BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. Unleashes Fortress Legends; Available Now On The App Store And Google Play!  

Fortress Legends Delivers Action-Packed Real-Time Co-Op Battles Combined with Strategy and Defense Gameplay

Santa Clara, Calif., (August 9, 2016) – BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. has launched Fortress Legends, an innovative new mobile game that combines the thrill and excitement of real-time co-op multiplayer hack-n-slash battles with strategy and defense gameplay. Fortress Legends enables players to not only build the fortresses of their dreams but to also form war-parties with three additional friends to embark on real-time raids of other players’ fortresses to loot and plunder their way to victory and glory. Fortress Legends is available now for free on the App Store and Google Play. iOS users can download the app at the App Store: <https://app.adjust.com/lavw0k>, Android users can download the app at the Google Play store: https://app.adjust.com/7aebcv.

In Fortress Legends players will wage epic raids against opponents’ fortresses in visceral real-time combat. Players will take full control of their hero, traverse dangerous dungeons, hack enemies to pieces and find rare treasures. The key to victory isn’t simply found in bloody raids; players will also need to build, command, and defend a powerful fortress filled with minions, traps and magic to ward off other raiding players. Beyond classic hack-n-slash battles, players are also able to cast spells during raids of other fortresses for a chance to obtain more epic loot. Fortress Legends also features a vast arsenal of weapons, diabolical creatures, and intense battles. Players will also have the ability to level-up heroes, upgrade defenses, and strengthen minions to ensure total victory and become the supreme destroyer of fortresses.

“Battling in real-time alongside real players is definitely one of the most adrenaline-driven features in Fortress Legends,” said Jeferson Valadares, General Manager & Vice President of Product Development at BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc.  “The combination of being able to team-up with friends to go head-to-head against other players in exciting combat and designing and building impenetrable fortresses brings a truly unique and dynamic gameplay model to mobile games. We can’t wait for players to start hacking and building away in Fortress Legends.”

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About BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc.
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc., part of BANDAI NAMCO Holdings Inc., is a leading global publisher and developer of interactive entertainment for all major video game consoles, iOS, Android, and online platforms. The company is known for creating and publishing many of the industry’s top video game franchises including PAC-MAN^®, GALAGA^®, TEKKEN^®, SOULCALIBUR^®, and ACE COMBAT^®. BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. is the premier publisher in the Western hemisphere for anime based video games including NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™, DRAGON BALL Z^®, and ONE PIECE^®. More information about the company and its products can be found at http://www.bandainamcoent.com or www.facebook.com/BandaiNamcoUS

GREY BOX TO PUBLISH RiME IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SIX FOOT AND DEVELOPER TEQUILA WORKS

Evocative adventure platformer will debut on gaming platforms in 2017

HOUSTON and MADRID – Aug. 10, 2016 – Grey Box and Six Foot have announced they are teaming up with developer Tequila Works to publish the studio’s much-anticipated adventure game, RiME.

“From its very first moving reveal, RiME has been a game that has excited and fascinated our team,” said Christian Svensson, COO of Six Foot. “Tequila Works has put an immense amount of passion and creativity into shaping a beautiful and deeply personal universe, and we’re all excited to share that experience with gamers next year.”

RiME is a single-player puzzle adventure game about a young boy shipwrecked on a mysterious island after a torrential storm. Players must use their wits to decipher the challenges and secrets of an expansive world strewn with rugged terrain, wild creatures and the crumbling ruins of a long-forgotten civilization. With subtle narrative, colorful cel-shaded artwork and a sweeping score, RiME offers players a meaningful journey filled with discovery.

“We’ve always wanted RiME to captivate players’ imaginations, capturing that feeling of being a child and experiencing the wonders of a bedtime story for the first time,” said Raúl Rubio Munárriz, CEO & creative director of Tequila Works. “We’re so excited to find in Grey Box and Six Foot partners just as eager as we are to make that vision for such a personal project a reality.”

Additional information about RiME, including gameplay and platform availability details, will be unveiled at the beginning of 2017, as Grey Box, Six Foot and Tequila Works ready the title for release later that year.

About Grey Box

Grey Box is a video game publishing brand that champions the idea that games are an influential art form and players should be treated as sophisticated consumers. Grey Box aims to set a unique standard for quality in interactive entertainment. www.greybox.com

About Six Foot

Six Foot was founded in 2000 as an interactive agency, building digital experiences designed to make connections between people, brands and technology more human and meaningful. Now, as a full-service games company with offices in Houston, Los Angeles and Berlin, the company applies that same passion to building extraordinary video games, providing creative direction, marketing and brand management, front and back-end development, customer service and community support for game publishers, including Grey Box. www.6ft.com

About Tequila Works

Tequila Works, S.L. is an independent boutique studio founded in 2009 by Raúl Rubio Munárriz (founding member of MercurySteam Entertainment, developers of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) and Luz M. Sancho.

Tequila Works’ first title, the BAFTA-nominated Deadlight, was published in 2012 by Microsoft Studios. The studio is currently working on several original IPs, including the highly anticipated RiME.

Tequila Works’ philosophy is to create games with gusto. The team consists of a healthy blend of talented veterans from Atari, Blizzard, Disney, Double Fine, Electronic Arts, LucasArts, SEGA and Pixar, as well as new blood from the animation and comic book industries, all of whom enjoy challenging their creative talents and seeing the world with amazement every day. www.tequilaworks.com

Gambitious Digital Entertainment to Publish Arachnid Games’ Deep Sea Submarine Adventure Diluvion on PC and Mac This Fall

Captain a submersible, explore uncharted waters and fight to survive in a vast underwater world

AMSTERDAM – Aug. 10, 2016 – Gambitious Digital Entertainment has announced it is partnering with independent developer Arachnid Games to publish the deep sea action and exploration game Diluvion. Inspired by the imaginative works of Jules Verne and the ship-to-ship combat of classics like Wing Commander and Freelancer, Diluvion puts players in command of their very own submarines in a vast, open world of forbidding ocean.

After a great flood devastates the world and its civilizations, humanity’s last remnants are left to struggle against each other for limited resources and survival beneath an impenetrable layer of permanent ice. As submersible captains, players must explore the uncharted reaches of the open sea, brimming with distinct harbors, factions, mercenaries and secrets. Salvage treasure and supplies from wherever possible, trade goods and bounties, battle enemy vessels in real-time 3D action and take on gargantuan creatures from the darkest depths of this beautifully realized aquatic realm.

Managing the nine uniquely equipped submarines available is a central challenge of Diluvion’s thoughtful and gripping gameplay. Players can recruit officers of varying skill sets and personalities from ports around the sea to helm the different battle stations of their vessels. Ships can be enhanced with new weapons to change the tide of a firefight, as well as new components to increase their range and survivability. Captains can even build and upgrade their own home bases of operation beneath the ice to house stand-by crew members and subs while increasing their notoriety and wealth.

Diluvion is expected to launch this fall on Windows PC and Mac via Steam. For the latest updates until then, please visit www.diluvion.com, check out the game’s Steam page http://store.steampowered.com/app/446790 and follow Arachnid Games on Facebook and Twitter.

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About Arachnid Games

Founded in California in 2012, our studio consists of a small team of experienced creatives who develop games that we would want to play. We strive to continuously bring something new and novel in all of our projects, and were awarded the 2013 Indie DB Visuality Award for our previous game, Ballpoint Universe. Our team has a combined total of 19 years of game development experience, and we’re currently hard at work on our most ambitious game to date, Diluvion.

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.

THRUSTMASTER®, BIGBEN AND KYLOTONN JOIN FORCES ON WRC 6 DEVELOPMENT

Lesquin, FRANCE, August 10th, 2016 – Bigben today announced its partnership with Thrustmaster®, designer and manufacturer of hardware and gaming accessories, for the development of WRC 6, set to be released this October for PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PC/Steam.

Thrustmaster, a well-known specialist of gaming accessories dedicated to racing games, offersa wide range of driving set-ups acclaimed by gamers for a complete immersion. This collaboration will allow WRC 6 to include entire compatibility with the wheels and pedals made by Thrustmaster.

“Being able to share with Thrustmaster on WRC 6 development is a great opportunity for us,”  says Alain Jarniou, Game Director at Kylotonn Racing Games. “We could not wish for a better associate than Thrustmaster to assure our community that compatibility issues encountered with WRC 5 will not happen again. Thrustmaster’s range of gaming wheels now will be completely integrated and optimized for this next opus of the franchise,” concludes Jarniou.

“Joining Kylotonn’s team allows us to offer the best of WRC 6 to our gamers, who will be able to enjoy every special stage and practice in the best conditions to try to win them all. This partnership turned out to be very effective and concrete,” says Gille Raulet, Head of Development at Thrustmaster. “Both crews are sharing the same goal: to provide the most realistic driving experiences for gamers. We seek to develop specific products for each type of race and to include these in the whole set-up, and that is why we are always pleased to give a hand when it comes to optimizing compatibility. That is what we already did with the new WRC Gaming House.”

Bigben and Thrustmaster started their rally tour with the brand new WRC Gaming House at Neste Rally Finland at the end of July, meeting the public and offering them exclusive hands-on sessions of WRC 6. Equipped with a cutting edge Thrustmaster set-up, the WRC Gaming House will be present on several more rallies during the FIA World Rally Championship season, and at most of the gaming events to come.

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About Bigben Interactive

Bigben Interactive is a European player specialized in video game publishing  and the design and distribution of smartphone and gaming accessories as well as audio products, The Group, which is recognized for its capacities in terms of innovation and creation, aspires to become one of European leaders in each of its business segments. www.bigben.eu Company listed on Euronext Paris, compartment C – Index: CAC SMALL – Éligible SRD long | ISN : FR0000074072 ; Reuters : BIGPA ; Bloomberg : BIGFP |SALES 2014-2015: 184,9M€ | HEADCOUNT: 350 employees | INTERNATIONAL: 9 subsidiaries  and a distribution network in 50 countries. www.bigben-group.com

JUST CAUSE 3: BAVARIUM SEA HEIST DLC COMING AUGUST 11th 2016

London (August 10^th 2016) – Square Enix® and Avalanche Studios™ today announced thatJUST CAUSE 3®: BAVARIUM SEA HEIST™, the third and final content pack of the AIR, LAND & SEA Expansion Pass, will be available to all expansion pass holders from August 11th and will go on sale as a separate add-on for everyone else from August 18th. To celebrate the release, a brand new launch trailer is now available.

“Our aim with the Air, Land & Sea Expansion Pass was to completely alter the way players tackle the game and we’ve achieved just that,” said Marcus Andrews, Lead Designer of the Air, Land & Sea content at Avalanche Studios. “Each of the three packs of new tools allows the player to wreak havoc in fresh, creative, and unique ways that ensures both new and existing fans of Just Cause 3 will have hours of additional content and an enormous number of ways to approach any situation”.

Brave the dangerous waters of West Medici in your new rocket boat and infiltrate the Stingray, a mysterious research facility, home of the rarest and strongest weapon ever created by the Eden Corporation. This content pack includes a brand new location to explore, missions, a new challenge type, the heavily armed rocket boat and the devastating “Eden Spark” lightning gun.

·         Liberate the Medici coastal waters of Scolio, home to Eden Research stations and the mysterious “Stingray” base.

·         Drive the deadly rocket boat “Loochador”, using its multi-lock missile launchers and miniguns to defeat the formidable Black Hand Fleet.

·         Infiltrate the Stingray base to steal the deadly “Eden Spark” lightning gun and unleash elemental death on your enemies in all new storyline and missions.

·         Power up the Eden Spark further with mods earned in the “Boat Invader” challenge.

The BAVARIUM SEA HEIST content pack is priced at $5.99 / €5.99 / £4.99 whilst the entireAIR, LAND & SEA Expansion Pass is available for $24.99 / €24.99 / £19.99.

Watch the Launch Trailer on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKMcUuxWRAo

Related Links
Official Homepage: justcause.com
Official Facebook® Page: facebook.com/JustCause
Official YouTube Channel: youtube.com/c/JustCauseGame
Follow @JustCause on Twitter®: twitter.com/JustCause

About JUST CAUSE 3
The Mediterranean Republic of Medici is suffering under the brutal control of General Di Ravello, a dictator with an insatiable appetite for power. Enter Rico Rodriguez, a man on a mission to destroy the General’s hold on power by any means necessary. With over 400 square miles of complete freedom from sky to seabed and a huge arsenal of weaponry, gadgets and vehicles, prepare to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways you can imagine.

Features:
§  Explore a Mediterranean island paradise with complete vertical freedom – skydive, base jump and free dive in an open world with virtually zero limits.
§  Glide through the air and swoop across mountains with your Wingsuit giving a new way to rain death from above.
§  Use your Grapple and Parachute to scale buildings, hijack vehicles, move quickly or tether objects together for creative new ways to cause Chaos.
§  Cause massive chains of destruction in military bases, harbours, prisons, police stations and communications facilities to bring down a dictator.
§  Arm yourself with a wide range of explosive weaponry from shotguns and missile launchers to tank-busters and air-strikes.
§  Choose from a huge variety of different vehicles to drive including speedboats, jets, helicopters, turbo-fuelled sports cars and super bikes.
§  Get adventurous with dozens of challenge missions and collectibles to discover.
§  Online community features.

About Avalanche Studios
Avalanche Studios is the original creator of the award-winning Just Cause franchise, and most recently released Just Cause 3 (published by Square Enix). Just two months earlier, it released Mad Max (published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment). The studio has also created acclaimed twin stick shooter Renegade Ops (published by SEGA) and self-published free-to-play service theHunter (developed by subsidiary Expansive Worlds) with more than 6 million registered players across 190 countries. Avalanche Studios, which is based in Stockholm and New York City, was founded in 2003 by Christofer Sundberg and Linus Blomberg. The studio develops games built on its proprietary technology, the Avalanche Engine, enabling huge open worlds filled with emergent gameplay. More information is available at www.avalanchestudios.com .

About Square Enix Ltd.
Square Enix Ltd. develops, publishes, distributes and licenses SQUARE ENIX, EIDOS® and TAITO® branded entertainment content in Europe and other PAL territories as part of the Square Enix group of companies. Square Enix Ltd. also has a global network of leading development studios such as IO Interactive™, Crystal Dynamics®, and Eidos Montréal. The Square Enix group of companies boasts a valuable portfolio of intellectual property including: FINAL FANTASY®, which has sold over 115 million units worldwide; DRAGON QUEST®, which has sold over 68 million units worldwide; TOMB RAIDER®, which has sold over 45 million units worldwide; and the legendary SPACE INVADERS®. Square Enix Ltd. is a London-based, wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. More information on Square Enix Ltd. can be found at http://eu.square-enix.com/en
JUST CAUSE, CRYSTAL DYNAMICS, DRAGON QUEST, EIDOS, FINAL FANTASY, IO INTERACTIVE, SPACE INVADERS, SQUARE ENIX, the SQUARE ENIX logo, TAITO, and TOMB RAIDER are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Square Enix group of companies. AVALANCHE STUDIOS is a trademark of Fatalist Entertainment AB. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Square Enix Limited is a company registered in England & Wales under the number 01804186 whose registered office is situated at 240 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NW, United Kingdom.

Nexon Announces Second Quarter 2016 Financial Results

Solid Fundamentals amidst Japanese Yen Appreciation, Continued to Strengthen Strategic Partnerships with Renowned Game Developers

TOKYO – August 10, 2016 – NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online and mobile games, today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2016.

“Our solid second quarter results reflect strong execution and good performance from our China business,” said Owen Mahoney, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nexon. “I am also pleased with the important strategic progress we made during the quarter, including our partnership with renowned Japanese developer Sansho Studios and our acquisition of wellgames, the Korean developer of SPECIAL SOLDIER, a high-quality first person shooter for mobile devices. Our best-in-class roster of partnerships remains a cornerstone of our strategy to deliver high-quality, tailored content to players around the world.”

Mr. Mahoney continued, “We are excited about our rich pipeline of mobile and PC online games for the second half of 2016 and beyond, including highly-anticipated titles such asMapleStoryM, Dungeon&Fighter 2D / 3D mobile (working title), LawBreakers andMoonlight Blade, and we look forward to delivering them to our global player base.”

Second Quarter 2016 Highlights:
·           Second quarter revenues were 38.1 billion yen, down 11% year-over-year on as-reported basis, up 4% on constant currency basis, around low-end of Nexon’s outlook.
·           Operating income was 13.4 billion yen, around high-end of Nexon’s outlook.
·           Net income attributable to owners of the parent was 7.6 billion yen, which was below Nexon’s outlook primarily due to FX loss in U.S. dollar-denominated cash deposits.

Third Quarter 2016 Outlook:
·         Revenues expected to be in the range of 38.4 to 41.3 billion yen.
–    PC online game revenues expected to be in the range of 29.4 to 31.4 billion yen.
–    Mobile game revenues expected to be in the range of 8.9 to 9.9 billion yen.
·         Operating income expected to be in the range of 10.6 to 12.9 billion yen.
·         Net income attributable to owners of the parent expected to be in the range of 9.6 to 11.6 billion yen.

Earnings Presentation, Conference Call and Replay:

Nexon management will host an earnings presentation for analysts, investors and media to discuss the Company’s financial results and outlook. The presentation will be conducted in Japanese with simultaneous English translation today at 5:00 p.m. Japan Standard Time (JST) / 4:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The earnings presentation materials will be available on Nexon’s Investor Relations website following the presentation.

A replay of the call will be available about 30 minutes after the conclusion of the conference call and can be accessed until August 17, 2016. A transcript of the call will be available within several days on Nexon’s Investor Relations website.

For additional information regarding Nexon’s second quarter 2016 financial results, please visit the Investor Relations section of Nexon’s website athttp://ir.nexon.co.jp/en/.

This press release is prepared to offer reference information about Nexon to investors and is intended to generally provide investors and analysts with financial and operational information about Nexon, but not to solicit or recommend any sale or purchase of stock or other securities of Nexon.

About NEXON Co., Ltd.  http://company.nexon.co.jp/
NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO) is a worldwide leader in free-to-play online and mobile games. Founded in Korea in 1994, Nexon developed one of the world’s first graphics-based massively multiplayer online games. Nexon also pioneered the concept of microtransactions and the free-to-play business model, setting a new standard in which play is free, and users have the option to purchase in-game items to enhance their experience. Nexon currently services around 100 titles in more than 190 countries. The Company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and its shares are listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.