Lonely Mountains: Downhill please visit the official website: https://lonelymountains.com/

Green Man Gaming Publishing Announces New Publishing Deal for Comedic Action Co-Op Game Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator 

Manage a rag-tag team of mutant animals in the new playable demo launching during Steam Summer Games Fest

London, UK – 8th June, 2022. Publisher Green Man Gaming is thrilled to announce a new publishing deal with Pewter Games Studios and LoPoly to publish their new, comedic, physics-based action co-op game Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator, coming to PC in autumn 2022. 

Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator is a chaotic multiplayer heist game for 1-4 players. Take on the role of mutated animals following orders from Tony, the criminal mastermind of the operation. Bumble through a series of heists starting with a convenience store and a bank, gradually unlocking more challenging robberies. 

Fans eager to flex their crime boss muscles can grab some hands-on time with Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator when an exclusive playable demo hits Steam Next Fest on 13th June from 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST / 7pm CEST. Join the cast as a newly formed mutant animal and complete the first stage of Tony’s master plan – a clumsy bank heist. Get ready to throw, shoot, blow up and make a mess as you make your escape with the loot! 

Check out the brand new gameplay trailer for Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator here 

“From the first time we saw Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator we knew instantly that this was a title we had to publish” Commented Helen Churchill, SVP of Publishing at Green Man Gaming Publishing. “Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator brings a unique player experience to a very successful genre. We see it as a Gang Beasts meets Hotline Miami mashup and packs in loads of personality, appealing attitude and frantic gameplay. The team at Pewter Games Studios have hit the nail on the head with this game and we are looking forward to sharing this exciting journey with them.” 

“All of us here on the dev team are so excited to enter into a publishing partnership with Green Man Gaming Publishing.” Commented Christopher Conlan, Co-Founder, Pewter Games “Their wealth of experience in marketing and retail puts them into a unique position to help us launch a game like Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator. We’ve already seen how proactive they are in every facet of the development, marketing, and production process, and we can’t wait to see them help bring our unique creation to the world.”

About Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator

Listen up ya filthy animals you work for me now and I got a job for ya! You might be thinking it’s just an ordinary heist – get in, get out with the cash and hopefully stay in one piece. Well, I got a newsflash for ya, numbnuts – this ain’t no ordinary heist; the vault is on the upper levels, the security system uses lasers, the guards have shotguns, you’re gonna have to escape via helicopter, and to top it all off, you’re a bunch of mutant morons who barely know how to walk. But them’s the breaks, right? I want ya to get in there and put them new bodies I gave ya to good use and get me my money. This could be the start of something great, and if not, well, there are plenty more animals in the sewer.

Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator is a chaotic multiplayer heist game for 1-4 players. Take on the role of mutated animals following the orders of Tony, the criminal mastermind of the operation. Bumble through a series of heists starting with a convenience store and a bank, gradually unlocking more challenging robberies. 

Just don’t screw this up! 

Features

• 1- 4 player Online CO-OP – A heist is easier with a well-organised crew who know what they are doing, but I’m sure the 4 of you numbnuts can handle it. And if you feel smart enough after graduating from big dumb bank robbing mutant college, you can even try your luck and take on the heists alone.  
• Distinct and Challenging Heists – I got big plans! Do things right and you have a bright future ahead of ya. Robbing a store and a bank is child’s play; get that done and there are plenty of other targets like tombs, nuclear power plants, space… Y’know if it ain’t nailed down it’s asking to be taken!
• Enemies and Hazards – No one said this was going to be easy! Armed guards and security personnel will try to stop you at every turn. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the have-a-go-heroes of this city may even throw some punches your way.
• Abilities and Power-ups – You never know what you’ll find laying around that can help. I suggest roughing up some vending machines – those sodas pack a punch! They can get ya back on your feet, make you super tough, and some other cool tricks too. Also, remember you all got your own mutant animal powers too – so use them! If one of you goes down, help get them back on their feet. If you don’t get them up in time just flush ‘em down the toilet and I’ll fix them up in the lab.
• Weapons and Tools – Be smart! If you come across an obstacle, use the grey matter between ya thick skulls to and pick up an axe or a drill, find the right tool for the job. But for the guards, a good old shotgun might be the answer! 
• Loot-O-Matic – Use the cash you earn to pick up some useful items or some firepower from the Loot-O-Matic for your next job. Or, just pick what looks cool, what do I care? 

Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator will be published by Green Man Gaming Publishing and scheduled to launch for PC in autumn, 2022. Fans can play the demo during the Steam Next Fest starting 13th June. Wishlist the game on Steam now! 

Follow Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator on the official social media channels – Youtube | Twitter | Discord or check out the official website. 

For more information please visit Green Man Publishing website.

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