Get a First Look at Post-Campaign Content in OUTRIDERS
SYDNEY, 6th November 2020 – SQUARE ENIX® is excited to reveal “Expeditions”, the challenging post-campaign content for OUTRIDERS™, the high-intensity RPG-Shooter from People Can Fly, the developers of Gears of War: Judgment and BULLETSTORM, and Square Enix External Studios, the minds behind SLEEPING DOGS® and JUST CAUSE®.
Watch the OUTRIDERS Post-Campaign Content Video Here
“Expeditions” will challenge even the most accomplished Outrider and push them to their limits. Battle through a series of tough-as-nails missions to unlock the most powerful equipment in the game.
“Expeditions expand on the story of the OUTRIDERS campaign and features the toughest challenges in the game. They’re meant to be played with a team of skilled and coordinated Outriders,” said Bartek Kmita, Creative Director of OUTRIDERS at People Can Fly. “Powerful equipment and efficient character builds, along with true skill and mastery over your class, are necessary to succeed and reach the highest levels of Expeditions.”
For more information, watch the rest of OUTRIDERS Broadcast #4 – Expeditions here
OUTRIDERS will release on PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on February 2nd, 2021.
This Saturday Download Free TLC Pass #3 & Join Studio Wildcard During Its Extra Life Charity Stream Filled With Prizes & Sneak Peaks
REDMOND, WA – November 5, 2020 – This weekend is filled with dino fun! Today ARK island is open to all Steam players who would like to take on the dinosaur action-adventure of ARK: Survival Evolved. Until 10 am PT/1 pm ET on November 10, ARK: Survival Evolved is free to play on Steam. Just head over to the Steam page and click the “play game” button.
Then Saturday, the highly anticipated TLC Pass #3 drops bringing new visuals and abilities for the Stegosaurus and Woolly Mammoth, along with insect and wyvern breeding! This free update will be available for all ARK players on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Steam and Epic Games Store.
Plus, this weekend Studio Wildcard is geared up for Extra Life. The Extra Life charity stream is a 24-hour stream where all proceeds directly benefit children in need. This year’s Extra Life event kicks off on November 7th at 10 AM PST! Expect prizes and giveaways like Collector’s Editions, boosted Official Network rates, and Genesis 2 reveals!
Want even more ARK? All ARK: Survival Evolved content on Steam and Xbox One are deeply discounted this week, including the ARK base game (80% off), all legacy DLC – Scorched Earth, Aberration and Extinction (65% off), ARK Season Pass (65% off), and Genesis Season Pass (20% off).
In ARK players are stranded naked, freezing and starving on a mysterious island, where they must hunt, harvest, craft items, grow crops, and build shelters to survive. Use skill and cunning to kill, tame, breed, & ride the dinosaurs and primeval creatures living in ARK. Team up with hundreds of players online or try solo survival in offline play.
ARK: Survival Evolved is available on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, launching next week with Xbox Series X/S Enhancement Upgrade! For the latest updates follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, subscribe to us on YouTube, visit the Website at playark.com and watch us tame and train leviathan dinosaurs on Twitch.TV.
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ABOUT STUDIO WILDCARD Founded in 2014 by industry veterans Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak, Studio Wildcard’s mission is to bring AAA quality to ambitious indie titles that are designed for core gamers. The studio’s hit title ARK: Survival Evolved, has sold more than 30 million copies across all platforms. The team emphasizes direct communication with their active community, implements player feedback into its fast, iterative dev cycle, and provides tools to drive user generated content. Studio Wildcard includes distributed developers across multiple continents, as wherever talented developers reside, Wildcard seeks them out! www.studiowildcard.com
EMBARK ON A SPACE-TIME ADVENTURE WITHSEVEN KNIGHTS – TIME WANDERER –NETMARBLE’S FIRST CONSOLE GAME FOR NINTENDO SWITCH
LOS ANGELES – NOV. 5, 2020 – Netmarble Corp, a top developer and publisher of high quality and entertaining mobile video games, is thrilled to officially launch its first entry for console gaming as Seven Knights – Time Wanderer –, a standalone gaming experience set within the broader Seven Knights mobile franchise, is now available on Nintendo Switch ™ via Nintendo eShop across 40 individual countries.
“With the Seven Knights franchise reaching its fifth anniversary, it is immensely gratifying to see the community respond positively to how the game is growing, and we wanted to honor that devotion by taking Seven Knights in a whole new direction,” said Young Jae Park, executive producer of Netmarble. “Seven Knights – Time Wanderer – on Nintendo Switch is a perfect introduction of the Seven Knights universe for players eager to experience an epic story with colorful Heroes and intense combat, and we are excited to bring fans our first console game to enjoy.”
To celebrate Seven Knights – Time Wanderer–‘s launch, Netmarble is partnering with two prominent companies to encourage fans to join in on the launch festivities. Details on the partnerships are as follows:
HyperX (Kingston Technology Corp) is teaming up with Netmarble to offer a sweepstakes with ten winners receiving a copy of Seven Knights – Time Wanderer –,a suite of HyperX products including the HyperX Cloud Mix Headset and the ChargePlay Quad Charging Station for Nintendo Switch, a Seven Knights – Time Wanderer – 18 x 24 wall poster, and a Seven Knights T-Shirt and Art Book. The giveaway will run on Netmarble’s social channels from Nov. 5-12
Seven Knights – Time Wanderer – will be integrated into Kung Fu Tea’s 170 in-store locations, where customers can get the limited-time Time Wanderer Latte from Nov. 5-21. Those that purchase theTime Wanderer latte in-store, or through Kung Fu Tea’s app, will be entered to be one of ten winners receiving prizes including a copy of Seven Knights – Time Wanderer – and a download code that unlocks $15 of Kung Fu Tea App Credit.
Seven Knights – Time Wanderer – is a visually stunning, real-time and turn-based RPG based on Seven Knights Mobile, which features all-new control and battle systems, and game content optimized for the Nintendo Switch. In addition, as a single-player RPG that provides the fun of deck building by using various heroes strategically, it also introduces its original story differently from the mobile version.
Seven Knights – Time Wanderer – focuses on the story of the eighth member of the Seven Knights, Vanessa, and her ultimate magical equipment, a sentient hourglass known as Sandy, as she embarks on a journey to return safely home after falling into the twists of space and time. Seven Knights – Time Wanderer – does not include any gacha system as players acquire in-game characters as they progress through the story.
Seven Knights – Time Wanderer – is available to download from Nintendo eShop for $19.99, while a ‘Special Edition’ that includes the Costume Set Bundle Packis also available for $27.99. More information, images and trailers can be found on the official website and Twitter.
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About Seven Knights
The original version of Seven Knights has been available in over 150 countries since its first launch in March 2014, on both the App Store and Google Play, and has achieved 60 million cumulative download across the globe over six years. A turn-based mobile RPG enjoying great popularity worldwide, Seven Knights offers the fun of collecting and fostering nearly 700 kinds of characters with intense turn-based battles.
About Netmarble Corporation
Established in Korea in 2000, Netmarble Corporation is a top developer and publisher pushing the boundaries of the mobile gaming experience with highly innovative games including Lineage 2: Revolution, The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross, Blade&Soul Revolution and MARVEL Future Fight. As a parent company of Kabam, and a major shareholder of Jam City and Big Hit Entertainment, Netmarble strives to entertain audiences around the world with a variety of mobile games based on its powerful franchises and collaborations with IP holders worldwide. More information can be found at http://company.netmarble.com
The first-ever crossover between Crash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk is coming to fans on November 6, 2020. Right on the heels of the launch of Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, the uniting of two iconic franchises will bring players some sweet Bandicoot-inspired getups to keep their skaters looking fresh. Starting this Friday, players that have purchased Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 will find 13 new Crash-themed items available within Create-A-Skater, along with a variety of other new perks (detailed below) being offered as part of a free title update.
Worlds Collide with Crash Crossover. Crash is known for his mischievous maneuvers, and as such, Vicarious Visions couldn’t resist dropping him into Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 in a non-traditional way with some marsupial-inspired items from Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. In Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2, players will enjoyCrash and Coco-branded in-game swag, including nine shirts, three hats and one skateboard deck.
Fans can now show off their Crash fandom in whatever skatepark they ollie into.
But that’s not all. Also, on November 6, 2020 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 players can expect additional updates to the game including:
The Birdman Pack Benefiting Charity. Created in collaboration with The Skatepark Project (formerly the Tony Hawk Foundation), the Birdman Pack features classic and additional boards from Birdhouse and Powell-Peralta not originally included in the game, as well as an exclusive new TSP deck created specifically for charity. This limited time Create-A-Skater 10-deck bundle will be available as DLC* for SRP $4.99, and 100% of Activision’s net proceeds for this pack will help support the construction of public skateparks for youth in underserved communities.
Shred with Each Skater in Solo Tours. Now,players will be able to replay Tours mode with individual skaters allowing them to max out stats with each of their favorite pros. At the start of each Solo Tour, all Goals and Medals will be reset, while current Tours mode will move to “Crew Tours” so previous progress will not be lost.
New Challenge Sets, Tuning and More. New objectives within online Multiplayer, Create-A-Park and Combo Practice will reward fans with plenty of XP and in-game Cash to spend at the Skate Shop, while skilled players will be able to reach Level 100 and earn XP faster. Multiplayer playlists will also be improved for better randomization of Parks and Scores in both Jams and Competitive modes.
Fan-Favorites from Create-A-Deck Contest. Three talented fans won the right to have their art featured as custom decks in Create-A-Skater as part of a recent community contest. Fans can ride these masterpieces in the game now.
This free update will be available November 6 at 8:00 a.m. PST on all platforms.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 is available now at www.tonyhawkthegame.com. In the United States, the standard edition is available for SRP $39.99, the digital deluxe version which includes unique content and in-game gear for SRP $49.99, or for the ultimate fan, a Collector’s Edition complete with digital deluxe content and a limited-run Birdhouse deck is available for SRP $99.99.
Available now worldwide, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time gives fans a true sequel to the original trilogy and the first original entry to the franchise in more than 10 years. On their journey to save the multiverse, Crash and Coco join forces with unexpected allies to discover massive levels, badder bosses and powerful new Quantum Masks that must be united to restore order, in the biggest Crash game ever.
About Activision
Headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., Activision is a leading global producer and publisher of interactive entertainment. Activision maintains operations throughout the world and is a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), an S&P 500 company. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company’s website, www.activision.com or by following @Activision.
*Offer ends on 12/31/21 or until $500,000 USD is raised.
Activision makes no guarantees regarding the availability of online play, and may modify or discontinue online service in its discretion without notice, including, for example, ceasing online service for economic reasons due to a limited number of players continuing to make use of the service over time. Players are responsible for their own Internet connection and all fees associated therewith.
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, visitwww.digitalextremes.com. To sign up for Warframe, visit www.warframe.com.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
