Taichi Panda: Heroes Gets New Mount System, New PvP mode and more in Crimson Ride Update

Los Angeles – June 23^rd, 2016 – Mobile Action RPG Taichi Panda: Heroes, from developer Snail Games, receives its first major update today – the Crimson Ride. This new update introduces a brand new mount system, a cross-server PvP tournament, a large-scale 25v25 battlefield, and other exciting additions and optimizations. This new content aims to build on the core mechanics and enrich the multiplayer portion of this title.

Enter Fast-Paced Action Adventure

The Crimson Ride Update includes a number of new game features, bug fixes and optimizations to game mechanics. These include:

l  New balancing for King’s PvP and the weekly cross-server King’s League tournament

l  New large-scale 25v25 battlefield: Blood War

l  New Mount System with 6 visually stunning mounts to choose from

l  Military Rank System – adding a progression system tied to Blood War

l  Two new playable heroes: Pan Zel and Ryoko

l  Player and individual hero level caps have been raised to 80

l  Bug fixes and optimizations to current user interface

To learn more about Taichi Panda: Heroes – Crimson Ride Update and its new features, please visit our official web page: http://panda2.snail.com/en/

Along with the announcement, Snail has also released a new official trailer showcasing some of the exciting features fans can expect in the new update:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUXzfCQTy-I

The update is now available as an app store download. Players can directly download and install it to upgrade their existing Taichi Panda: Heroes application.

About Taichi Panda: Heroes

Journey back to a time long forgotten, in a kingdom of magical mayhem and powerful panda warriors with Taichi Panda: Heroes. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed title Taichi Panda, Taichi Panda: Heroes lets players take control of teams of classic Heroes in an all new “multi-character” RPG adventure. Grow your team, battle through dungeons, and team up with friends in an expansive online open world experience. Stake your claim in a land ruled by chaos in an exciting new mobile MMO of panda proportions!

About Snail Games

Founded in 2000, Snail Games has been a pioneer in new online gaming experiences for over 16 years. With dozens of titles in over 60 countries, including Ministry of War, Bounty Bay Online, and flagship martial arts MMO Age of Wushu, Snail Games continues to push the frontier of gaming through development, publishing and hardware.

RUIN AND TAUNT YOUR FRIENDS WITH UPCOMING MOVE OR DIE “TOXIC UPDATE” AVAILABLE JULY 6

New Online Chat Options and More Added to the Ultimate Friendship-Ruining Party Game – Now 40% Off During the Steam Summer Sale

The mad minds of independent developer Those Awesome Guys not only want you to destroy friendships in Move or Die, they want victors to truly enjoy all the spoils! And with the upcoming Toxic Update, players can now communicate with each other using new chat and spam in-game emotes to ruthlessly taunt opponents! The free Toxic Update also adds game modes like the “Hoops” basketball mini-game, new playable characters, touchscreen compatible controls for Windows devices, and much more.

To prepare for the onslaught of chat insults, Move or Die is now available for the Steam Summer Sale price of $8.99, a whopping 40% off the standard retail price!

Watch the new Move or Die Toxic Update trailer HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=3ViojutxHFM

Dunk on your opponents with attitude

Available for $8.99 for a limited time during the Steam Summer Sale, Move or Die will have gamers battling each other in an ever-growing list of game modes. The Toxic Update adds to the friendship-destroying mayhem with seven insane character skins, three crazy game modes, rockin’ soundtrack packs, and a new in-game announcer – Stereotypical Russian Guy! Dasvidaniya comrade!

To learn more about Move or Die, please visit www.moveordiegame.com, ‘Like’ it on Facebook, and follow its development on Twitter @moveordiegame for all the latest developer updates and news.

ABOUT THOSE AWESOME GUYS

Founded in 2012 by Nicolae Berbece, Those Awesome Guys is a one-man independent video game developer based in Romania that teams up with developers from around the world to create really awesome games. After releasing Concerned Joe, a 2D puzzle platformer Flash game that generated a small, but dedicated following, Nick decided to give the title a proper remake. And so was born Move or Die, an absurdly fast-paced multiplayer party game coming out in January on Steam.

For more information, visit thoseawesomeguys.com

Side-Scrolling Puzzle Game LightEaters Available on the App Store Today 

Spooky Puzzle-Platformer Game from BrightLocker and Sperasoft is First Game to be Published on the BrightLocker Platform

Austin, Texas – June 23, 2016 – Starting today, brave mobile gamers will adventure to the deep, dark, and puzzling world of LightEaters, the first game ever created fully integrated with a video game crowdfunding platform.  The game is published by BrightLocker and developed by Sperasoft, and is available now for $3.99 on the App Store.

Playing as Ted, players explore more than 30 spooky levels in LightEaters, filled with monsters and traps to avoid. Armed with a flashlight and a strong set of nerves, players must make their way through the creepy world of darkness solving puzzles along the way.

As the first game from BrightLocker, the crowdpublishing platform changing how games are crowdsourced and developed, LightEaters allows gamers to earn rewards, achievements, and digital currency they can consume in the game or on the platform. Gamers can use the digital currency to help BrightLocker select and crowdfund the next game by logging in to BrightLocker.com

“LightEaters represents the first game we are publishing that is integrated with our platform and provides gamers the chance to get benefits both in-game and in our game ideation ecosystem,” said Ruben Cortez, CEO, BrightLocker.  “LightEaters is a great way for existing users to see the power of BrightLocker, and also a perfect introduction to our platform for those that have yet to experience The Game of Making Games.”

Since launching in April, BrightLocker has already seen thousands of users submit more than 150 game ideas and cast more than 400,000 votes as they compete for the chance to be the platform’s first gamer-submitted project to be developed. The first winner is expected to be chosen later this summer.

For more information on LightEaters and BrightLocker, and to join the BrightLocker community and the new age of crowd-publishing, please visit www.BrightLocker.com, or check out the game’s details and page on the platform at www.lighteatersgame.com.

Link to Assets: http://bit.ly/LightEatersAssets

About BrightLocker

Based in Austin, Texas, BrightLocker is a revolutionary crowdpublishing platform that uses the power of the crowd to allows gamers to turn their game ideas into reality. Led by an executive team with experience from major industry players including, Electronic Arts, Blizzard, Sony and BioWare, BrightLocker lets gamers imagine, choose, create, play and even earn money throughout a game’s development process. “Imagine, Choose, Make, Play, Earn™”

STUDIO WILDCARD THINKS SIZE MATTERS AND DELIVERS A SKYSCRAPER-SIZED TITANOSAUR, GIANT REDWOODS, AND THE BIGGEST STEAM  DISCOUNT EVER

Seattle, WA – June 23, 2016 – Studio Wildcard, the studio that never sleeps, is going big today in every way possible with its online dinosaur survival experience, ARK: Survival Evolved! Available to all Steam ARK players starting now, update v243 is packed with features including the opening of the stunning Redwood Forest Biome, a major extension of the Snow Biome, and new structures featuring Ewo… well uh…tree-top villages with furry creatures. In fact, there are dozens more features in this update, from Gas Masks, to Rope Ladders, Tree-House Platforms, Sap Taps, and much more.

The biggest delivery? The Titanosaur, a gargantuan creature that is among the largest ever in a multiplayer action game – slowly roams the ARK and is neither friend nor foe. Whichever Tribes can successfully tame the beat can gain a massive benefit to their forces.

Best of all ARK Survivor wanna-be’s can now purchase the ultimate dinosaur survival game for 45% off the retail price (regular $29.99, now $16.49 for a limited time) during the Steam Summer sale, running today through 10 am, Monday, July 4!
Watch the new showcase video on YouTube HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVw2vd4h0ho

The extremely rare Titanosaur (Titanosaurus Vagacastrum) is the largest creature found on ARK island, operating for many players as a mobile superfortress capable of ferrying obscene amounts of weight, structures, defenses and creatures upon its back. Essentially a walking mountain, this herbivore often crushes creatures and buildings within its path and takes issue with any creature invading his personal space.

The Redwood Biome is an all-new biome filled with lush, giant trees sturdy enough in which to build treehouses and villages. Harvest lumber from these gigantic arbors to create your fortress super high up in the air. Take refuge among the Redwood trees with new Wood and Metal Tree Platforms! Live like a Furry Forest Creature in these massive trees! Tap into the massive redwoods to extract their sap for healthy concoctions using the new Tree Sap Taps. Reach new heights with the Retractable Rope Ladders. Extend or retract these flimsy ladders, which are good for letting allies onto your ramparts while keeping the enemy out. There is a whole new way of life to explore! Littered throughout the Redwood and expanded Snow biomes are new ruins, which in future updates will contain collectible story notes about the history of ARK.

New ARK Content Includes:

• New Item: The Chain Bola ammo for ballista turret! Bring huge creatures to their knees, temporarily, by entangling them in these gigantic metal bolas.
• New Item: Gas Mask! Avoid diseases and poisonous gas with this protective breathing apparatus.
• New Item: Herbivore “TastyCakes”
• New Structure: Retractable Rope Ladders! Extend or retract these flimsy ladders, good for letting allies onto your ramparts while keeping the enemy out.
• New Structure: Tree Sap Taps! Slowly extract valuable syrup from the great redwoods for use in a variety of new recipes.
• New Mechanic: Custom Tripwire Alarm Notifications via SurviveTheArk.com (E-mail and Forum). Optionally Tribes can post to arbitrary URL, if they have a custom system! Now if someone’s raiding your base, you can get on top of it!
• GroundClutter effect extended 50% further and +20% more GPU efficiency
• Balled Doed’s are no longer invincible to Tamed Dino melee attacks — now just very, very resistant to them.
• Magnifying Glass now displays creature Torpor stats (on Wild creatures too).
• Tribe Alliances now disabled in Offline Raid mode (too complex to determine if anyone in an Alliance is around), C4/Traps can no longer be placed near Offline-Raid Protected Structures, and Offline-Raid mode now forces all Structures to be Lockable so that players can “Lock” Crop Plots to prevent their turrets from being disabled.
• New Server Option: “?PreventTribeAlliances=true” to prevent tribe alliances
• Engagement with Wild Naturally-Fleeing & Small creatures (tiny bugs etc) no longer trigger combat music
• Tamed Dinos that are following a submerged allied Target will not attempt to float to the surface of the water, but rather will attempt to stay at the depth of their allied Target. (helpful when deliberately going deep-diving your tamed land Dinos). However, Dinos that are capable of suffocating will try to surface if they are out of Oxygen regardless!
• Vaults can no longer be dropped onto saddle platforms
• Transfer-All/Drop-All methods now only drop/transfer what is currently disabled in the inventory, respecting any filters/folders you may have active (so for example, if you’re within a folder, it will only transfer those items, or if you have a text filter active, etc).
• Fixed an issue where pillars were not being calculated correctly as foundations when building pillars downwards
• Massive +33% rendering gains with any translucent rendering (particles, greenhouse windows, etc).

Feel like riding a dinosaur? Join the ARK community forums HERE: steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/

ARK: Survival Evolved is in development for Xbox One via the ID@Xbox program, PlayStation^®4 with Project Morpheus support, and Steam PC. The game is currently playable in Microsoft’s Game Preview on Xbox One and Steam’s Early Access program, which includes Oculus Rift VR support and an integration of Steam community features such as Steam Economy and Steam Workshop for custom maps and mods. Players can host private/LAN servers and have access to a custom-built version of the Unreal Engine 4 Editor for creating mods. The world of ARK is designed to be modder-friendly and ever-expanding!

To join our growing band of survivors, journey to Steam or Microsoft’s Game Preview on Xbox One to download the game. For the latest updates follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, subscribe to us on YouTube, visit the Website at playark.com and watch us tame and train leviathan dinosaurs on Twitch.TV.

ABOUT STUDIO WILDCARD

Studio Wildcard was co-founded in 2014 by Jesse Rapczak, former Technical Art Director at Microsoft Game Studios, and industry veteran Jeremy Stieglitz with the mission of bringing AAA quality to ambitious indie productions that are designed for core gamers. With combined 25 years of industry experience across multiple independent and studio-backed titles, Jeremy and Jesse have teamed up with other veteran developers for Seattle, WA-based and Gainesville, FL-based development studios that also include distributed team members across multiple continents. Wherever talented, driven developers may reside, Studio Wildcard intends to seek out and work with them!

ABOUT INSTINCT GAMES

Instinct Games is Egypt’s leading game development studio. Started in 2011 by former Timeline Interactive co-founders, the Instinct Games team develops and produces video games on all major platforms utilizing its competent technical team. Its mission is to collaborate with world class partners to foster Egypt’s video game development ecosystem and set a precedent of high quality, low cost, entertaining indie games with worldwide appeal.

EVOLUTION: BATTLE FOR UTOPIA UPDATE IS NOW AVAILABLE

Exodus Will Bring New Hi-End Content And Present a Grand Finale For The Game’s Storyline!

Moscow, Russia –June 23, 2016 – Video game publisher My.com is proud to announce the release of the Exodus update for Evolution: Battle for Utopia. The highly successful mobile game will get an update that will end the storyline of the game with a grand finale. This will wrap up the players adventures on Utopia with a mind boggling twist, that will put all past story events in a whole new light.

Watch the new video HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_78WXFB8Bk

Exodus provides Hi-End content for the most experienced of commanders on Utopia. Players need to be prepared to meet dangerous new enemies in gorgeous locations, and fight alongside new powerful allies. My.com has prepared an exciting surprise for those that finish the now complete story. If you are willing to test your skills, you will find a completely new game mode at the end of the Exodus story.

Key Features:

• Exciting gameplay: Experience real-time battle action and develop cunning tactics. Easy to pick up, yet difficult to master combat system, delivers the strength of an action game.
• Establish a colony: Build a military base and fortify your defense with a system of turrets.
• Terraform Utopia: Shape the planet as you transform its scorched wastelands into a thriving environments. Research and exploit alien technology and pioneer evolution.
• Enthralling combat: Equip and upgrade yourself with the most advanced weaponry, and build an installation to run continental ballistic missiles to overwhelm enemies the size of a skyscraper!
• Investigate the world: One of the most epic games in the history of iOS holds endless hidden surprises and secrets. Uncover them all in the game’s thrilling missions.
• Fight alongside your friends and allies: Meet Fido, a cyborg dog and your faithful companion.
• Find valuable resources: Search through hidden loots and hack electronic terminals to grow your wealth.
• Challenge fellow players from all over the world in battles.

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. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

SIGTRAP Games sign up with Merge Games to bring Sublevel Zero Redux to console.

Thursday, June 23, 2016, Manchester, UK. – Merge Games Ltd., a privately owned video game publisher and distributor, is pleased to announce it has signed a publishing deal with SIGTRAP Games to bring the first-person, roguelike, six-degree-of-freedom, shooter – Sublevel Zero Redux to console later this year.

SIGTRAP Games co-founder, Gary Lloyd, commented “We’re incredibly excited to announce that we’re working with Merge Games to bring Sublevel Zero Redux to Playstation 4 and Xbox One via digital download and retail. It’s an amazing opportunity for us to work with a local publisher and revisit the game for consoles. We’re working on some great additions, including new content and features!”

SIGTRAP Games and Sublevel Zero Redux are great additions to the Merge Games family. The deal sees Merge Games handling the console conversions of Sublevel Zero Redux then both parties sharing the revenue, it’s a winning formula for everyone.

Co-owner and Managing Director, Luke Keighran added, “I’m super excited to be working with SIGTRAP Games, another top quality team right on our door step. Already a great game on PC, the addition of great new features and extra content will make Sublevel Zero Redux a must-buy title for console owners.

Sublevel Zero Redux sees you taking control of a lone gunship on a mission to loot and craft ancient technology. Descend into a vast underground facility, fighting through procedurally generated zero gravity environments to recover the technology you and your clan need to survive. Battle enemy fighters and surface emplacements that strive to halt your progress. The emphasis is on survival and ammunition is scarce so every shot and every decision counts. Sublevel Zero Redux will be available for PlayStation4 and Xbox One in Q4 2016.

AMAZON APPSTORE JOINS AS PLATINUM SPONSOR OF VAINGLORY SUMMER SEASON BEGINNING TODAY

Vainglory, the World’s Leading Touchscreen Esport, Reveals New Esports Structure

San Mateo, Calif. — June 23, 2016 — Vainglory, the world’s leading touchscreen esport, announced a premier sponsorship with the Amazon Appstore to support their Summer 2016 esports season in both North America and Europe. The Vainglory Summer season begins today and runs through September 11. The top eight teams per region will compete at the Summer Live Championships in North America (September 2-5) and Europe (September 9-11) in front of a live audience. As part of the program, Amazon will host the championships, which are expected to set record viewing and participation numbers for Vainglory’s esports events. In addition, the Amazon Appstore will be rewarding players throughout the season with discounts and bonus Amazon Coins, the digital currency that lets customers save up to 25 percent off in-app purchases. The season’s competitive structure and events are managed by Super Evil Megacorp and Twitch as part of their multi-year deal to enhance and grow Vainglory esports events.

“We’ve been working closely with Amazon since our inaugural Autumn Season Championship, and their passion for and dedication to Vainglory is going to make our Summer season the biggest and best yet,” said Kristian Segerstrale, COO and executive director at Super Evil Megacorp. “Amazon’s support, along with the continued work from our friends at Twitch, will allow us to put on a top-notch season for Vainglory’s community of millions. We’re excited to kick off the Summer Season today in cooperation with the Amazon Appstore.”

The Amazon Vainglory Summer Season begins today with an all-new esports structure. Twitch and Super Evil Megacorp are announcing “The Evil Eight,” a new tier of elite competition in North America and Europe featuring only the region’s Top 8 teams at any given time. These teams will battle each weekend on twitch.tv/vainglory in eight-team tournaments, earning points in championship standings. Alongside will be a community-run “Challenger” tier of competition, with weekly Evil Eight challenger battles. This two-tiered competitive structure creates many more opportunities to broadcast clashes of elite teams such as Team Solomid, G2 eSports, Team Secret, mousesports and SK Gaming, while giving up-and-coming teams a path to their own tournament victories and ultimately the seasonal championship. More details to be announced soon.

“The Twitch community has shown a lot of love for Vainglory, making it the fastest-growing mobile game on our platform,” said Nick Allen, director of esports operations at Twitch. “Touchscreen esports has a lot of potential right now given the ratio of mobile devices to PCs, with Vainglory on track to really blow the doors wide open on this movement. Adding more momentum is the new Evil Eight competitive structure, which will make broadcasts of Vainglory even more engaging for viewers.”

Summer season is poised to have 3-5 million viewers tune in to the action, doubling the number of viewers from the Winter 2015 event. The Season will culminate in the Vainglory Summer Season Championships taking place September 2-4 in North America and September 9-11 in Europe. In addition to hosting the live events, Amazon and Vainglory will be offering special Amazon Coins offers on ICE purchases and more.

Vainglory update 1.19 kicks off the Summer Season with a ton of new in-game content. Players can now play with a new hero, Lyra, who uses healing and protective magic to turn enemy positions into powerful zones for her allies, plus she introduces teleportation into combat. In addition, Summer Party Krul, Sylvan Kestrel Tier 1, Fury Rona Tier 2 and North Wind Reim Tier 1 skins will become available weekly throughout update 1.19. The summer season also marks the introduction of an all new Summer skin for the map, and an entirely new progression system in which players can earn Sunlight tokens from matches to earn bigger and better seasonal awards. The update also includes Summer Chests full of daily loots and exclusive Summer Party events.

Vainglory can be downloaded for free from the Amazon Appstore, The App Store and Google Play.

About Super Evil Megacorp

Super Evil Megacorp is a team of masters-at-their-craft game developers. The company’s first title Vainglory, quickly rose to become the world’s largest mobile esport after its global launch in early 2015. In less than a year, Vainglory has held live competitive gaming events in Asia, North America and Europe, and awarded more than $350,000 in prize money. In addition to its success in the esports realm, Vainglory has received top game development honors including Apple’s “Best Apps” in 2014 and 2015, the Apple Design Award at WWDC, The IMGA’s Best Technical Achievement and People’s Choice Awards, and the Tabby Award for Best iPad game in the RPG, Simulation and Strategy category. Super Evil Megacorp is based in San Mateo, CA. The team is currently 45 people strong and is hiring. Super Evil has raised $41M in funding from backers including General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Korea Investment Partners, CrossCut Ventures, Initial Capital, The Raine Group, ZhenFund, Yuri Milner, and Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital. For more information, visit http://www.superevilmegacorp.com/ and http://www.vainglorygame.com/.

KOEI TECMO EUROPE REVEALS ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY OPTIONS WITHIN ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIII

Civic Development and Bond Systems Unveiled Alongside Detailed Features Trailer and New Gameplay Videos Illustrating Diplomatic, Economic and Relationship Gameplay Elements

Hertfordshire, 23^rd June 2016 – KOEI TECMO Europe today released a new batch of assets and information focusing on the alternative strategic elements that players can look forward to in the upcoming entry in the renowned strategy series, Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII. Two new gameplay videos detail the game’s Civic Development and Bond systems, as well as a new promotional trailer that highlights the many strategy options that players have at their disposal. Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII is slated to release on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and digitally on Windows PC via Steam® on the 8^th July 2016.

Battles are not only won by force, but by careful preparation and strategy. Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII offers various preparatory and diplomatic gameplay elements that take place ahead of combat, known as the Civic Development system. Offering players the chance to improve different aspects of their domain, this system allows the development of Commerce, Farming and Culture, which give various boosts to the army in both strength and loyalty. Economic and development decisions made are then presented to the Officers, prompting them to share their views, and point out the merits and faults of a given strategy before the player makes a final decision.

Attaining allies and influencing individuals via the Bond system is another key element of the game’s overarching strategy. A Relationship Chart rates the intensity of the player’s relations with historic figures, indicating whether the relationship is positive or negative. Maintaining a strong network is fundamental to receiving aid in tight situations, particularly when summoned by the higher lords. During these moments these connections are also able to fight for the player’s cause and help turn the tide of battle in their favour. Furthermore, a player’s relationship with a given lord can lend credibility during Debates to convince lords to act in certain ways. Winning a Debate can lead to forming alliances with other leaders, with the length of it depending on strength of a given Bond.

To keep updated on ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIII news please visit www.facebook.com/koeigames or www.koeitecmoeurope.co.uk/rtkxiii and follow us on twitter @koeitecmoeurope 

About Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII

Celebrating the series’ 30th anniversary and marking its return to the west after an eight-year hiatus, Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII tells the tale of a collapsing dynasty and the emergence of power-hungry factions, setting the scene for a complex chessboard on which players can follow and influence the fateful events leading to the unification of 2nd century China. Blending deeply strategic gameplay with historically-accurate warfare, players can climb the proverbial leadership ladder as one of 700 historical characters during a turbulent era of political instability, large-scale conflict, and human drama.

ABOUT KOEI TECMO EUROPE LTD.

KOEI TECMO EUROPE LTD. is a publisher of interactive entertainment software for current generation consoles, handhelds and digital download content based in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of KOEI TECMO HOLDINGS CO., LTD., headquartered in Yokohama, Japan. TECMO is best known for the Dead or Alive® and Ninja Gaiden®series. KOEI is best known for its Dynasty Warriors® and Samurai Warriors® franchises. On April 1, 2009, KOEI TECMO HOLDINGS CO., LTD was established as a result of the TECMO, LTD. and KOEI Co., Ltd. merger. More information about KOEI TECMO EUROPE LTD and its products can be found at www.koeitecmoeurope.com

“PlayStation” is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.