BONE-CRUSHING BRAWLER REDEEMER TO LAUNCH ON AUG. 1 FOR $14.99 ON WINDOWS PC FROM GAMBITIOUS DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT AND SOBAKA STUDIO

New gameplay trailer shows off Redeemer’s no-mercy, close-quarters action

AMSTERDAM & MOSCOW – July 12, 2017 – Gambitious Digital Entertainment has revealed with a new gameplay trailer that it will release independent developer Sobaka Studio’s top-down, close-quarters action brawler, Redeemer, on Aug. 1 for Windows PC via Steam and GOG.com for $14.99. As Vasily, an ex-mercenary on the run from the shadowy forces he once worked for, players will punch, kick, hammer, hack, smash and shoot through an army of elite operatives on a mission of reckoning and redemption.

Confront your violent past in the story-driven single-player campaign, or test your skills against countless enemies in the horde-like Arena Mode. Take down foes quietly with stealth or beat them down with a variety of fighting moves and weapons, including firearms, explosives, environmental objects, hammers and the raw brute force of your fists. The team at Sobaka Studio has been adamant about honing in on what makes the brawler genre special so every hit cracks, crunches and bursts with aggressive energy and sound design.

For more information, visit www.RedeemerTheGame.com, and follow Redeemer on Facebook and @GambitiousInc on Twitter.

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About Sobaka Studio

Sobaka Studio is a team of five developers based in Moscow and Kaliningrad, Russia. In addition to our core team, we are helped by many truly awesome friends and partners in faraway cities and countries who also contribute in the development of Redeemer, our first big project. Our goal is to create challenging action games with a lot of fun and juicy gameplay.

About Gambitious, Inc.

Launched in 2012, Gambitious, Inc. is the first global crowd-financing platform exclusively for games. With a mission to create and foster a sustainable ecosystem for independent game creation and publishing, Gambitious utilizes its evolving set of creative crowd financing tools and techniques to get more great game titles funded, produced and successfully released. The company’s publishing label,Gambitious Digital Entertainment, was created in 2014 to offer professional, developer-friendly production, marketing and distribution services in order to ensure a timely return to investors and developers on projects. Gambitious has successfully established partnerships and released its titles on Steam, the PlayStation®Store, Xbox Games Store, GOG.com, Humble and the Mac App Store, as well as a number of emerging global digital distributors. For more information, visit the official Gambitious website, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE FAN-FAVORITE ARCADE RACING ACTION RETURNS WITH FULLY REMASTERED CRASHDAY: REDLINE EDITION

Guns, Rockets and Fast-Paced Vehicular Action Highlight Completely Retooled Windows PC Classic with New Features, Content and Steam Workshop Support 

Magdeburg, Germany (July 12, 2017) – Publisher 2tainment and developer Moonbyte Games today announced Crashday: Redline Edition, a newly remastered edition of the classic arcade racer Crashday (Atari, 2006) for Windows PC. With an improved multiplayer mode, a wide variety of action-packed game modes, plus new modding functions and an integrated track editor, fans of blazing chain guns, blasting rockets and action-packed over-the-top racing can celebrate a true indie thrill ride this August!

Originally released in 2006, Crashday garnered a die-hard fan base that remains loyal to this day. Thanks to their invaluable feedback and support, indie developer Moonbyte Games lovingly crafted the remastered Crashday: Redline Edition. With the help of the game’s fan community, Moonbyte Games significantly expanded modding support and multiplayer options in the updated version of the highly explosive arcade racer. Featuring refreshed visuals, Crashday: Redline Edition also enhances original features and adds compelling new ones.

Crashday: Redline Edition delivers gripping single and multiplayer races, really heating things up on the track. Unlike mundane racing games, Crashday: Redline Edition does more than just challenge the player’s driving abilities. Ramming your opponents into a careening slide or “persuading” them off the track at gunpoint are perfectly acceptable ways to win. With a mood-setting progressive metal soundtrack, an arsenal of steel-shredding weapons, all-new power-ups, a sophisticated damage system and impressive replays that highlight the most spectacular action, Crashday: Redline Edition guarantees adrenaline-loaded fun!

Crashday: Redline Edition’s seven modes of play deliver steep variety. While in classic Race Mode, it’s all about being first to dash over the finish line; in Stunt Show Mode, players can demonstrate their skills with ridiculous stunts and breathtaking jumps and crashes. In the thrilling Wrecking Match, anything goes — ramming opponents, rockets, etc. Whoever manages to be the last driver still “standing” on the track can rejoice in a win.

For more carnage, Crashday: Redline Edition players can enjoy the extremely popular modes Hold The Flag, Pass The Bomb and Bomb Run. In Hold The Flag, the “flag bearer” must pass through as many checkpoints as possible and collect points before his or her adversaries run them down. Use skillful driving to ram your bomb-strapped vehicle down your opponent’s throat before the timer runs out in Pass The Bomb. In Bomb Run, the bomb explodes automatically as soon as you fall below a predetermined speed limit. And, of course, Crashday: Redline Edition wouldn’t be complete without a Test Drive Mode, where the player can preview a track and hone their skills in perfect peace, preparing for upcoming races, breathtaking stunts and action-packed street battles on the numerous racetracks.

Crashday: Redline Edition features sophisticated modding support to expand the capabilities of the existing in-game track editor. With full Steam Workshop integration, players are not limited to their own custom created tracks. Sharing and downloading player-made content is easy and includes new or modified vehicles, custom tracks or track editor building blocks. Publisher 2tainment and developer Moonbyte Games anticipate that well over 100 mods will be available within the first few weeks of Crashday: Redline Edition’s release!

Crashday: Redline Edition will be available for digital download from Steam for $11.99 USD. For more information, please visit http://crashday.2tainment.com.

Crashday: Redline Edition on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/508980/Crashday_Redline_Edition

A full press kit with screenshots, trailer and logos is available here: http://uberstrategist.link/Crashday-PressKit

If you would like to speak with 2tainment or Moonbyte Games, or register your interest in a preview, please contact Mario R. Kroll or CJ Melendez at [email protected].

About 2tainment GmbH

2tainment GmbH is a global publishing company operating in the PC and video games market, based in Magdeburg, Germany. The company is dedicated to the international development, financing and marketing of software and hardware entertainment products. 2tainment’s distribution network reaches over 80 countries and more than 90 percent of global digital and retail markets. 2tainment also offers attractive project completion financing options to select premium and highly talented indie developers.

Empyre: Lords of the Sea Gates Will Rise From The Oceans This Fall

Coin Operated Games to Bring Classic, Neo-Victorian RPG Action to PC via Steam

Auburn, New Hampshire – July 12, 2017 – Coin Operated Games announces today that its upcoming Neo-Victorian RPG Empyre: Lords of the Sea Gates, will be coming to Steam players this fall.  Currently in development by a team of industry veterans from such influential companies as Crytek, Codemasters, Gameloft and Creative Assembly, Empyre: Lords of the Sea Gates is a top-down isometric RPG that takes place in a Neo-Victorian New York circa 1911. The game’s first trailer can be viewed at https://youtu.be/n3324z7aMGs.

… water is everywhere but none of it to drink…

Featuring a top-down isometric presentation, Empyre: Lords of the Sea Gates will rekindle old-school PC RPG fans with feelings of some of the classic story driven RPGs of the 90s. While the combat should feel familiar to veteran players, there’s a new twist in that the game uses a hybrid Real Time/Turn-based System. Players can enter a “Planning Mode” where they choose actions for each character in their party while combat is paused, and when entering into the “Action Mode” all characters will perform simultaneously, giving players complete control over their party while presenting a streamlined combat system that eliminates waiting for each character to act in sequence.

Empyre: Lords of the Sea Gates is the story of an alternate New York in which the entire city is flooded by rising oceans and the citizens must learn to live in a new reality where there is water everywhere, but none of it possible to drink. The player must make their way in search of a fresh water supply source, picking up companions along the journey. But the trip won’t be easy, as there are many threats both human and inhuman that players will encounter.

“One of the things we strove for when designing Empyre is authenticity during an ‘Age of Technical Wonder’ in the United States, the Gilded Age,” said John Randall, Creative Director of Empyre. “For example, the New York City we all know is the city in this game, and history buffs will recognize many iconic locations that existed in the city during the 1910s, but with a unique, waterlogged twist. People and society exist and act as they did in the early 20^th Century. We feel this level of detail will give players a one-of-a-kind experience that they haven’t seen anywhere before.”

Empyre:  Lords of the Sea Gates pays homage to historic accounts by adding authentic items such as patent medicines including poisons or tonics made from dangerous ingredients. Many of the games’ objectives and side quests will tie directly into the experiences that someone in the 19th century would have. The game’s authenticity reflects scenes from New York during the 1900s, while tying the storyline to current day themes such as global warming and the rising of the oceans.

Currently in development by Coin Operated Games, Empyre: Lords of the Sea Gates will be available via Steam this fall. More information will be shared in the coming weeks once the waters die down…

For more product information, visit www.empyrethegame.com, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Empyrethegame-272522026282358/, Twitter at https://twitter.com/EmpyreTheGame #nowatertodrink and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/EmpyreTheGame

About Coin Operated Games

Headquartered in New Hampshire with development partners located internationally, Coin Operated Games is an independent developer whose mission is to create a unique series of games set in different eras and locations. The core team is made up of industry veterans with a combined 60 years of experience from iconic organizations like Crytek, Codemasters, Creative Assembly, Stormregion, and Digital Reality. Empyre: Lords of the Seagates will be the inaugural project for Coin Operated Games, and is scheduled for release in 2017.

MetaArcade to Launch Tunnels & Trolls Adventures on August 17 at Gen Con 50

Developer to Celebrate Release of Inaugural Title on “Adventure Creator” Platform; RPG Fans Invited to Visit Booth #509 from August 17–20 to Play Iconic RPG on iOS and Android

SEATTLE, WA – (July 12, 2017) – MetaArcade, a developer building a platform to allow players to create and publish their own RPG adventures, announced it will launch Tunnels & Trolls™ Adventures on the App Store and Google Play on August 17^th, coinciding with the first day of Gen Con 50 in Indianapolis. Tunnels & Trolls Adventures, which will also release on PC, Mac and Steam later this year, is a dungeon crawling RPG experience that brings new and classic quests to life from Tunnels & Trolls, the second RPG ever published. The game is the first component of MetaArcade’s new platform, with the other being the upcoming Adventure Creator software that will allow players to create their own quests for the game.

To celebrate the game and platform launch, MetaArcade will showcase the mobile RPG adventure title at Gen Con from August 17–20. Media and roleplaying fans alike will have a chance to play the game, talk to its creators and get an early look at the Adventure Creator software for creating your own quests.

MetaArcade at Gen Con 50 Details

WHO:

MetaArcade, RPG game and platform developer
– David Reid, Founder and CEO of MetaArcade
– Liz Danforth, Artist and Designer, who co-designed Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls and created signature art for Tunnels & Trolls and Magic: The Gathering
– Rick Loomis, Founder and President of Tunnels & Trolls publisher, Flying Buffalo, who wrote Buffalo Castle, the first solo adventure for any RPG

WHERE:

Gen Con 50 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Booth #509

WHAT:

MetaArcade is hosting media and fans to showcase the initial launch of its first title for mobile, Tunnels & Trolls Adventures, a dungeon crawling RPG that brings new and classic Tunnels & Trolls quests to life with player characters, choose your adventure-style decisions, thrilling die rolls, sweet loot and more. In addition, guests can demo the latest Adventure Creator software, MetaArcade’s tool for creating original content that will allow players to create, share and publish their own adventures.

MetaArcade will host signings, photo opportunities, contests and giveaways onsite, so attendees are encouraged to stop by Booth #509.

WHEN:

Gen Con show hours; August 17–20, 10 AM–6 PM daily and 10–4 on Sunday, August 20^th

WHY:

Tunnels & Trolls, the second roleplaying game ever published, is beloved by fans for its classic RPG heritage. Tunnels & Trolls Adventures exclusively and authentically brings T&T dungeon crawls to life with rich text, digital dice, iconic imagery and immersive audio cues. Players will make decisions in a ‘choose your adventure’ style and see how dice rolls affect their character’s success—or failure. Players can create their own unique character, with experience and loot carrying through as they complete the various adventure modules. But T&T Adventures is only part of the story as exclusive demos of Adventure Creator will be available alongside appearances by legendary artist and designer Liz Danforth, who will be on hand to answer questions and sign exclusive original art created for the game launch, and RPG icon, Rick Loomis.

ADDITIONAL:

Media are encouraged to schedule interview time; press kits will be available onsite.

The MetaArcade Adventure Creator platform and Tunnels & Trolls Adventures game are both developed and published by MetaArcade. Keep in touch with the latest MetaArcade news by following @MetaArcade and facebook.com/MetaArcade.

About MetaArcade

Launched in 2016, MetaArcade is a Seattle area independent game company building a platform to allow players to create and publish their own RPG adventures – with no technical experience required – for free. The company was founded by lifelong RPG fan and seasoned vet David Reid, who previously held high profile roles at Microsoft, NCsoft, Trion Worlds, and CCP Games. MetaArcade will launch Tunnels & Trolls Adventures, the first title under its RPG platform, on August 17, 2017 at Gen Con 50 for Android and iOS mobile devices initially, with Windows PC, Mac, and Steam versions to follow at a later date alongside the content creation component, Adventure Creator. For more information, visit www.MetaArcade.com.

MASSIVE WIZARDING SANDBOX RPG CITADEL: FORGED WITH FIRE COMING TO STEAM JULY 26

Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Development Confirmed for Blue Isle Studios’ Wizard-Driven Fantasy Adventure

Toronto, Canada – July 12, 2017 – Independent developer Blue Isle Studios, the team behind Slender: The Arrival and Valley, revealed its next creation today with the announcement of the magical open-world Citadel: Forged With Fire. In development for PlayStation^®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the all-in-one game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Steam Early Access, Citadel: Forged With Fire is a massive online sandbox RPG rife with spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting that will launch on Steam Early Access on July 26, 2017.

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“Citadel is a completely new genre for us, our biggest goal with this title is to work closely with our community to build the ultimate fantasy sandbox game that is playable online with friends.” said, Alex Tintor, managing director of Blue Isle Studios. “This project has been a labor of love and we are excited for its launch onto Early Access this summer.”

Citadel: Forged With Fire gives players complete freedom to determine their own destiny as they become an infamous hunter of other wizards, tame mighty beasts, forge alliances with fellow players to create an imposing House of Conjurers, or visit uncharted territories to unravel their rich and intriguing history.

The path you take is yours to choose…

Citadel: Forged With Fire Features:

• Tame Legendary Beasts: Tame or ward off Savage Orcs, Horses, Direwolves, Dragons and more.
• Form Alliances and an Empire: Build your house, create a flag and establish a hierarchy as you prepare for war against other houses!
• Explore a Massive Fantasy World: Visit Sweeping plains, dense forests, craggy mountains, festering swamps, a frozen tundra and more…
• Study the Arcane Arts: Learn and master a wide range of powerful spells!
• Want to Fly?: Use your Wizardly prowess to take to the skies using a broomstick, a dragon, an eagle or alchemy!
• Build and Bash Epic Castles: Construct the castle of your dreams, use magic to enhance your fortress or take advantage of the dynamic destruction system and crush an opposing house.
• Character Customization: Dress your Mage the way you want, with a limitless variety of clothing and weapon options!

Citadel: Forged With Fire is coming to Steam early access on July 26, 2017. If you are interested in an early preview code please email Danitra Alomia ([email protected]). For more information on Citadel: Forged With Fire please visit, www.citadelgame.com/.

Players interested in playing Citadel: Forged With Fire before its launch are invited to sign up for Closed Beta Testing here:goo.gl/forms/nVlIo5xETjlkCzaX2.

For more information, please visit www.citadelgame.com/, follow @PlayCitadel on Twitter, and ‘Like’ the game on Facebook.

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ABOUT BLUE ISLE STUDIOS
Founded in 2010, Blue Isle Studios is an independent video game design company located in the northern village known as Toronto, Canada. A small yet passionate group of artists, designers and programmers, Blue Isle works to build captivating virtual worlds, delivering the best gaming experience possible no matter what the genre.

ANYONE FOR TENNIS?

VIRTUA TENNIS™ CHALLENGE JOINS SEGA FOREVER™ COLLECTION

Waiting in line for Wimbledon has never been more fun!

SAN FRANCISCO, LONDON – July 12, 2017 – Whether you’re waiting at will call for the US Open, Wimbledon, or the ATP World Tour, SEGA Networks Inc. has your entertainment needs covered. Virtua Tennis™ Challenge, part of one of the world’s leading tennis video game franchises, today joins the SEGA Forever collection as a free-to-play mobile title with ad support. Tennis fans can now download the game, which was previously available for £4.99, for free from the App Store for iPhone and iPad and Google Play Store for Android devices.

Based on the Dreamcast game from 2000 and reimagined for mobile devices, Virtua Tennis Challenge allows you to slice, lob, and hit your best top spin as you take on the world’s best players and compete in 18 stadiums around the globe. Make plays that match your game style – unleash a lob that will get your opponent sweating, or smash them with a super shot. Enjoy hours of game play with different game modes, shots, and courts.

Virtua Tennis Challenge is the latest game to join SEGA Forever, a growing collection of classic SEGA titles from every console era that are available free-to-play (with ad support) for mobile devices. Each game in the SEGA Forever lineup includes added features like controller support*. Additionally, players who wish to experience the games without ads can remove them for a one-time in app purchase priced at £1.99.

Download Virtua Tennis now from the App Store for iPhone and iPad and Google Play Store for Android devices.

Players who have previously purchased Virtua Tennis Challenge can find the ad-free version of the game in their purchase history.

Expect more retro gaming goodness to come soon as the SEGA Forever collection continues to grow!

To stay up-to-date with launch news, share your love of the golden age of video games, cast your vote in polls, share your opinions in surveys, and interact with other SEGA fans, check out the SEGA Forever website and follow our dedicated Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts.

*Sit tight- Leaderboards and cloud saves will be added to Virtua Tennis in a post-launch update.

SEGA Networks, SEGA’s mobile division in the West:
SEGA’s mobile division in the West has its headquarters based in San Francisco with dedicated studios across North America and the UK. Focused on creating fun, compelling and engaging games, SEGA’s games feature iconic intellectual property as well as original innovative content for mobile and tablet devices. Since 2008, it has been a leader in the smartphone and tablet space and continues to be at the forefront of mobile gaming. SEGA’s mobile studios include Hardlight™ and Demiurge Studios™. For more information, visit www.mobile.sega.com.

SEGA Networks Inc. is not an official partner of the US Open, Wimbledon, or the ATP World Tour.

Hardcore 3D sidescroller ‘Pharaonic’ gets boxed Deluxe Edition

July 12, 2017 – Today publisher SOEDESCO announced that Milkstone Studios’ side scrolling combat-RPG Pharaonic is getting a boxed Deluxe Edition. The game comes out for PlayStation® 4 and Xbox One on September 22.

The Deluxe Edition will include the game and a physical copy of the original soundtrack which contains twelve tracks that immerse the player in the world of Ancient Egypt. All tracks are composed by Carlos Viola, who is also responsible for the soundtrack of critically acclaimed horror adventure The Last Door.

Combat design similar to Dark Souls
Pharaonic is a brightly colored side scrolling Combat-RPG set in Ancient Egypt. Players start out as a slave who has to reveal the secret behind Ahmosis I, the Red Pharaoh. They engage in numerous battles to be able to complete their quest for the truth. A single mistake can be fatal, so they have to stay on their toes in order to survive.

Many players compare Pharaonic’s gameplay to that of Dark Souls and not without coincidence. Milkstone Studios has adapted the Dark Souls style combat design to a fast paced side-scrolling Egyptian themed environment.

Features

• Explore an Ancient Egypt full of traps and treacherous enemies
• Enjoy an exhaustive, refined and satisfying combat system
• Complete character customization, with hundreds of pieces of equipment at your disposal
• Face impressive bosses and their minions in epic fights full of tension.
• Talk with plenty of colorful characters to fill the blanks in your memory and learn what’s happening to the kingdom
• Discover lots of secondary paths, full of treasures and traps
• Collect dozens of weapons and shields with different combat styles
• Use the powers of the Gods and cast spells that will help you in your journey

About SOEDESCO
SOEDESCO® is a worldwide publisher of both digital and boxed games on multiple platforms. Our past line-up includes third party titles like Awesomenauts Assemble!, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams – Director’s Cut, Among the Sleep and REUS. SOEDESCO also published Adam’s Venture Origins®, a new title in the Adam’s Venture-series, and music themed action RPG AereA®. Both Adam’s Venture and AereA are original SOEDESCO IP.

More information about SOEDESCO® and its products can be found on the company’s website, www.soedesco.com or by following @SOEDESCO on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About Milkstone Studios
Milkstone Studios is an independent game development studio founded in Asturias, Spain in early 2010. Our games offer polished gameplay, coherence and high production values. So far we’ve published over 25 games for PS4, Steam, Xbox One and Xbox 360. Our most notable games so far have been Ziggurat (Steam, Xbox One, PS4, WiiU) and White Noise Online (Xbox 360, Steam).