An All New Enhanced Renderer, Cross-Generation Play, and Increased Performance Bullet-Jump Warframe to New Heights

LONDON, ONTARIO, CA – November 5, 2020 – Canadian developer and publisher Digital Extremes will usher in a new age for Warframe® on Sony’s PlayStation 5 this year and later on Xbox Series X. From a single tileset and four Warframes in 2013 to 18 planets, three open worlds, 30 Quests, and 44 Warframes today, Warframe’s 60 million players will soon have the opportunity to experience the Origin System in an all new light.

NEXT-GENERATION’S ENHANCED POWER AND FIDELITY
Taking full advantage of the power of next-gen consoles, Warframe will run at up to 4K resolution and 60fps. Drastically improved loading times get players into the action as fast as possible and create a seamless experience as Tenno race from player-filled towns to massive and weird Open Worlds. 

The all new Enhanced Renderer ups the ante on dynamic lighting. From the neon underbelly of Fortuna, to our newest landscape on the Infested moon of Deimos… there’s no better place to see the stunning differences. The light from the sun now casts long shadows through the trees, foliage creates dynamic shadows as you stalk through it, and the reflections of the dense Cetus market can be seen across your Warframe as you stroll through.

A game-wide texture remaster adds new levels of detail and enhanced color throughout the experience and also reduces the space Warframe will take up on your hard drive!

SQUAD UP WITH CROSS-GENERATION PLAY
This new hardware generation also elevates cooperative team-play by giving squads around the world one of their most desired features: cross-generation play! 

For PS4 and PS5 owners, this means Tenno will be able to move seamlessly between platforms, playing with teammates regardless if they’re on PS4 or PS5. Gamers’ profiles and their progress will be saved and will follow them as they move onto PS5. Look for details on Xbox One Series X cross-generation play in the future on Warframe.com.

ACTIVITIES, NEXT-GEN CONTROLS & MORE ON PLAYSTATION 5
The next generation of Warframe also takes advantage of many of the new and unique features of Sony’s PlayStation 5. 

Progress Activities will show you exactly how close you are to earning a Trophy, while Challenge Activities will get you right into the action with no need to load the game. The first will be a Sanctuary Onslaught Challenge, with more to come!
 
At launch using the PS5’s Adaptive Triggers, players will experience the impact of every shot fired with each trigger pull, bringing a new level of immersion and thrill to your actions without comprising the tight, fast, fluid and responsive controls that you can only get in Warframe. 

In the future, as Digital Extremes explores Sony’s advanced Haptic technology, it aims to further immerse the player with unique vibration patterns that match in-game environments: from feeling the cold snow crunch under your feet on Venus in contrast to the soft-footing of a dusty Mars settlement!
 
PS+ PACK EXCLUSIVE: DUALSENSE INSPIRED SYANDANA (AND MORE)
PS5 and PS4 owners can celebrate the next generation by downloading the free, exclusive Warframe®: PlayStation Plus Booster Pack (an approximately $30 value) to get started. This exclusive pack contains a new Sedai Obsidian Syandana — a design inspired by the new DualSense Controller — an Experience Booster, in-game Currency Booster, Credits and Premium Credits. 
 
Download Warframe on PlayStation®4, PC, and Xbox One, Nintendo™ Switch now, and soon on PS5 and Xbox One Series X. For more details, visit www.warframe.com.

ABOUT DIGITAL EXTREMES
Founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, Digital Extremes ranks as one of the world’s top independent video game development studios. Originating with the co-creation of Epic Games’ multi-million unit selling Unreal® franchise including Unreal and Unreal Tournament, Digital Extremes went on to develop Dark Sector®, BioShock® for the PlayStation®3, the BioShock 2 multiplayer campaign, and The Darkness® II. The studio has reached its greatest critical and commercial success with the free-to-play action game, Warframe®, boasting a global community of 60+ million registered players on PC, PS4™, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch™, and soon on PS5™ and Xbox One Series X. For more information about Digital Extremes, visit www.digitalextremes.com. To sign up for Warframe, visit www.warframe.com.

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Systemic Reaction’s Co-op Dino Shooter Second Extinction Sells Over 50,000 Units in First Two Weeks on Steam Early Access

STOCKHOLM — Nov. 5, 2020 — Systemic Reaction, a creative division of Avalanche Studios Group, is happy to report its new online co-op FPS Second Extinction sold over 50,000 copies in its first two weeks launching on PC via Steam Early Access. And now they’ve got a new trailer showing off some of the community’s most impressive triumphs, fails and more!

“Thank you so much for playing Second Extinction! The whole team is super hyped to see over 50,000 people join us on this adventure. We love your reaction to the game and want to ask you all to keep the feedback rolling in,” said Brynley Gibson, lead producer at Systemic Reaction. “We are hearing some cool ideas, and it is a huge help to get feedback about what you love and what you love less. To have such an engaged community has made developing this game all the more worthwhile and really energizes us to make it even better!”

Second Extinction pits teams of up to three players against hordes of bloodthirsty dinos in fast-paced battles across Earth’s vast wastelands. Gear up with a wide range of powerful weapons and fight alone or with friends against monstrous predators long thought extinct — now mutated and deadlier than ever!

The Second Extinction team has been fighting its own good battle with regular hotfixes and patches to squash bugs and improve the multiplayer experience, all based on community feedback. As early access continues, players will continue to get free updates featuring new weapons, challenges, dino mutations, War Effort emergence events and more. You can keep track of new content and features coming in the future with the game’s updated development roadmap.

Second Extinction is also in development for Xbox Series X and Xbox One. For more info, visit www.SecondExtinctionGame.com, and 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 both Generation Zero launched and Second Extinction in Steam Early Access — with even more to come. Join us in the sandbox!

Planetary Building Game Per Aspera Launches December 3 on PC

Terraform Mars in Tlön Industries & Raw Fury’s revolutionary planet-sized city-builder 

STOCKHOLM — Nov. 5, 2020 — Raw Fury and the developers at Tlön Industries are ready to blast off with their new planet-sized city-builder Per Aspera, launching Dec. 3, 2020, on Steam and GOG.com. Combining hard science fiction and base building, Per Aspera will challenge players on a scale never before seen in the genre, with an all-star cast of voice actors such as Troy Baker, Phil LaMarr and more. Check out Troy’s voiceover video to see how he brought his character to life!

The surface of Mars is littered with humanity’s failed attempts to colonize its harsh surface. As AMI, an artificial consciousness with the prime directive of terraforming Mars for human colonization, your job is to make sure this time will be different — there is no room for human error.

Explore a sprawling map based on real geographical data from NASA, harvest valuable resources from the surface, and experiment with various colonizing strategies as you transform a dead world into a new home for life in our solar system. City building has never been this astronomical!

Per Aspera is available to wishlist now on Steam and GOG.com! You can also still check out the game’s Steam Autumn Festival demo now!

PLANET-SIZED FEATURES

🌑 Balance a complex well of resources to build interconnected structures that span the entire planet.

🌒 Customize your terraforming plan with branching research trees — develop new technologies steeped in real-world science to create a thriving interplanetary civilization.

🌓 Cultivate relationships with your human colonists and ensure their continued survival on Mars’ unforgiving surface. How you choose to forge these relationships will impact how your mission concludes.

🌔 Uncover the mystery of a threatening presence on Mars and defend your colonies from unknown and combative forces.

🌕 Immerse yourself in a rich, compelling narrative featuring the voice acting talents of Troy Baker, Phil LaMarr, Laila Berzins, Yong Yea, Linsey Murrell, and Nneka Okoye, or take your time and craft the perfect Martian landscape with Sandbox mode.

About Tlön Industries

Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this 10+ person, independent video game studio was founded by three industry veterans with development experience on Master of Orion, Okhlos, and Command & Conquer.

Countdown to Release Debut Playstation 4 & (Nintendo Switch) 12 Days

A Bumper presentation for ALL

TAITO, together with ININ games, is pleased to announce that after the acclaimed release on Nintendo Switch of Bubble Bobble 4 Friends, PlayStation 4 owners can look forward to the digital  debut release of Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron is Back which is bigger, better, with more features for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo fans to revel in. 

Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron is Back will be available digitally and in physical editions in America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand on 17th November 2020.

https://bubblebobble4friends.inin.games/

More Stages – More Content! More Fun! Bubble Bobble 4 Friends on Nintendo Switch received praise and acclaim from the critics and fans although many requested more content. TAITO and ININ Games listened, hence its return and PlayStation 4 debut along with a favourite character to spice up this platform feast. Conveying even more exciting challenges and more ‘Bubble Bursting’ addictive mayhem, it looks and plays like a dream. Beware though the infamous Baron marks his appearance within 100 unique new stages: twice as many stages as before to offer unprecedented confrontations!!! Nintendo Switch will not miss out either for, if you purchased the original title, the extra content can be downloadable free on release and new purchasers of course will get this bumper game in full!

In Game Elements

• 4 Player Co-Op mode
• Total of 200 Levels
• Original Arcade version included
• Online Ranking feature 
• Return of a fan-favorite villain: Baron von Blubba

About the Game. Simple – Smart – Addictive

The cutesy adorable Bub and Bob are ready to float to the challenge presented. Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron is Back is a single-screen platform action game released as a complete new addition to the legendary Bubble Bobble series, in which you control the bubble dragons Bub and Bob, clearing stages by blowing bubbles to trap enemies, then bursting them to defeat them. Players can acquire special skills by completing an area, and level them up by collecting letter bubbles that form the word “EXTEND”. You can play together in multiplayer with up to four players. Also included is the original arcade version of Bubble Bobble.

About Bubble Bobble
Bubble Bobble is an action game planned, developed, and released by TAITO CORPORATION (TAITO) in 1986.
The game centers around Bubby and Bobby, two boys who were cursed by a wizard and turned into the bubble-blowing dragons, Bub and Bob, who are on a quest to rescue their kidnapped girlfriends. To do this, they must brave all 100 floors of the cave of monsters, defeating their enemies by catching them in bubbles, then bursting them.
The lovable Bub and Bob were a big hit and went on to star in numerous sequels and the original has since been ported to countless home platforms. Puzzle Bobble (a.k.a. Bust-A-Move), a puzzle game spin-off, became a huge hit, going on to personify the franchise.
TAITO is the exclusive owner of the global intellectual property rights, including copyrights and trademarks, for Bubble Bobble and its characters, and takes an active role regarding new Bubble Bobble-related enterprises.

About TAITO Corporation
TAITO Corporation (TAITO) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. With headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, TAITO operates core businesses such as game arcade operations, coin-operated game machines, and mobile phone content services. A seminal part of gaming history, TAITO caused a worldwide sensation with its arcade legend, SPACE INVADERS, and developed such fan favorites as PUZZLE BOBBLE (BUST-A-MOVE) and ARKANOID. Today, TAITO continues to thrill game lovers of all generations by offering both classic and new family-oriented titles on the latest gaming platforms. TAITO delivers a wide range of entertainment experiences with the goal of providing consumers with fresh surprises and new discoveries. More information on TAITO can be found on the Internet at http://www.taito.com/ 

About ININ Games

ININ Games focus 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 “CrossCode”, “Umihara Kawase BaZooKa!”, “Bubble Bobble 4 Friends”, “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://www.inin.games   

NEW YORK, NY (NOVEMBER 5, 2020) — Today, Cargo Film & Releasing — a global film sales and distribution agency — is pleased to announce the upcoming digital release of Insert Coin, a documentary focused on the history of Midway Games, a ragtag team of game developers with a simple punk-rock design mantra: “there are no rules.” Director Joshua Tsui’s Insert Coin takes viewers on a raucous ride with the studio’s iconoclastic designers led by Eugene Jarvis as they introduced the world to industry-defining games such as NARC, Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam that earned over a billion dollars at the arcade and remain pop culture touchstones to this day!

Insert Coin releases on November 25, 2020, as part of Alamo Drafthouse’s Alamo On Demand Digital Release and in independent cinemas nationwide.

Insert Coin is the authoritative insider Joshua Tsui’s love letter to Midway Games, where he worked on the Mortal Kombat franchise (and whose face was used for character Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat IV). A graduate of Columbia’s film school, Joshua also led efforts to introduce digitized video technology to an industry previously dominated by hand-drawn pixels.
 
Insert Coin features interviews with past Midway team members including Eugene Jarvis (Defender and Robotron: 2084), Mark Turmell (SmashTV, NBA Jam, NFL Blitz), John Tobias (co-creator Mortal Kombat series), George Petro (NARC, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Revolution X), and others. Also prominently featured are industry insiders Carly Kocurek (Coin-Operated Americans) and novelist and screenwriter Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, Armada). Insert Coin showcases the history of one of the most unique groups of game creators of the arcade and early console era.
 
“We’re thrilled to work with Joshua Tsui and his team to finally bring Insert Coin to fans,” said David Piperni, Founder of Cargo Film & Releasing. “Midway is so core to gaming’s DNA, and this documentary reminds us all of those great gaming moments from the past, right down to the sounds of Scorpion’s ‘Get over Here!’ to the ‘Boom Shakka Lakka’ of NBA Jam!”
 
“Insert Coin is the culmination of my work in and passion for the gaming industry blended with my love for visual storytelling,” added Joshua Tsui, Insert Coin’s director. “It truly is my love letter to the early days of Midway and how it influenced the transition from classic coin-operated games to ushering in a new generation of console gaming. I hope fans of video games, and especially of Midway, will love watching Insert Coin as much as we enjoyed making it!”
 
In the ‘80s and ‘90s, Midway Games took the world by storm with games such as Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Rampage, SmashTV and countless others. Led by Eugene Jarvis, an acclaimed game designer in his own right, the studio dominated the market with hit after hit. Insert Coin looks at both the rise and fall of Midway Games and everything in-between — from the creative personalities who brought Scorpion and Sub-Zero into the cultural zeitgeist to the games that introduced the iconic characters. Midway affected the culture – not just of gaming – but of public consciousness as a whole. Featuring interviews with the team behind some of Midway Games’ biggest hits, along with games industry personalities, Insert Coin is the definitive look at one of the most important contributors to gaming history. 
 
More info about Insert Coin is available on Facebook and the official website.
 
About Cargo Film & Releasing:
 
Led by David Piperni and Dan Cantagallo, Cargo Film & Releasing specializes in representing documentary features for all revenue streams in the global marketplace with care. 

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Clawville needs justice

Eger, Hungary / Giebelstadt, Germany, November 5th, 2020: The legendary Chicken Police needs your help in solving a case that went from unusual to life-threatening within a few hours. Marty MacChicken and Santino “Sonny” Featherland are fighting crime in Clawville on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch starting today at 5PM CET / 4PM GMT / 9AM PDT for 19.99 (EUR / USD / GBP).

Sonny is an alcoholic, deadbeat detective, waiting for his retirement and only old photographs and newspaper articles serve as reminders of the glorious times when he and his partner Marty were working together as a dynamic duo, the Chicken Police. With nothing less than a cult following of fans, a successful book series about their adventures and professional success any other law enforcement officer wouldn’t even dream of, they felt invulnerable. Now they’re being asked to investigate a series of strange threats. But nothing is as it seems in the corrupt city of Clawville. It is up to you, to uncover the truth surrounding the secretive Natasha Catzenko and the city’s criminal underworld and shed light on the Chicken Police’s dark past.

About Chicken Police – Paint it RED!: This Film-Noir inspired buddy-cop adventure features a cast of diverse, fully voiced characters all in the games original, iconic art-style. Crime scenes are to be investigated, clues to be found, puzzles to be solved, and suspects to be interrogated. A modern take on the classic point-and-click gameplay, Chicken Police comes with a grim plot that will keep you intrigued and immersed. Who is telling the truth, who is trying to mislead the investigators, and why? Find answers to these and more questions and bring back some of Clawville’s lost color!

Features:

• Over 8 hours of professional voiceover for all 30 characters
• A thrilling, rich storyline with a classic film-noir twist
• Carefully crafted, unique, and “colorful” world
• Complex interrogation system
• Cinematic film-noir experience with more than 20 cutscenes!
• Lots of clues, information, and collectibles to find
• Enthralling original soundtrack

About HandyGames: 
HandyGames™ is part of the THQ Nordic and Embracer Group family and operates as an international publisher for mid-sized projects and developers for a worldwide audience.
The focus lies on creating and publishing games for current gen consoles like PlayStation®4, the Xbox One family of devices including Xbox One X or Nintendo Switch™ as well as games for Steam and many other PC gaming distribution channels. HandyGames™ produces titles for new innovative gaming platforms, for example VR (Virtual Reality) on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR, but also offers games of all kind of genres for Android smartphones and tablets, Apple iPhones, iPads and many other mobile and smart devices.
As a games company and that is truly passionate about gaming, we always strive for gameplay innovation. We received the German Developer Award as “Best German Game Studio” in 2015 and produced and published award-winning games of virtually every video gaming genre imaginable for a diverse range of audiences and gameplay styles. One example is “Townsmen VR” which was awarded with the German Games Award 2018 in the category “Best Game Design”

About The Wild Gentlemen
“The Wild Gentlemen” is an independent game studio, working on its artistic game: Chicken Police, the “Orwellesque Buddycop Noir Adventure”. The team is based in Hungary and consists of six core members and four part-time contributors. Some team members have worked on projects like The Witcher 3, Call of Duty WWII, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, the Crysis series, Haegemonia or Ryse: Son of Rome. While individually, most of them have been active members of the games industry for over a decade, Chicken Police is their first joint project.

Choose your heroes, win the battle and save the kingdom with swords, spells, blades and blasters in a new action RPG from Phase Two Games

Melbourne, Australia – November 5th 2020 – Independent developer Phase Two Games today announced that their squad-based fantasy adventure RPG Battle Hunters is now available on Steam for PC and Nintendo Switch.

Players will command a team of adventurous heroes, plunging headlong into dungeons, caves, forests and swamps as they heed the call for help from the old Wizard, and embark upon a journey beset with danger at every turn. 

With a more strategic approach to combat through a combination of turn-based and real-time action, Battle Hunters gives players the opportunity to build a uniquely skilled team of 3 adventurers ready for battle. With a roster of 28 unique hero characters to discover and choose from, including the Wizard, the Barbarian, the Rogue or the cursed Dreadknight – Battle Hunters provides a huge variety of choice when deciding who to bring to the fight.
Different heroes bring a range of strengths and weaknesses to the battle, and with such a wide array of enemies to confront, the player must use the right combination of heroes to suit their own battle style, and to ensure victory. 

Watch Launch Trailer here!

Watch gameplay here!

“We’re excited to bring Battle Hunters to PC and Nintendo Switch and hope that players enjoy our classic-style RPG. Battle Hunters is inspired by great RPGs of the past, but we think we’ve brought a fresh approach and some genuine innovation to the gameplay.” – Dan Tonkin Co-Founder of Phase Two Games.

Players will face off against devious goblins and lumbering trolls, as well as vicious gargoyles and unstoppable stone golems so creating a formidable band of heroes with the right skills can make the difference between defeat and victory. Battle Hunters is an adventure created in the style of older classics, with a new approach to combat, character classes and abilities.

A free demo can be downloaded from the Battle Hunters page on Steam. 

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1393340/Battle_Hunters/

About Phase Two Games

From their early years at Beam Software on PC games like ‘Krush, Kill and Destroy’ to bringing the first ‘Sims’ game to iPhone for EA, and later going on to bring ambitious brands like ‘Need for Speed’ and ‘DeadSpace’ to the smartphone and tablet, Dan and Toby have a long and respectable history of both making games and dealing with top IPs. At Phase Two Games we are determined to produce quality experiences with a small, talented team. We have deliberately stepped away from large-scale corporate-style production to pursue a more traditional style of development in the hope that our games can be free of influences that undermine the creative vision. We love games, and hope you enjoy playing the games we make.

There Can Be Only One Winner… 

Time for the ultimate showdown: Ferrari Hublot Esports Series Final takes place this weekend.

The final weekend of competition in the Ferrari Hublot Esports Series championship gets underway on Friday 6 November and will decide the overall Championship winner. The best driver across the two days will secure the chance to join the Ferrari Driver Academy Hublot Esports Team. Could an amateur driver clinch that much-coveted seat?

Maranello, 4 November 2020 – The first season of the Ferrari Hublot Esports Series is about to enter its final stages. On November 6 and 7, the 24 drivers who qualified through the PRO and AM Series Championships held in October will have the opportunity to go head-to-head in three heated races on the Mugello, Nordschleife, and Monza circuits played out in Assetto Corsa, developed by Kunos Simulazioni. Adrenaline and high emotions are promised from the first lap to the last.

The Championship Finals will also be an opportunity to see the top drivers who dominated the PRO and AM Series facing off for the first time, respectively France’s Arnaud Lacombe and Germany’s Jarno Koch. The competition between these two is sure to be spectacular. The rest of the grid features top racing talent including Gianfranco Giglioli and Kamil Pawlowski, all ready to fight for the victory and win one of the top prizes in sim racing – the opportunity to train and race in the Ferrari Driver Academy Hublot Esports Team.

The overall winner of this season’s championship will be crowned this weekend and will join the FDA Hublot Esports Team for the 2021 season. Current drivers in the FDA Hublot Esports team include David Tonizza, reigning champion of F1 Esports Series drivers, and Enzo Bonito, a very experienced sim racer.

The live broadcasts for the Grand Final races can be followed on the Official Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook channels, and feature expert commentary by Nicki Shields, pit lane reporter for the FIA Formula E Championship, and Paul Jeffrey, Sim Racing expert, journalist, and voice of companies such as Sro Esports and Race Department.

The Ferrari Hublot Esports Series Championship can be followed on the official social media channels:

• Instagram: @Ferrariesports
• Twitter: @Ferrariesports
• Twitch: @Ferrariesports
• Facebook: @FDAFans

Title Partner: Hublot

Founded in Switzerland in 1980, HUBLOT is defined by its innovation, which began with the highly original combination of gold and rubber.  The release of the iconic, multi-award-winning Big Bang in 2005 paved the way for new flagship collections (Classic Fusion, Spirit of Big Bang), with complications ranging from the simple to the highly sophisticated, establishing the extraordinary DNA of the Swiss watchmaking house and ensuring its impressive growth. Keen to preserve its traditional and cutting-edge expertise, and guided by its philosophy to “Be First, Different and Unique”, the Swiss watchmaker is consistently ahead of the curve, through its innovations in materials (scratch-resistant Magic Gold, ceramics in vibrant colors, sapphire), and the creation of Manufacture movements (Unico, Meca-10, Tourbillon).

Technical Partner: Thrustmaster

Thrustmaster is a major player in the gaming industry with its innovative peripherals  (steering wheels, controllers, headsets, and joysticks) for 30 years. The Thrustmaster DNA symbolized by “Passion, Quality, and Innovation” takes on its full meaning in Esport. Thrustmaster is fully invested in this and offers gamers equipment that allows them to express their talents and perform as well as possible. E-athletes will find in Thrustmaster products solutions designed and developed to ideally meet the specificities of each individual and the Esports competitions they favor. 

Black Desert Prestige Edition to hit stores November 6^th

Sydney, Australia, November 5^th, 2020 – Black Desert, the critically acclaimed MMORPG by Pearl Abyss will hit selected on- and offline retail stores on Friday, November 6^th for both PlayStation™ 4 as well as Xbox One X. The game is fully compatible with the upcoming next generation of consoles as well.

Inviting all players to join one of the most innovative MMOs in the recent years, the Black Desert Prestige Edition comes with tons of digital bonus content! Both new and current players can receive unique collectibles such as the exclusive Black Leopard pet, the edition offers tons of content supporting new players following their first footsteps in the game.

• Exclusive Pet Black Leopard x1
• Limited Edition Glorious Shudad Premium Set x1
• Pearl Box (In-Game Currency) – 2000 x1
• Value Pack (30 Days) x1
• [Event] Enhancement Help Kit II x1
• Advice of Valks (+40) x1
• Blessed Message Scroll (100 min.) x15

About Black Desert:

Black Desert is an open-world action MMORPG with cutting-edge visuals and a skill-based combat system that redefines the genre. Black Desert has the most developed character customization system of any game that is currently on the market, allowing users to become their true selves with unique avatars. The MMO is known for its intuitive controls, beautifully designed world and extensive lore, which has successfully launched in over 150 countries and 12 languages and gained more than 30 million registered users during its lifetime.

• Title: Black Desert Prestige Edition
• Platforms: PlayStation 4 / Xbox One / Xbox Series X
• Genre: MMORPG
• Developer: Pearl Abyss
• Publisher: Pearl Abyss
• Age Rating: M – Fantasy Violence, Online Interactivity
• Release Date: November 6, 2020
• Price: AUD $49.95
• Available in Europe, North America, EMEA, Australia and New Zealand

About Pearl Abyss

Best known for the MMORPG franchise Black Desert, Pearl Abyss is a leading developer in the game industry. Established in 2010, Pearl Abyss has since developed Black Desert for PC, mobile and console, and Shadow Arena for PC and console. With all their games built on their proprietary engine, their games are renowned for their cutting-edge graphics. The company also is developing Crimson Desert, DokeV, and PLAN 8, and is poised to continue its growth through 2020 and beyond to maintain its position as one of Asia’s leaders in game development. More information about Pearl Abyss is available at: www.pearlabyss.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 which publish 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 Bethesda, Capcom, Codemasters, Konami, Koei Tecmo, Sega, Square Enix, 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 seven 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) and Vertigo Games (Rotterdam /The Netherlands). 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 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.

Learn more about XIII’s soundtrack in a new music composer video interview!

Sydney, November 5th, 2020 – Microids is delighted to present a video interview with Lionel Gaget, XIII’s music composer. Learn more about his work on the famous cel-shaded FPS released in 2003 and discover new gameplay sequences of the upcoming remake.

Lionel Gaget revisits his XIII soundtrack creation process and explains his choices of instruments made to fit the game’s intentions giving the title a very unique jazzy mood. Behind the piano, he details the strength of dynamic music, changing its rhythm to match the player’s actions.

Lionel Gaget also explains how he crafted a musical identity that follows every situation the player faces in the game, would it be a calm exploration, a suspenseful infiltration or an intense combat situation.

Microids and Ubisoft Music are proud to announce the digital availability of the album containing 11 remastered tracks on streaming platforms alongside the game’s digital launch (November 10th). The soundtrack will also soon be available on Vinyl.

You can already listen to the track titled “Brighton Beach” here.

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XIII will release digitally on November 10th on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, with a physical limited edition version available from November 24th at retail.

The game will be available in 2021 on Nintendo Switch.

About the Story of XIII:

Who are you?

The country is still in shock after President Sheridan’s assassination.

You wake up injured and with amnesia on the shore of an east coast beach. The only clues about your identity are the number XIII tattooed on your collarbone and the key to a locker. Despite the memory loss, you realize not everything has been forgotten as you seem to have amazing reflexes comparable to a well-trained government agent. You will soon be on your way to uncover your past, discovering in the process your role in the murder of the US president and unveiling the most astonishing conspiracy in the country’s history. The vinyl of the soundtrack will be available soon.

Play as “XIII” – a man who has no memory about his identity – and try to find out the truth regarding the setup of a major conspiracy. Follow XIII in his search for his identity through a thrilling solo campaign and brutal online fights!

Players will be delighted to hear the iconic soundtrack and voices from the original game!

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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 PlayMagic Ltd.

PlayMagic is a studio designing and developing games based on high profile licenses and original IP across a wide range of formats for the hard-core market segment. With a studio based in Malta, and one in Kiev, the company is currently working on the Remake of XIII for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC and Mac and on an Original IP for next-gen consoles and PC. The team at PlayMagic has designed and worked on top selling console and PC franchises such Halo, Call of Duty, Crysis, Hunt Showdown, Condemned, Sonic, Rome Total War, Operation Flashpoint, Colin McRae, Virtual Reality Games such as The Climb, Robinson. MMO titles include Lords of the Rings Online and Mobile Games like Forge of The Empire, CMR, F1 Challenge.

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft is a leading creator, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and services, with a rich portfolio of world-renowned brands, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, For Honor, Just Dance, Watch Dogs®, and Tom Clancy’s video game series including Ghost Recon®, Rainbow Six and The Division. The teams throughout Ubisoft’s worldwide network of studios and business offices are committed to delivering original and memorable gaming experiences across all popular platforms, including consoles, mobile phones, tablets and PCs. For the 2019-20 fiscal year, Ubisoft generated net bookings of €1,534 million. To learn more, please visit: www.ubisoftgroup.com.