Get hands-on with mecha brawler combat starting June 16 during Steam Next Fest

STOCKHOLM – June 12, 2021 – One year after announcing Wolfstride at the inaugural Guerrilla Collective, developer OTA IMON Studios and publisher Raw Fury have revealed the game’s combat system in an exciting new gameplay trailer. What’s more, you can experience this action for yourself with the new PC demo available on Wednesday, June 16, during Steam Next Fest. The demo takes you to the arena to test both your strength and skills in two replayable matchups, with the chance to upgrade your mecha COWBOY between each turn-based battle.

Wolfstride is a role-playing game about three former partners in crime facing a turning point. When they inherit a legendary mecha called COWBOY, they reunite to find a new path together as a team in the most popular sport on the planet: GIANT MECHA BATTLES. They arrive at the worldwide championships with their fate and the future of the world hanging in the balance.

Each member of the team lends their unique experience to the team. Outwit the best mecha opponents from around the world in turn-based combat. Repair and upgrade COWBOY between matches to gain a strategic advantage. And explore the city to find odd jobs to earn the cash to pay for it all. 

About OTA IMON Studios

OTA IMON Studios is a small indie collective from Brazil. We’ve put together devs from all around the country to create amazing gaming experiences.

About Raw Fury

Raw Fury is a boutique indie (un)publisher founded in 2015 by Jonas Antonsson, Gordon Van Dyke, and David Martinez. We don’t care about genres or mechanics. We care about experiences and emotions. We want to help developers make magic.

Official Site: RawFury.com
Twitter: @RawFury
Discord: discord.gg/RawFury

Sable Launches September 23 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Game Pass & PC

Experience Shedworks & Raw Fury’s open world exploration game with a limited-time demo starting June 15 on Xbox and June 16 on PC!

STOCKHOLM — June 12, 2021 — Indie developer Shedworks and publisher Raw Fury have announced that the open world adventure game Sable will launch on September 23 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store, GOG.com, and the Humble Store. The game will also be available on Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass for PC. You can try Sable for yourself with a limited-time demo, starting June 15 on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, as well as June 16 on PC via Steam.

Sable is an evocative coming-of-age tale of exploration and discovery set on a breathtaking alien planet. Embark on a deeply personal journey as the young Sable and traverse a strikingly rendered open world filled with ancient monuments, ruined architecture, and wrecked ships fallen from the cosmos.

Features:

• Explore at your own pace. You’re free to glide, climb, and travel on foot as you desire.
• Drive and customize your own unique hoverbike.
• Meet other nomads, and discover secrets and collectibles around the world.
• Solve puzzles — or don’t! It’s up to you what you want to do.
• Experience an incredible original soundtrack by hit indie artist Japanese Breakfast.

For more on Sable, visit https://rawfury.com/games/sable.

About Shedworks

Shedworks is a two-person game development studio founded in 2014 in a garden shed in North London. They’ve worked on cross-disciplinary projects with many collaborators from websites and apps to exhibitions and music videos over the years but now focus primarily on game development. For more on Shedworks and Sable, visit https://www.shed-works.co.uk/

Give us a shout!

Official Site: RawFury.com
Twitter: @RawFury
Discord: discord.gg/RawFury

Play, Profit & Purchase To Create The Ultimate Arcade

During the Guerrilla Collective, independent publishing label Wired Productions and cult video games developer Nosebleed Interactive welcomed viewers to the King Wash Laundromat, the launderette at the centre of Arcade Paradise.

In the recently discovered VHS cassette instructional training video, King Wash Laundromat outlines exactly what is expected of employees in Arcade Paradise, from cleaning clothes to throwing out the trash. Do you want to become the perfect employee? Make sure to watch to the end as you will need to know every step in ensuring a happy customer.

In the E3 trailer for Arcade Paradise, players learn about running the King Wash Laundromat. But really, nobody wants to run a laundromat; they want the world’s most amazing arcade. If that sounds like you, then you can follow these three easy steps to success: play, profit and purchase.

Play the various games, set high scores, and challenge your customers to beat them in order to turn a profit. Use that Profit to order new cabinets using the latest dial-up connection. Purchase game cabinets in Arcade Paradise to drive more customers to your arcade. These are original games inspired by classics from a bygone arcade era, of which there are several featured in the E3 trailer for keen arcade fans to spot.

Arcade Paradise is coming to Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series S|X, and Xbox One. Future arcade owners can find out more about the game by visiting Wired Productions Website.

Arcade Paradise:
Arcade Paradise is a 90’s-fuelled retro arcade adventure. You play as Ashley, and you’ve just been given the keys to the family laundromat. Rather than washing rags for a living, you decide to turn the laundromat into the ultimate arcade. Choose from over 35 games to be in the arcade inspired by three decades of gaming – all of which are playable with high scores to set. Stay one step ahead of your father, manage and invest profits, and build your very own Arcade Paradise!

Add Arcade Paradise to your wish list on Steam.

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.

Get Wired with Wired LIVE: The home of exclusive weekly programmes that celebrate the very best of indie gaming through chaotic live streams, guest appearances, exclusive interviews and more!

About Nosebleed Interactive:
Nosebleed Interactive is a multi-award-winning independent studio based in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the heart of the North East of England. After critical hit Vostok Inc., Nosebleed are working Arcade Paradise as their next hit title.

Did you think agility and elegance don’t belong in Blood Bowl?  The Elven Union are here to prove otherwise!

The Blood Bowl 3 closed beta is available until June 13 2021

Lesquin, France, June 11, 2021 – Announced at the Warhammer Skulls event, the Blood Bowl 3 closed beta is now in full swing. To celebrate this moment long awaited by fans, NACON and Cyanide are pleased to reveal all the details for the third team playable in the beta: the Elven Union. Relying on passing and their players’ agility, the Elven Union teams are out to prove that Blood Bowl is a sport that can be played with grace, finesse and elegance.

Watch the video of the Elven Union, a new team playable in the Blood Bowl 3 beta

Composed of High Elves, Wood Elves and Dark Elves, the teams comprising the Elven Union are known for their agility and passing game. But be careful: when it comes to physical contact, the players on these teams are fragile and injury prone.

There are four types of players in the Elven Union teams. The main strength of the inexpensive linemen and linewomen is their agility. As for the throwers, they can throw long passes with surgical precision. The throwers form formidable pairs with the receivers, who can catch the most incredible passes. And finally, the blitzers are there to block opponent attacks.

Want to put your skills to the test with Elven Union in Blood Bowl 3? The closed beta can still be played until June132021! Register on the official site. Keys are gradually sent out throughout the beta.

Click here to register for the Blood Bowl 3 closed beta
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Funnier, bloodier, and more spectacular than ever, Blood Bowl 3 will be a hit with fans of the universe and strategy games alike. At launch, the game will include 12 teams’ each with their own pitch and cheerleaders, Campaign and Multiplayer modes, and more customization options than a Blood Bowl game has ever received before. 

Blood Bowl 3 early access will start in September 2021 on PC
The game’s full release is now scheduled for February 2022 on PC, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Steam, and Nintendo Switch™.

Add Blood Bowl 3 to your Steam wishlist 

About NACON
NACON is a company of the BIGBEN Group founded in 2019 to optimize its know-how through strong synergies in the video game market. By bringing together its 8 development studios, the publishing of AA video games, the design and distribution of premium gaming devices, NACON focuses 20 years of expertise at the service of players. This new unified business unit strengthens NACON’s position in the market, enables it to innovate by creating new unique competitive advantages and achieve its ambition to become one of the world’s leading players in gaming. https://www.nacongaming.com/

About Cyanide Studio
Cyanide is a French video game development studio created in 2000 and based in Nanterre. It has two subsidiaries located in Montreal and Bordeaux. The studio is known for its sports games, such as the popular PC series Pro Cycling Manager and its console version, Tour de France. Cyanide is also the author of Blood Bowl (Sport/Fantasy, 2009), the adaptation of the famous Games Workshop board game; Game of Thrones (RPG, 2012); Styx: Master of Shadows and the sequel Styx: Shards of Darkness (Infiltration, 2014/2017); and Call of Cthulhu, a game adapted from the tormented world of HP Lovecraft (investigative RPG, 2018). Since 2018, NACON, one of Europe’s leading video game publishers, holds a 100% stake in the company. More information can be found at www.cyanide-studio.com

About Games Workshop
Games Workshop® Group PLC (LSE:GAW.L), based in Nottingham, UK, produces the best fantasy miniatures in the world. Games Workshop designs, manufactures, retails, and distributes its range of Warhammer®: Age of Sigmar® and Warhammer® 40,000® games, miniature soldiers, novels and model kits through more than 529 of its own stores (branded Games Workshop® or Warhammer®), the www.games-workshop.com web store and independent retail channels in more than 50 countries worldwide. More information about Games Workshop and its other, related, brands and product ranges (including our publishing division ‘Black Library’ and our special resin miniatures studio ‘Forge World’) can be found at www.games-workshop.com.

Blood Bowl 3 © Copyright Games Workshop Limited 2020. Blood Bowl 3, Blood Bowl 3 logo, Blood Bowl, the Blood Bowl logo, GW, Games Workshop, Warhammer, and all associated logos, illustrations, images, names, creatures, races, vehicles, locations, weapons, characters, and the distinctive likeness thereof, are either ® or TM, and/or © Games Workshop Limited, variably registered around the world, and used under license. Used under license. All Rights Reserved.

SkateBIRD Flips onto Consoles, PC on Aug. 12, 2021

Release Date Trailer Revealed During IGN’s Summer of Gaming Showcase

SEATTLE – 12 June 2021 – SkateBIRD, the avian action sports game from Glass Bottom Games, comes in for a landing on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021 for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S via backwards compatibility, PC via Steam and Itch.io, Amazon Luna, and Xbox Game Pass. 

Drop into micro skateparks that turn everyday objects into bird-sized obstacles. Wrap a talon around intuitive, accessible controls that make linking together free-flowing lines a breeze. Grind, flip, and spin through stages while completing challenges to unlock fancy new gear, fresh fits, and secret mixtapes jammed with lo-fi beats for the birb boarders to chill and skate to. 

In SkateBIRD, pulling off tricks is nice, but doing your best is really all that matters. Tackle five levels flush with trickable materials and DIY parks. Boardslide down staplers, 360 flip off a repurposed eraser kicker ramp, and carve perfect bowls—just watch out for leftover cereal! 

Rack up high scores that are nothing to crow at. Complete missions to progress through stages ranging from your Big Friend’s bedroom to a scenic rooftop and a sick server room prime for top-secret sessions. Or free skate through the world at a leisurely pace. Grow your flock and wow them with fluttering flicks, owlsome combos, and impeckable tricks.

Choose from more than 30 species of birds and kit them out with wild wardrobes. Don a cowboy hat or a fez while shredding around your Big Friend’s office, or keep it mellow and strap a backpack on for a quick session in the bedroom. Become the world’s first tiny hawk to pull off a backside 540 or see if a pygmy parrot can nosestall on a magazine halfpipe. Like the relaxed control scheme, SkateBIRD’s customization options are all about self expression.

“SkateBIRD is a game about doing your best,” said Megan Fox, founder, Glass Bottom Games. “Since launching the SkateBIRD Kickstarter in 2019, we’ve worked to make the best game about skateboarding birds that the world has ever seen. We can’t wait to share it with everyone this August.”

SkateBIRD launches for Nintendo Switch, Windows, Mac, Linux, Amazon Luna, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S via backward compatibility on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021 for $19.99. It will also debut on Xbox Game Pass for Xbox systems and Windows 10. The game supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) language options.

For more information on SkateBIRD, please visit the official website.

About Glass Bottom Games

Glass Bottom Games is an independent game developer based in Seattle, Wash. Formed in 2011, Glass Bottom makes absurdly cozy games about animals doing people things. The studio’s previous work includes Hot Tin Roof, Spartan Fist, and Jones on Fire. SkateBIRD was funded in 2019 via Kickstarter, where it raised $67,220 – more than three times its funding goal.

To learn more about Glass Bottom Games, please visit the team’s website.

The Living Tombstone Reveals AudioClash: Battle of the Bands, Free-to-Play Autobattler Debuts Q3 2021

Bands Clash in Steam Early Access; Beta Sign-ups Open Now

LOS ANGELES — 11 June, 2021 — The Living Tombstone, the electronic rock band with over 2.6 billion streams and backed by Warner Music Group’s ADA Worldwide, announces AudioClash: Battle of the Bands, the free-to-play rock music competition video game taking the stage Q3 2021 on Steam Early Access for PC. Revealed moments ago during IGN Expo, AudioClash is developed by independent studio Big Boat Interactive, with consulting from gaming legend Scott Miller (Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein 3D, Prey, Max Payne).

Become the opening act by signing up for the closed beta at audioclashgame.com.

The fictional characters of The Living Tombstone are zero_one, Rust, Tesla, Armstrong, and Doc, five Tombsonas created by producer-composer Yoav Landau and songwriter-vocalist Sam Haft. From humble beginnings in 2011 creating remixes and original songs based on video games and TV shows, The Living Tombstone have amassed billions of streams and a cross-platform fanbase counted in the millions, culminating in their debut LP,zero_one, released September 2020.

With AudioClash, a band famous for making music about video games creates a video game about making music, in a multiplayer showdown like no other. Choose from a roster of eccentric band managers and assemble your band with rock star musicians summoned from across time, space, and alternate realities. Mash up the sonic elements of rock, metal, punk, pop, and EDM by building a song deck representing the flow of music. Play your hand against your opponents and bear witness to the audio clash!

Band battle over several rounds, each affected by the ability cards played in between. Boost your Vocalist’s health restoration so the lead Guitarist can dole out attack power buffs. Set up the Bassist to pull off a tide-turning Ultimate Attack and transform your drummer into a support tank with shields to spare. After just a few critical moments of decision-making, the round begins and each band steps onto the stage to perform, taking and dealing damage as their abilities dictate.

At launch, collect and play hundreds of abilities with a bevy of tactical twists. Uncover even deeper strategies by placing stage props and positioning band members to take advantage of location-based battle effects. Rock out in style with countless character customization options, from outlandish headgear and outfits to instrument upgrades, surreal band mascots, and more.

“Video games don’t just inspire us—they’re woven into the very fabric of The Living Tombstone, from the music we make to the Tombsonas we’ve created,” said Yoav. “That’s why we’re treating AudioClash: Battle of the Bands with the importance and care of any musical release. Our fans, and gamers at large, deserve an incredible launch value with hundreds of hours of free content.”

“The opportunity to work on a project with a partner like The Living Tombstone doesn’t happen every day. The creative collaboration between Sam, Yoav and our team has brought together gameplay and music in an entirely unique way,” said Big Boat Interactive CEO Mike Arkin.

“As a drummer, I’m pumped to be working on a music-based battler,” said Miller. “The idea of musicians battling is timeless and kickass, but also a creative challenge, since my games are always about shooting goons and invading aliens. I’m not sure what that says about me.”

AudioClash: Battle of the Bands rocks out on Steam Early Access for PC in Q3 2021. Get your all-access backstage pass by signing up for the closed beta at audioclashgame.com and discover deeper cuts by joining The Living Tombstone on Tik Tok, Discord, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

About The Living Tombstone

The Living Tombstone is a musical project which takes elements from the electronic dance genres of today and combines it with rock genre influences. Founded by music producer and composer Yoav Landau, and accompanied by songwriter and vocalist Sam Haft, TLT has grown a cross-platform following of over 10 million fans and over 2.6 billion streams.

About Big Boat Interactive

Big Boat Interactive is an independent development studio formed in 2007 by games industry veterans with over 90 years of combined experience and over 200 shipped titles. Big Boat developed the critically acclaimed redux of both Battlezone 98 and Battlezone: Combat Commander, and collaborated with Oddworld Inhabitants on the engineering of the recently released Oddworld: Soulstorm.