UTRECHT – April 14, 2022 – Cat Cafe Manager, the charming restaurant management and feline adoption simulator from developer Roost Games and publisher Freedom Games, serves scrumptious bowls of wholesomeness for Nintendo Switch as well as PC via Steam and Epic Game Store today.

Enter the cozy community of Caterwaul Village, where warm welcomes and adorable kitties go hand-in-hand. The family business, Granny’s cafe, beckons for a grand reopening and the latest resident of Caterwaul is the person for the job. Create delectable dishes, get to know the locals, and aid fuzzy residents in finding their fur-ever home all while uncovering a magical mystery.

Boost the cafe’s appeal by welcoming in more of Caterwaul’s four-legged residents and learning their personality quirks. Befriend colorful characters like Carla-Lala, a helpful witch who understands the pressures of walking in family footsteps, to learn about the village’s culture and earn presents from friends. Breathe new life into Granny’s cafe with redesigned interior decor and hire fresh staff yearning to care for fluffy and human customers alike.   

Choose from an amalgamation of decor and menu selections to attract newcomers of all varieties like fishermen and witches to increase profits and spend on the cafe’s expansion. Build additional rooms with special themes of any desired design from the wallpaper down to the lamps on end tables. Craft a menu with everyone’s favorite snacks and regular coffee orders to make this café a direct line to a relaxation station.

“Connecting with a happy cat is an experience that just sticks with you,” said Rick Sorgdrager, Lead Game Designer and Writer, Roost Games. “Cat Cafe Manager empowers cat lovers to create these magical encounters for others daily!”

Cat Cafe Manager is available on Nintendo Switch as well as Windows PC via Steam for $19.99 featuring English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese language support. 

For more information on Cat Cafe Manager, please visit the official website, join the Discord community, and follow the team on Twitter.

About Roost Games

Roost Games is a video game collective comprised of three indie gaming veterans. With previous experience working on projects including Reus, Renowned Explorers, and Godhood, Roost Games strives to create charming sims that meld inviting settings with cerebral gameplay.

To learn more, check out the official Twitter account.

About Freedom Games

Freedom Games is a publisher dedicated to offering best-in-class services to partners and providing players around the world with unique and memorable experiences. With over 50 years of combined industry experience at the executive level, Freedom Games seeks to leverage its expertise to facilitate great games and even better publishing experiences.

For more information, visit the official Freedom! Games website.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker Officially Launches Out of Early Access on May 24 for Steam & PC Game Pass

PARIS — April 14, 2022 — Blackbird Interactive and Focus Entertainment’s acclaimed, zero-g, sandbox spaceship-salvaging game Hardspace: Shipbreaker is blasting out of Steam Early Access on May 24! After nearly two years of regular content additions, the 1.0 version will officially release on PC via Steam, the Microsoft Store and PC Game Pass. Prepare to roll up your sleeves and get to work in the perilous (but profitable!) world of deep-space salvage, where your planning and execution will be put to the test.

Get ready to explore the world of a blue-collar worker salvaging the dangerous husks of decommissioned spaceships. You’ll cut, pull apart and destroy all manner of vessels while contending with reactive, true-to-life, zero-g physics. With several classes of procedurally designed ships, from small transports to large freighters, every vessel is a unique and open-ended challenge for your creative thinking.

Experience a thrilling campaign where your employer – the LYNX Megacorporation – may not be your friend, and your coworkers may be the only people you can trust. Upgrade your tools, take on more and more valuable ships, and recover hazardous materials to pay back your astronomical debt to the Lynx company – without blowing yourself up in the process.

Take a break from the day-to-day work of a shipbreaker and flex your skills in competitive challenges against other players in the R.A.C.E. game mode leaderboards. And if you want to simply relax, hone your technique or just enjoy the calming, meditative nature of high-stakes salvage, you can play on any ship with no limits in the Freeplay game mode.

Want to try the game before launch? Hardspace: Shipbreaker will be playable this month at PAX East, where it was first unveiled and played by the public two years ago! Come visit Focus Entertainment booth #12043 and discover the latest enhancements to the Freeplay game mode.Hardspace: Shipbreaker is also in development for a future release on consoles. For more on the game, visit https://hardspace-shipbreaker.com.

Frenetic 2D Platform Brings Lightning Fast Action From Inside a Cursed Washing Machine

Denver, CO – April 14th, 2022 – Independent games publisher Versus Evil and developer Nighthouse Games today announced that their 2D platform action game Sockventure is now available on Nintendo Switch..

Sockventure brings super fast, eye catching gameplay with its stunningly colorful graphics and frenetic 2D platform action over 200 handcrafted levels across 7 chapters. Developed by Nighthouse Games players take on the role of Supersock, a superhero tasked with finding all the missing socks inside a cursed washing machine.

Check out the Sockventure Official Nintendo Switch Announcement Trailer:

Precision-based gameplay and split second timing are essential to navigate the intricately designed levels filled with deadly hazards such as fire, lasers, circular saws and other dangerous threats.

Sockhero can acquire new skills during his deadly sock retrieval mission, wall jumping, double jumping, dashing and stomping help him navigate the myriad of colorful levels and devious hazards in the search for lost socks. Sockhero can also collect coins scattered throughout the levels which unlock dark chapters, presenting a whole new platforming challenge without auto-run.

“Sockventure brings a fantastic mix of difficulty, depth, vibrant level design and rapid fun gameplay.” said Steve Escalante General Manager of Versus Evil. “We are excited to bring Sockventure to Nintendo Switch and know that fans of this genre are getting one of the best platformers to grace our lineup of releases in 2022”

For more information on Versus Evil’s 2022 titles and release dates head over to www.versusevil.com

About Nighthouse Games
 
Nighthouse Games was founded in 2020. Nighthouse Games is an award-winning two-man game studio from Tampere, Finland and its focus is in making high quality 2D platformer games for PC and consoles. Learn more at nighthousegames.com.

About Versus Evil

Founded in 2013, Versus Evil, LLC is the US based video game publisher behind critically acclaimed video games First Class Trouble, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire and The Banner Saga trilogy. Publishing games on all major mobile, PC and console platforms, Versus Evil works with independent development studios from around the world. The corporate philosophy is to champion for the independent game developer. For more information visit versusevil.com

Pawsome debut trailer showcases the cutest murder-kitty in action; Get exclusive hands-on at PAX East

Watford, UK – 14th April, 2022 – Publisher Wired Productions and Angry Demon Studio (Apsulov: End of Gods) today announce a publishing partnership for the cuddly, ultraviolent skate-slasher Gori: Cuddly Carnage. Visitors to PAX East can get their bloody paws on the game next week by dropping by the Wired Productions booth at 14030, at the heart of the show floor. The game is available to Wishlist on Steam today.

A brand new trailer introduces the outlandish world of the purr-fect pet, Gori, and showcases a glimpse of the game’s unique brand of ultra-fast, cutesy, blood-soaked combat.

Watch the Announce Trailer:

Gori: Cuddly Carnage is a fast paced, third-person skate-and-slash which sees players slice creepy toys and dice mutated unicorns as a murder-kitty on a death-dealing hoverboard!

A horde of mutated and blood-thirsty toys known as The Adorable Army has wiped out all humans and laid waste to everything on Earth that wasn’t cute or cuddly enough to join its ranks. Only Gori – the most adorable and badass cat in the world,- a sentient, razor-sharp hoverboard, F.R.A.N.K and modular AI CH1-P, can stop the carnage of the Adorable Army and its dark leaders.

Gori: Cuddly Carnage Features

• Fast-paced, third-person skate-and-slash carnage.
• A futuristic world tainted by the Adorable Army.
• Immersive (and very cute) environments.
• Adaptable music that reacts to your actions and playstyle.
• Intense destruction, brutal combat, and a whole world to smash to bits.

“We’re thrilled to have teamed-up with the ludicrously inventive and wonderfully talented Angry Demon on the absurdly brilliant Gori.” Said Leo Zullo, Managing Director at Wired Productions “When they showed me the demo there was only one reaction… F*&K YEAH. A super cool Cat on a hoverboard doing combis and chopping off unicorn heads!? I mean, come on! The team have such energy it is infectious and it oozes throughout the game. Love it!”

“We are feline great about our partnership with Wired Productions who have, from the very start, been so passionate about our murderous kitty, Gori.” Said John Kalderon, CEO at Angry Demon Studio. “We can’t wait to continue the journey of Gori, F.R.A.N.K and CH1-P alongside Wired, as we bring the game to a whole new level!”

Further information about Gori: Cuddly Carnage will be revealed throughout the coming months.

For more information, visit: https://wiredproductions.com/games/gori-cuddly-carnage/

About Wired Productions

Wired Productions is an independent video games publisher based in Watford, UK. Wired has produced and published award-winning titles across all major platforms and its games are curated to deliver on its mantra: ‘Driven by Passion.’ Bringing games to market in both physical and digital media, notable launches to date include Martha Is Dead, The Falconeer, Those Who Remain, Deliver Us The Moon, Close to the Sun, GRIP: Combat Racing, Victor Vran: Overkill Edition, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood and The Town of Light. Recently, Wired Productions announced its upcoming slate of titles during Wired Direct. Upcoming titles include Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles, Arcade Paradise, Gori: Cuddly Carnage, Tin Hearts, Tiny Troopers: Global Ops and The Last Worker.

About Angry Demon Studio

Angry Demon Studio is an independent game developer based in Skövde, Sweden, focused on creating high-quality, adrenaline-filled experiences and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in small-scale game dev. Its debut title Unforgiving – a Northern Hymn was a hauntingly unforgettable slice of Nordic folk horror. The team explored these themes further with a striking vision of future viking terror in Apsulov: End of Gods, and is currently hard at work on the ultra-inventive, ultra-violent, ultra-cute skate-and-slasher Gori: Cuddly Carnage.

Suzhou, China, 14 April 2022 – Season servers for Myth of Empires will be officially available worldwide from 14 April, 17:00 BST / 12:00 EDT / 09:00 PDT (15 April at midnight China Standard Time). This update will feature brand-new Season Servers with higher collection and XP rates, as well as a points ranking system. Prior to Season Servers becoming available, starting 14 April at 15:00 China Standard Time, Myth of Empires will be available for a discounted price of $20.99 (16% off) with 3-packs available for 19% off.

New Servers with New Character Growth Rates

At the start of its first season, 3 commanderies and 16 PVP counties (servers) will be available. Asia will receive 8 servers, while North America and Europe will each get 4. Season 1 will last from 15 April until 15 June, at which time, another season will begin.

The multipliers listed above are all based on the current normal servers as a reference. Adjustments will be made as the season progresses. For example, Boundary Marker resource tax will be 5-10x. At the beginning of the season, the rate will be 5x, but the amount of Copper that players will gain through Boundary Markers will increase over the course of the season until it reaches 10x. Some values, for example the crafting and repair speed, will not increase over the course of the season.

Seasons Feature Point Rankings and Rewards

At the end of the season, winners will be determined using the Points Ranking system, and each member of the guild/alliance will receive rewards. Each guild member’s arts of war, total proficiency, honor, achievement completion progress, and the number of county officials in their guild will affect the guild’s total number of points for the season.

Once points are calculated, the top three guild and alliance members will get season-exclusive outfits and other rewards. Other participating guilds/alliances will get currency that can be used to get various items, equipment and structure skins, and more. Some of these items can even transfer over to normal servers to be used there.

The International Vanguard Edition of Myth of Empires is available for purchase at store.mythofempires.com.

Embrace the new blood and conquer the gothic world of Vardoran this Spring

Skövde, Sweden – 14th April, 2022 – Swedish game developer Stunlock Studios have today announced that V Rising, the upcoming open-world fantasy vampire survival game, will launch on Steam Early Access on May 17th following their successful on-going closed beta. Explore the gothic world of Vardoran in solo or co-op playthroughs this Spring as you control newly awakened vampires on the hunt for blood, fighting against bandits, mythical creatures and the light-wielding Church of Luminance in intense combat encounters.

Learn more about the world of V Rising in the latest Dev Blog:  https://blog.stunlock.com/v-rising-dev-update-11-the-world-of-vardoran/

In V Rising, you need to survive as a newly awakened vampire in a world ruled by humans and rise to become the next Dracula. Feed on blood to gain new powers, hide from the scorching sun, and engage in real-time PvE and PvP combat set in a dark fantasy realm. Raise your castle and invite friends to join as you explore a vast open-world, pillage villages, skirmish with bandits, and delve into the lairs of supernatural beasts. Attack other players’ castles, or become a diplomat in a game of blood, power, and betrayal. 

There is still time to Sign up for the V Rising Beta here: https://playvrising.com/signup

About Stunlock Studios:
Founded in 2010, Stunlock Studios is one of the leading Swedish game developers located in Skövde. With a passion for competitive gaming, the studio crafts groundbreaking and community driven games, always with their players in mind. Previously released titles include Battlerite, Bloodline Champions, and Dead Island: Epidemic. For more information, visit: https://www.stunlock.com

New meta-game with base camp, side missions, a mysterious story and more added. The game is available for free on the Epic Game Store for a limited time 

Hamburg, Germany, April 14th, 2022 – Insurmountable, the roguelike adventure where you bravely tackle the intimidating heights of three mighty mountains, today receives a major free update, adding a whole new meta-game with side missions, a brand-new story, a broader variety of maps  and much more. To properly celebrate the new update, the game is available for free on the Epic Games Store until April 21st. The game is also available on Steam and GOG.com 

This brand new trailer shows what the game is all about:  

The 2.0 trailer showcases everything that’s new:

In Insurmountable, players brave three dangerous peaks looking for the ultimate mountaineering challenge. As one of three playable climbers with different backgrounds, they have to manage the terrain, weather and unpredictable events waiting for them on their adventure. Every decision counts and preparation is key.  

With Update 2.0, the experience gets vastly expanded with an all-new meta-game. Players now have to not only climb the three main mountains, but also complete several side-missions. In-between missions, they return to their base-camp, proceed with the story, manage their upgrades and prepare for their next climb. 

Key-Features of Update 2.0: 

• A brand new story awaits players. Gone are the individual stories. Now, the three characters find themselves in a time loop, caused by the research station which is now their base. They have to free themselves and find out more about the mysteries looming in the mountain range.
• Base Camp – The base is an almost entirely abandoned research facility in the mountain range. Here, players can choose their next mission, upgrade kit and skills, and decide on which items to bring. 
• Mountaineering Map –  Found in the base camp, the map indicates which missions are available, which ones are completed, and which ones are not yet unlocked. 
• Prepare Accordingly – Upgrades and preparing for missions include collecting knowledge in different areas such as items, characters, terrain, and the environment. How much knowledge is received depends on the mission. Knowledge is essential to level up their respective areas (items, character skill trees, team upgrades).
• Procedurally generated maps are a big part of the 2.0 update as side missions will rely heavily on this feature, allowing players to climb a wider variety of mountains.
• New Feature: tracking is a new goal that players have to find and reach in order to clear a mission. 
• The new and improved tutorial will be context-based and offer new players information according to their progress.
• Balancing & In-game Skills have been completely reworked. 

Insurmountable is currently available on Steam, with the 2.0 update going live on April 14th. At the same time, the game will also be available on GOG and the Epic Game Store – on the EGS for free for a short time. 

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About Daedalic (Publisher)

Daedalic Entertainment publishes and develops high-quality games for all platforms. The company has a diverse line-up of high-quality titles, including classic adventures, RPGs, and strategy and multiplayer games. With over 50 employees, Daedalic is currently developing a new line-up of innovative games across consoles, PC, and mobile platforms. Based in Hamburg, Germany, Daedalic is one of Europe’s most acclaimed publishers and developers. With a total of 32 awards in the German Developers Award (including multiple accolades for ‘Studio of the Year’) and 12 German Computer Game Awards for genre-defining games such as Deponia, Edna & Harvey, Silence, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, The Long Journey Home, and State of Mind, Daedalic is a record holder for the two most prestigious game awards in Germany. Recent publishing hits include Barotrauma, Unrailed!, Iratus: Lord of the Dead, Partisans 1941 and more.

Road 96 Is Available for PlayStation and XBOX today!

Sydney, Australia, April 14, 2022 – DigixArt and Ravenscourt invite you to embark on a journey.

Everyone needs a path to follow, sometimes the most unexpected paths can lead to an adventure of a lifetime.

The people you meet, their actions, your reactions.
A shared destiny?
Or a spin of fate’s roulette wheel?

The multi-award winning procedural narrative sensation Road 96 is now available for the PlayStation and Xbox consoles.

Road 96 is a crazy, beautiful road-trip. The discovery of exciting places, and unusual people on your own personal journey to freedom
An ever-evolving story-driven adventure inspired by Tarantino, The Coen Brothers.

Your choices change your adventure, change people, change the world.

There are thousands of routes along Road 96.

Which one will you take?

Get a glimpse of the open road in the trailer here:

Features

• An ever-evolving story-driven adventure inspired by Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, and Bong Joon-ho. Made by the award-winning creators of Valiant Hearts and Memories Retold. Announced as part of the OMEN Presents initiative from HP Inc.
• Moments of action, exploration, contemplative melancholy, human encounters and wacky situations. Set against a backdrop of authoritarian rule and oppression.
• A stunning visual style, a soundtrack filled with 90s hits, and a thousand routes through the game combine so each player can create their own unique stories on Road 96.

Platforms: Available on PlayStation 4 , PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X
Audio: English only
Subtitles/Interface: French, English, Italian, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Polish

About Road 96
Road 96 is a procedural ever-evolving story-driven adventure game with survival elements in which players must escape a country ruled by an authoritarian regime that’s on the brink of collapse. Road 96 has an ever-evolving story that unveils more and more on each run to escape the country, inspired by road trip movies from the 90s from directors like Quentin Tarantino, The Coen Brothers and Bong Joon-ho. The game soundtrack features tracks from bands like Survive (Stranger Things).

About Ravenscourt
Established in 2014 – and operating from its Munich headquarters in Germany – Ravenscourt’s mission is delivering amazing games to a broad audience from both established studios and industry newcomers. With a diverse portfolio, managing the titles of multiple international studios, Ravenscourt games span everything from adventure and management sims through to city builders and indie gems. The label even boasts a good old sing-along karaoke franchise. Our players delight in engrossing narrative driven adventures, relish the challenge of building new worlds and love solving puzzles. We have more delights in store for them. The publishing label Ravenscourt stands for worthy interactive entertainment for a broad range of players. It belongs to the Koch Media Group.

About DigixArt
DigixArt is a video game development studio founded in 2015 in Montpellier, South of France. It joined Koch Media group in 2021 to increase its capacity to create innovative and captivating gaming experiences like Road 96. For more information about DigixArt Studio please visit http://www.digixart.com/

NEW GAME MODE “BOSS CHALLENGE” ADDED FOR AN ADDITIONAL PUNCH

Sydney, Australia – April 14th, 2022 – SNK Corporation is announcing the availability of OMEGA RUGAL, a free DLC character for the fighting game phenomenon THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV (KOF XV).

The manifestation of SNK Boss Syndrome himself, OMEGA RUGAL is joining KOF XV. He appeared as an overwhelmingly strong boss character in THE KING OF FIGHTERS ’95 and has made his way into the current installment of the much praised fighting game.

KOF XV DLC Character OMEGA RUGAL Trailer:

OMEGA RUGAL

This dark arms merchant of death once ruled the world’s black market, and was never shy about digging his fangs into any fighter that dared challenge him. Through the power of Orochi, he was given life once again, until a group of fierce fighters brought his reign to an end. Now, due to Verse’s influence, he’s returned to the mortal realm to extract vengeance. (CV: Tsuguo Mogami)

BOSS CHALLENGE added

Alongside the launch of OMEGA RUGAL comes a new game mode called BOSS CHALLENGE. Players can take down the fearsome OMEGA RUGAL CPU and gain access to fun content like his special Ω Armor costume, a new stage and new music.

13 DLC characters coming in 2022

Adding the currently available Team GAROU (3 characters), the release of OMEGA RUGAL, and the upcoming 3 teams (consisting of 3 characters each) launching this year – that makes for 13 DLC characters in total. Added to the launch roster of 39 characters, KOF XV will boast a massive 52 characters!.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Title: THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV

Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Windows 10, Steam, Epic Store
Genre: Versus Fighting
Developer: SNK Corporation
Players: 1-2 local / 2-8 Network
Co-Publisher: Koch Media
Release Date: Available Now

Website: https://www.snk-corp.co.jp/us/games/kof-xv

About SNK

Headquartered in Osaka, Japan, SNK develop, publish, and distribute interactive entertainment software on a global scale. Known for such franchises as THE KING OF FIGHTERS, METAL SLUG, and SAMURAI SHODOWN, SNK continues to focus on their rich console game and arcade history.

About Koch Media 

The Koch Media Group is a global developer, publisher and distributor of video games, VR games, gaming hardware and merchandise.  

The group’s publishing activities, marketing and distribution extend throughout Europe, America, Australia and Asia. Koch Media has more than 25 years of experience in the digital media business and has risen to become a leading global publishing partner. The Koch Media Group runs a multi-label strategy with fully owned publishing units such as Prime Matter, Deep Silver, Milestone, Vertigo Games and Ravenscourt, publishing games for consoles, PC and VR platforms across all physical and digital channels. 

Additionally, as global publishing partner Koch Media has formed long-term multi-national publishing collaborations with numerous game publishers including Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Capcom, CI Games, Giants Software, Kalypso, Koei Tecmo, Konami, Paradox, Sega, SNK, Square Enix, Techland, Tripwire, Warner Bros, and many others.

With its parent company in Höfen, Austria, and the Publishing HQ in Munich, Germany, Koch Media owns local publishing companies in Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, the United States as well as Japan and Hong Kong. 

The Koch Media Group owns ten game development studios: Deep Silver Volition (Champaign, IL / USA), Deep Silver Dambuster Studios (Nottingham / UK), Deep Silver Fishlabs (Hamburg / Germany), Warhorse Studios (Prague / Czech Republic), Milestone (Milan / Italy), Voxler (Paris / France) , Flying Wild Hog (Warsaw, Kraków, Rzeszów  / Poland), Free Radical Design (Nottingham / UK) and Vertigo Games (Rotterdam /The Netherlands), DigixArt (Montpellier, France). Additionally, the Koch Media Group collaborates with numerous independent development studios around the world.

Part of the Koch Media Group is also Koch Films, a leading European independent film distributor with business primarily in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy as a cinema, TV, online and Home Entertainment distributor. The Koch Media Group also owns Gaya Entertainment, a leading video game merchandise company in Munich, Germany, and the Quality Assurance Facility in Olomouc, Czech Republic.  

Koch Media is an Embracer Group company.