Trailer Reveals More About the Game’s Story and Features Mysterious Creature The Hound

August 30th, 2021 – Ahead of the game’s launch onPlayStation®5, Bloober Team presents a new video: The Medium PS5 – Gamescom Launch Trailer.

The trailer showcases key elements on the game’s story, and features both primary locations and protagonists, including the Hound – a mysterious entity from the spirit world.

The score is provided by “Across the shore” a theme composed by Akira Yamaoka and Arkadiusz Reikowski, and performed by Mary Elisabeth McGlynn.

The Medium is coming to the PlayStation®5 computer entertainment system on September 3, 2021. Following a successful global launch on PC and Xbox Series X|S on January 28, 2021, Bloober Team is excited to bring The Medium to PS5™ to take advantage of the console hardware as well as the DualSense controller, offering players the experience of exploring two worlds simultaneously.

The Medium is a third-person psychological horror game that features innovative dual-reality gameplay. Players assume the role of Marianne, a medium gifted with several psychic abilities, and explore the real and spirit world both alternatively and simultaneously to uncover a dark mystery masked by disturbing secrets, sinister spirits, and devious puzzles only a medium can solve.

Players can head to the PlayStation Store to pre-order the game at the price of $69.95 with a 10% off discount for PS Plus members before launch. Players who pre-order the game will receive the digital Original Soundtrack (by Akira Yamaoka and Arkadiusz Reikowski) and The Art of The Medium (digital artbook).

Bloober Team and Black Screen Records will also publish The Medium Original Soundtrack on vinyl and CD, with a release expected in October. Pre-orders are available now .

Bloober Team and global retail publishing partner Koch Media are bringing The Medium to retail stores worldwide. The game will be published and available in retail on September 3 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5™, with The Medium: Two Worlds Special Edition available at selected retailers, which comes complete with an exclusive steelbook, soundtrack of the game and printed artbook. In Japan, publisher NA Publishing will bring the game to all three platforms by Holiday 2021.

Developed and published by Bloober Team, and rated R18+, The Medium is Bloober Team’s largest and most ambitious project to date, with no loading screens and utilising the full potential of the latest version of the Unreal Engine 4. The game will be available on PlayStation®5 on September 3, 2021, and is available today for $75.95 RRP on PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG.

For more information on The Medium, please visit www.themediumgame.com; Follow us on Twitter @TheMediumGame; Like us on Facebook @MediumGame, or follow us on Instagram @the_medium_game.

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About Bloober Team:

Based in Krakow, Poland, and established in 2008, Bloober Team is an independent game development studio with over 100 people strong. The company focuses on creating mature psychological horror games with deep storylines and atmospheric set-pieces, all resulting in a chilling yet memorable experience. Bloober Team has extensive experience and passion working on acclaimed horror games including Blair Witch, Layers of Fear, Observer: System Redux and The Medium. https://www.blooberteam.com

About Koch Media 

The Koch Media Group is a global developer, publisher and distributor of video games, VR games, gaming hardware and merchandise.  

The group’s publishing activities, marketing and distribution extend throughout Europe, America, Australia and Asia. Koch Media has more than 25 years of experience in the digital media business and has risen to become a leading global publishing partner. The Koch Media Group runs a multi-label strategy with fully owned publishing units such as Deep Silver, Milestone, Vertigo Games and Ravenscourt, publishing games for consoles, PC and VR platforms across all physical and digital channels. 

Additionally, as global publishing partner Koch Media has formed long-term multi-national publishing collaborations with numerous game publishers including Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Capcom, CI Games, Giants Software, Kalypso, Koei Tecmo, Konami, Paradox, Sega, SNK, Square Enix, Techland, Tripwire, Warner Bros, and many others.

With its parent company in Höfen, Austria, and the Publishing HQ in Munich, Germany, Koch Media owns local publishing companies in Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, the United States as well as Japan and Hong Kong. 

The Koch Media Group owns ten game development studios: Deep Silver Volition (Champaign, IL / USA), Deep Silver Dambuster Studios (Nottingham / UK), Deep Silver Fishlabs (Hamburg / Germany), Warhorse Studios (Prague / Czech Republic), Milestone (Milan / Italy), Voxler (Paris / France) , Flying Wild Hog (Warsaw, Kraków, Rzeszów  / Poland), Free Radical Design (Nottingham / UK) and Vertigo Games (Rotterdam /The Netherlands), DigixArt (Montpellier, France).Additionally, the Koch Media Group collaborates with numerous independent development studios around the world.

Part of the Koch Media Group is also Koch Films, a leading European independent film distributor with business primarily in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy as a cinema, TV, online and Home Entertainment distributor. The Koch Media Group also owns Gaya Entertainment, a leading video game merchandise company in Munich, Germany, and the Quality Assurance Facility in Olomouc, Czech Republic.  

Koch Media is an Embracer Group company. 

About NA PUBLISHING

A console game publishing company located in Tokyo, Japan. Focusing on promoting console games into Japanese/Asian market. The company has so far successfully published world-wide famous franchises such as “Friday the 13th the Game”, “Layers of Fear 2”, “Blair Witch” and so on into Asian Markets with both Digital Download and Physical Package.

Also, NA PUBLISHIING operates as a 100% son company of a 34yr old veteran game development company “Natsume Atari Inc.”, becoming also strong at co-development and porting.

The company will continue to focus on bringing High-Quality Indie titles from western countries into Asia, getting the results that all those awesome games deserve.

About Black Screen Records

Black Screen Records is an independent record label for game soundtracks based in Cologne, Germany. Since 2015, Black Screen Records has released the video game soundtracks to over 70 games on vinyl, cd and digitally. They also run one of the biggest online stores for game soundtracks on vinyl and have over 500 different titles from various labels available on their website and have just opened a retail store for soundtracks, games and merchandise in Cologne.

Video game publisher All in! Games and development studio The Farm 51 are celebrating the upcoming console release of the acclaimed survival horror RPG, Chernobylite, with a new trailer that premiered at Gamescom. The trailer sheds light on protagonist Igor’s fiancee, Tatyana, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances 30 years ago and who is the reason he returns to the Exclusion Zone against all warnings. Chernobylite is slated for release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 28th.

Tatyana still appears to Igor in his dreams, haunting him, calling him back to Chernobyl. The last time he saw her was the fateful day of the nuclear disaster 30 years ago, but to him it feels like yesterday. As long as there’s a chance that she might still be alive he can’t help but return to what is now the Exclusion Zone, despite the danger posed by hostile military forces, supernatural creatures, and other stalkers.

More information about Chernobylite can be found via the official Website, Steam, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Discord.

Check out our full video review for Chernobylite here:

About Chernobylite

Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG, set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone. You’ll take on the role of Igor, a physicist and ex-employee of the Chernobyl Power Plant, returning to Pripyat to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his fiancee, 30 years prior. Compete with a hostile military presence and other stalkers, face supernatural creatures as well as a harsh and unforgiving environment in your search to uncover the truth. Get ready for a thrilling adventure of survival, conspiracy, horror, love, and obsession. Will you survive your fears?Chernobylite has been rated ‘M’ for Mature by the ESRB, and PEGI 18. For more information about Chernobylite, including full language support, visit the official Chernobylite Website, Steam, Twitter, Facebook, Subreddit and Discord server.

About The Farm 51

The Farm 51 is a Polish video game developer known for projects such as Get Even, World War 3, Chernobyl VR Project, and Chernobylite. Established in 2005 by three game dev veterans (Kamil Bilczyński, Robert Siejka, and Wojtek Pazdur), the company has expanded to over 100 talented employees and continues to grow, creating games for PC, consoles, and mobile. For more information, visit: http://www.thefarm51.com

About All in! Games

All in! Games is a publicly traded video game publishing and production house based in Krakow, Poland. Founded in 2018, the team creates and supports local and international games for PC and consoles. All in! Games’ portfolio features titles such as Chernobylite (The Farm 51), Paradise Lost (PolyAmorous), Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms (Gamera Interactive), Tools Up! (The Knights of Unity), and many more. For more information, visit: https://www.allingames.com/

Malevolent vibes await Survivors in the upcoming EP

Singapore, 30 August, 2021 – Free Fire, the world’s most downloaded mobile game in 2019 and 2020, will take Survivors to a dark and dangerous place in its latest Elite Pass (EP), Quantic Unknown, where they will face the venom of the scorpion.

Quantic Unknown takes inspiration from streetwear. Every element, from the texture and cut to the hairstyles, such as dreadlocks and highlight dyes, all contribute to accentuate the visual perception of uniqueness and trendiness. Survivors can get their pincers on Venomous Skorpios (Male) and Valiant Skorpina (Female) Bundles, and can earn other rewards including the Malevolent Sting backpack and grenade skins, Razor Blade and Razor Fangs skyboard skins, and Quantic Unknown jeep and weapon skins. The EP also features two in-game avatars and banners. Survivors who pre-order the EP will also receive the Malevolent Sting in-game box skin.

The cool, edgy scorpion concept has not been explored previously in Free Fire content, and the key color combination of black and purple evokes a mysterious and dangerous scorpion vibe. Other elements, such as scorpion details on the waist belts, mechanical scorpion tails on the backpacks, and the use of diamond shapes help carry the theme throughout the EP. Triangles and metallic textures convey sharpness as well as the feeling of danger and aggressiveness. 

Aspiring arachnids can download Free Fire on the App Store or on Google Play. Follow Free Fire on Facebook and YouTube for the latest news and updates.

About Garena

Garena is a leading global online games developer and publisher. Free Fire, its self-developed mobile battle royale title, was the most downloaded mobile game in the world in 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie. 

Garena is run by passionate gamers and has a unique understanding of what gamers want. It exclusively licenses and publishes hit titles from global partners – such as Arena of Valor, Call of Duty: Mobile, and League of Legends – in selected markets globally. Garena champions social and entertainment experiences through games, enabling its communities to engage and interact. Garena is also a leading esports organiser and hosts some of the world’s biggest esports events. Garena is a part of Sea Limited (NYSE:SE), a leading global consumer internet company. In addition to Garena, Sea’s other core businesses include its e-commerce arm, Shopee, and digital financial services arm, SeaMoney. Sea’s mission is to better the lives of consumers and small businesses with technology.

Control Briar and Lute at the same time and harness their unique abilities

Walnut Creek, Calif. (August 27, 2021) … Publisher Modus Games along with developer Reply Game Studios yesterday released a brand-new trailer at the Future Games Show for Soulstice, the stunning hack-and-slash title arriving on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2022. The trailer showcases the unbreakable bond that sisters Briar and Lute exemplify as they harness their powers to take on their foes

Only by utilising Briar’s incredible strength and Lute’s mystical abilities will the two be able to reclaim the city of Ilden.

Wishlist the game now: www.soulsticegame.com.

The Chimeras are hybrid warriors, forged from the union of two souls. They are the only beings who can oppose the Wraiths, ravenous creatures borne of Chaos itself. Briar and Lute are two sisters — both voiced by Stefanie Joosten (Metal Gear Solid V) — who were turned into a Chimera: Briar gained superhuman abilities, but Lute was sacrificed to become her Shade, a spirit with mystical powers. When the city of Ilden falls to the invasion of the Wraiths, the two sisters are sent on a mission to purge it.

The sleek, fantasy-inspired world will transport players to places filled with danger and beauty. Thanks to a deep combat system with ruthless combos, multiple weapons and myriad customisation options, Briar and Lute will have an endless array of methods to take down enemies as they explore Ilden, facing new threats around every corner.

Sign up to be the first to learn more about Soulstice at www.soulsticegame.com. Follow the latest details on Modus Games’ full lineup by visiting its official site, join their Discord channel (modus.games/discord), and follow @Modus_Games on Twitter.

About Modus Games 
Modus Games is one of the fastest-growing video game publishers in the world. The label prides itself on providing AAA publishing services to talented independent developers across the globe. Modus Studios Brazil is a full-service development studio supporting creators of inspired interactive entertainment. For more information, visit www.modusgames.com.

About Reply Game Studios
Reply Game Studios is the development studio of the Reply Group, a team of dedicated professionals who work hard to present players with exciting AA games that feature high production values, deep experiences and engaging stories on PC and next-gen consoles.

Dice Legacy wins Most Original Game at Gamescom awards The unique mix of city-building, survival roguelike and boardgame convinced the judges

Watch the new “Forging the Dice” Trailer on YouTube:

Sydney, August 30^th, 2021 –The unique Indie Game Dice Legacy by DESTINYbit and Ravenscourt has won the award for Most Original Game at gamescom 2021.

With Dice Legacy, the developer DESTINYbit set out to kick the ball in a new direction for city builders, combining their tabletop and digital passions. The game does so by successfully blending different genres from city builder to strategy game, to survival roguelike. The result is a critically acclaimed, award winning, and entirely new gaming experience.

Dice Legacy on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229460/Dice_Legacy/

To mark the occasion there is also a brand new trailer highlighting an important feature of the game: Dice Crafting. Empower your dice or forge two dice together to create new unique combinations that best fit your playstyle.

Dice Legacy will launch on Nintendo Switch™ as well as PC via Steam on the 9^th of September 2021, with Ravenscourt providing full global publishing support.

About Dice Legacy

Dice Legacy is a roguelike survival city-builder. Players use dice to establish a medieval town in a fascinating ringworld and grow their society.

Every action is based on the roll of a six-sided dice, from planting and harvesting to establishing supply chains or combat. In Dice Legacy, the dice represent the work force. As a ruler, builder, conqueror or trader the players will need to provide their dice with nourishment and care or witness their subjects eventually fade away. Balancing exploration, resource gathering, building and conquering is key whilst the ever present threat of mysterious factions looms in the fog of war.

Players will soon realise luck is nothing without a good strategy behind it – and dice versa.

About DESTINYbit

DESTINYbit is a game development studio based in Ravenna, Italy which strives to give players tools to create stories worth sharing. With an all-remote approach to development and a focus on a small but very talented core team, DESTINYbit aims to create gameplay experiences never seen before. Founded in 2016 by Gian Paolo Vernocchi and Simone Daminato, and acquired by Amplifier Game Invest in 2020, DESTINYbit is part of the Embracer Group.

About Ravenscourt
Established in 2014 – and operating from its Munich headquarters in Germany – Ravenscourt’s mission is delivering amazing games to a broad audience from both established studios and industry newcomers.
With a diverse portfolio, managing the titles of multiple international studios, Ravenscourt games span everything from adventure and management sims through to city builders and indie gems. The label even boasts a good old sing-along karaoke franchise.

Our players delight in engrossing narrative driven adventures, relish the challenge of building new worlds and love solving puzzles. We have more delights in store for them…

The publishing label Ravenscourt stands for worthy interactive entertainment for a broad range of players. It belongs to the Koch Media Group.

HyperX Signs Professional Tennis Player Daniil Medvedev as Global Brand Ambassador

Australia, 2021 – HyperX, the gaming peripherals team at HP Inc. and brand leader in gaming and esports, today announced Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev as a HyperX Global Brand Ambassador. At 25 years old, Medvedev is the most successful Russian tennis player of the 21st century with 12 Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour singles titles and currently ranked as the number two tennis player in the world by the ATP. As HyperX’s first global brand ambassador from Russia, Medvedev will receive a comic-style illustration and participate in global marketing activities.

“I love playing videos games, so much so that I avoid taking them with me to tournaments to ensure my complete focus is on the court,” said Medvedev. “When I do get off-the-court gaming time, having top-quality sound has been essential to amplifying my gaming experience and with HyperX headsets I escape from the real world and completely immerse myself in virtual competition.”

Known for his unique style of play with incredible ball movement senses and pace changing skills on the court, Medvedev’s quick and precise skills also come in handy when competing in some of his favorite video games, including Rainbow Six Siege, FIFA and Fortnite.

As a HyperX brand ambassador, Medvedev will receive the HyperX Hero’s treatment, including his own hero illustration inspired by his gaming persona. He joins a line-up of internationally recognised talent on the HyperX roster, including football player JuJu Smith-Schuster, basketball players Gordon Hayward and Ariel Powers, ice hockey player Filip Forsberg, international soccer player Dele Alli, professional race car driver Sage Karam, and more than 25 global streamers and influencers in the HyperX family.

“Daniil Medvedev is talented both on the tennis court and in the virtual game, and we are excited to add him to the HyperX roster,” said HyperX. “His passion for gaming and commitment to giving everything he has on the court make him an ideal addition the HyperX family as he continues to inspire gaming audiences and tennis fans around the world.”

About HyperX

For 18 years, HyperX’s mission has been to develop gaming solutions for every type of gamer and the company is consistently recognised for delivering products that provide superior comfort, aesthetics, performance, and reliability. Under the tagline of “WE’RE ALL GAMERS,” HyperX gaming headsets, keyboards, mice, USB microphones, and console accessories are the choice of everyday gamers as well as celebrity ambassadors, pro gamers, tech enthusiasts, and overclockers worldwide because they meet stringent product specifications and are built with best-in-class components.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/hyperx
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About HP

HP Inc. creates technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere. Through our product and service portfolio of personal systems, printers, and 3D printing solutions, we engineer experiences that amaze. More information about HP Inc. is available at http://www.hp.com .

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Goblinz Studio unveils new games Sandwalkers and Oaken at Gamescom Awesome Indies, plus exclusive trailers for Diluvian Winds and Terraformers

Indie studio and publisher punches up with big titles joining its growing lineup coming to PC and Switch

Germany – August 27th, 2021 – Independent developer and publisher Goblinz Studio has revealed brand new trailers for four upcoming games, including two big new announcements. Sandwalkers and Oaken were exclusively revealed during the Gamescom Awesome Indies showcase, alongside a fresh gameplay trailer for Diluvian Winds. In addition, a new trailer was unveiled for Terraformers, and demos are available for Terraformers and Defend The Rook in the Gamescom Indie Arena Booth.

Newly announced roguelike adventure Sandwalkers is a major development project for Goblinz Studio, while turn-based deck management roguelike Oaken is being developed by Laki Studio. Release dates for both games will be announced in the future. With the new trailers for Goblinz Studio’s upcoming titles, plus its already available games including Early Access resort builder Snowtopia and recent hit dungeon defender Legend of Keepers, the developer and publisher is consolidating a formidable lineup of tactical and management games for PC and Switch.

Sandwalkers – Release date TBA (PC, Switch) Reveal trailer:

Developed and published by Goblinz Studio, Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based exploration game. Players will assemble and guide their caravan of adventurers through ever-changing landscapes and hostile meteorological chaos. Only by facing countless dangers, can they reclaim the lands left to the mercy of monsters and pirates, and establish a new refuge city for their people. 

Wishlist Sandwalkers now on Steam

Oaken – Release date TBA (PC, Switch) Reveal trailer:

Developed by Laki Studio, Oaken is a turn-based roguelike which focuses on deck management and highly tactical battles with 3D figurines on a hexagonal grid. Players will explore a mystical world inhabited by spirits and collect and upgrade powerful skills, artifacts, and allies, in order to restore the Oak’s Song. The journey is different every time, with tons of levels, cards, and events to be discovered.

Wishlist Oaken now on Steam

Diluvian Winds – Release date TBA (PC, Switch) Gameplay trailer:

From developer Alambik Studio, Diluvian Winds is a 2D narrative management game in semi-real time, in which humanity is being exiled due to the rising waters. The player takes the role of the Guardian who, refusing to leave his lighthouse, watches the mass exodus unfold. In order to survive, players will have to choose whether or not to take in travelers who need their help.

Wishlist Diluvian Winds now on Steam

Terraformers – Release date TBA (PC, Switch) Gameplay trailer:

Developed by Asteroid Lab, Terraformers is an expansive colony builder and resource management game. Players will explore the Red Planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life, and terraform the planet with ambitious projects. The developers hope their game will help inspire humankind to take its first steps out of the cradle and become an interplanetary species.

Wishlist Terraformers now on Steam

Defend The Rook – Release date TBA (PC, Switch)

From developers One Up Plus, Defend the Rook features roguelike tactical board combat combined with tower defense elements. Players must defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land. The game has an expanded range of tactical hero battles, with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies.

Wishlist Defend the Rook now on Steam 

For the full lineup of games from Goblinz Studio, visit the official website.

Follow Goblinz Studio on Twitter for all the latest updates.

Lesquin, 26 August 2021 – NACON and Brave Lamb Studio are pleased to announce that they have joined forces for the publication of the game War Hospital, a unique strategy and survival game in which the player controls the fate of a British field hospital during the Great War.

Discover the new gameplay trailer:

In War Hospital players are confronted by the human drama resulting from the terrible conflict that has so deeply marked our recent history. Every day, when barbarity is unleashed, the hospital doctors have to deal with the moral dilemmas associated with the dual nature of their task, which is both humanitarian and military. They fight not only for life, but also to maintain their morale and humanity in a world that seems to have rejected them completely.

In the very creative strategy and survival game segment, War Hospital provides a unique experience that blends real-time strategy, survival and RPG elements, while developing a theme rarely dealt with until now. The game is set in 1917. You play as Major Henry Wells, a British doctor sent to the front to treat the wounded in an attempt to give a glimmer of hope to the troops.

Despite the difficult conditions and the lack of equipment and resources, you must manage how emergencies are handled and develop your hospital. Thanks to the exceptional support that the British Imperial War Museums gave the developers, the game faithfully recreates the context of the front and its trenches, as well as the medical equipment available at the time.

In addition to the deep management gameplay, the game also requires players to make moral choices that affect the soldiers, the situation at the front and the battles. The player therefore undergoes an emotional trial through the drama experienced by the soldiers sent into the carnage. The game broaches the subject of war very differently than is usually the case.

“We are excited to partner with Nacon. We believe that this will help to introduce War Hospital to more players around the world and show them a different face of war in video games.” stated Michał Dziwniel, Head of Studio.

“Nacon is especially proud and honoured to have been selected by Brave Lambs to work together on the success of War Hospital, a unique game in the genre, once again demonstrating, on the heels of titles such as This War of Mine and Soldats Inconnus that our media can deal with subjects that are complex and serious while keeping their identity,” stated Benoît Clerc, Publishing Director at NACON.

More information about War Hospital will be provided at a later date.

Steam page
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1553000/War_Hospital/

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 12 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 and enables it to innovate by creating new unique competitive advantages. https://corporate.nacongaming.com/

About Brave Lamb Studio
Brave Lamb Studio is an independent studio located in Poland, Warsaw. The studio currently has 17 employees consisting of former Techland, CD Projekt Red, People Can Fly, and Fuero Games specialists, and is focused on games in which the player has to make emotion-based choices, analysing specific problems from different perspectives. The studio was established in 2020, after one year of informal War Hospital pre-production. Brave Lamb Studio is led by Michael Dziwniel – an industry veteran with 13 years of experience.