Charming Toy City-builder Tinytopia Launches August 30 for Windows PC, Mac & Linux

Digital download available through Steam, the Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store, and GOG.com

SAN FRANCISCO – Aug. 12, 2021 – Video game publisher Mastiff, in partnership with indie developer MeNic Games, today announced Tinytopia, a playful take on the city-builder genre, will be released on Aug. 30, 2021, for Windows PC and Mac with Linux support coming post-launch. Tinytopia will be available for purchase on Steam, the Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store, and GOG.com for $14.99 across all major territories.

“Building” up to the game’s August 30 release date, Mastiff has also released a new Tinytopia trailer to enjoy!

The spiritual successor to MeNic Games’ BalanCity, Tinytopia is a lighthearted and charming city-building experience. Use a variety of building blocks to craft toy towns and cities across a mix of 17 real-world and fantasy locales plus six physics-based Challenge stages, all of which put players’ creativity, balancing, and timing skills to the test.

A more detailed look at two of the game’s cities, Tokyo and Paris, and their featured landmarks is also now available.

About Tinytopia:

As the mayor of Tinytopia, build and manage flourishing toy towns and cities for your citizens and protect them from all sorts of cute catastrophes. Use toy building blocks to create awesome megastructures and transform charming villages into bustling metropolises. Tinytopia delivers a tremendous experience on a tabletop scale that’s as challenging or relaxing as you like.

Key Features:

• Big Cities, Big Goals, Miniature Pieces: A playful blend of city-building, physics-based challenges, and oh-so-satisfying destruction. Use a collection of toy structures, tools, and services to create your own digital desktop destinations across 24 levels.
• Craft It Bigger, Make It Better: With an innovative, physics-based mechanic, miniature building blocks can be combined and stacked on top of one another to form awesome megastructures! There are more than 80 building Blueprints to discover!
• Balance. Stack. Plan. Play: Are you looking for a challenge worthy of a municipal mayoral mastermind like yourself? Tinytopia’s Challenge levels are full of physics-based fun that will test the limits of your planning and balancing skills, timing, and creativity.
• A Smashing Good Time: Protect your tiny citizens from catastrophes like tornadoes, fires, monster attacks, UFOs, and more. Or flip a switch and watch it all come crumbling down!

Visit Tinytopia‘s website and join Mastiff’s Discord for more information and updates.

About Mastiff

Mastiff is a publisher of fun, easy-to-pick-up-and-play games on all platforms, including those from Nintendo, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Microsoft, PC and online gaming. Founded in 2002, Mastiff is proud to have released games in virtually every genre, including action, adventure, fighting, RPG, FPS, casual and music. https://mastiff-games.com

About MeNic Games

MeNic Games is an award-winning indie game development studio based in Cordoba, Argentina. Specializing in fun, physics-driven games, the studio launched its debut title, BalanCity, in 2016, followed by Space Routine in 2020. The team is now looking forward to releasing the playful miniature city-builder Tinytopia in 2021. http://www.menic.games

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Solve puzzles using ingenuity and stealth in an exquisite adventure featuring point-and-click, minigames and more

Vilnius, Lithuania – 12 August 2021 – Perelesoq and Nordcurrent are honoured to announce that their poignant war story Torn Away will release on Steam this Winter. Set in WW2, the game is inspired by the diaries of children, written during the war, and uses various gameplay mechanics to create an immersively moving experience that chronicles the hardships of Europe in the 1940s and allows the player to explore a familiar setting in a new light.

Torn Away combines a variety of genres while exploring the tale of Asya, a lost orphan who escaped from a forced labour camp and has to cross the wintry wilderness of Germany and Poland to make her way back home. You will have to persevere through the harsh elements of nature, solving puzzles and engaging in a variety of different types of gameplay to hide from soldiers, look for shelter and food and survive to see your home once again.

Exploring themes around the consequences of war and the effect these tragedies can have on children and other non-combatants, Torn Away hopes to change the dialogue about war and nationalised violence.

“Our goal as a studio is to captivate our audience with thoughtful storytelling, beautiful visuals and expressive music. We want to use this incredible interactive medium of games to explore important stories from history and give players a more pensive and empathetic experience,” said Artem Koblov, creative director at Perelesoq. “Torn Away is more than just a game, an entertainment product; it is a unique way to understand the tragedies of war from a child’s perspective. We are proud to announce that Torn Away is coming this Winter and we are looking forward to sharing it with you.”

More information on Torn Away:

Add Torn Away to your Steam wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1568970/Torn_Away/
Follow the Torn Away on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TornAwaygame
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Visit the Perelesoq website: https://www.perelesoq.com/

About Perelesoq

Perelesoq is a small game development studio based in Moscow, Russia. We came together to tell people emotional stories with video games vocabulary. We don’t try to make super popular entertainment products that will be loved by everyone. Instead, we are focused on captivating those who value thoughtful storytelling, authentic visuals and expressive music.

About Nordcurrent

Nordcurrent is a developer and publisher of games for smartphones, tablets, laptops and PC which was established in 2002 with headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuania. Nordcurrent has two development studios in Vilnius and Odessa (Ukraine). Over the past 19 years, the company has developed more than 50 games for different platforms and generated more than 500 million downloads worldwide. The biggest hit of the studio to date is Cooking Fever, a time management game where players cook meals and desserts from around the world. The game has over 350 million downloads and 10 million active users per month.

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Nerdook’s whodunnit adventure coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One in September

12 August, 2021 – Indie publisher Digerati is happy to confirm the release dates for The Magister. The murder-mystery card battler will launch September 2nd on Steam and Nintendo Switch, and September 3rd for Xbox One. 

The latest game from developer Nerdook (Monster Slayers, Vertical Drop Heroes, Reverse Crawl), The Magister puts players in the role of a Magister – agents assigned to enforce the rule of law in the far-flung provinces of the Empire – who is dispatched to the remote village of Silverhurst to investigate a murder.

Players will be able to sample The Magister ahead of its release courtesy of The Magister: The First Two Days. As the name suggests, it will include the first two days of the randomly-generated whodunnit adventure (the full game takes place over 14 days). An exact release date is still to be confirmed for The Magister: The First Two Days, but it will be available to download from Steam for free sometime before September 2nd. 

The Magister release date trailer: 

About the game

The Magister is a murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customise your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those who stand in your way. Gather clues and discover motives as you investigate the death of your predecessor and unmask the guilty culprit.

Key features

• Randomly generated murder-mystery: A walkthrough won’t help here! The events, clues, motives, and murderer change with every playthrough. Only YOU can identify the guilty suspect.
• Tactical card-based encounters: Your combat and negotiation skills are determined by the cards in your deck. Use a vast array of cards, such as ‘Heartstopper’, ‘Poison Slash’, ‘Weak Joke’, and ‘Long Talk’.
• Pacify enemies for a peaceful outcome: Use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ as an alternative to fighting and calm foes with your conversation cards to reduce their Rage level to 0.
• Choose your Magister: Different Magisters come with their own specialities and flaws. From cunning alcoholic to intelligent insomniac – every variation defines a different adventure.
• Recruit a human ally or furry companion: If needed, a Mercenary, Spy, or Sage can be recruited to assist in your investigation. You can also befriend one of the local cats or dogs to fight by your side in battles.

Set in a captivating fantasy world: You have 14 days to wander Silverhurst and befriend or intimidate its inhabitants as you race against time to unmask the murderer.

About Digerati
As a publisher, Digerati is dedicated to helping independent developers bring their creations to market and into the hands of gamers. We take care of funding, distribution, marketing and production, leaving developers to focus on what they love – making incredible games and unique experiences.

About Nerdook
Sim YC, better known as Nerdook, is a one-man independent game developer. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and spent 5 years in the oil and gas industry before becoming a full time game developer. With over 50 million plays of his browser games, Nerdook now divides his time between developing new games and being a dad of three kids. 

Launch, rush, crash, glide, warp, and hang to solve 180 unique audio-visual hand-crafted circular platforming puzzles with over 75,000 user-generated levels to explore!

Bristol, UK – 12th August 2021 – Indie studio SPECTRUM48 launches minimalist circular puzzle-platformer ‘OCO’ on Steam for Windows PC and Mac today for £3.99 / €3.99 / $4.99.

OCO originally launched on mobile platforms in 2019 and won critical acclaim as well as multiple award nominations including being a finalist at Google Play’s Indie Game Showcase 2019, Develop’s Big Indie Pitch, and Pocket Gamer’s People’s Choice Award 2020 as well as being ‘Game of the Day’ on App Stores all over the world.

In OCO, puzzle fans will find intelligent and intuitive puzzles set in a circular minimalist world where a responsive procedural soundtrack changes depending on how they play the game. The 180 hand-crafted levels are beautifully designed and are eminently pick up and playable, however, players will need patience, perception, and precision to fully master the game.

OCO features a simple yet powerful level editor as well as a bustling Discord channel where players are submitting new levels constantly. With 75,000+ user-generated levels to try, there is a tonne of content for gamers to get their teeth into. There are also weekly OLYMPUS contests where the best players worldwide compete to top leaderboards in ‘Speedrun’ and ‘Endurance’ – fighting to become THE ‘God of Olympus’.

“In OCO we wanted to create a minimalist experience which is extremely playable but also cerebral and challenging,” commented Philip Sinclair lead game designer at SPECTRUM48. “We’ve had a great experience on mobile platforms and are now hyped to see how hardcore Steam players engage with the competitive element in terms of leaderboards and our challenges, we’re also excited to see how these new players will interact with the level editor and what kind of levels they will create!”

OCO FEATURES:

• Precision platforming – Simple one-button controls combined with complex challenging puzzles make for a cerebral yet inherently pick-up and playable experience.

• 75,000 user-generated levels – OCO’s community are active and busy!

• 180 hand-crafted levels – Complete SPECTRUM48’s gameplay arc to become a master OCO player.

• Built-in level editor – Create levels and challenge friends to complete them.

• Procedurally-generated soundtrack – Audio and atmospherics change with every single level depending on how you play the game.

• Established Online Community – There’s already a thriving community around OCO with a Discord channel, online leaderboards, cross-platform cloud save and cross-platform multiplayer available.

• Olympus Mode – become the ‘God of Olympus’ and gain the power to curate the game in weekly challenges.

Find OCO on Steam here.

About SPECTRUM48
SPECTRUM48 is an independent video game studio based in Bristol, UK. With a background in architecture, clean lines and logical design is fundamental to its video games aesthetic – this can be fully experienced in ‘OCO’. SPECTRUM48’s focus is on developing innovative, creative, original, high-quality video game experiences.

Find out more at www.spectrum48.com.

The resource management survival sequel brings new challenges, deeper strategic gameplay, and the perennial threat of extinction to Steam players next month.

Thursday, 12^th August 2021 – Team17 and Unicube Studios have today announced resource management survival game Sheltered 2 will be launching on Steam on 21^st September. Placing players into a post-apocalyptic landscape Sheltered 2 tasks players with surviving the horrors that await at the end of the world. Building upon the foundations of the 2016 original, Sheltered 2 features revamped combat systems and new factions mechanics for deeper strategic gameplay, a new 3D art style, and punishing survival challenges spread out across the devastated surface of the Earth.

Top tips for staying alive in the wasteland:  

As the fight to survive is tested by internal and external threats, players will create and build up their own faction and base, manage resources and meet survivor needs.  Sheltered 2’s factions system in is instrumental to a campaign’s success; relationships can be forged between factions, giving players the option to trade and work together, with both sides thriving from the association. Alternatively, bitter rivalries can be ignited, potentially leading to catastrophic effects and ushering in an untimely end to the faction leader and their base.  

Sheltered 2 Key Features:

• Factions: The factions system allows players to forge relationships with other groups to provide their base with resources and support, or they can grab their weapons and take things the old-fashioned way
• Resource Management: Players will balance the needs and wants of their survivors, manage scarce resources, craft items needed to maintain the shelter, cook meals, and build equipment to keep their group alive, and with the expanded power system players can generate energy in new ways
• Faction Leader: New for Sheltered 2, the faction leader is the most important member of a shelter, boasting their own unique and powerful traits, the faction leader will be pivotal to success, with their death meaning game over
• An Unforgiving Wasteland: Starvation, asphyxiation, extreme temperatures, and combat are just some of the challenges players will face in the harsh wasteland
• Combat: In Sheltered 2 players will use a variety of skills coupled with the ability to build parties of four and targeting specific body parts on their enemies to deal the most visceral damage in combat situations. Each action performed also has a stamina cost, so strategy will be at the forefront of every altercation, each move critical in the balance of life and death
• Characters: Survivors have their own personalities, traits, desires, and skills to acquire, and the ability to customise each individually means every faction member is unique.

Survivors looking to start their adventure in the wasteland can wishlist Sheltered 2 on Steam. To keep up to date with all the information on Sheltered 2 please like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and join us on Discord.

About Unicube

Founded in 2014 Unicube is an independent developer based in Shrewsbury, UK. Visit http://www.unicube.net for more info.

About Team17 Group plc

Founded in 1990, Team17 Group plc is a leading developer, video games label, and creative partner for developers around the world. Floated on AIM in 2018, Team17, with its extensive portfolio of over 100 titles, embodies the spirit of independent games. In addition to the award-winning Overcooked!, Yoku’s Island Express, and the iconic Worms, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2020, Team17 has helped bring critically acclaimed titles including Hell Let Loose, Moving Out, Golf With Your Friends, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, Blasphemous, and The Escapists to gamers everywhere.

The 60-player battle royale experience is open to all players, blending brutal melee combat and fluid movement. 

Hangzhou, August 12, 2021 | 24 Entertainment is excited to announce that NARAKA: BLADEPOINT has just landed on Steam and on the NARAKA: BLADEPOINT website, delivering a unique battle royale experience complete with unrestricted movement via grappling and parkour, along with deep, tactical melee combat to make each match exciting and intense as fighters spar for victory.

NARAKA: BLADEPOINT is taking battle royale to the next level with “Unchained Multiplayer Combat” — combining exhilarating melee action and unparalleled movement, through parkour, offering a dynamic verticality to gameplay. Whether clashing swords in head-to-head conflicts, or sniping unaware opponents from afar, fighting is fast and exhilarating in NARAKA: BLADEPOINT.

With this full release the fearsome Yoto Hime is joining the fight as a brand new hero, and a fiery chainsaw weapon has also been added alongside a new dagger to provide fresh offensive options. Additionally, those who played the beta will see map alterations and further optimisations to the battle royale experience, including a casual mode, when they jump into the game once more. 

During its public beta test on Steam, the game accrued over a million participants and was in the top 5 most played games on the platform, and 24 Entertainment are ready for even more warriors to enter the battlefield.

The game is available to purchase now for the following price points:

• Standard Edition: $19.99/ £17.99
• Deluxe Edition: $34.99/ £30.99
• Asura Streamer Themed Edition:  $34.99/ £30.99
• Ultimate Edition: $49.99/ £45.99

Find out more about NARAKA: BLADEPOINT at the links down below.

Official NARAKA: BLADEPOINT Twitter
Official NARAKA: BLADEPOINT YouTube
Steam Page

About 24 Entertainment
24 Entertainment is a Chinese game studio founded by a group of artists, engineers, and designers; who are all gaming industry veterans. We have a shared vision of introducing global players to Eastern cultures through cutting-edge gaming technology.

Over a week of gifts, and more, await tankers, including a brand-new Premium tank

August 12, 2021 — World of Tanks’ August Heat is hotting up even more with their 11^th birthday celebrations, offering some great gifts to say thank you to their players for their continued support with Summer Presents.

For simply logging into the game, tankers will get their hands on a brand-new, historically accurate Premium tank: the T-34 with an L-11 gun. This Tier IV Soviet medium tank features a default concealment bonus and will come with a 100% trained crew and a Garage slot.

Additionally, tankers who log in seven times on separate days between August 12th and 22nd will be rewarded with 7 days of World of Tanks Premium Account and 7 Gift Tickets, which can be exchanged for valuable rewards, including bonds, credits, and even more valuable goodies in a special section of the in-game Store.

“We’ve prepared a special event for our 11^th anniversary with some great gifts, and we invite all players, old and new, to come join us,” states Max Chuvalov, Publishing Director, World of Tanks. “We really hope everyone enjoys what Summer Presents, Update 1.14 and August Heat as a whole, bring to the game!”

Another huge part of August Heat is in full swing: Update 1.14. The latest update introduces a line of Czechoslovakian heavies which will follow on from the Škoda T 25, the Tier VI medium tank. These beasts sport a feature unique to them: the choice of two guns, which are both equal in terms of performance and stats, but one features a two-shell autoloader, the other a classic cyclical gun. Additionally, with Update 1.14, tankers will also have more freedom to tinker and tune their vehicles to better suit their roles on the battlefield.

Field Modification are available to all Collectors’ and Tier VI-X vehicles, excluding rental ones. It also excludes special game mode vehicles, and will only become available after vehicles reach Elite status.

As well as Czechoslovakian reinforcements and Field Modification, a new map, Safe Haven, is coming to World of Tanks. Available for Random Battles, this summer map takes inspiration from 1960’s Japan and features a soundtrack by the World of Tanks audio team and Akira Yamaoka, the man behind those iconic Silent Hill compositions.

And finally, Update 1.14 will also see the return of Frontline for the first time in 2021, a new game mode called Topography which will test and improve tankers’ knowledge of maps and various changes to select Premium vehicles and the Personal Missions for Artillery.

For more information about the Summer Presents event, visit https://worldoftanks.asia/.

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World of Tanks

World of Tanks is the first team-based, massively multiplayer online action game dedicated to armoured warfare. Throw yourself into the epic tank battles of World War II with gamers all over the world. Your arsenal includes over 600 armoured vehicles from 11 nations, carefully detailed with historical accuracy.

Official website: https://worldoftanks.asia/About

Wargaming

Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. Operating since 1998, Wargaming has grown to become one of the leaders in the gaming industry with 5,500 employees and 18 offices spread all over the world. Over 200 million players enjoy Wargaming’s titles across all major gaming platforms. Our flagship products include the free-to-play hits World of Tanks and World of Warships, as well as World of Tanks Blitz — the critically acclaimed mobile tank shooter with cross-platform support.

Official website: https://asia.wargaming.net/en

SEGA REVEALS SONIC AND TAILS IN SUPER MONKEY BALL BANANA MANIA

Sonic The Hedgehog and Miles “Tails” Prower join the monkey gang at launch on 5^th October

Sydney, Australia – 12^th August 2021: SEGA® has announced beloved duo Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles “Tails” Prower are rolling into Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania as playable characters! The Blue Blur and his two-tailed sidekick will be free and unlockable through normal gameplay on all platforms on 5^th October 2021.

Check out the trailer here

This special birthday collaboration celebrates the respective 20^th and 30^th Anniversaries of Super Monkey Ball and Sonic The Hedgehog, with Sonic and Tails joining the monkey gang sporting classic character models that honour their historic legacy. Both characters will be playable in all 300+ levels and collect rings in lieu of bananas as they speed through the wondrous worlds of Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania.

Sonic and Tails join an all-star cast in Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania that includes Beat from Jet Set Radio along with additional yet-to-be-revealed guest stars. Follow the official Super Monkey Ball channels on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube for more reveals in the weeks ahead!

Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania launches on 5^th October 2021 for Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One. Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania will also support Xbox Series X Smart Delivery immediately on release, ensuring players will only have to buy the game once to play it on their favourite Xbox console. Additionally, buy the PS4™ version play the PS5™ version at no extra cost.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – August 12, 2021 – Today, Ubisoft announced that Assassin’s Creed® Valhalla’s next major expansion, The Siege of Paris, will be available.

Set in Francia, this new adventure will set Eivor on a dangerous path full of gripping questlines across the Frankish countryside towards one of the most infamous battles in Viking history. Players will get their hands on new weapons, abilities, gear, and skills to take on new enemy types. The Siege of Paris will also mark the return of Infiltration Missions, directly inherited from long-time, fan-favorite Black Box Missions. Here, players will have the liberty to choose the best way to eliminate their designated target. The Siege of Paris will be available for all Season Pass owners or as a separate purchase for $36.95 by all owners of the main game.

Click below image to view YouTube trailer

Players will have access to the expansion after completing one of the two first narrative arcs available in England (Grantebridgescire or Ledecestrescire), which unlock just after they arrive from Norway. When in Ravensthorpe, Eivor will stumble upon visitors from Francia offering suspiciously generous presents and will then find their way to Francia. The suggested power level for Francia is 200, but there is no mandatory power level to play The Siege of Paris.

With development led by Ubisoft Montreal*, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla offers players the captivating experience of playing as Eivor, a legendary Viking warrior, driven from Norway by endless wars and dwindling resources in ninth century AD. Players can relive the ruthless fighting style of Viking warriors with a revamped dual-wielding combat system and experience new gameplay features such as raids, assaults, and the settlement, as well as a revamped progression and gear upgrade system. Political alliances, combat decisions and dialogue choices can influence the world of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, so players must choose wisely to protect their clan’s home and their future.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is available on Xbox Series X | S, Xbox One consoles, PlayStation^®5, PlayStation^®4, the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Store on Windows PC, as well as on Ubisoft’s subscription service, Ubisoft+.**

For more information about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, please visit assassinscreed.com.

For the latest news on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and other Ubisoft games, please visit news.ubisoft.com.

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*Associate Ubisoft studios are Sofia, Singapore, Montpellier, Barcelona, Kyiv, Bordeaux, Shanghai, Chengdu, Philippines, Quebec, Bucharest, Saguenay, Winnipeg and Pune. Additional help provided by external partner Sperasoft.

** $19.95 per month. Cancel anytime. The Gold and Ultimate Editions will be available as part of a Ubisoft+ subscription.  More information at ubisoftplus.com.

About Assassin’s Creed

Since it first launched in 2007, the Assassin’s Creed series has sold more than 155 million games worldwide. The franchise is now established as one of the best-selling series in video game history. Recognized for having some of the richest, most engrossing storytelling in the industry, Assassin’s Creed transcends video games, branching out into numerous other entertainment media.

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft is a leading creator, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and services, with a rich portfolio of world-renowned brands, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, For Honor, Just Dance, Watch Dogs, and Tom Clancy’s video game series including Ghost Recon®, Rainbow Six and The Division. The teams throughout Ubisoft’s worldwide network of studios and business offices are committed to delivering original and memorable gaming experiences across all popular platforms, including consoles, mobile phones, tablets and PCs. For the 2020-21 fiscal year, Ubisoft generated net bookings of €2,241 million. To learn more, please visit: http://www.ubisoftgroup.com.

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