Gear.Club Unlimited smashes another record!

Paris – July 1^st 2021 – Microids is delighted to announce the Gear.Club Unlimited franchise, exclusively available on Nintendo Switch, smashed yet another record by passing the bar of one million units sold worldwide! Gear.Club Unlimited confirms its pole position as an unmissable series on Nintendo Switch.

Developed by the studio Eden Games, known for the high quality of their racing simulations, Gear.Club Unlimited offers unprecedented driving sensations behind the wheel of the most prestigious cars in the world.

The Gear.Club Unlimited series success validates Microids’ editorial strategy initiated a few years back, as Stéphane Longeard, CEO of Microids adds: “The great results of the Gear.Club Unlimited franchise illustrates the strength of the brand and allows Microids to be confident in the future of the franchise. This new record consolidates our editorial strategy revolving around four pillars: Adventure, racing, retro and strong IPs.”

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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 Eden Games

Eden Games was founded in Lyon, France in 1998, to develop one of the most successful game franchises on PlayStation systems: V-Rally. In 2000, the studio expanded its racing expertise with the development of Need For Speed: Porsche for EA. Eden Games experimented in other genres before returning to its roots with Test Drive Unlimited, the first massive open world racing game franchise. Eden Games today is an independent game studio managed by two of its original co-founders, David Nadal and Jean-Yves Geffroy. The studio is composed of both experienced veterans and highly talented young developers, all driven by the same passion for cars, high-end design and technology

BALDUR’S GATE 3’S PATCH 5 CONTENT TO BE UNVEILED DURING THE PANEL FROM HELL 3, AN INTERACTIVE LIVE EVENT HELD AT GRAVENSTEEN CASTLE, BELGIUM, ON JULY 8

The inaugural ‘LarPG’ allows Twitch viewers to vote in a live-action interactive adventure that covers the basis of Patch 5’s gameplay changes

Dublin, July 1 – Baldur’s Gate 3’s Patch 5 is right around the corner, and so too is the third Panel From Hell. Since Feburary’s release of Patch 4, we’ve been working on implementing much of the player feedback gathered and parsed since the launch of Early Access, in October of 2020. 

News of what those changes are will be explored in The Panel From Hell 3, host of our first ‘LarPG’ (Larian-LARP-ARG, get it?). We’re calling it ‘Twitch Plays: A Most Noble Sacrifice’, and it stars a cast of real actors alongside fake — but still surprisingly good — actors, (the developers working on Baldur’s Gate 3).

Take the reins as you direct our adventuring party through brain teasing puzzles and lethal traps as they quest to retrieve an object of incredible value. Call the shots, and take the adventure home with you in our first ‘LarPG’. We’re coming to you live from Gravensteen castle… but we can’t guarantee everyone will leave. That’s up to you. 

See you on July 8th, 11am PT. 

About Larian Studios
Larian Studios is an independent RPG developer founded in 1996 in Ghent, Belgium. Over 300 people work between the seven worldwide studios in Ghent, St Petersburg, Quebec, Dublin, Guildford, Malaysia and Barcelona. Larian is best known for the Divinity universe, which they introduced to the world with Divine Divinity in 2002. In 2014, Larian launched Divinity: Original Sin, a classic CRPG that won over 150 awards and nominations. The company released its critically acclaimed sequel Divinity: Original Sin 2 on September 14, 2017, followed by the Definitive Edition in August 2018 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to a 93 Metacritic rating. The Nintendo Switch version released in September 2019 featuring cross save progression between Nintendo Switch and Steam. Divinity:Original Sin 2 won a Bafta for Best Multiplayer Game. In October 2020, Larian Studios released the Early Access version of Baldur’s Gate 3.

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The 3D platformer Glyph from Bolverk Games is on 50% sale until July 8th. The offer is available on the Switch eStore in Europe and Australia.

Don’t touch the sand. It’s certain death. That’s how it normally works in Glyph; the not yet award-winning the floor is lava 3D platform game from Bolverk Games. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get a good deal from Bolverk Games to help you chill in the summer heat.

Grab your Switch and get a Beach Buddy discount of 50%, head to where the cool breeze mixes with salt and sand and chill the wooopdidoop out. Thoroughly entertained through 80+ levels.

Beach Buddy Bonanza
Try digging your toes into the warm beach sand whenever you perish in-game, and say out loud: “See!?! Silly game! The sand is NOT dangerous at ALL!” After that, you should probably make an audible exhale for added effect.

Then try again. You got this.

Make sure to schedule this private little event before July the 8th because that is when the offer ends: 50% off! What a great deal! Get it now, while it is still in stock (actually, the stock is infinite, no worries, it’s just a marketing trick the old guard taught me). 

But, 50% is all it’ll cost you. With Glyph, there are no microtransactions or any of that (new guard) stuff. Buy Glyph, and everything in it is yours.

So what is this glyph game anyway?

Breathtaking maneuvers
Well, Glyph’s gameplay combines breathtaking aerial maneuvers with tranquil exploration. The end goal is to restore the ancient Temple City, overcome by the desert, which also functions as the game´s non-linear hub world.

• 80+ levels in Exploration mode mean you’ll have to put serious effort into the game before you’ve seen it all.
• 30 blazing hot levels put your skills to the test in Time Trial mode.
• 100+ secrets and upgrades are all part of the game from the beginning. With Glyph, you won’t have to pay for extra skins or cool unlocks.
• A wicked mean final boss…

Glyph appeals to both chill-out players and speedrunners as the open-world allows creative ways to move through the many levels available with the release.

Copenhagen studio
Bolverk Games is a self-supporting indie studio based in Denmark and focused on VR games and software. Over the past two years, Bolverk Games have been working on a 3D platform game for the Nintendo Switch console and PC, Glyph. 

“We make the games we want to play ourselves – beautiful, challenging, and immersive,” says CEO Bo Bennekov.

Bolverk Games was among the first to realize how VR gaming could be more than a novelty and have created titles such as the Dick Wilde shooters and Kittypocalypse.

The annual video game charity event kicks off over 150 continuous hours of top-level speedruns and gameplay showcases on July 4

July 1, 2021 — Games Done Quick, a grassroots organization best known for hosting the world’s premier charity speedrunning events, will draw back the curtain on Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2021 Online this weekend. The hotly-anticipated event features a wonderfully diverse lineup of speedruns, gameplay showcases, and competitions, all streamed live on the official Games Done Quick Twitch channel.

Last year’s event raised over $2.3 million for charity, and SGDQ 2021 Online is poised to build on 2020’s success as the most talented gamers from around the world prepare to show their skills at a variety of games from recent critically-acclaimed titles to obscure indie darlings. The event runs from July 4-11, and a full schedule for every run can be found at https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule. 

Though every SGDQ 2021 run will undoubtedly be jaw-droppingly impressive, highlights of the event will include a run of Ghosts ‘N Goblins Resurrection by TheMexicanRunner, a perfect-score GeoGuessr playthrough by havrd, a four-way Ristar race between chronoon, Lizstar, ShimeGabriel, and Haram_Scaram, a blindfolded run of Super Mario 64 by Bubzia, and a Super Metroid race between Oatsngoats, Behemoth87, and ShinyZeni.

SGDQ 2021 Online will be held in support of Doctors Without Borders, with viewers able to donate on the Games Done Quick homepage in order to support the charity directly. One hundred percent of all donations received will go to the charity. 

Since 2010, Games Done Quick has partnered with some of the world’s most impactful charities, including AbleGamers, Organization for Autism Research, and Prevent Cancer Foundation, all while bringing people together to cheer on the best speedrunners and gamers in the world. To date, Games Done Quick events have raised over $31 million in total for charity. 

Related Links

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GamesDoneQuick
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gamesdonequick
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamesdonequick
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gamesdonequick
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

About Games Done Quick

Games Done Quick is a series of charity video game marathons. These events feature high-level gameplay by speedrunners raising money for charity. Games Done Quick has teamed up with several charities in its ten-year history, including Doctors Without Borders and the Prevent Cancer Foundation. To date, Games Done Quick has raised over $31 million for charity.

About Doctors Without Borders

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is a private international association founded in 1971. The association is made up mainly of doctors and health sector workers and is also open to other professions which might help in achieving its aims. Their mission is to provide lifesaving medical care to those most in need.

MSF provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters, and to victims of armed conflict. They do so irrespective of race, religion, creed, or political convictions.

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Pre-Season 5 of Systemic Reaction’s Co-op Dino Shooter Second Extinction
Lands Today on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One & PC

STOCKHOLM — July 1, 2021 — Systemic Reaction has kicked off Pre-Season 5 of Second Extinction, the action-packed co-op shooter in which you and your friends battle mutated dinosaurs across a devastated world. Available for free today, Pre-Season 5: “Longest Days” adds a new Emergence Event enemy, new weapon and equipment, and more on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and the Microsoft Store for PC via Xbox Game Preview (playable with Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass for PC), as well as on Steam Early Access.

Pre-Season 5 Features:

• New Enemy — Dasher Raptor: Fast and airborne, these new dinos ambush in groups for a deadly assault from all angles (Emergence Events only).
• New Weapon — Artillery Cannon: A precision-skill weapon for Enforcers, dealing high damage if you hit directly and smaller splash damage if your shots land too far away.
• New Equipment — Sticky Firecracker: Capable of staggering foes in an emergency.
• Level cap raised from 25 to 50.
• New cosmetic rewards.
• New technical improvements, including support for gamepad remapping.
• A wide variety of game balancing and fixes.

Second Extinction pits teams of up to three players against swarms of bloodthirsty dinos in fast-paced battles across Earth’s post-apocalyptic wastelands. Equip a range of uniquely powerful weapons and abilities and fight on your own or with friends against monstrous dinosaurs long thought extinct — now mutated and deadlier than ever! The War Effort is Second Extinction’s community-driven global metagame: by completing missions and activities, you’ll directly impact the threat level and challenges players around the world face.

Players can always find Second Extinction’s most up-to-date development roadmap at www.SecondExtinctionGame.com. For other updates, follow @2nd_Extinction on Twitter.

WE ARE SYSTEMIC REACTION

Small but fierce, we started as a group of veterans from within Avalanche Studios Group. Based in Stockholm and Malmö, we focus on crafting new and empowering games with unique settings. Drawing from our experiences within the industry, we want to create games that appeal both to us, and to you — our players. We want to play in a sandbox that lets your creativity thrive.

Our focus is freedom, exploration, and a drive to create games like the ones that kept us up at night as kids. We’ve got Generation Zero launched and Second Extinction on Xbox Game Preview and Steam Early Access — with even more to come. Join us in the sandbox!

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – July 1, 2021 – Summer is heating up, and FUSER is about kick off Hot Track Summer with some new DLC coming in the month of July. Add these songs to your crate and show off your latest mix creations on the Diamond Stage. For a full listing of songs in the game or to learn more about FUSER, visit the official website: Fuser.com 

DLC Tracks arriving to FUSER in July: 

• ATB, Topic, A7S “Your Love (9PM)”
• Beast Business “Royce Please”*
• Katrina and the Waves “Walking On Sunshine”
• Lil Nas X “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)”
• The Lingala Sound “Crystal Beach”*
• Marlon Kane “This Is How You Left Me”*
• Skrewbert “The Game Got You”*
• Tiësto “The Business”

* Tracks offered free to all FUSER players

Also coming to players for free in July will be Faint Shadow “Loop Pack 07“ and TK Sun “Loop Pack 11.”

FUSER: Combine vocals, beats and melodies using your own personal style to create one-of-a-kind custom mixes. With a library of more than 100 songs to choose from, plus dozens of instruments and effects and 100+ songs available as DLC, there’s always a new mix to discover. FUSER is the ultimate music playground!

Stellar Commanders: Friend & Foe game update introduces instant matchmaking with friends, three single-player campaigns and fresh content for new and veteran players

Zurich, Switzerland – 1 July 2021. Swiss strategy game developer Blindflug Studios today announced Stellar Commanders: Friend & Foe will launch worldwide on 2 July for Apple Arcade and PC. Stellar Commanders is a launch title for Apple Arcade, now updated with new ways to play and new features to connect with friends around the world. 

See the Stellar Commanders: Friend & Foe Trailer here:

Stellar Commanders is a deep and fast-paced multiplayer strategy game where players fight for control over distant planets on a 3D tactical map. Players have just seven minutes to eliminate their opposition using a deep roster of sci-fi troops before the planet explodes. Go to war with missiles, tanks, stealth generators and satellite weapons to strategically dominate the opposition.

The new Friend & Foe update expands Stellar Commanders with:

• Friends Assembly – Matchmake with a friend by just sharing a code and play together to unlock new units and rewards.
• Explorer’s Path – Play new single-player story campaigns for all three factions with daily missions that provide new challenges. Experience a story for each faction on the way to two new planets, with missions that change the rules and offer new challenges even for veteran players.
• New Content – With six new units, players now have 60 playable units to choose from and define their strategy. Friend & Foe also adds 36 new skins and two new maps – Grindill and Forseti.

Stellar Commanders is available now on Apple Arcade and Steam. The Friend & Foe Update hits both platforms on 2 July, and the Steam edition will receive the previously Apple-exclusive Tantalus – The Black Market game update.

Play Stellar Commanders on Apple Arcade: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1469802393?mt=8

Play Stellar Commanders on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1165400/Stellar_Commanders/

About Blindflug Studios:
We are an indie game studio founded in 2014 by Jeremy Spillmann and Moritz Zumbühl, based in Zürich, Switzerland and Poznań, Poland. Our mission is simple: We want to create beautiful, imaginative and incredibly fun games that center around real-world dilemmas. We believe that games are an incredible medium for allowing players to experience the most complex of problems while being hugely entertaining too! Our first title First Strike, a nuclear war RTS game, has been played by more than eleven million players so far. It was followed up by the highly critical acclaimed Cloud Chasers that explores the topic of migration, the dieselpunk action game Airheart and the Apple Arcade launch title Stellar Commanders. With over 50 nominations and prizes at international awards and festivals, like the Best GDC Pitch and German Developer Innovation Prize, Blindflug is one of the standout indie game studios in Europe.

Immerse yourself in the new ‘World of Ayo’ video

New Jersey, USA – July 1st, 2021 – Indie game studio Cloud M1 is happy to announce its 2.5D clown-themed platformer Ayo the Clown now has a July 28th release date; launching on Nintendo Switch and Steam for PC. In preparation for this Clown’s arrival, Cloud M1 have released the ‘World of Ayo’ video showing off some of the wacky sights and crazy conundrums Ayo will experience as he embarks on his fun-filled adventure to get his precious dog back.

“Ayo won’t stop at anything in order to rescue his beloved pooch and as a result is a very well traveled clown. The World of Ayo is a weird but wonderful place filled with more things to see and do than you can shake a balloon stick at!,” said Xiu Liang, Cloud M1 Game Director. “Ayo the Clown is finally arriving on July 28th and we can’t wait for players to join the fun.”

On this incredible adventure you play as Ayo, your not-so-average clown, in search of his best friend and beloved dog, Bo, who has mysteriously disappeared. This journey will take Ayo across eight regions from the lush Hills, to the wacky Water World and all the way to sickeningly sweet Candy Land in search of clues to Bo’s whereabouts. This world is full of friendly people and interesting creatures that are willing to lend a helping hand but beware of the fiendish foes who are out to cause you harm. Pick up a water balloon, balloon sword, toy hammer, dinosaur, helicopter, tank, everything a healthy clown needs to survive in the great outdoors. Since Ayo is not the kind of clown to make the same joke over and over again, you’ll travel across many uniquely themed platforms and come into contact with larger than life bosses and hordes of enemies that will prove that this clown is much tougher than he seems.

More information on Ayo the Clown:
Add Ayo the Clown to your Steam wishlist: 
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114900/Ayo_the_Clown/
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cloudm1
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cloudm1games
Visit the Ayo the Clown website: https://www.cloudm1.com/games/ayo-the-clown/

About Cloud M1
Cloud M1 started as a studio for 3D animation projects, working on commercials and CG projects for advertising and media. While working on these projects they realised their strengths and decided to enter the mobile app space, publishing games and apps for iOS. As huge gamers and fans of classic gaming they created Ayo the Clown, their most ambitious game to date and the first of many games to come.

Watford UK, 1^st July, 2021. Video Games Publishing Label Wired Productions and visionary independent developer Tomas Sala are pleased to share never-before-seen screenshots of upcoming DLC for The Falconeer on PC and Xbox; “Edge of the World” is launching alongside and as part of The Falconeer: Warrior Edition for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch on August 5^th, 2021. In addition, Wired Productions and award-winning composer Benedict Nichols have unveiled The Falconeer Deluxe Double Vinyl which is available to pre-order later this month and part of a new series of limited record pressings from the label.

Register your interest in the new double Vinyl here: https://shop.wiredproductions.com/

The Edge of the World brings a significant new expansion for The Falconeer, with three all-new campaigns for players to experience with its upcoming release on August 5th. The new DLC contains three brand new mini campaigns with nine new missions, exotic locations, two new playable classes with unique mounts, and the Imperial Shocklance weapon.

The brand-new limited print double Vinyl for The Falconeer features the works of award-winning composer Benedict Nichols, with performances by Tegen Hitchens, Mikee Goodman, and  Carolina Styles. Benedict Nichols takes listeners on a monumental journey, bringing together an eclectic soundtrack to invoke the dual nature of The Falconeer, featuring razor-edge synthesizers and organs, the sounds of Mongolian throat-singing, Balkan choirs, bagpipes, and cimbalom.

“We are weeks away from the launch of what is Tomas’s greatest work. Edge of The World brings his vision to a whole new audience for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation players, and is the result of close to a year’s worth of additional content for The Falconeer.” Said Neil Broadhead, Head of Marketing and wanna-be-real world Falconeer. “The soundtrack is just as epic as the game; it’s a masterpiece that elevates The Falconeer to new heights, and this Double Vinyl will not only be a celebrations of Tomas and his game, but also kick start a whole new limited run of LPs around Wired’s favourite titles from our catalogue of diverse and award-winning games.”

Tomas Sala, Solo developer added, “The music of the Falconeer is such a huge part of the experience, a masterwork by Benedict Nichols as unusual and fantastic a mix as one can imagine, I’m so looking forward to hearing this on Vinyl.”

The Falconeer: Warrior Edition releasing on August 5^th, featuring brand-new content pack Edge of the World is available to pre-order on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch via the Wired Productions website. 

The Falconeer Deluxe Double LP will be available exclusively from the Wired Productions store.

For more information, visit TheFalconeer.com, chat on Twitter or join the official Discord.

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About Wired Productions

Wired Productions is an independent video games publisher based in Watford, UK. Wired has produced and published award-winning titles across all major platforms and its games are curated to deliver on its mantra: ‘Driven by Passion.’ Bringing games to market in both physical and digital media, notable launches to date include The Falconeer, Those Who Remain, Deliver Us The Moon, Close to the Sun, GRIP: Combat Racing, Victor Vran: Overkill Edition, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood and The Town of Light.

Recently, Wired Productions announced its upcoming slate of titles during Wired Direct. Upcoming titles include, Lumote, Arcade Paradise, Martha Is Dead, Tin Hearts, Tiny Troopers: Global Ops and The Last Worker.

About Tomas Sala

Bafta Nominated Tomas Sala is an independent game artist and designer as well as the co-founder of game studio Little Chicken Game Company. known to most gamers for his exotic Skyrim Mod series: Moonpath to Elsweyr, Tomas has developed a unique visual style over the years that have helped turn helped turn games such as Rekt! (iOS/Switch), SXPD (iOS) and TrackLab (PSVR) into unique visual and interactive experiences, before creating the critically acclaimed The Falconeer.