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No April Fools! The EVERSPACE 2 Stinger’s Debut Update is Now Available on Steam, GOG, and coming soon to the Windows Store

Stinger’s Debut brings more story content, the Stinger light fighter class, new enemies, overhauled crafting, mining, plus WIP localization to EVERSPACE 2

Hamburg, Germany – April 1, 2022 – Independent AA developer ROCKFISH Games is excited to share non-April Fools news today as their latest EVERSPACE 2 update goes live to players on Steam, GOG, and will be coming soon to the Microsoft Store. As part of this update, early WIP localization has been added, bringing EVERSPACE 2 to eager space pilots all over the globe.

Watch the Stinger’s Debut trailer here!

Stinger’s Debut, previously titled Rogue’s Debut in the 2022 roadmap, adds the Stinger, EVERSPACE 2’s third light fighter class. This new ship focuses on electronic warfare, making devices a critical component for pilots who favor agile, ability-focused spacecraft. When using ship devices, a third weapon hardpoint underneath the Stinger’s hull is activated, dealing 50% more primary damage. The Stinger’s Void Swarm Ultimate instantly resets device cooldowns and releases a swarm of aggressive micro-bots that consume everything in their way, prioritizing the locked target. Upon return, these bots restore the player ship’s hull and armor based on damage dealt. Stinger vessels can take flight with random perks like 20% reduced cooldown for support or warfare devices, Void Swarm radius increased by 25%, or become cloaked for five seconds after its shield is depleted.

Along with a new hostile subfaction, the Okkar Prime, the update also brings improved crafting, and resources gathering features as well as new equipment, story content, perks and additional challenges scattered throughout the EVERSPACE 2 star systems. Along with these improvements, the ROCKFISH Games team has rebalanced portions of the game and added experimental difficulty levels that can be changed any time.

“While Stinger’s Debut does not add a new star system to explore like in previous updates, the added features and substantial changes deepen the overall experience, especially when starting a new game,” said Michael Schade, CEO of ROCKFISH Games. “We’ve set up a new player data pool analyzing the impact from this update’s changes and additions to core game systems like crafting, mining, ship devices, and new game progression curve. We can’t wait to see how many catalysts and blueprints will be found, and what new builds top pilots will come up with.”

The Stinger’s Debut Update will also include experimental UI and text language support for German, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean so the international EVERSPACE 2 community can join in the fun at full capacity. As the early implementations of localization may not be perfect yet, localization for EVERSPACE 2 will be continuously updated along with any missing text and required fixes for the full release in early 2023. 

The content-gated EVERSPACE 2 demo on Steam has been updated with all relevant changes, including WIP localization. In the updated demo, players from all over the globe can explore the first sector of EVERSPACE 2’s first star system and carry their save game over to Early Access. 

A full list of features and fixes can be found on the Stinger’s Debut Update Steam community post.

EVERSPACE 2 has two additional major updates planned to release in 2022. Drake: Gang Wars will add the massive star system Drake to the game, throwing pilots into the middle of a three faction battle over fire and ocean planets. Ancient Rifts, planned for this fall, will give players their first taste of endgame content with high-risk, high-reward challenges.For more details on both the Drake: Gang Wars and Ancients Rifts updates, check out the EVERSPACE 2 roadmap Steam news update

EVERSPACE 2 is currently available on SteamGOG, and the Microsoft Store, and is planned to release on Xbox and PlayStation consoles when the full game is launched in early 2023. This is when also a fully optimized version for Steam Deck will be available.

Follow EVERSPACE 2 on TwitterFacebook, and join the game’s Discord to stay in the loop on the latest developments and join the ROCKFISH Games team Fridays as they show off content from their latest EVERSPACE 2 dev build on the ROCKFISH Games Twitch and YouTube channel from 8 pm to 10 pm CET / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PT. Viewers are encouraged to ask questions directly to the dev team.

About EVERSPACE™ 2

EVERSPACE 2 continues the story of Adam Roslin from the first part of the series. EVERSPACE 2 currently has four sprawling star systems that can be explored by space pilots. Players experience Adam’s emotional journey and personal development from an immortal clone space pilot to an individual character whose death has final consequences in an open-world action RPG. EVERSPACE 2 offers in the current Early Access version more than 35 hours of gameplay and already contains all core mechanics of the targeted final version.

EVERSPACE 2 can be purchased on Steam here and on GOG here. The full version for PC, including Mac and native Linux support as well as Xbox and PlayStation, will be released at a reasonably increased price in early 2023.

About ROCKFISH Games GmbH

ROCKFISH Games is an independent AA game studio specializing in high-quality Unreal Engine 4 action RPG video games for PC and consoles. Industry veterans Michael Schade and Christian Lohr founded ROCKFISH Games to create a new breed of adrenalin-filled adventures for space shooter fans through their acclaimed EVERSPACE IP. After spending over 20 years as joint entrepreneurs in the 3D graphics and mobile gaming space, Schade and Lohr built ROCKFISH Games from the ground up alongside their former team of veteran talents to the current studio of 25 cherry-picked game developers and community experts from across the industry.

Using Kickstarter as a platform to build a new community in 2015, ROCKFISH Games reached a runaway success with EVERSPACE, which has sold over two million copies on PC and consoles. Building on this success and propelled by yet another wildly successful Kickstarter campaign in 2019, ROCKFISH Games is dedicated to crafting a compelling next-gen single-player open-world space shooter experience that is driven by quality storytelling while being highly accessible at the beginning and yet deep in its gameplay mechanics to appeal to casual as well as hardcore space action aficionados from around the globe with EVERSPACE 2.

Habbo kicks off its spring campaign with the launch of new digital lifestyle magazine “The Pixel”

Become a busy bee in bug themed event, with fresh user generated games, rares, bundles and exclusive badges to discover

Helsinki, Finland – April 1st 2022 – Spread your wings and become a true social butterfly this Spring, as Habbo launches a nature-themed event, transforming residents into entomologists on a research mission this April! Additionally, Habbo launches “The Pixel” digital lifestyle magazine, an occasional publication which will share competitions, activities and a catalog of purchasable items from their in-game campaigns.

Swing into springtime with Habbo’s bug themed event, where you will have to do what it takes to not only catch the hotel’s invaders but also adapt to their environment and research everything about them! Bringing a series of user generated games, the event will also scatter creatures throughout the hotel in random locations – make sure you are in the right place at the right time in order to unlock the exclusive event badge!

Lastly, alongside the critter themed event, also discover the hotly awaited Habbo player created Snake game this season! With 36 difficulty settings and 5 different levels, make a beeline away from the bug event and check out the limited duration game mode, where Habbos can win an exclusive trophy by participating!

For more information, visit: https://www.habbo.com/

About Habbo and Sulake

Sulake is a social entertainment company focused on providing a safe and fun online service for self-expression through its games, Habbo and Hotel Hideaway. Sulake was founded in 2000 by a small team of passionate people and now after 21 years, Habbo is still one of the largest virtual communities in the world, reaching players all over the world each month. With paying customers in over 150 countries and approximately 600 thousand active users a month, Habbo continues to be a hugely popular and globally recognised brand.

Sulake’s mission is to enable its users to meet new people, make friends and give them a place to create and share their user-generated content in fun virtual surroundings. Sulake is a leader in ensuring online safety for children and was acquired in 2020 by Dutch digital entertainment and media platform Azerion. www.sulake.com

HARDCORE PLATFORMER SOCKVENTURE LAUNCHES ON NINTENDO SWITCH April 14th

Super Fast 2D Platform Action With a Superhero Sock

Denver, CO – April 1st 2022 – Independent games publisher Versus Evil and developer Nighthouse Games today announced that their 2D platform action game Sockventure will launch on Nintendo Switch on April 14th.

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 to the platforming genre, not to mention that the game is another fantastic candidate for the speed run community to tackle.” said Steve Escalante, General Manager of Versus Evil. “The Nintendo Switch is famously home to many great platformer games and we know that fans of this genre are getting one of the best platformers in 2022.”

Sockventure was previously launched on PC and is available on SteamGOG and The Epic Game Store.

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

Lumberjacks, Sharpen Your Axes and Prepare to Battle the Wilderness in Lumberhill, Coming to Nintendo Switch on April 15th!

Join in on the flannel and fauna madness with up to three friends in online or local co-op, PvP, or solo modes

Krakow, Poland — April 1st, 2022 — Publisher All in! Games and developer 2BIGo, supported by ARP Games, are thrilled to announce that Lumberhill, a certifiably chaotic multiplayer party game is coming to Nintendo Switch on 15th April, 2022. Get ready to awaken your inner lumberjack and complete tasks against the clock while traveling around the world and through time. Prevail against meteor showers and pirate attacks, chop trees, and shepherd everything from fluffy sheep to troublesome triceratops with up to four players or solo. Lumberhill pre-order with a 34% discount starts on April 8th. 

Life as a lumberjack is no simple walk in the forest—especially when nature is there to trip you up every step of the way. A day’s work must be done, no matter the colorful chaos that ensues! Chop wood and catch fluffy sheep in the forest, coax cute little piglets in Hawaii, steal eggs from pterodactyls when you time travel to Dino World, and herd pandas in Asia.

Lumberhill is couch co-op by design and provides the perfect opportunity to play with a party of friends across 54 different hazard filled levels. Friendships might very well be tested too as you put your teamwork skills to the test with up to three other players in local or online multiplayer as you work together to collect timber and livestock whilst dodging a variety of environmental dangers. Collaboration and communication are key if you’re going to succeed collectively, there’s no room for a weak link here.

Feeling mischievous? Switch to PvP for some real competitive chaos and hilarity, chase your friends across the map (and off it!) as a ram or a furious hog to prevent them from completing tasks and achieving the best score. Through it all, collect an array of fun skins and capture the craziest screenshot you can.

In Lumberhill you will:

  • Put your teamwork skills to the test with up to 3 additional friends in local or online co-op or pvp, or play alone in solo mode
  • Have your butt kicked by nature
  • Complete orders in a wide variety of challenging, time-limited levels
  • Deal with chaotic random events such as wildfires, meteor showers, and pirate attacks
  • Unlock new exciting worlds and a wide variety of skins as you progress
  • Find unexpected routes and ways of doing things
  • Throw pandas around and evade dinosaurs
  • Kick your friends off the map by accident a lot (or on purpose—we don’t judge)

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), Paradise Lost (PolyAmorous), Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms (Gamera Interactive), Tools Up! (The Knights of Unity), and many more. For more information, visit: https://www.allingames.com/

ARP Games
ARP Games is a promoter of different gaming projects, especially in the game dev industry. The company supports promising projects in Poland, helps fund them, and aids them in searching for a publisher for their first developed game. Over 30 teams have used the business accelator’s support, out of which 5 became independent studios that collectively published 6 games. Lumberhill is among the titles ARP Games is currently working on.

2BIGo
2BIGo is a small, 4-person indie company founded in January 2018 in Gliwice, Poland, focused on bringing joy and happiness through games. Lumberhill is their first game, which started as a hobby project before becoming their sole focus. So far, their experience with Lumberhill has taught them that funny physics combined with cute animals is a formula for success.

Stunlock Studio’s Latest Dev Update Explores The World of Vardoran

V Rising’s location setting is a vast and beautiful place  filled with untold mysteries

Skövde, Sweden – 1st April, 2022 – Stunlock Studios today have published their latest Dev Update shining a light on the continent of Vardoran, the cruel yet beautiful setting for V Rising. Vardoran consists mainly of four huge regions: from the blazing tops of the Silverlight Hills, to the ancient Farbane Woods, to the human stronghold of Dunley Farmlands to the sunken depths of the Cursed Forest. There is a vast world to explore filled with mysteries and treasure, inhabited by the living and dead alike and most importantly touched by Blood.

We’ve put a lot of love into making exploration interesting, atmospheric, and diverse in V Rising, but our work isn’t done. Additional world enhancements will be something the team will focus more on during Early Access. We’ve got plenty of exciting ideas regarding what to do next, which could mean adding new places to explore, lore to discover, or improving and refining the current regions and inhabitants.

Click here to check out the World of Vardoran Dev Update

More on V Rising
V Rising is an open-world vampire survival game. Awaken as a weakened vampire from centuries of slumber and survive a world full of peril. As a vampire, you need to hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and quench your thirst. Build and customize your castle, invite friends to join your clan, and convert humans to servants to grow your empire. Engage in real-time combat and compete for world domination with PvP and PvE challenges. Will you become the next Dracula?

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1604030/V_Rising/
Visit our Website: https://playvrising.com/
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VRisingGame
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VRisingGame
Join the Discord server: https://discord.gg/bsSgmhMVSe

About Stunlock Studios
Stunlock Studios is one of the leading independent Swedish game developers in Skövde and most known for arena brawler Battlerite. Since the launch of Battlerite, more than 6 million unique players have tried their luck in the arena, shooting Battlerite up to the peak of the ‘top-selling’ free-to-play games on Steam on several occasions. With a passion for multiplayer action games, the studio crafts ground breaking and community-driven games, always with their players in mind.

For more information, visit: https://www.stunlock.com

Magic: The Gathering’s Pro Tour circuit returns!

A new system will see the beloved Pro Tour return as part of a major Premier Play announcement from the world’s oldest and best trading card game

Thursday March 31, 2022 — Wizards of the Coast today announced an update to the Magic: The Gathering Premier Play System kicking off on 2 July 2022, featuring four levels of tabletop play which culminates in a World Championship tournament with a US $1 million prize pool. The new system will see a return to the Pro Tour structure of previous years, with each Pro Tour offering a US $500,000 prize pool. Players will have the opportunity to carve a path to the World Championship via a series of regional qualifying tournaments.

Regional Championship Qualifiers

The ANZ Regional Championship Qualifiers are a series of local tournaments and will be hosted by tabletop game and hobby retailer Good Games across Wizards Play Network (WPN) locations within Australia and New Zealand. Titled the ‘ANZ Super Series’, the Regional Championship Qualifiers will be open to all players aged 13 and over. Prizes and entry fees will be determined by each Wizards Play Network store location. Top placing players will be invited to Regional Championships tournaments to further test their skills.

All players will receive a promo Lava Spike card for participating, with top finishers earning themselves a Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx card.

Qualifying windows:

  • Season 1 Qualifying Window is 2 July to 5 September 2022
  • Season 2 Qualifying Window is 1 October to 18 December, 2022
  • Season 3 Qualifying Window is 7 January to 2 April 2023

Players can learn more about the ANZ Super Series and sign up. To find your local participating WPN store, visit https://locator.wizards.com/.

Regional Championships (Information for ANZ)

Players who conquer their local Regional Championship Qualifiers will be invited to a major Regional Championship tournament with a US $15,000 prize pool. In ANZ, this Regional Championship is titled the ‘Super Series Final’.

The top 12 players from each Regional Championship qualify for the Pro Tour with the winner also securing a spot at the World Championship. The only way to qualify for a Regional Championship is to place highly at the Super Series Final, or via the Last Chance Qualifier held the day before each Regional Championship. Players unsuccessful in qualifying can still participate in side events at the Super Series Final, including a US $5,000 Super Sunday cash prize pool event.

A number of funds have been allocated as a travel allowance for New Zealand players to ensure qualified members will be able to attend the Regional Championships. This will be managed by Good Games and will require players to apply for their travel allowance.

All players will receive a promo Teferi, Hero of Dominaria card for participating in the Super Series Final, with top finishers earning themselves a foil version of the card.

Series dates

  • Season 1 Regional Final will be 25 to 27 November 2022 in Sydney
  • Seasons 2 and 3 Regional Finals will be announced at a later date

Pro Tours

Three times a year, qualifiers from the Regional Championships will gather to compete for their share of US $500,000 in prizes, invites to the World Championship, and the right to claim their place among the best in the world. Pro Tours will be hosted by Wizards of the Coast at locations to be announced at a later date.

World Championship

The culmination of everything a competitive Magic player could dream of, the World Championship will serve as the capstone event of each season. Around 128 players will compete for their share of US $1 million. For the 2022-2023 season, this event will be held later in 2023 in the United States. The one-and-only winner will be crowned Magic: The Gathering World Champion.

In addition to this multi-levelled system, Wizards of the Coast has announced plans for a digital Premier Play path for players to qualify via Magic: The Gathering Arena and Magic Online. Full details on this path will be unveiled in April.

The new Premier Play system will debut on 2 July 2022 with the ANZ Super Series which will be run as Standard, Pioneer, Modern, or Limited (to be determined by Good Games).

For more information on MTG Premier Play, visit the Wizards site or head to the FAQ.

About Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering’s compelling characters, fantastic worlds, and deep strategic gameplay have entertained and delighted fans for more than 25 years. Fans can experience Magic through the tabletop trading card game, the new digital game Magic: The Gathering Arena, a New York Times bestselling novel, critically acclaimed comic book series, and professional esports league. With over 40 million fans to date, Magic is a worldwide phenomenon published in eleven languages in over 70 countries.

About Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., is an award-winning developer and publisher of tabletop and digital games that ignite a sense of adventure in passionate players around the globe. Best known for publishing groundbreaking fantasy franchises, MAGIC: THE GATHERING® and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS®, Wizards is dedicated to bringing together world-class talent to create unforgettable play experiences at its headquarters in Washington and studios in Austin and Montreal. Learn more at www.wizards.com.

WWE SuperCard Tags-In for All-New WrestleMania 38 Tier and Limited-Time New Game Mode

WWE® SuperCard® Tags-In for All-New WrestleMania® 38 Tier and Limited-Time New Game Mode

Season 8 content continues to roll out, including new Tag Team Takedown mode, Money in the Bank Takeover and more

2K today announced the debut of the WWE® SuperCard* WrestleMania 38 card tier, including more than 70 new cards featuring fan-favourite WWE Superstars, Legends and Hall of Famers in the collectible card-battling game from Cat Daddy Games. Releasing April 1, fans can look forward to collecting new, more powerful cards featuring Roman Reigns, Charlotte Flair, Ronda Rousey, ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin, The Undertaker, AJ Styles, Becky Lynch, Brock Lesnar, and more.

The latest WWE SuperCard Season 8 update kicked off with a live action ad campaign featuring Roman Reigns and The Usos, tying to Reigns’ Money in the Bank Takeover, which runs from March 30 through May 2. The event gives players the honour of acknowledging their “Tribal Chief” while active, during which time the mode will offer additional rewards for climbing to the top of the ladder and taking down the briefcase.

Additionally, in May, an all-new limited-time Tag Team Takedown mode will become available, pairing players together to take on other tag teams. Teams will earn rewards for winning matches and completing milestones. Following the conclusion of the match, the partners will have the option to continue as a team in pursuit of more rewards or can move on in search of other tag team partners without losing any rewards.

Be on the lookout for more great WWE SuperCard activities throughout the month of April, which will see the release of multiple special edition cards players can earn, including an Irwin R. Schyster (aka I.R.S.) card on Tax Day, a celebratory Triple H D-Generation X card, a “Remastered” Bayley card, and more!

For more information on WWE SuperCard and 2K, visit the game’s brand new website at WWESuperCard.com, become a fan on Facebook, follow the game on Twitter and Instagram or subscribe on YouTube.

*WWE SuperCard requires iOS 12.0 or later for iOS devices, including iPhone and iPad, as well as requires Android 5.0 and up for Android devices. App includes optional in-game purchases.

Cat Daddy Games is a 2K studio. 2K is a wholly owned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

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The DC Super Heroes Racing Season for Hot Wheels Unleashed Available Now from Mattel and Milestone

The DC Super Heroes Racing Season for Hot Wheels Unleashed™ Available Now from Mattel and Milestone srl 

Ready to race with the most iconic DC Super Heroes cars? The HOT WHEELS™ – DC Super Heroes Racing Season is available now,delivering to all players a large number of free and premium contents that can be unlocked by completing new challenges added specifically for the Season. The DC Super Heroes Racing Season includes 6 themed vehicles, The Flash™, Supergirl™, Aquaman™, Cyborg™, Nightwing™ and Shazam™. Beyond themed customisation items for the Basement and the Player Profile, there are also plenty of gears and coins that will be made available for everyone. The Season has now startedand it will end on June 14, 2022.

Watch the DC Super Heroes Racing Season trailer here:

For more information, visithotwheelsunleashed.com. Drivers can also join the #HotWheelsUnleashed conversation online at Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.

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About Milestone
Founded in Milan in 1996, Milestone S.r.l. is one of the leading and longest established racing game developers in the world.  The 200+ people team is responsible for hit series like MotoGP™, MXGP and Monster Energy Supercross – The Official Videogame, as well as RIDE and Gravel, Milestone’s own IPs. For more information, please visit  www.milestone.it

About Mattel
Mattel is a leading global toy company and owner of one of the strongest catalogs of children’s and family entertainment franchises in the world. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain, and develop children through play. We engage consumers through our portfolio of iconic brands, including Barbie®, Hot Wheels®, Fisher-Price®, American Girl®, Thomas & Friends®, UNO®, Masters of the Universe®, Monster High® and MEGA®, as well as other popular intellectual properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include film and television content, gaming and digital experiences, music, and live events. We operate in 35 locations and our products are available in more than 150 countries in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering children to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. Visit us online at mattel.com. 
HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ © 2021. Published and Developed by Milestone S.r.l. All rights reserved. HOT WHEELS™ and associated trademarks and trade dress are owned by, and used under license from, Mattel. ©2021 Mattel. All manufacturers, accessory suppliers, names, tracks, sponsors, brands and associated imagery featured in this game are trademarks and/or copyrighted materials of their respective owners.

About DC
DC, a WarnerMedia Company, creates iconic characters, enduring stories, and immersive experiences that inspire and entertain audiences of every generation around the world and is one of the world’s largest publishers of comics and graphic novels. As a creative division, DC is charged with strategically integrating its stories and characters across film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, interactive games, and the DC Universe Infinite digital subscription service and community engagement portal. For more information visit dccomics.com and dcuniverseinfinite.com.

Milestone introduces NINE Season 2009, one of a kind game mode featuring a docu-styled gameplay

The legendary riders, the best tracks, the evocative moments, the most realistic gameplay. All in one feature: The MotoGP™22 NINE Season 2009 is an original docu-styled gameplay experience that will guide players through a whirlwind of memories. Race in the boots of Rossi, Pedrosa, Lorenzo, Stoner and many others, to be the protagonist of some iconic moments in one of the best season ever in the MotoGP™ history.

NINE Season 2009 blends together gameplay and a real footage documentary created by Mark Neale, well known for his works on the documentaries Faster, Faster & Faster (starring Ewan McGregor), Fastest and Hitting The Apex, co-produced with Academy Awards winner Brad Pitt.

Mark Neale: “NINE took shape much like the 2009 MotoGP season itself. At first, nobody was sure how it would go, then it turned into something amazing. Making it was a great experience. I think playing it will be, too.”

Stakes are high and players will face all the 17 Grand Prix of the Season divided in chapters and full filled of breath-taking challenges to complete. All the NINE Season 2009 content are also available in Grand Prix and Championship modes, allowing to play entire races and seasons as the iconic riders of the 2009 season.

More details about the NINE Season 2009 content:

  • All the riders, the bikes and the tracks of season 2009.
  • More than 1 hour of real footage, full of stories, anecdotes and interviews with the protagonists of the races.
  • 39 challenges that accurately reproduce the most crucial moments of the season. Each challenge is characterised by specific goals to achieve, such as defending the position against attacks from a rival, reaching a particular position before the end of the race, or engaging in a head-to-head duel with a very aggressive rider.
  • Additional content unlockable with each challenge, such as helmets and special liveries used by the protagonists in home races.

Events, challenges, stories and emotions that were unrepeatable are now ready to be lived, once again!

MotoGP™22 will be released on April 21st, 2022 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Steam.

About Milestone

Founded in Milan in 1996, Milestone S.r.l. is one of the leading and longest established racing game developer in the world. The 200+ people team is responsible for hit series like MotoGP™, MXGP and Monster Energy Supercross – The Official Videogame, the acclaimed Hot Wheels™ Unleashed, as well as own IPs RIDE and Gravel. For more information please visit  www.milestone.it

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 nine 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), Vertigo Games (Rotterdam /The Netherlands) and 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.

Let’s Get Fit: Start Working Out In May 

Voxler’s new fitness game gets a release date, available for pre-order now 

Sydney, Australia, April 1, 2022 – Let’s Get Fit, the upcoming new fitness game by Voxler and Exkee, has a release date: the game will get you moving on May 13, 2022 and is available for pre-order now. 

Let’s Get Fit allows players to experience the best of athletic workouts and gaming by combining the Joy-Con™ Controllers with the Sports Strap Set. This way, players will get accurate motion tracking, helping them to perform the exercises correctly and ensuring they get the most out of their workout routines. The wide range of training possibilities includes a variety of pre-made workouts but also allows the player to create custom challenges, combining some of the 100 moves included in Let’s Get Fit. 

The health benefits of physical activity (cardiovascular, musculoskeletal and psychological) are well established. Let’s Get Fit makes it easy for everyone to exercise at home, thanks to a very well-designed game that adapts to beginners and advanced players with a fun and motivating virtual coach. Developed in partnership with experts from the sports and health fields, the exercises have been studied in order to be done safely by the entire family. Improving your physical condition, your weight, your aches and pains, your sleep, your general well-being… it’s all possible with an easy and fun game while staying at home.” says medical expert Dr. Yann Mossler, who was closely involved in the development of Let’s Get Fit. 

The game includes a fully-fledged tutorial, as well as detailed instructions allowing players to look at the moves from every angle. This, plus the broad variety of workout routines, makes Let’s Get Fit the perfect fitness game. 

The straps are included with the physical edition but also available separately.  

Let’s Get Fit  will be released on May 13, 2022 exclusively on Nintendo Switch.

About Let’s Get Fit 
Let’s Get Fit offers pre-made workouts as well as the option to create an infinite number of custom workout routines. Players can pick from a wide array of exercises, ranging from soft gymnastics to high intensity workouts, allowing for full-body workouts as well as focusing on specific muscle groups. 

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 Voxler 
Voxler is a French developer of music games. The company was created in 2005 and the team focuses its energy on developing great games based on advanced technology. Voxler develops or has developed several games on all platforms (Switch™, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, and Xbox One®) and on iOS, Android and PC. The team’s key commitment is to give players unforgettable moments in high-quality games. The studio works with leading worldwide publishers and invests continuously in order to exploit the full potential of each platform. More information at http://www.voxler.fr
Voxler is a Koch Media Group company. 

About Exkee 
Created in 2003 and based in Marseille (France), Exkee develops high quality and original games for PC, Console, and Mobile. Exkee is composed of creative and energetic talents focused on proposing the best concepts and gameplays to gamers and casual gamers. Thanks to an experienced management team which has worked on a large variety of platforms, Exkee has a track record of more than 30 successful and awarded titles. 

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