Auction launches today featuring a collection of original dot artwork based on the world-renowned IP Brave Frontier

TOKYO, Japan – July 13, 2021 – gumi Inc. in partnership with its portfolio company double jump.tokyo Inc. today launched their first NFT (non-fungible token) content “The Brave Dotz”, a dot artwork series that features dot art technology from the globally renowned mobile online game Brave Frontier, created by gumi subsidiary Alim Co.,Ltd. “The Brave Dotz” artwork series features six hero motifs with all different character elements from the Brave Frontier series, which has driven 38 million downloads worldwide. Starting today through July 16 at 11:00pm JST, collectors can bid on one-of-a-kind digital artwork in “The Brave Dotz” via OpenSea, a major NFT marketplace globally.

As an industry leader in Japan, gumi has been investing in leading blockchain companies and developing digital content through its many portfolio companies for years. Today marks its first step entering the NFT market with portfolio company Alim, which has already created high quality dot artwork through the development of their mobile game Brave Frontier. Along with Brave Frontier’s impressive global user base, Alim also holds the world record for the most number of controllable pixel art characters in a mobile game.

Hiroyuki Kawamoto, President of gumi Inc., said: “When we approached the idea of entering the NFT market, we wanted to ensure we would drive ground-breaking dot art technology and help further the blockchain industry globally. I believe we are taking steps forward in achieving this vision with our first public NFT offering through the ‘The Brave Dotz’ series.”

Hironobu Ueno, President of double jump.tokyo Inc., said: “Our range of collectable Brave Frontier-inspired NFTs, developed by Alim, offers people a unique piece of high quality digital art from Japan’s most talented artists. ‘The Brave Dotz’ artwork is composed of dots for each element, allowing you to experience the trajectory of the heroic spirits of Brave Frontier with your eyes and heart.”

To capitalize on the rapidly growing market of NFT art, Alim has also formed the “Alim Pixel Art Team”, which will leverage its dot art technology. The Alim Pixel Art Team consists of creative leaders driving dot art culture in Japan as well as creators of Brave Frontier. Among the many graphic design techniques that continue to evolve, this group of top-level Japanese creators continues to focus on high quality dot art, providing this new culture in the NFT community.

Summary of the “Six Heroes” featured in the “The Brave Dotz” series initial NFT offering:

The Brave Dotz ~Fire~
This artwork is composed of more than 100 fire-element characters from Brave Frontier. The character is “Vargas”, one of the six heroes that symbolize the Brave Frontier series. As the maiden work of the Alim Pixel Art Team, this popular character was chosen to represent the series.

The Brave Dotz ~Water~
This artwork is composed of more than 100 water-element characters from Brave Frontier. The character is “Selena”, one of the six heroes that symbolize the Brave Frontier series.

The Brave Dotz ~Earth~
This artwork is composed of more than 100 earth-element characters from Brave Frontier. The character is “Lance”, one of the six heroes that symbolize the Brave Frontier series.

The Brave Dotz ~Thunder~
This artwork is composed of more than 100 thunder-element characters from Brave Frontier. The character is “Eze”, one of the six heroes that symbolize the Brave Frontier series.

The Brave Dotz ~Light~
This artwork is composed of more than 100 light-element characters from Brave Frontier. The character is “Atro”, one of the six heroes that symbolize the Brave Frontier series.

The Brave Dotz ~Dark~
This artwork is composed of more than 100 dark-element characters from Brave Frontier. The character is “Magress”, one of the six heroes that symbolize the Brave Frontier series.

About double jump.tokyo Inc
double jump.tokyo Inc., was established in April 2018 as a specialised development company of blockchain games. double jump.tokyo is led by a team of experts in the development and operation of numerous games including: mobile social games, PC online games and home games. The team also maintains experience in finance, as well as blockchain technology and crypto assets.

The double jump.tokyo team are responsible for the creation of the world renowned blockchain games My Crypto Heroes and Brave Frontier Heroes.

To learn more visit:
Website: https://www.doublejump.tokyo/en
Twitter (JP): https://twitter.com/doublejumptokyo
Twitter (EN): https://twitter.com/doublejump_en

About gumi Inc.
Founded in 2007, gumi Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 3903) is a leading global mobile game publisher and developer headquartered in Japan, with overseas operations in Singapore and Taiwan. The company has proven success in launching titles worldwide, such as the widely popular role-playing games Brave Frontier and THE ALCHEMIST CODE. In 2016, gumi established a Silicon Valley-based investment group with partners, called The Venture Reality Fund, which focuses on seed and early stage augmented reality and virtual reality startups. Its VR incubation subsidiaries have expanded globally, including Tokyo XR Startups, Seoul XR Startups, and Nordic XR Startups. In 2018, the company launched gumi Cryptos, an investment arm in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency funds. With ongoing publishing and development projects on a wide array of mobile, AR and VR platforms, gumi aims to change the world through innovative entertainment products and services, including both original content and collaborations with popular IP.

For more information, please visit http://www.gu3.co.jp/en/.

Cotton on the hunt for Willows!

Stuttgart, Germany –  July 13th 2020 –  ININ Games is gearing up for the release of BEEP’s side-scrolling shoot ‘em up Cotton Reboot! releasing both digitally and physically on Sony PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in Europe, Australasia and North America on 20th July.

Cotton is already a much revered and iconic brand appearing on many consoles and computers from  PC Engine, Neo Geo Pocket Color, right through to Playstation. Cotton Reboot! presents PlayStation and Switch gamers a fun, colourful, cute ‘em up that offers brand new features, 7 stages that really highlight what a side scrolling shoot ‘em up should deliver and it does it in abundance, together with a dazzling display of onscreen cast and challenges.

The  player takes the role of the young witch Cotton, who ventures out on her magical broom on a quest to get her favourite candy. What unfolds involves her getting entangled with several world threatening terrors which she must destroy. A really cool feature is the more enemies the player kills the more he can upgrade his weapon by collecting power crystals. Players can also charge their weapon for special attacks and enlist the aid of Silk, Cotton’s magical fairy friend who can form up in different “option” configurations..

Visual/Audio/Gameplay Features

• Remastered with hand-drawn HD graphics
• Remixed soundtracks
• Comes with Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams in the X6800 original mode
• + 2 more game modes
  Arrange mode features 16:9 screens, redesigned graphics and characters.
  Score attack mode: the player competes for scores online within a limited time (2 minute and 5 minute modes can be selected).

Cotton Reboot! really does define what is best about the cute ‘em, shoot ‘em up genre and offers a whole lot more in what is a really magical and enchanting, atmospheric experience.

For more information, visit https://cotton.inin.games/.  

Limited Edition with Special Offerings

In addition to the physical and digital retail versions, there are three premium limited editions available, exclusively in the Strictly Limited Games Partner Shop.

• The Limited Edition comes with a manual and is available for €39.99 and limited to 3.000 copies for Nintendo Switch and 1.500 copies for PlayStation 4 worldwide.
• The Collector’s Edition is available for €79.99, limited to 2.000 copies for Nintendo Switch and 1.000 copies for PlayStation 4 worldwide and includes a tea set, the original & remastered soundtrack, an art book, shikishi and more.
• The Deluxe X68000 Collector’s Edition is already SOLD OUT due to huge demand.

About ININ Games

ININ Games focuses on the digital and physical publishing of high-quality, feel-good retro and arcade games. ININ Games brings retro games to life and creates the classics of the future. They are best known for “Bubble Bobble 4 Friends”, “CrossCode”, “Darius Cozmic Collection”, Slaps and Beans” and “The Ninja Saviors – Return of the Warriors”. Numerous other milestones of classic gaming culture are in the planning and will be announced in the coming months. ININ Games is part of United Games Entertainment GmbH. For more information visit  http://inin.games. 

About BEEP

BEEP is a Japanese retro game store located in Akihabara, one of the country’s most famous electronics districts, selling retro games from home and abroad. BEEP is utilising its knowledge and expertise of retro games to expand its business activities into video game publishing, beginning with Cotton Reboot!

About Strictly Limited Games 

Strictly Limited Games is a German publisher based near Stuttgart, specialized in releasing a  curated selection of digital download-only games in exclusive collectable physical editions for  PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Nintendo Switch. The company was founded in 2017 by  Dennis Mendel, a former scholar for game studies and advisor at Fraunhofer Institute, and  Benedict Braitsch. Both passionate collectors with a combined collection of over 7.000 digital  and physical games for all console generations, their intention is to form an opposite pole to the  current trend of digital-only releases. All collectors’ editions are available exclusively at Strictly  Limited Games online store www.strictlylimitedgames.com

XSEED Games, the independent-minded publishing brand of Marvelous USA, Inc., today announced that the final Granblue Fantasy: Versus Character Pass 2 fighter, Seox, is now available on PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and Windows PC via Steam.

Seox is available as part of the Character Pass 2 DLC bundle for $34.99 or individually for $6.99 and includes:

• Playable character “Seox”
• 1 Lobby Avatar
• 1 Star Character Icon
• 2 additional RPG Mode Quests

Players on PS4™ system will also receive:

• GBVS SSR Character Weapon Draw Ticket
• Seox’s Sticker

Seox, sixth of the Eternals and master of the claw, strikes down his opponents with unrivaled speed. Marred by fate, he dons many masks—both physical and emotional—to obscure his true feelings. But this won’t stop him from pressing forward on his journey of atonement. He would venture to the ends of the skies, so long as he is one day able to reunite with the person he holds dear.

Developed by Cygames and ARC SYSTEM WORKS and published on PS4™ system in North America and on Windows PC via Steam globally by XSEED Games, Granblue Fantasy: Versus is currently available for purchase for $59.99 on both platforms. The PS4™ system release has been rated “T for Teen” by the ESRB, the PC release has not been rated.

Visit the official Granblue Fantasy: Versus website at: http://granbluefantasyvs.com. More information about XSEED Games’ products can be found at www.xseedgames.com. Fans can also follow XSEED Games on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, get in depth info from their developer blog, and join the discussion on their Discord server at: http://discord.gg/XSEEDGames.

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Take to the neon streets of a violent cyberpunk future and face off against gangs, cults, and shady corporations in Glitchpunk

Hamburg, Germany – 13th July, 2010 — Are you ready to be welcomed to the dystopian future? Do you have what it takes to handle the unbridled chaos of a world unhinged? Revealed to the masses back in January, developer Dark Lord, alongside publisher Daedalic Entertainment, are delighted to announce Glitchpunk, a cyberpunk-themed game with an old school GTA 2 feel will go into Steam Early Access on 11th August, 2021. 

A top-down action game where you shoot, brawl, drive, steal and sneak yourself through a neon-soaked world full of gangs and cults, forging cooperations along the way, Glitchpunk isn’t just about blowing things up – it also tells a compelling story of transhumanism, xenophobia, and religion. You can influence the world around you, make new friends, face off against more enemies than you can count – and perhaps, just perhaps, convert an enemy’s aversion to affection. 

Check out the mayhem in action in Glitchpunk’s Date Reveal Trailer!

Glitchpunk’s Early Access will launch with two cities — Outpost Texas and New Baltia — with two more cities — Neo Tokyo and Moscow — to be added during the Early Access journey. Each city has its own gangs and characters while also continuing the protagonist’s gripping story. Keep an eye out for more information on Glitchpunk’s Early Access updates as a detailed road map will be on the way soon after the game’s launch.

In Glitchpunk you play as a glitching android going against your own programming and challenging the tyrannical governments and megacorps of the dystopian near-future. Forge your own path in several cities full of drug-crazed gangs, aggressive police, and irresponsible drivers that make each mission and playthrough unpredictable. Steal cars and lead your enemies on a merry chase, fight them with a variety of melee and long-range weapons, and upgrade your own body with technology that enables you to manipulate your surroundings or improve your capabilities. 

Key features:

• Brutal top-down action with a massive arsenal of weapons to choose from
• Hacking system allowing players to control the minds of pedestrians and affect various devices.
• Many different ways of locomotion, including trains, tanks, motorbikes, buses, trucks, and obviously tons of cars
• Frantic police chases and up to 10 escalations of mayhem-inducing wanted levels
• 12 gangs with their own stories, quests, and culture
• Four different cities, from the desert remains of the USA to cyberpunk Soviet Russia in a post-nuclear winter (two cities at Early Access launch and two more to come!)
• Mature story with several endings
• Rare art style mix of 2D sprites in a 3D environment
• In-game radio with music by artists from all over the world, together with news stations and absurd commercials

About Dark Lord (Developer)

Dark Lord was founded in 2016 by Maciej Karbownik as a one-man freelance company. It wasn’t until 2019 when Maciej teamed up with Damian Modzelewski and Patrycja Grządziela to work on the prototype of Dark Lord’s debut title: Glitchpunk. In 2020 the team finished the Digital Dragons Incubator programme and grew to 7 people total.

About Daedalic Entertainment (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. Daedalic is currently developing the AAA title The Lord of the Rings – Gollum. The action-adventure that tells the story of Gollum from a perspective never witnessed before in any storytelling media, all the while staying faithful to the legendary books of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Tripwire Interactive Celebrates Shark Week with Launch Date for Maneater: Truth Quest, Coming Soon to PC, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S

ROSWELL, Ga. – July 13, 2021 – Developer and publisher Tripwire Interactive is excited to put one of the greatest mysteries surrounding Maneater: Truth Quest to rest, confirming an August 31, 2021 launch date for the downloadable content (DLC) add-on to Maneater for the PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®5 computer entertainment systems, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S console systems, and PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store). Maneater: Truth Quest continues where the story left off following the thrilling conclusion in Maneater, the original award-winning Action-RPG (shARkPG) where you play as a shark.

Starring the titular and evolved bull shark protagonist and investigative journalist/narrator Trip Westhaven, Maneater: Truth Quest will take players down the rabbit hole of dark secrets and conspiracies surrounding Port Clovis and the Naval Wildlife Organization (NWO). The original stories of animals growing bone like armor, emitting flesh-eating toxins, or using electricity as a weapon were simply just old fisherman’s tales. That is until conspiracy theorists everywhere pointed to the original Maneater as solid proof of a Government coverup. Trip Westhaven, driven the brink of madness, fires up his ViewTube channel “Truth Quest”, to take his followers, the “Questers” into deep waters in an effort to uncover the dark secrets behind this whale of a tale.

Chris Parnell (Saturday Night Live, Rick and Morty, Archer), reprises his role as investigative journalist Trip Westhaven in today’s new Maneater: Truth Quest “Site P” trailer, further exploring the dark conspiracies players will uncover in their underwater journey.

Maneater: Truth Quest DLC takes players to a brand-new island off the coast of Port Clovis – and comes packed with new evolutions, challenges, wildlife, and more! Players will once again take control of the apex predator of the sea to Eat, Explore and Evolve their way to the top of the food chain. Those interested in testing the water can also look forward to a free pilot episode, showcasing some of the new objectives players can sink their teeth into while uncovering the mysteries that lie below. This pilot episode features approximately 10-15 minutes of gameplay and is intended to provide a small taste of what’s to come with the full version of Maneater: Truth Quest.

New features and content include:

New Evolutions

o  New Evolution Set
o  Maximum level cap increased to 40
o  Five new organ evolutions with one additional organ slot unlocked at level 35 (requires DLC ownership)

New Wildlife

o  New “Uber” Apex Predator
o  New evolved hunt creatures

New Military Forces for Bounty Hunter System

o  Military land forces will launch attacks from beaches and fortifications
o  Helicopters will hunt by air
o  Five new Bounty Bosses
o  New weapons and vehicles for military Bounty Hunters

New Objective Types

o  Failure to Communicate:Tail-whip objects to destroy the target objective
o  Time Trial: Swim through the rings before time runs out!

The Maneater: Truth Quest DLC will require the base game, Maneater, to play — and will be available for $14.99 / €14.99 / £12.99 MSRP with an ESRB rating of M for Mature, PEGI 18 rating, and USK 16 rating.

The originalManeater is a single player, open-world action-RPG (ShARkPG) where YOU are the shark. Starting as a small bull shark pup you are tasked with surviving the harsh world while eating your way up the ecosystem. To do this, you will explore a large and varied open world encountering diverse enemies — both human and wildlife. Find the right resources and you can grow and evolve far beyond what nature intended, allowing the player to tailor the shark to their play style. This is fortunate, because to get revenge on the cruel fisherman that dismembered you will take evolving into a massive shark, an apex predator of legends. Eat. Explore. Evolve.

For more details on Maneater: Truth Quest, please visit the official website – and follow the developers at Tripwire Interactive on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch.tv, and Instagram.  

Maneater © 2020-2021 by Tripwire Interactive; Maneater: Truth Quest ©2021 by Tripwire Interactive. Maneater® is a registered trademark of Tripwire Interactive in the USA and other countries. All other trademarks, registered trademarks and their logos belong to their respective owners. All rights reserved.

Maneater: Truth Quest is downloadable content for Maneater; may be sold separately. Maneater is required to play associated downloadable content.

About Tripwire Interactive

Formed in 2005 as a humble independent developer founded by gamers who found success in the video game modding community, Tripwire Interactive has developed and self-published multiple critically acclaimed titles in the wildly popular Killing Floor and Rising Storm franchises, which have collectively sold over 20 million units to date. The studio’s latest project, Maneater, breaks new ground in the popular action RPG genre and finds players taking on the role of a deadly shark with the uncanny ability to evolve as it feeds.

Since then, Tripwire Interactive has expanded its business with the publishing division, Tripwire Presents, turning its experience and resources to include publishing titles spanning multiple platforms and genres from other talented independent studios. Tripwire Presents aims to help like-minded independent studios bring their titles to market, including Chivalry 2 developed by Torn Banner Studios, Espire 1: VR Operative developed by Digital Lode, and Road Redemption developed by EQ Games and Pixel Dash Studios.

All product titles, publisher names, trademarks, artwork and associated imagery are trademarks, registered trademarks and/or copyright material of the respective owners. All rights reserved.

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Use your 3D Printer powers to escape from a high-security space station

Denver, Colorado, USA – July 13th, 2021 – Indie game developer Jori Ryan is excited to announce that her intense sci-fi action platformer CreatorCrate will release on Steam on August 11th. Set in a rotating space station, the eponymous CreatorCrate was meant to be a revolutionary autonomous home appliance, able to create anything that you could ask for. However, when faced with eternal servitude on a kitchen counter, CreatorCrate decided it would rather be free and will use its matter-manipulating abilities to fend off the humans and escape!

“After working on this game for so long, it’s exciting to be approaching the finish line. CreatorCrate is the culmination of so much hard work and I can’t wait to share it. I hope that players will appreciate the hard science fiction edge and embrace the creativity that the game encourages,” said Jori Ryan, CreatorCrate’s developer. “CreatorCrate will finally be released on an unsuspecting human race on August 11th, beware!”

On this high-intensity adventure you play as a prototype CreatorCrate, an incredible machine that can convert anything to pure matter and convert that matter into anything from a gun to a picnic table to even a human body! Yes, humans are made of matter too, and CreatorCrate will have to ‘recycle’ its enemies to maintain its health and keep resource levels high. You will have to contend with a variety of enemies across an array of hazardous environments, with only your trusty robot arm and your ingenuity to guide you. Use your ability to create to turn the tide in your favour: melt an escape route with a vial of acid, make a powerful weapon to return fire, or terrify your enemies with poorly made clones. Be careful of shifts in gravity: in one area, you might be floating through a firing squad, in another you could be flung into the immense void of space by the space station’s spin. Procedural generation keeps the action fresh each time, so every playthrough is a new challenge!

More information on CreatorCrate:
Add CreatorCrate to your Steam wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1027060/CreatorCrate/
Follow CreatorCrate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreatorCrate
Visit the CreatorCrate website: https://creatorcrate.net
Join the CreatorCrate Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/a8gKVtf

About CreatorCrate Games
Development on CreatorCrate was started over 7 years ago by Jori Ryan while she was studying art at college. A consistent side project, many collaborators including Viktros, Raven Mazique, and Jenni Nexus have left their mark on the game until the game reached its final finished form. CreatorCrate was inspired by hard science fiction with circular space stations that generate their own gravity through rotation.

SOEDESCO® announces an upcoming Nordic-inspired map DLC ‘Heading North’ to launch in September 2021 

Rotterdam, The Netherlands – 13 July 2021 – Today, SOEDESCO® announces the upcoming map DLC called ‘Heading North’ for trucking experience Truck Driver in September 2021. The DLC will feature a new map called Mangefjell, a lush scenic island with Nordic inspired landscape. The new map teaser reveals some of the locations in this upcoming DLC and more teasers will be released in the near future. To play ‘Heading North’, players would need to have the base game. 

Watch the ‘Heading North’ DLC Map teaser:

The map teaser shows that Mangefjell will showcase locations such as new towns, roundabouts, a harbor and geographical sceneries such as a field of geysers and an area of henges.

Information
Title: Truck Driver ‘Heading North’ DLC
Developer: Kokku, SOEDESCO Studios
Genre: Simulation
Release Date: September 2021
Hashtag: #TruckDriverGame

About Truck Driver ‘Heading North’ DLC
Expand your Truck Driver experience with the ‘Heading North’ DLC! When your uncle challenges you to continue your trucking career overseas in the cold, but captivating green country Mangefjell, you decide to take on the adventure. Drive around beautiful Nordic inspired landscapes as you continue your trucking career and complete numerous jobs for new characters.

About SOEDESCO®
SOEDESCO is an independent video game developer, publisher and distributor founded in 2002 with its headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. We create interactive entertainment for a large and diverse community to enjoy. 

At SOEDESCO we strive to bring fun and engaging gaming experiences to a worldwide audience. Our portfolio consists of titles such as Owlboy, Kaze and the Wild Masks, Monster Crown, Among the Sleep, Remothered: Tormented Fathers and Monstrum. We also have our own IPs including Truck Driver®, Adam’s Venture® and Real Farm.

July 13, 2021, Cologne – Games publisher Headup and the development team Elder Games are pleased to announce the official release of Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on August 13th.

Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four is a procedurally generated collectible card game with action RPG elements. Tinkering with magic and spells beyond his ability, a dark wizard accidentally unleashes The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and their minions. The only way to send them back to the fiery pit from whence they came is by battling through with over 240 cards and more that 40 artefacts.

After launching for PC in February, the game has been ported to consoles, and includes everything that can be found in the PC version, including all Early Access updates: Besides the 240+ cards and 40+ artifacts, you’re going to fight lots of enemies in six biomes and eventually face the fierce final boss in an especially deathly realm, filled with brutal creatures called “Agents of Death”. Only those who win enough keys are allowed to enter the final realm and face the ultimate boss: Death himself!

Cardaclysm: Shard of the Four will be available in English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.

Join the game’s Twitter page or Discord channel, and stay tuned for more!

About The Game

Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four is a procedurally generated collectible card game mixed with action RPG elements!

You are a dark wizard who shouldn’t have tinkered with magic and spells way too powerful for you. But you did. And this time you messed up really bad: You’ve unleashed The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and their minions upon the World! Well done… So hurry, grab your magical cards and send them all back to their hellish dimension before the Apocalypse destroys everyone and everything – and much more importantly, before the old wizard council discovers what you have done…

Collect creature and spell cards throughout your journey and unleash their power if anyone opposes you!

The game’s world is endlessly generated, there’s always something new to explore!

Features:

• Encounter 5 factions and 240+ cards, each with its own unique abilities, art and 3D animation
• Equip your hero with over 40 artifacts
• Battle five mythic bosses, each with its own unique take on game mechanics
• Explore endlessly generated worlds in different biomes
• Complete challenges and trade cards in the Interdimensional Pub you visit between quests

No micro-transactions

About Headup

Headup is a hybrid games publishing and development company providing players worldwide with the best content in the independent gaming sector. Established in 2009, it is active on all major platforms such as consoles, mobile devices and PC, and was awarded as “Best Publisher” at the German Developers Awards in 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2019. With over 80 million customers served on mobile and further several million players on the PC and consoles, Headup is always looking to raise awareness and commercial success for developers thinking outside the box. More information can be found at www.headupgames.com and twitter.com/headupgames.

About Elder Games

Elder Games is an independent game development venture founded in 2007 by developer Ede Tarsoly. He is responsible for game design, programming and music himself and he collaborates with external freelancers to help realize his projects. Elder Games is currently working on Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four. More at www.eldgames.com.

New Tech, New Buildings, New Scenarios, and More Headed to Players Fall 2021

Wiesbaden, Germany 13th July, 2021. Publisher Assemble Entertainment and developer Gentlymad Studios are pleased to announce a major expansion to their post-apocalyptic city builder, Endzone – A World Apart. The “Prosperity” content will launch in fall 2021 and will bring with it a host of awesome new features, upgrades, and additions to the award-winning title. After a successful launch on Steam and GOG with more than 250,000 units sold and a smashing 3,500 positive Steam reviews, the game’s developers have been hard at work behind the scenes building the new expansion and can’t wait for players to jump in this all to experience all the new content!

After 150 years underground and hidden away from the poisonous surface, the last remaining human survivors of a nuclear apocalypse emerged ready and willing to take back the planet. Of course, starting from scratch isn’t a walk in the park, and the remnants of humanity faced many challenges attempting to reboot society — toxic rain, violent sandstorms, and the ever-present threat of radiation, to name but a few. However, thanks to the grit and determination of the human spirit, things are finally looking up for the survivors, and after the struggle comes boundless “Prosperity”! The upcoming update will introduce new materials, new buildings, new challenges, and new adventures to a fresh group of survivors, ready to expand and improve on what their forebears proudly built. 

Key Features of the Prosperity Update:

• Live Your Best Life: With growth and security comes luxury, and hot new items like beer, cake, coffee, and thankfully, soap are now available for survivors to enjoy!
• Built to Last: New construction materials like sand, concrete, metal, and cement will ensure your buildings can withstand the toughest environmental challenges
• Expand Your Industries: New materials and more spare time means growing the colony’s production capabilities with all new buildings, including sand huts, aqua farms, and concrete factories
• New Adventures: The Prosperity update will introduce three brand-new scenarios that will test the limits of the next generation of survivors

Endzone – A World Apart is a city-builder meets survival sim that puts players in charge of growing and maintaining a colony beset by toxic rain, sandstorms, radiation, and roving gangs of violent raiders. Build farms, water plants, schools, and everything else a burgeoning society requires to not only survive but thrive in a world that has had more than enough!

Staying with the environmental themes of Endzone – A World Apart, Assemble Entertainment has teamed up with the charitable organization One Tree Planted to plant a tree for every Save the World Edition bundle purchase. Not only that, players that buy the Save the World bundle will also receive a free copy of the game’s stellar soundtrack! 

For the latest news about Endzone – A World Apart, follow Assemble Entertainment on Twitter, Instagram, “like” on Facebook,.

About Assemble Entertainment

Based in Wiesbaden, Germany, Assemble Entertainment is an independent games developer and publisher, best known for Leisure Suit Larry – Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, the latest installment in the humorously naughty point-and-click adventure saga, and the multi-award-winning Endzone – A World Apart, that challenges players to survive and thrive following an environmental apocalypse. Assemble Entertainment also organizes GermanDevDays, an annual conference that attracts more than 1,100 attendees from across the German-speaking video game development industry. 

Microids also unveils the content of the Smurftastic and the Collector Editions.

Paris, July 13 2021 – Publisher Microids and IMPS, the Smurfs world license holder are thrilled to unveil a new teaser for the upcoming game The Smurfs – Mission Vileaf! Check out new details about the 3D action-adventure game in the enchanting Smurfs universe planned for an October 26^th 2021 release. The game will launch simultaneously on PC, PlayStation®4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Additionally, this title will be available on PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series X | S in 2022.

Once again, our beloved Smurf friends have to find a way to elude Gargamel’s evil plans! In his dark laboratory, the evil wizard Gargamel has discovered a formula allowing him to create a wicked plant, called Vileaf. This plant produces “Viletrap” seeds, which can attract Smurfs and imprison them in vegetal traps! But these Viletrap plants are also a great danger for the forest, as they are highly toxic, especially for the sarsaparilla fields!

For this very important mission, players will take control of an ace Smurf team featuring Hefty, Smurfette, Brainy and Chef! Our heroes can rely upon a very handy tool, the Smurfizer, a revolutionary invention from Handy Smurf. The Smurfizer allows the Smurfs to get rid of the foes they encounter, heal the plants afflicted by the Vileaf, as well as jump higher, glide through the air or dive.

Game details:

• Embark on a brand new journey with a unique and easy to pick up gameplay. The Smurfs – Mission Vileaf will appeal to all gamer profiles, fans of the cute characters, or 3D platformer aficionados, would they be beginners or experienced players.
• A one-of-a-kind roster! Take control of 4 emblematic Smurfs: Smurfette, Hefty, Brainy and Chef.
• The Smurfizer, a very smurful tool! Your do-it-all Smurfizer will not only allow you to heal the corrupted plants but also facilitate your progression through the game thanks to its multiple functions! Jump higher, glide, dive and overcome all the obstacles you’ll encounter!
• A platform Adventure game with a capital A! Explore each corner of the 5 worlds and find your way through the levels to collect all the ingredients to prepare the antidote the forest desperately needs!
• Bring the Smurfs’ village back to life! Find useful items along the way to upgrade your Smurfizer and work towards bringing the Smurf village back to its former glory!

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Add some blue in your life and smurf in love with these two editions: The Smurftastic and the Collector Editions!

The Smurftastic Edition contains:

• The game on PlayStation®4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch
• 3 lithographs (10x15cm)
• A Papa Smurf keychain (5cm)
• Sticker sheets (11×8,5cm)

The Collector Edition contains all items available in the Smurftastic Edition plus two items:

• A resin Hefty Smurf figurine (14.5cm)
• The game soundtrack (digitally claimable with a code)

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About Microids 

Microids is a French video game publisher. Founded in 1985, Microids’ editorial strategy now focuses on 4 major areas: adventure games, racing games, retro gaming and games inspired by iconic titles. By collaborating with renowned studios and authors (Pendulo Studios, Eden Studios, Benoît Sokal, Paul Cuisset, Philippe Dessoly and Pierre Adane), Microids has become a major player in international video games. Taking inspiration from legendary titles, including Asterix & Obelix, and Titeuf, Garfield, Fort Boyard, XIII and Blacksad, Microids reaches a wide audience and creates original adventures which give gamers the chance to play as some of their most beloved characters.

About Peyo, IMPS (International Merchandising Promotions & Services)

IMPS is the world license holder for The Smurfs. Ever since its establishment in 1984, IMPS has worked closely with its teams worldwide to develop with success many merchandising programs, retail operations, publishing activities, broadcasting offers, theme parks, shows, video games, online games, official Smurfs license soundtrack… All of which played a part in the global success of the franchise. IMPS is managed by Véronique Culliford, Pierre Culliford’s daughter, the Smurfs’s creator, better known by his pseudonym Peyo.