SKYFORGE CELEBRATES ITS FIRST ANNIVERSARY

New Trailer, Event, and Rewards Available Today

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – July 13, 2016 – Developer Allods Team and global publisher My.com are pleased to announce that Skyforge is celebrating its one year anniversary. On July 16, 2015, Skyforge opened its servers to all players and to celebrate, a selection of wonderful activities and gifts will be available from July 13-27 for all players.

The My.com and Allods teams want to express their gratitude towards the player base in a new celebratory trailer which reveals some interesting facts about the past year.

The celebrations include:

• New login event: Players receive increasingly wonderful gifts when they log into the game until the end of the celebration. The gifts range from Premium game time and a title on the first day, to formal looking armor on the fifth day.
• Interactive panorama filled with various facts about Skyforge: Players are provided with a unique costume and glider mount upon successfully finding the notes on the Panorama website.
• Birthday Bundles Sale: From July 13-27, we’re providing a 10% discount on various collectors packs that were previously released.

Skyforge is a free-to-play MMORPG set in a universe where mortals and immortals use cutting edge technology to fight for survival against mythical creatures and invaders from space. Players start as immortals, newly reborn into the world, and vie to become gods themselves.

To learn more about Skyforge and to download for free, visit sf.my.com, ‘Like’ the game on Facebook, and follow the game’s development on Twitter @GodsofSkyforge for all the latest developer updates and news.

ABOUT MY.COM

My.com comprises myMail, MAPS.ME, myTarget, and online and mobile games. Its mobile communications and entertainment services and apps facilitate people in pursuing their business goals – and let them relax and have a good time gaming in-between. Copyright © 2015 My.com.

For more information, visit my.com/

If you are interested in special Skyforge account, please email Bryan Davies ([email protected]). Privileges included in the account include, but are not limited to: participation in all content included in the game, 14 days of Premium time, and currency. For more information, visit sf.my.com/gb/news/announcements/skyforge-first-anniversary-anniversary-packs

ARMORED WARFARE ADDS NEW FEATURES TO ENHANCE GAMEPLAY

Update 0.16 Streamlines Existing Content Using Community Feedback

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – July 13, 2016 – Obsidian Entertainment and global publisher My.com are proud to announce the newest addition to Armored Warfare. Update 0.16 is focused on addressing a selection of fixes for Armored Warfare based upon community feedback, apart from adding new tanks and maps to the game. After carefully evaluating the community’s opinion, the decision was made to shift focus towards streamlining existing content first and foremost.

Update 0.16 features include:

• New High-Tier Vehicles: Players will be able to get their hands on the brand new T-15 HIFV Tier 10 Armored Fighting Vehicle and the Tier 7 Premium Tank Destroyer PTL-02
• Loot System: Every time players participate in a match (be it PvP or PvE), they will have a chance to be rewarded with a Supply Crate. Both the opportunities to earn the Supply Crate and its Quality Level are strongly influenced by the player’s overall performance in the match, with higher Reputation scores yielding better rewards, regardless if the player was on the winning team or not.
• Updated Sound Effects: Sounds in Armored Warfare have undergone a revamp in Update 0.16. Every major sound system has been given new sounds and several new distinct sound effects that were added for gameplay systems which previously lacked elaborate audio cues. As a result, players will now be immersed in a much more atmospheric experience in Armored Warfare. Included are new engine sounds, new sounds for ricochets, and turret rotations, among many others.
• New PvE Missions and maps: Operations Zero Hour, Basilisk, and Erebos will pose new threats for players teaming up in Armored Warfare’s co-operative gameplay mode.
• New Commendation System: When a player performs an action that earns them reputation and credits, they now also earn a visual commendation. Unique commendations are awarded to players for accomplishing actions like killing an enemy, assisting in kills or completing objectives. The goal of these, entirely optional commendations, is to provide real-time visual feedback to players in order to notify them whenever they’ve earn some rewards.
• Gameplay Improvements based on Community Feedback: A large number of core gameplay enhancements and issue fixes will be introduced to Armored Warfare. These include Shot Delay correction, Incorrect Turret Facing, and Shot Normalization changes. On top of gameplay feature changes, there are also improvements to the game’s technical performance in general.

Find more about the 0.16 updates HERE: aw.my.com/us/news/general/introducing-update-016

Armored Warfare is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online tactical military game that puts the player into the world of modern warfare. In Armored Warfare, players get a chance to try the most powerful tools of destruction invented by mankind – from modern main battle tanks to scouts and wheeled vehicles. Using modern defense systems like anti-missile protection and smoke grenades, along with various types of armor and ammunition, players can jump into fast paced battles both in PvP mode and a vast amount of PvE missions.

Download Armored Warfare for free today, visit: aw.my.com. To learn more about Armored Warfare, please visit aw.my.com, ‘Like’ it on Facebook, and follow its development on Twitter @ArmoredWar for all the latest developer updates and news.

ABOUT MY.COM
My.com comprises myMail, MAPS.ME, myTarget, and online and mobile games. Its mobile communications and entertainment services and apps facilitate people in pursuing their business goals – and let them relax and have a good gaming time in-between. Copyright © 2015 My.com.

Death Stair Comes to Steam on August 16th

Hate Your Friends with this 3v1 Party Game

DALLAS, JULY 12, 2016 – Death Stair, the world’s greatest competitive multiplayer stair climbing game, announced its imminent release on August 16th, 2016 on Steam (PC), with console releases on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to follow.

In Death Stair, up to three people race to the finish while the fourth, armed to the teeth with an arsenal of beach balls, exploding mines, and other unconventional ammo, does everything to stop them. Death Stair takes competitive multiplayer to new extremes with ridiculous ragdoll physics and ludicrous 3v1 asymmetrical gameplay! Will you hate the player or hate the game in this chaotic ordeal designed to make friends into enemies?

Recognized as an SXSW 2016 Official Selection, and selected for PAX Rising 2016 and Best of E3 2016 by Gaming Illustrated, Death Stair has taken the world by storm with strong showings at PAX South, SXSW, PAX East, and E3. The game retails for $11.99 USD with a 2-Pack offered for $19.99 and a 4-Pack offered for $34.99. A launch discount of 20% applies for the first week of release.

FEATURES

• Dig your elbows in with up to 4 player split screen
• Full online support means you can destroy your long distance relationships too
• A combination of 1st and 3rd person Action
• Exact revenge on your friends in a new way every match with our All-New Party Mode with more than 200 Million possible match outcomes!
• Take to the stairs or to the skies in a variety of detailed environments
• Full controller support for that classic party game feeling
• Original Soundtrack composed the legendary Matthew A.C Cohen

ABOUT RND LABS

RnD Labs is an independent game development studio from Canberra, Australia. Specialising in Competitive Multiplayer Party Games, the team has a passion for creating compact experiences that can be shared with friends and strangers alike. Infamous among San Antonio Uber drivers as “those Australian game developers.”

ABOUT MISSING LINK GAMES
Our passionate team is made up of veterans and innovators within the video game industry who have collectively published over 120 games covering all platforms.  Let us help you to provide the “Missing Link” your team needs to succeed.

Arc System Works’ Launches Solitaire Card Game Shephy on iOS and Android

Arc System Works Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce its solitaire style card game, Shephy is now available on iOS and Android.

Apple App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shephy-solitairesheepcardgame/id1127270266?l=ja&ls=1&mt=8
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.arcsystemworks.shephy

Get the Flock Out of here
Using a combination of event increase your sheep count to 1000 before the deck is emptied 3 times.

Easily Accessible Gameplay
Intuitive controls make Shephy easy to pick up and play. Long press to view the description of each event card to view their effects.

Story of Shephy
Enjoy the story of Shephy in the special “Post Love” game mode. In this mode, special rules may apply with each part of the story, so the game can be enjoyed differently. More chapters will be made available in free updates.

Challenge Mode
Continue to collect your sheep beyond 1000 and go for the high score. Keep multiplying them and try to achieve the 7000 maximum.

Supported Mobile OS
Android version: 4.2 or later iOS version: 8.0.2 or later
This game has been tested on most devices with the specifications above.

For more information please visit the official website: http://www.arcsystemworks.jp/shephy/
Trailer:

About Arc System Works
Arc System Works is a developer and fighting game specialist from Japan—best known for the Guilty Gear series of games and, more recently, the BlazBlue series—that has garnered international critical acclaim for its innovative fighting system and spectacular 2D artwork. For more information, please visit the official website at www.arcsystemworksu.com

© 2016 Arc System Works

All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

FACE THE DANGER IN WRC 6! BIGBEN AND KYLOTONN RACING GAMES TODAY UNVEILED A SPECTACULAR FIRST TRAILER

WRC 6 is the official video game of the 2016 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). It includes the 14 WRC events, all the official WRC drivers and teams, as well as a wide selection of WRC 2 and Junior WRC drivers.

The game is scheduled for this October and will be released on PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PC Steam. 

Lesquin (FRANCE) – July 13th, 2016 – Bigben and Kylotonn Racing Games are proud to unveil the very first trailer of WRC 6, the official 2016 video game of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). The game is set to be released this October and will be available for PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PC/Steam.

Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2HNKlHUrVbc

Developed by Kylotonn’s team of racing enthusiasts, this new version of the game will raise the WRC experience on consoles to a new level of realism and excitement. This first trailer allows players to feel all the danger and the diversity they will have to face in WRC 6, defying the limits of the most extreme tracks in the world in order to save every possible second.

Click here to download the trailer, new screenshots and WRC 6 logo: 

Following the community feedback, the game will include narrower roads, longer special stages, and even a brand new challenging experience with head-to-head Super Special Stages. WRC 6 also takes advantage of new development tools by Kylotonn which will increase graphics and audio perception for players. All these massive improvements make WRC 6 the best way to feel the excitement of being in the boots of a real driver among some of the toughest conditions around the world. While WRC 6 has been recently introduced to players at E3 2016 in Los Angeles (June 14th – 16th), many other surprises remain to be announced in the coming weeks.

WRC 6 will feature all 14 rounds of the 2016 WRC season, including for the first time Rally China, all the star WRC drivers and also a wide selection of WRC 2 teams and competitors from the Junior WRC category. eSports WRC, the first international online competition of the WRC, which was launched in January 2016 with WRC 5, will continue in WRC 6 with improvements in terms of access, rules, and format which will be unveiled nearer the release of the game.

WRC 6 will be available this October for PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PC/Steam.

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.

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

About Kylotonn Racing Games

With more than 25 games released on all platforms, from the first generation of consoles to the current fourth generation, Kylotonn has a solid reputation in the video game industry. Composed of racing enthusiasts, our team’s strategy is to gradually specialize in the racing games genre. Kylotonn Team: 60 developers – In-house real-time 3D technology: Kt HD

About WRC

The World Rally Championship is the FIA’s premium rally series. WRC showcases authentic motorsport, high performance cars and the world’s best drivers competing in dramatic surroundings ranging from the ice and snow of Scandinavia to the stifling heat of Sardinia. Established in its current format in 1973, WRC participants battle for the drivers’ and manufacturers’ world titles at 14 rallies spanning 16 countries and five continents.

Innovative Sci-Fi Narrative Exploration Game, Event[0], Launching on PC and Mac in September

Stranded in Space with Only an Unstable AI Computer for Company, Players Must Build a Relationship through Text Conversations to Survive and Return to Earth

PARIS – July 13, 2016 – IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU TYPE… Event[0], the award-winning sci-fi narrative exploration game in which players must build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home, is coming to Windows PC and Mac this September via Steam and the Humble Store by Humble Bundle. A new teaser trailer for the game that poses the question, “What would you say to a computer if your life depended on it?” can be viewed at event0game.com.

The indie game first drew attention as a concept demo that won multiple indie gaming awards, including Innovation at BIG 2015 and Student Award winner at EIGD 2014. The first-person narrative exploration game transports players to the desolated spacecraft, Nautilus. As a player, your only companion is an insecure AI entity named Kaizen with whom you interact by typing messages on computer terminals throughout the ship. The game’s multi-layered story emerges organically as players communicate with Kaizen, freely explore 3D environments, gather information and solve hacking puzzles.

Set in a retrofuture inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris and Brave New World, Event[0] is a game about building a personal relationship with a machine using natural language. Kaizen can procedurally generate over two million lines of dialog and the AI entity has a strong personality influenced by human input. Players communicate by typing messages into a computer, and Kaizen responds. As in any relationship, there can be gratitude, disappointment or jealousy, and Kaizen reacts differently depending on its mood. By working through the fears and anxieties of your virtual companion you can ultimately find your way back to Earth—while unraveling the cryptic history of the ship and the 1980s society from which it emerged.

Event[0] began as a six-month student project before evolving into a full title under the auspices of Ocelot Society, which was founded by key members of the team. The game is backed by France’s CNC public arts organization and by the Indie Fund, a funding source for independent developers launched as an alternative to traditional publisher models.

“Event[0] takes me back to the kind of magic I felt playing Zork as a kid,” said Ron Carmel, Co-Founder of Indie Fund and Co-Creator of World of Goo. “There are moments where I can suspend disbelief and feel like I’m actually having a conversation with an advanced AI, probing its inner workings with words.”

The game is created using Unity Engine 5 and utilizes physics-based rendering and advanced lighting techniques to create richly detailed environments inside and outside the ship (players can leave the ship for breathtakingly scary spacewalks). Eschewing a traditional game score, all sound, including incidental music, comes from items in the environment. The ship is essentially the AI computer’s body, and reacts to Kaizen’s mood by making different sounds—which can give the player valuable clues.

“Event[0] is like our AI child: over the past two years it has grown from a vibrant but limited concept into a fully realized narrative exploration game,” said Léonard Carpentier, Co-founder and CEO of Ocelot Society. “Our team has created an evocative world for players to explore and Kaizen can’t wait to find new humans to become best friends with!”

More information on Event[0] will be released in the coming weeks if Kaizen can be convinced to cooperate.

For updates on Event[0] please visit event0game.com and follow @event0game on Twitter and on Facebook.

About Ocelot Society

Founded in 2015 by a group of young indie developers, Ocelot Society is a Paris-based game creation studio seeking new ways to play. The studio’s first game, the award-winning AI relationship-based narrative exploration game, Event[0], will be released in September 2016 for PC and Mac. For more information, visit ocelotsociety.com and follow on @OcelotSociety on Twitter.

About Indie Fund

Indie Fund is a funding source for independent developers, created by a group of successful indies looking to encourage the next wave of game developers. It was established as a serious alternative to the traditional publisher funding model. Our aim is to support the growth of games as a medium by helping indie developers get (and stay) financially independent. For more information, visit indie-fund.com.

Heavy Hitter: Orcs Must Die! Unchained Welcomes Queen Bionka as Playable Hero

Update introduces two new maps as well as guilds and rating system

Karlsruhe, 7/13/2016 – Developers Robot Entertainment are integrating numerous new features in patch 1.3 of team action tower defence game Orcs Must Die! Unchained. Mighty yet also a little cumbersome, orc queen Bionka joins the fracas in order to hold a protective hand over the minions. Fans of earlier entries in the series will also be excited to see the return of the classic survival battleground ‘The Baths’ as well as the new ‘Throne Room’ map. At the end of successful survival battles, a 5 star rating system now promotes ambitions for highscore hunters, whilst like-minded players can now organize themselves in guilds at will and head out together on the orc hunt.

A visual impression of patch 1.3 and Bionka’s abilities can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWc98pKhIlk. The full list of all improvements is available in the patch notes: http://en.omd.gameforge.com/revolution.html.

A heart for minions

Unlike her son, Bloodspike, Bionka does not profit from the suffering of her minions, in fact, the opposite is true: She sacrifices her health to protect her minions. Her ability ‘Sing An March’ is one such example of this, where damage done to minions in a set radius around her is reduced. Should a minion die however, the damage is also transferred to Bionka. The orc monarch also regenerates her health faster the more of her own minions surround her.

The new guild feature improves bonds too: From now on players will be able to organize in guilds, to work together towards shared goals within the game and to play for points within the guild ranking leaderboard, which offers exclusive rewards for the top spots at the end of each season.

An overview of the key features coming in patch 1.3:

+ New hero: Orc Queen Bionka
+ Guild feature
+ Two new maps: ‘The Baths’ and ‘Throne Room’
+ 5 stars rating system added to survival mode

About Orcs Must Die! Unchained

Orcs Must Die! Unchained takes the award-winning Orcs Must Die! action tower defence gameplay to a whole new level with team-based gameplay! But don’t get cocky, because the stakes are higher, the traps are bloodier, and the invaders are even more ravenous. You’ll need to bring your A-game and a few of the biggest orc-haters you can find! Orcs Must Die! Unchained is set in the familiar world of its hilarious fantasy predecessors, years after the finale of Orcs Must Die! 2. With the discovery of dozens of new rifts and worlds beyond them, heroes have come from far and wide to wage all-out war for control of these magical gateways. In the years since Orcs Must Die! 2, the War Mage and Sorceress have done their best to rebuild the once-mighty Order. Their new enemy, the Unchained, is no longer the mindless horde defeated twice before, but instead an organized army led by its own powerful heroes. Orcs Must Die! Unchained is available as a free download for PC. More details available at http://omd.gameforge.com/.

About Gameforge

With more than 20 titles and over 450 million registered players, Gameforge is the leading provider of free-to-play massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) in the western hemisphere. Headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, the group offers its online games in more than 75 countries and employs 450 members of staff. The portfolio encompasses numerous well-known game industry brands, including client-based titles such as Orcs Must Die! Unchained, HEX: Shards of Fate, prized role-playing game AION Free-to-Play and TERA as well as Europe’s most successful MMO, Metin2. In future, competitive RTS Dropzone and action-laden Anime MMORPG SoulWorker will add to the collection. Popular browser-based games such as OGame and Ikariam as well as a growing portfolio of mobile games complete their offering. For more information please visit http://corporate.gameforge.com/.

ACCLAIMED NEW-GENERATION STRATEGY CARD GAME CHRONICLE: RUNESCAPE LEGENDS GETS MAJOR UPDATE – NEW SLAYER MASTER LEGEND, AGGRESSIVE GAMEPLAY AND A HOST OF NEW CARDS ARRIVE.

A new chapter arrives to further determine the fate of Legends, as Morvran – the Slayer Master – arrives with new tactics and strategies to overcome.

Wednesday 13^th July 2016, Cambridge, UK – The next chapter of Chronicle: RuneScape Legends has begun with the launch of a major update, six weeks after the critically-acclaimed online strategy card game debuted on Steam for PC. The 1.4 update brings with it the highly anticipated, sixth Legend – Morvran, the Slayer Master. Players will have to use their wits and guile to secure success and reap the rewards, as they strive to add the Legend to their collection.

Morvran’s addition to the line-up of Legends is free, only requiring players to take on and defeat the Slayer Master himself. Bringing with him a new set of unique tactics and strategies to use against their foes, as well as 37 new cards and two additional character skins, players will be able to forge their own quests and customise Morvran to make him their own. As the Slayer Master, the Legend’s aggressive nature and array of violent monster cards make him a formidable opponent for all who encounter him. Players will have to adapt to this new style of gameplay to thrive!

The addition of Morvran precedes the game’s first-ever event, Beach Party, which begins later this summer. Debuting three new, sun-soaked, tropical environments, the event will also see the inclusion of new community quests – where players have to work together to succeed – as well as rewards such as exclusive cards for taking part.

“Chronicle’s launch on Steam was just the prologue of our own quest to continue delivering a strong line up of content for the game. The addition of Morvran as our sixth Legend will shake up the strategies and tactics of even top Platinum-ranked players, but he is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of planned content for the rest of the year and beyond,” said James Sweatman, lead designer, Chronicle: RuneScape Legends. “We’ve had great feedback from gamers across the world since Chronicle launched in May, and we’re looking forward to continuing our journey with them!”

Since launch at the end of May, more than a million games have each been played using Ariane and The Raptor across Chronicle’s many gameplay modes, including the hardcore Ranked mode, and draft Dungeoneering mode. Delivering a unique twist on the card game genre, combining tactical PvE with strategic PvP gameplay as players fight their own cards as well as their opponents, Chronicle is now available for PC from Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/205890/).

About Jagex
Established in 2001, Jagex Games Studio today stands as the UK’s largest independent game developer and publisher and is the home of the flagship online adventure game, RuneScape. Celebrating its 15th Year anniversary in 2016, RuneScape has welcomed over 245 million players to its world and more than two million of them play every month, while millions more watch avidly through social channels. In addition to RuneScape, Jagex is developing new RuneScape-branded games as it enters additional genres, including Chronicle: RuneScape Legends, an adventure strategy card game, and RuneScape: Idle Adventures created in partnership with Hyper Hippo, the developers of cult hit Adventure Capitalist. Jagex employs over 320 people at its Cambridge headquarters. Career information can be found atwww.jagex.com .

About Chronicle: RuneScape Legends
Chronicle: RuneScape Legends is an online strategy card game from Jagex, the studio behind the award-winning fantasy MMORPG, RuneScape. Set within the pages of a magical book where the world of Gielinor unfolds before your eyes, Chronicle: RuneScape Legends offers a unique strategic twist on card games. Craft your quest with a deck of cards, battle enemies for gold and bonuses, and then face the final challenge of player vs. player combat. Chronicle: RuneScape Legends is now available for PC and is scheduled for release in 2016 on Mac, tablet and mobile. For more information visit: www.rschronicle.com .

WHICH AUSSIE LOCATION WILL BAN POKÉMON GO FIRST?

• Australian War Memorial favourite to ban Pokémon Go first.

• State-wide Pokémon Go ban in NSW not being ruled out.

As Pokémon Go fans swamp many of Australia’s iconic, and not so iconic, locations sportsbet.com.au doesn’t think it will be too long before the calls for it to be banned start coming thick and fast.

After appeals from US authorities for users to stop hunting Pokémon at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and Arlington National Cemetery, the online bookie has opened a market on which Aussie location will be the first to impose a ban.

The Australian War Memorial is the $3.50 favourite, with other Canberra locations also in the mix including the National Library of Australia ($4.50) and Parliament House ($11).

Popular Aussie tourist destinations including the Daintree Rainforest ($14), Uluru ($16) and the Great Barrier Reef ($26) are in the running, as is the MCG ($31) or Melbourne’s Chadstone Shopping centre ($41).

After banning greyhound racing, Sportsbet won’t rule out the NSW Government following up with a state-wide ban of Pokémon, but at odds of $1,001 it appears a remote chance at best.

“Forget the yo-yos and footy cards, Pokémon Go is the latest craze sweeping the nation and we don’t think it will be too long before the fun police start calling for a ban,” said sportsbet.com.au’s Ben Bulmer.

“The Australian War Memorial is favourite and rightly so, but we’d hate to see Aussies denied the chance of hunting for virtual Japanese monsters in the Daintree or Great Barrier Reef.”

Market courtesy of sportsbet.com.au

First place to have Pokémon Go banned

$3.50   Australian War Memorial

$4.50   National Library of Australia

$5.50   Rookwood Cemetery

$9.00   St Paul’s Cathedral

$9.00   St Mary’s Cathedral

$11      Parliament House – Canberra

$14      Daintree Rainforest

$16      Uluru

$26      Great Barrier Reef

$31      Melbourne Cricket Ground

$41      Chadstone Shopping Centre

$51      Australian National Botanic Gardens

$1,001 All of NSW