Good Shepherd Entertainment & Ace Team’s survival adventure game announced for PlayStation®4, Xbox One

AMSTERDAM & SANTIAGO, Chile – June 14, 2020 – Good Shepherd Entertainment and independent developer Ace Team have released a new gameplay trailer for The Eternal Cylinder during the Guerrilla Collective showcase. It was also announced that this unique open-world survival adventure game is in development for PlayStation®4 and Xbox One, expected to arrive later this year.

The Eternal Cylinder puts you in control of a herd of adorable creatures on a surreal alien world where all life must contend with the threat of… the Cylinder, a gargantuan rolling structure of ancient origin which crushes everything in its path! In this massive world with real-time environmental destruction, you’ll discover exotic landscapes, outwit and outrun deadly predators, and solve dynamic exploration puzzles and challenges.

Your creatures start at the bottom of the food chain but can evolve with dozens of adaptive abilities to overcome obstacles and escape danger. These mutations stack, allowing for a huge variety of emergent skill combos, creature designs and gameplay choices, ensuring no two playthroughs are ever the same.

The Eternal Cylinder is also in development for PC and expected to launch via the Epic Games Store later this year. Players can sign up now for the game’s PC open beta, coming this summer, at www.EternalCylinder.com.

For more information, follow @theACETeam and @GoodShepherdEnt on Twitter.

About Good Shepherd Entertainment

Good Shepherd Entertainment is a Netherlands-based game publisher founded by industry experts focused primarily on the business of producing and publishing independent video games. Good Shepherd has built a global business based on its publishing concept that pairs talented developers with creative content, writers, musicians and IP powerhouses. Good Shepherd’s innovative funding model provides opportunities for individual investors to participate in the $130B video game industry by investing directly with the publisher on select projects. Good Shepherd Entertainment works in partnership with some of the industry’s most notable names, including Devolver Digital, Croteam and Perfect World, all successful industry leaders in independent game development and publishing. www.GoodShepherd.games

About Ace Team

ACE Team is a game development studio founded by brothers Andres, Carlos and Edmundo Bordeu. The independent studio, located in Santiago, Chile, has over a decade of experience in the games industry and is one of Latin America’s leading game developers. The team is internationally acclaimed for its unique titles, which have achieved several notable industry awards around the world.

DUBLIN — June 14, 2020 — Larian Studios has announced “The Four Relics Of Rivellon,” the next free Gift Bag DLC available today for Divinity: Original Sin 2, the critically acclaimed RPG that landed on Nintendo Switch last year with a 94 Metacritic rating.

The studio also announced the graphic novel “Divinity: Original Sin – Godwoken,” an original story leading up to the events of Divinity: Original Sin 2 from the perspective of Rivellon’s six godwoken: Ifan, Lohse, Red Prince, Sebille, Fane and Beast. Journey to never-before seen parts of Rivellon through over 300 full-color pages. Discover more about the origins of the godwoken, including Red Prince’s life as the crown jewel of the Forgotten City, Ifan’s experience as the Divine’s right-hand man, and the lives of Sebille, Beast and Lohse up to the moments of the ill-fated Kraken attack.

This beautifully printed graphic novel will be available as both a Limited Edition hardcover and Standard Edition softcover. It is available to pre-order at shop.larian.com.

“The Four Relics of Rivellon” is the fifth free DLC drop to be added to all versions of Divinity: Original Sin 2 across PlayStation®4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. It is the largest Gift Bag for the game so far, adding brand-new quest lines, stories and enemies. It has been developed in collaboration with Anshar Studios and Fool’s Theory.

Players can set out on a new adventure, featuring new voice recording and narration, as well as dastardly new fights and the Undead Dragon boss. Players will be rewarded for completing these new quests with four armor sets scattered all over Rivellon and imbued with magical properties.

The four sets of armor include:

• Captain Armor: A set of armor that can dominate the minds of those around it. Each piece also boosts Lucky Charm, Persuasion and Bartering.
• Vulture Armor: A light set of armor that, when complete, gives the wearer permanent vulture-like wings. Full set enhances range and damage dealt from higher ground.
• Contamination Armor: An ancient set of armor created from magic thought lost long ago. Each piece offers resistance to poison, and the entire set grants immunity to poison along with a special ability to spawn exploding spores that will damage enemies in combat.
• Devourer Armor: Said to make its wearer almost invincible. In combat, the armor will mark a certain target in range. Any attacks on this target cannot miss and will deal extra damage.

As ever, the contents of each Gift Bag are accessible via the in-game menu, where players can independently enable or disable each individual feature. These are compatible with all prior Gift Bags (“Beauty Salon” and “Song Of Nature”), and players are free to enable as many or as few as they’d like. Please note that once enabled, these features will roll over to your saves on PC, or vice versa on Switch if you have cloud save transfers enabled. These new features come free and are automatically downloaded to the game.

About Larian Studios

Larian Studios is an independent RPG developer founded in 1996 in Ghent, Belgium. Over 200 people work between the five worldwide studios in Ghent, St. Petersburg, Quebec, Dublin and Malaysia. Larian is best known for the Divinity universe, which they introduced to the world with Divine Divinity in 2002. In 2014, Larian launched Divinity: Original Sin, a classic CRPG that won over 150 awards and nominations. The company released its critically acclaimed sequel Divinity: Original Sin 2 on Sept. 14, 2017, followed by the Definitive Edition in August 2018 for PlayStation®4 and Xbox One to a 93 Metacritic rating. The Nintendo Switch version released in September 2019 featuring cross-save progression between Nintendo Switch and Steam. Divinity: Original Sin 2 won a BAFTA for Best Multiplayer Game. The studio is now the developer and publisher of Baldur’s Gate 3.

Players will be able to toss sheep and storm castles on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and the Epic Games Store.

San Francisco, CA – June 13, 2020 – Zen Studios is happy to announce the release of CastleStorm II will be jam-packed with humor, zany spells, and ample ballista projectiles for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and the Epic Games Store on July 31!

Players who want to test sheep-flinging catapults are in luck as Zen Studios have also released a free CastleStorm II demo today on the Epic Games Store, which will be available until June 30th.

CastleStorm II is a charming, cartoonish, multigenre mashup featuring ballista-based castle-bashing, tower defense, hack-n-slash, and the newly added element of conquest with both real-time and turn-based strategy. 

Join the comical mayhem on the medieval battlefield as you take control of ground troops to engage in hack-and-slash combat and avoid friendly fire (watch out for that sheep!) all while strategically navigating the new randomly generated world map to conquer the land. Oh, and did we mention you can choose your faction? Now you can either fight to defend the honor of the royal Kingdom or you can join the hordes of undead soldiers, sheep, and other monstrosities to demolish the Kingdom instead – Yes, you can choose to be the bad guys in this game!

Players can add CastleStorm II to their EGS Wishlist now.

For more information about CastleStorm II please visit CastleStorm.com as well as our ZenIndies socials through Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as more information is made available.

About Zen Studios
Zen Studios is a leading global producer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for all major digital game platforms. Recognized as one of the premier independent gaming studios in the world, Zen Studios has worked with some of the most iconic entertainment studios, including NBC Universal, FOX Digital Entertainment, Marvel Entertainment, South Park Studios and Lucasfilm, as well as revered gaming properties like Valve’s Portal and Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead. Zen Studios’ CastleStorm franchise has also won the developer critical acclaim and commercial success, including the coveted Editor’s Choice awards from both the Apple App Store and Google Play, and its Pinball FX franchise has defined video game pinball excellence since 2007. Recently, Operencia: The Stolen Sun stands as one of the most critically acclaimed RPGs of 2019.

The action CRPG is planned to release in 2020 on PC and Xbox One

Krakow, Poland – June 13, 2020. All in! Games and Gamera Interactive are thrilled to share new footage of Alaloth – Champions of The Four Kingdoms as a part of the PC Gaming Show. The exclusive trailer reveals new locations to explore and enemies to battle.

Created with the narrative support of RPG veteran Chris Avellone, Alaloth – Champions of The Four Kingdoms offers fast-paced action with a deep narrative, bringing ARPG dynamics to a new level with skill-based gameplay inspired by both genre classics and modern contemporaries.

Watch the trailer and discover the world of Alaloth!

This new trailer expands upon what was recently shown in the recently released Gameplay Commentary Video. In it, we see an in-depth look at character, weaponry, and skills development. Watch the video to learn more about Alaloth – Champions of the Four Kingdoms:

Alaloth – Champions of The Four Kingdoms is planned for release on Steam and Xbox One in 2020.

About Alaloth – Champions of The Four Kingdoms

Alaloth – Champions of The Four Kingdoms is a high-fantasy RPG set in a dark world inspired by the darkest period of The Middle Ages. It’s a story about great warriors, war and epic fights. Players take on the roles of mighty heroes (or villains), undertaking quests, building reputations, and gaining ancient relics and secrets that will allow them to triumph. The challenge doesn’t end after the first playthrough – new game modes are activated after finishing the game for the first time, giving players even more options for exploring the kingdoms and customizing their characters. Alaloth brings the ARPG dynamics to a new level with a skill-based gameplay in a gritty, dark, mature environment filled with magic and blood!

About All in! Games

All in! Games is a new video game publishing and production company based in Krakow, Poland. Founded in 2018, the team has raised 10M EUR for production and marketing and already signed sixteen games, including Ghostrunner (One More Level), Tools Up! (The Knights of Unity), Paradise Lost (PolyAmorous), Fort Triumph (CookieByte), Daymare: 1998 (Invader Studios, Destructive Creations), Metamorphosis (Ovid Works), NYX: The Awakening (Black Sail Games), Red Wings (All in! Games), Of Bird and Cage (Capricia Productions), Space Cows (Happy Corruption) and Space Company Simulator (INTERMARUM).

About Gamera Interactive Founded in 2016 by industry veterans, Gamera Interactive is a cutting-edge award-winning indie studio focused on digital markets for both consoles and PC. The people behind Gamera Interactive are a crew of professionals, combining years of experience in publishing, development, sales and distribution and covering all the production pipeline with their expertise.

XSEED Games Announces Two Upcoming PC Releases at PC Gaming Show

Torrance, Calif. – June 13, 2020 – XSEED Games, the independent-minded publishing brand of Marvelous USA, Inc., revealed today at PC Gaming Show 2020 that the farm/life simulation game STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town will be making its PC platform debut simultaneously with the Nintendo Switch™ system version launching on July 14, and is now available for Wishlisting exclusively on Steam. The PC release will launch in eight languages with support for resolutions up to 4K, multiple graphical options, and keyboard and mouse controls. XSEED Games also announced their partnership with indie studio Voracious Games to fund the ongoing development of and publish Potionomics, the shop simulator/RPG which has already amassed a following of indie game fans with its gorgeous visuals and engaging combination of magic and commerce.

Potionomics is a game about the business of brewing and selling magical potions. Sylvia, a penniless young witch, must save her shop from the clutches of a debt collector, but she can’t do it alone. With the help of fellow merchants, fledgling adventurers, and an overbearing owl, Sylvia will master the art of potion brewing and the nuance of salesmanship to rescue her shop. After using magical ingredients to brew up a bevy of potent wares, the budding entrepreneur will wheel and deal to make sales with a colorful cast of fickle customers, all while tackling fierce competition and an ever-changing economy. Along the way she’ll encounter classic RPG creatures and heroes of all sizes. Sprinkle in some magic and players are in for a fantastical adventure unlike any they’ve ever experienced before!

STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town is a long-awaited return to one of the most beloved entries in the original farm/life simulation franchise, known in Japan as Bokujo Monogatari. Originally released for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance in 2003, STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town is the first mainline title to be released in the series for the Nintendo Switch™ and Windows PC platforms and will launch with an abundance of new content. In this complete remake, veterans will be able to enjoy a return to a wonderful world with updated systems and character designs along with a completely new translation. Newcomers to the series will discover the compelling farming gameplay and complex characters that made this series the standard in the genre.

Potionomics is developed by Voracious Games and published by XSEED Games for PC worldwide, and a release date will be disclosed at a later time. Potionomics is not rated by the ESRB. Developed by Marvelous Inc. and published by XSEED Games in North America, STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town will launch July 14 on the Nintendo Switch™ system and PC exclusively on Steam. The game is available for pre-order on Nintendo Switch at the XSEED Games Store and participating retailers and also available to Wishlist on Steam. STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town has been rated Everyone 10+ by the ESRB for Nintendo Switch and for PC.

For more information about the STORY OF SEASONS series, please visit www.storyofseasons.com. For more information about Potionomics visit www.potionomics.com. Information about all of XSEED Games’ products can be found at www.xseedgames.com. Fans can also follow XSEED Games on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, get in depth info from their developer blog on Tumblr, and join the discussion on their Discord server at: http://discord.gg/XSEEDGames.

About XSEED Games

XSEED Games is the independent-minded publishing brand of Marvelous USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Marvelous Inc., which is a publicly traded company listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Formed in 2004 and located in Torrance, California, XSEED Games publishes interactive entertainment content for PC and consoles from the Marvelous portfolio as well as from a wide variety of third-party partners. Whether it’s Marvelous properties such as STORY OF SEASONS (Bokujo Monogatari), SENRAN KAGURA, and Rune Factory, or third-party titles such as the Corpse Party and AKIBA’S TRIP series or the recently released Granblue Fantasy: Versus, XSEED Games has grown its reputation among gamers with its critically acclaimed localizations and commitment to fans, remaining ever dedicated to its “indie spirit, player-first” approach. 

About Voracious Games

Voracious Games is an independent game studio based outside of Seattle, WA. Founded in 2015, our small, diverse team includes professionals with years of experience in a variety of fields, including games, book publishing, and children’s animation. Our forthcoming first title, Potionomics, will showcase the studio’s commitment to quality visuals and enjoyable storytelling. To learn more, follow @potionomics on Twitter or visit us at www.potionomics.com.  

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New Cinematic Shows Vibrant World Troubled by Mysterious Empress; Updated Demo Now Available on Steam and GOG

Walnut Creek, Calif. (June 13, 2020) – Independent publishing label Modus Games, along with developers Dreams Uncorporated and SYCK, today announced the beautiful turn-based indie love letter to classic JRPGs, Cris Tales, will launch November 17, 2020 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Stadia. Cris Tales is also planned for a release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Additionally, the game’s free demo on Steam and GOG is now updated with new enemies and a never-before-seen Colosseum battle mode.

Today’s news arrived with a stunning cinematic unveiled during the PC Gaming Show, revealing protagonist Crisbell’s fight to prevent her homeland’s fiery demise at the hands of a menacing Empress. Aided by her powerful party members and dapper amphibian guide, Crisbell stands as the world of Crystallis’ lone hope for a bright future. Get a peek at Cris Tales’ vividly realized and colorful universe by viewing the video in full here.

The newly updated demo on Steam and GOG introduces a new, mini Colosseum experience! Willhelm joins the party for eight progressively harder battles where players will face new foes and test their mettle in a mini-boss fight! This Colosseum mode gives a glimpse of the Colosseum experience that will be available in the full game.

Download here on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1079830/Cris_Tales/

Download here on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/cris_tales_demo

Cris Tales is a classically inspired RPG where past, present and future are brought together on one screen. Players can use Crisbell’s amazing ability to slip between eras, aiding citizens across Crystallis’ kingdoms and pushing enemies to points in time for an upper hand in battle. Cris Tales’ hand-drawn, Colombian-inspired world is a charming pairing of fantasy, with tributes to real-world architecture and landmarks, making every step of this enthralling journey a delight to explore.

To learn more about Cris Tales, visit www.cristalesgame.com to preorder, join Modus’ Discord channel (modus.games/discord), and follow Modus on Twitter (@Modus_Games).

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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 SYCK

With gameplay, art or mechanics, a team of artists, geeks and pirates are creating delightfully enjoyable experiences to bring a smile to the child inside all of us.

About DREAMS UNCORPORATED Dreams Uncorporated is a game studio focused on using innovative gameplay and art style to tell stories that reach the world. Inspired by the art that raised us, we’re bringing our dreams into reality and sharing them through experiences never seen before.

Walnut Creek, Calif. (June 13, 2020) – Independent publisher Modus Games and developer We Create Stuff, the studio behind acclaimed Nightmare House 2, today announced In Sound Mind, an eerie first-person horror experience poised to terrify PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC owners in 2021. The game will feature an original soundtrack by YouTube sensation, The Living Tombstone. Players can discover its imaginative style of horror firsthand by downloading the free demo now available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1119980/In_Sound_Mind/

Revealed on stage during the PC Gaming Show, In Sound Mind’s announcement trailer ushers horror fans into the deepest corners of their psyche, where reality blends with the impossible. Enter the bizarre memories of a therapist as you attempt to navigate the effects of an experimental chemical. View the full video here:

In Sound Mind confronts daunting recollections and dares players to escape the threats prowling within their own minds, solving inventive puzzles and battling haunting enemies in a search for answers across a collection of distinctive stories. Created by the studio behind the legendary Nightmare House 2 mod and backed by an ethereal soundtrack from The Living Tombstone, In Sound Mind will bring an exhilarating display of horror when it launches in early 2021.

To scare up the latest on In Sound Mind, brave the game’s official site (https://insoundmind.com/), peek at Modus Games’ Twitter (@modus_games) and Discord (https://discord.com/invite/modus) from your hiding spot, and add the game to your Steam wishlist (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1119980/In_Sound_Mind/) for all the latest updates.

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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 We Create Stuff
Founded in 2007, We Create Stuff is an award-winning indie game studio. The team previously created the hit horror series Nightmare House and popular puzzlers such as Portal: The Flash Version, with levels later acquired by Valve. 

Development extended as Ludomotion pushes the boundaries
of radical content generation for its action-RPG

13 June, 2020 – Upcoming Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy is coming to PC by way of the Epic Games Store, its development extended into next year, with a launch targeted for Q1 2021. A new trailer, showcased at the PC Gaming Show, offers another tantalising look at Unexplored 2‘s wondrous world.

Unexplored 2 is an ambitious roguelite action-RPG, featuring advanced world, level and quest generation, a gorgeous graphical style and a beautiful, orchestral soundtrack.

Publisher Big Sugar and Epic Games have agreed upon a one year exclusivity deal for Unexplored 2. This has enabled the extended development trajectory, allowing developer Ludomotion to explore the design implications of ‘radical content generation’ – an approach that pushes the boundaries far beyond traditional level generation.

Game Director, Joris Dormans, explains: “We’re taking a radical approach to procedural content generation. We’re creating complete worlds, and little worlds within those worlds: stories, quests, competing tribes. When all of these systems come together, they will create a game which is almost infinitely replayable.”

An Unexplored 2 closed beta will begin later this summer. Anyone wishing to participate can sign-up here: https://www.bigsugar.games/beta

To celebrate the extension of Unexplored 2’s development, Ludomotion and Big Sugar have released the new ‘One Quest. Unlimited Adventure’ trailer

Epic Games Store: https://www.epicgames.com/store/product/unexplored-2/home

About the game

One quest. Unlimited adventure. Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy is a roguelite action-RPG and prodigious sequel to the critically acclaimed indie gem, Unexplored. Leave the Dungeon of Doom behind and venture into a vast, wondrous world as you embark on a heroic quest to destroy the mysterious Staff of Yendor.

Explore beautiful landscapes and discover hidden marvels. Encounter magical creatures and dangerous foes. Make brave choices and put your faith in good fortune. Featuring a unique legacy system, advanced procedural generation technology, and rich, generative storytelling, Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy is an adventure like no other.

Key features

• Legacy system: the actions of past heroes impact the fortunes of those that follow in their footsteps. Use your legacy wisely to give successive adventurers greater hopes of completing their quest
• Permadeath in a persistent world: when a hero dies, they stay dead. But you can choose to return to the same world with a new adventurer, forearmed with knowledge of what lies ahead. Or, if you prefer, begin a new adventure in a completely uncharted world
• Generative storytelling: there is no premeditated script in Unexplored 2. Every adventurer’s ultimate goal may be the same – to destroy the Staff of Yendor – but every hero will have their own unique story of the events and encounters that happened along the way
• Procedural generation: Ludomotion’s proprietary technology generates content that feels designed by humans, not algorithms, and can create a near infinite number of new lands, new places, new stories, and new challenges to discover
• Orchestral adaptive soundtrack: an intricate system allows Unexplored 2‘s music to be arranged reactively, making subtle changes to the score at appropriate times, whether a moment of high emotion, or to provide foreshadowing

About Big Sugar
Big Sugar is a new publisher that does what it wants. And what it wants is to work with talented independent developers and to publish the unique, fun, compelling, entertaining, memorable, and all-round high-quality games that they create. https://bigsugargames.com/

About Ludomotion
Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Ludomotion is an independent 
developer aiming to advance gameplay technology and create all kinds of new 
gameplay experiences. https://twitter.com/PlayUnexplored

Copyright © 2020 Big Sugar, All rights reserved.

LOCATION REDACTED (June 13, 2020) – Bask in the inexorable glory of the first ever gameplay trailer for EVIL GENIUS 2: WORLD DOMINATION! MUAHAHAHA!

In Evil Genius 2 you can live out your supervillain dreams. Create your own island lair, amass a force of loyal miscreants, take on secret agents and, finally, execute your nefarious plot to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Debuted during the PC Gaming Show, today’s world first gameplay footage brims with never-before-seen tyranny and treachery. From menacing new henchmen and minions to sinister traps and powerful contraptions… and is that a fleeting tease of Max’s new Doomsday Device? Well, we do love to be cruel!

The tantalizing reveals don’t stop there, though. We’ll be spilling more of the beans – evil beans – in a special ‘Evil Genius 2 Development Update’ during tomorrow’s Guerrilla Collective showcase.

And we’re hosting our own behind the scenes stream with Evil Genius 2 developers: Tune in at twitch.tv/rebellion_official on Wednesday June 17 at 10 AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM BST / 7PM CEST.

Evil Genius 2: World Domination is coming to Steam later this year.

For more details please visit EvilGeniusGame.com

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KEY FACTS
GAME: EVIL GENIUS 2: WORLD DOMINATION
DEVELOPER: REBELLION
PUBLISHER: REBELLION
GENRE: WORLD DOMINATION SIM
PLATFORMS: PC
PLAYERS: 1
RELEASE DATE: 2020

About Rebellion

Founded in 1992, Rebellion is one of Europe’s biggest independent studios. Its flagship Sniper Elite series is renowned for its authentic stealth and sniping gameplay with more than 20 million players worldwide. 2000 AD is synonymous with the absolute finest in British comic book art. With the acquisition of a $100m film studio and the world’s largest archive of English language comics, Rebellion continues to grow from strength to strength.

Rebellion now operates across books, comics, TV and film, but at its core it’s still a leading developer and publisher of games. Whether it’s the breathtaking intensity of Sniper Elite 4, the face-hugging terror of Aliens vs. Predator or the grindhouse frenzy of the Zombie Army series, the Oxford-based studio is revered for creating stand-out games designed to thrill.COPYRIGHT ©2020 REBELLION. THE REBELLION NAME AND LOGO AND THE EVIL GENIUS NAME AND LOGO ARE TRADEMARKS OF REBELLION AND MAY BE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.