Chronicle: RuneScape Legends Set For Full Steam Launch On 26th May And Its ‘Free Card Packs’ Deal Starts Today

Chronicle: RuneScape Legends – a new adventure in CCGs – will reward open beta players with free card packs from today ahead of 26th May arrival on the digital platform

Thursday 12^th May 2016, Cambridge, UK – The countdown to the launch of Chronicle: RuneScape Legends has begun, as Jagex today confirmed the next generation card gamewill arrive on Steam on Thursday 26^th May – just two weeks from today. Ahead of its launch, players logging into the game’s open beta to experience Chronicle’s unique battle of wits, strategy, and combat between now and 23:59 BST on Sunday, 15^th May, will be gifted three free card packs to bolster their collection.

The Steam launch of Chronicle will mark the arrival a new generation of action-packed strategy card games, one that sees players fighting their own cards in a quest for supremacy over their rival. Delivering a step-change in traditional CCG gameplay, almost every predictable card game mechanic has been thrown out the window in favour of Chronicle’s unique twist on the genre.

Since the game went into open beta six weeks ago, dozens of new cards based on Old School RuneScape have debuted in game, while a sixth Legend – Morvran the Slayer Master – is making his way to the roster later this summer, bringing with him a whole new strategy to explore. The launch of Chronicle on Steam will also see the debut of a new ranking system featuring epic rewards.

“It’s just two weeks until we officially throw open the doors to Chronicle’s Hall of Legends on 26^th May, and its launch on Steam is only the beginning for what we have planned. We’ve already introduced brand new cards every week, increased rewards, balancing improvements, and there’s even more content planned for the months to come,” said James Sweatman, lead designer, Chronicle: RuneScape Legends.

“We’d like to thank the many tens of thousands of cunning card tacticians who have helped us in open beta with feedback to refine the Chronicle’s unique CCG gameplay mechanics. For our existing open beta players, and anyone who signs up over the weekend, we’re offering up three free card packs so they can build their decks ready to take on new rivals at launch.”

Ahead of full Steam launch on 26^th May, gamers can join the open beta and claim their three free card packs by downloading the game from: https://www.rschronicle.com/

Chronicle Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/205890

Notes to Editor
Chronicle: RuneScape Legends will launch on Steam in seven languages: English; French; LATAM Spanish; German; Polish; Russian; and Brazilian-Portuguese.

About Chronicle: RuneScape Legends
Chronicle: RuneScape Legends gives players the chance to write the fate of Legends from the world of RuneScape in a battle of wits, strategy and combat where lives are gambled on the turn of the cards. It’s a game where two rival Legend adventurers are seeking victory and both are equipped with the tools to trip the other up.

As every quest chapter opens, a rich environment is revealed and offers up four slots for card placement, each representing a step forward and action point in the adventure. In the role of a chosen Legend, players select up to four cards from their deck, which can be a mix of Support and Enemy cards each with an action and specific values. These are then placed in the slots on the landscape and locked in sequence.

In Chronicle, the player’s cards are both their greatest weapon and weakness. Like any great role playing game, players slay monsters, bosses and other foes to gain loot. Unlike other card games, players need to battle their own cards, rather than their opponents.

As the sequence of cards turn – one-by-one – the quest unfolds, with each card bringing a new challenge or reward. The rival Legend’s chain of cards plays out in parallel and can help or, more likely, hinder the player. If both players make it to the end of the fifth chapter, the Legends do battle against each other, with the victor being the last person standing. Chronicle: RuneScape Legends launches 26^th May on Steam. For more information visit: www.rschronicle.com .

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 at www.jagex.com .

Six More Universities Join Crytek’s VR First Initiative

Crytek’s academic program has helped to establish VR Labs on 14 university campuses since launching earlier this year

Frankfurt am Main (Germany) May 12, 2016 – Crytek today announced that six more universities have joined their VR First academic initiative, bringing the total number of participating schools worldwide to 14.

VR First launched in January this year, and supports grassroots VR development by establishing dedicated VR Labs on university campuses. Each VR lab offers students easy access to Crytek’s CRYENGINE software and state-of-the art VR hardware from leading technology partners.

The latest wave of universities to sign up for VR First spans three continents and gives the initiative a presence in four new countries. The new academic partners are:

The University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (Finland), University College London (UK), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Oklahoma University (USA), and Tallinn Technical University (Estonia).

For more information on VR First, or to find out about becoming an academic or technology partner, visit http://vrfirst.cryengine.com.

About VR First
VR First is an academic initiative designed to provide state-of-the-art facilities to anyone interested in exploring the power and potential of virtual reality development. The program encourages educational institutions around the world to establish dedicated VR labs on their campuses by partnering with Crytek and leading VR hardware innovators. VR First participants have full access to Crytek’s CRYENGINE software alongside the latest technology required for VR development. The overarching goal of VR First is to nurture new talent in VR development and create a global community equipped to embrace this exciting field of technology.

About Crytek

Crytek is an independent videogame developer, publisher, and technology provider with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and six other studios around the world. Established in 1999, Crytek has created multiple award-winning titles, including the original Far Cry, the Crysis series, Ryse: Son of Rome, and Warface. All of Crytek’s games are developed using CRYENGINE, the company’s cutting-edge 3D game technology, which is also the first choice of other leading developers and licensees when creating games for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation^®4, and Android. Crytek’s ongoing growth in the games-as-a-service market has extended the company’s reach as they continue to deliver top quality interactive experiences to players through self-publishing platforms online.

For more information visit www.crytek.com and www.cryengine.com .

Nexon Announces First Quarter 2016 Financial Results

Solid Performance, Revenues Up 11% Year-over-Year Strengthen Relationships with Prominent Game Developers

TOKYO – May 12, 2016 – NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online and mobile games, today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2016.

“We’re pleased to have delivered another quarter of strong results that exceeded our expectations.  This quarter, we continued to execute well across several key markets, including China, where positive results were driven by the February Lunar New Year season, which continued into March, and Korea, where we saw better-than-expected performance from key PC and mobile titles,” said Owen Mahoney, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nexon. “During the quarter, we also deepened our commitment to partnering with world-class developers with our acquisition of Big Huge Games, the developer of DomiNations, a critically-acclaimed title with over 20 million downloads worldwide. With this acquisition, Nexon solidifies relationship with them for long-term comprehensive service of the title and established another strong development foothold in the West. In addition, we made an equity investment in NAT Games, a talented game development studio known for its mobile blockbuster RPG, HIT, which we’re preparing for a launch in the global market. Going forward, we will continue to seek more opportunities to work with leading game developers and IP holders around the world.”

First Quarter 2016 Highlights:

• First quarter revenues were 57.5 billion yen, up 11% year-over-year.
• Performance exceeded our outlook, with double-digit as-reported revenue growth despite strong Japanese yen appreciation against the Korean won, Chinese yuan and U.S. dollar.
• Outperformance was driven primarily by higher-than-expected sales fromDungeon&Fighter in China.
• Operating income was 3.7 billion yen and net loss attributable to owners of the parent was 6.3 billion yen, both below our outlook due to impairment loss.
• Operating income underperformance was primarily due to the impairment loss on gloops’ goodwill of 22.6 billion yen.
• Excluding the one-time impairment loss on gloops’ goodwill, operating income would have been 26.3 billion yen, exceeding our outlook.
• Lower than expected net income attributable to owners of the parent was primarily due to the impairment loss in addition to FX loss in foreign currency-denominated cash deposits and account receivables.

Second Quarter 2016 Outlook:

• Expect second quarter 2016 revenues in the range of 37.5 to 40.3 billion yen.
• Expect PC online game revenues in the range of 28.4 to 30.2 billion yen.
• Expect mobile game revenues in the range of 9.1 to 10.1 billion yen.
• Expect operating income in the range of 11.5 to 13.9 billion yen.
• Expect net income attributable to owners of the parent in the range of 10.3 to 12.3 billion yen.

Conference Call and Replay:

Nexon management will host two conference calls to discuss Nexon’s financial results and outlook. A conference call for foreign investors, analysts and the media, which will be conducted in English, will be held at 10：00 p.m. JST / 9:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 p.m. CEST on the same day. Each conference call will consist of brief remarks made by management team followed by a Q&A session.

A replay of the call will be available about 30 minutes after the conclusion of the conference call and can be accessed until May 19, 2016. A transcript of the call will be available within several days on Nexon’s Investor Relations website.

For additional information regarding Nexon’s first quarter 2016 financial results, please visit the Investor Relations section of Nexon’s website at http://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 nearly 100 titles in more than 190 countries. The Company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and its shares are listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.