‘CROSSOUT’ Available Now on Steam Early Access

New Features Added Including New PvE Missions and New Maps

(MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION) – August 24th, 2016 — Award-winning developer and publisher of smash hit, War Thunder, Gaijin Entertainment and Targem Games development studio today announced that their new team-based vehicle combat MMO Crossout is now available on Steam Early Access for PC. Steam players will get a chance to join the Closed Beta by buying the Early Access Pack ‘Westland Warrior’ which includes the ‘Bloodhound’, a unique armored vehicle equipped with two powerful ‘Sledgehammer’ shotguns, 2000 in-game coins, featuring an exclusive character portrait and special dark-red paint. All pack content will be available in-game immediately and at the end of Closed Beta it will be reset and reassigned to the account, with the start of free-to-play Open Beta.

Get Crossout Early Access Pack “Westland Warrior’ for $29.99/ £24.99 / 29.99€ here:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/386180

“We are delighted to launch Crossout on Steam through Early Access and continue to build our vocal and collaborative community before Open Beta starts”, said Stanislav Skorb , CEO of Targem Games. “Closed Beta players help us shape the direction of development to build the experience that the community demands.”

With Steam Early Access launch, Crossout contains all the latest content updates including new PvE Missions and additional maps:

Convoy Escort

Scavengers are willing to fork out a tidy sum to any mercenary who ensures safe passage of an armored truck. Players need to follow the truck and defend it from other scavengers and help it cross the map successfully. The map was created especially for this mission with a long route that has almost no turns. Enemies will be attacking the convoy along the way. In the middle of the map there is a radar station, which is a perfect place for an ambush. The main clashes will be waiting for players there. Reward for this mission depends on the distance players can pass.

Heist
In this mission, players will try to grab some goodies from a settlement based in Terminal-45 and take it to the evacuation spot. Here players will face not only the enemies which can appear from everywhere, but turrets as well, as they attack a well defended settlement. The map is like a giant labyrinth, with rubbish dumps, garages, living spaces and transport routes all scattered around the territory of the former port terminal. The heist attempt also has a time limit so failing to complete it before the timer ends means losing the round.

Map Control 17

Bringing the total number of maps to 10, Map Control 17 is the latest addition to the game. An open and spacious map, it offers a lot of fun for long range weapons lovers and high speed drivers. Since there is no place to hide for a substantial amount of time, the only way to survive is to be the first to attack the enemy. Be quick, be unpredictable, be desperate – this map indulges brave scavengers. Sneak around destroyed radar dishes, hunt for lonely drivers, and watch your back. Someone can be hunting you at the same moment!

About Crossout

Set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by an alien invasion and human genetic testing gone awry, Crossout is an MMO vehicle combat game, offering players complete customisation in building and upgrading deadly armored vehicles to destroy enemies in open PvP battles. Crossout gives players thousands of possibilities to design their vehicle, including shape, armor, weapons, support systems and, of course, cosmetic enhancements. More about Crossout: http://crossout.net/

FIRST-PERSON EXPLORATION TITLE VALLEY NOW AVAILABLE ON XBOX ONE, PLAYSTATION 4 AND STEAM

From the Creators of Slender: The Arrival Comes a Beautiful New Adventure Where Players Wield the Power Over Life or Death

Toronto, CANADA – August 24, 2016 – Blue Isle Studios, developers of the popular horror game Slender: The Arrival, today released Valley, their first-person action/exploration title that sends player on an amazing super-powered journey of discovery through a beautiful, mysterious land. The game is now available for download worldwide on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam.

In the game, players don the powerful L.E.A.F. suit (Leap Effortlessly through Air Functionality), an exoskeleton that grants the wearer incredible speed, agility and strength – and more importantly – the power to control both life and death. Featuring a powerful soundtrack by Aakaash Rao of Note by Note Studios, Valley aims to offer a fantastic audio and visual experience.

Watch the New Launch Trailer

Gameplay Features:

• Move faster, jump higher: Make your way through the world of Valley using the incredible speed and agility of the L.E.A.F. suit.
• Manipulate life and death: The L.E.A.F. suit grants its pilots the phenomenal power to both give and take life from any living thing.
• Experience a unique twist on death: The more you die, the more the valley will die around you.
• Enhance yourself: Upgrade your suit with new abilities and strength.
• Explore: The world of Valley is filled with forests, wildlife, ancient ruins, charming creatures, dangerous enemies and other mysteries.

The game’s namesake Valley is a magical hidden wonder in the middle of the Rocky Mountains. Filled with a variety of wonderous creatures and sweeping vistas, The Valley also holds an ancient and incredibly powerful relic, which according to legend is a bringer of death on a global scale. The Valley’s predecessors have attempted to harness it, and now it’s up to the player to explore The Valley while attempting to capture and harness the power of the Lifeseed for good. By using the abilities of the L.E.A.F. exosuit, players will experience a truly 3D world as they leap to incredible heights and sprint effortlessly across expansive landscapes. As they explore, players will collect orbs of life, dash through forests, leap between structures, and uncover clues while wielding control over the life and death of the living creatures and plant life around you.
For more insight to the storyline, watch the Valley Narrative Trailer HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXHdDQgHADQ

Valley is rated T for Teen (Blood, Violence) and launched today for $19.99 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam PC. For more information, please visit www.valleythegame.com, follow @BlueIsleStudio and ‘Like’ the game on Facebook.

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ABOUT BLUE ISLE STUDIOS

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

Release Date Revealed for Innovative Sci-Fi Narrative Exploration Game, Event[0], Confirmed by…Kaizen

What Would You Say to a Computer if Your Life Depended on it?…is the Question that Highly-Anticipated, Indie Fund Backed Project Will Ask Players on September 14

PARIS – August 23, 2016 – Incoming message from AI entity Kaizen-85…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 via Steam and the Humble Store by Humble Bundle on September 14, 2016.  New screenshots released alongside today’s announcement show off more of what players can look forward to in developer Ocelot Society’s story-driven spacefaring adventure.

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. As a player, your only companion is an insecure and unstable AI entity named, Kaizen, with whom you interact by typing messages on computer terminals throughout a desolated spacecraft. The game’s multi-layered story emerges organically as players communicate with Kaizen, freely explore 3D environments, gather information and solve hacking puzzles. Each player will enjoy a unique gameplay experience based on the way they choose to communicate with Kaizen, who can procedurally generate over two million lines of dialog and demonstrates a variety of different personalities, and responses, influenced by human input.

As in any relationship, there can be gratitude, disappointment or jealousy, and Kaizen reacts differently depending on its mood and the situation at hand. The ship, Nautilus, is essentially the AI computer’s body, and reacts to Kaizen’s mood by making different sounds, which can give the player subtle yet valuable clues. By working through the fears and anxieties of a virtual companion players can ultimately find the way back to Earth—while unraveling the cryptic history of the ship and the 1980s society from which it emerged.

Event[0] 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.

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 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. Event[0] is now 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.

For updates on Event[0], please follow @event0game on Twitter and on Facebook. For additional information and to view the teaser trailer, please visit event0game.com.

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.

The Grim & The Grave Brings Unholy Rivalry (and more free content) to Total War: WARHAMMER
Following the best-selling Call of the Beastmen, Creative Assembly introduces The Grim & The Grave DLC pack for Total War: WARHAMMER, which includes the first Lord Pack and two new Legendary Lords from Warhammer Fantasy Battles – Volkmar the Grim for the Empire, and Helman Ghorst for the Vampire Counts. Alongside this, The Grim & The Grave also adds two new lord types to the game with the Vampire Counts receiving the fearsome Strigoi Ghoul King, and the Arch Lector, mightiest of all warrior priests, joining the Empire. Below is a breakdown for what The Grim & The Grave DLC will include:

• Two new Legendary Lords…
• …with new quest chains, magic items and skill trees
• Two new additional Lord types
• Five all-new battlefield units plus variants
• 18 elite Regiments of Renown
• Free Legendary Lord and five new battle maps for all players

To view the new trailer announce for Total War: WARHAMMER’s The Grim & The Grave DLC, please visit: https://youtu.be/1yI1LVCGNpc
In addition, both the Empire and Vampire Counts unit rosters are being expanded with two brand new units each. The Knights of the Blazing Sun, the zealous Flagellants and versatile Free Company Militia join the ranks of the Empire, while the vampire counts will see their undead hordes imbued with dark magic by the gruesome Corpse Cart and volatile Mortis Engine. The rosters of both factions are also further expanded by the addition of Regiments of Renown, unique unit variants with special traits and abilities, whose prowess in battle have immortalized them in the annals of the Old World.

As part of Total War: WARHAMMER’s ongoing free content program, an update released alongside The Grim & The Grave will introduce a number of unique new battle maps and Vlad von Carstein as a free legendary lord for all players. The first – and arguably greatest – of the Vampire Counts is a nigh-unrivalled practitioner of the Lore of Vampires, granting Vanguard Deployment to all units under his command, whose thirst for the throne of the Empire rivals even that of Mannfred himself.

The Grim & The Grave will be releasing September 1^st across all platforms for £5.99/$7.99. For more information on the DLC and where to pre-order it today, please visit the Steam page here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/404013/.

Total War: WARHAMMER continues to be the fastest-selling Total War ever, and is out now. For more details visit www.totalwar.com

2K Releases Mafia III Inside Look Episode 9 – Burke

2K and Hangar 13 today released Mafia III Inside Look – Burke, the ninth video in an ongoing series providing an in-depth look at the development of Mafia III directly from the team at Hangar 13. In Mafia III Inside Look – Burke, members of the Hangar 13 writing team (lead writer Bill Harms, senior writer Ed Fowler and senior writer Charles Webb) highlight the relationship between protagonist Lincoln Clay and Thomas Burke, the leader of New Bordeaux’s Irish mob who has teamed up with Lincoln to take down the Marcano family.

To view or embed Mafia III Inside Look – Burke, visit: YouTube or the Press Hub

Catch up on the complete Mafia III Inside Look series on YouTube:
·         Mafia III Inside Look – The Criminal Ecology
·         Mafia III Inside Look – Bringing a City to Life
·         Mafia III Inside Look – Driving in New Bordeaux
·         Mafia III Inside Look – Re-Imagining New Orleans 1968
·         Mafia III Inside Look – Lincoln Clay
·         Mafia III Inside Look – Family
·         Mafia III Inside Look – Cassandra
·         Mafia III Inside Look – Vito

Mafia III  will be available October 7, 2016 for PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One and Windows PC. Mafia III is rated PEGI 18. For more information on Mafia III, subscribe on YouTube, follow us on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook and visithttp://MafiaGame.com.

Philip II leads Spain in Civilization VI

2K and Firaxis Games today revealed that Philip II will lead Spain in Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, launching on Oct 21^st for Windows PC.

For 48 years, Philip II was king of the massive Spanish Empire, and the most powerful ruler in Europe during the 16th century. He championed the Catholic faith, utilizing the Spanish Inquisition and leading several religious conflicts.

In staunch defense of Catholicism, Philip organized a “Holy League” against the Ottoman Empire, halting their dominance across the Mediterranean at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. He later opposed Protestantism in England, and attempted to invade the country several times using his fleet of ships, the world-famous Spanish Armada.

Philip directly intervened during the French Wars of Religion between 1585 & 1595, financing the Catholic League and ultimately causing Catholicism to be the foremost religion in France.

Phillip II’s reign ushered in a golden era for Spain. Despite constant religious warfare, Spain’s culture flourished. Music, art, and literature boomed under Philip, culminating with the creation of the majestic El Escorial monastery and palace in 1595.

For more information, please see 2K’s official Civilization blog:http://steamcommunity.com/games/289070/announcements/detail/881964708233927395.

You can download new assets on the 2K Press Hub, and a new trailer is available to view or embed on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/mkcF4Mpp_y4

For the latest news on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, visit the official site, follow @CivGame on Twitter, and become a fan of Civilization on Facebook.

Torn Banner Studios Debuts New Content for Mirage: Arcane Warfare at PAX West 2016

Attendees Will Experience New Maps in Live Hands-on Bloody Multiplayer Battles All 4 Days of The Show

TORONTO, CANADA, August 23, 2016 – Torn Banner Studios, the Toronto-based developers of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare announced today that Mirage: Arcane Warfare will debut two new levels and new gameplay mechanics for attendees of this year’s PAX West to get hands-on time with at this year’s show. Visitors to the Torn Banner booth will be given the opportunity to play on one of 24 gaming PCs located in booth #2521, at the Washington State Convention Center, September 2 – 5.

Once again, Mirage: Arcane Warfare’s multiplayer is set to thrill PAX attendees with its uniquely magic-soaked combat action featuring individual hand-to-hand combat infused with powerful spells. Players will also be able to try out new spells and moves from a select group of classes that will be found in the final game, as well as experience two never-before seen maps:

• Bazaar – A colorful market district played in Team Objective Mode where players capture points in order to clear a path for their pushable magic vessel
• Sunken City – The ruins of a city destroyed by powerful magic, played as a Point Capture map

In Mirage: Arcane Warfare, the calm of a strange fantasy world is shattered by ruthless civil war. Warriors armed with steel and magic bring violence and death as they do battle across a fantastical Arabian and Persian-inspired setting of desert sands, market bazaars and grand palaces. Built using the powerful new capabilities of Unreal Engine 4, Mirage: Arcane Warfare presents a visually stunning backdrop to some viscerally brutal multiplayer combat.

Slated for release on PC through Steam in early 2017, Mirage: Arcane Warfare will feature a range of diverse player classes each with their own unique weapon and skill sets, exotic fantasy locales, multiple multiplayer game modes including objective-based challenges, brutal gore and a host of other innovative new features.

Torn Banner Studios has released some new images of the content that will be on display at this year’s PAX West. They can be accessed at the following link. And be sure to catch up on the latest videos for Mirage: Arcane Warfare at the Torn Banner Studios’ YouTube channel.

For more information visit MirageArcaneWarfare.com. Like their game’s Facebook page and follow it on Twitter @MirageGame for future news and updates.

About Torn Banner Studios

Torn Banner Studios is a small indie games studio that makes BIG games. Based in Toronto Canada, Torn Banner Studios was founded in 2012 by a group of passionate game developers who are dedicated to creating powerful and unique games for a dedicated audience of fans. The nucleus of the team first came together from a group of modders who created a well-known Half-Life 2 mod called Age of Chivalry. Their first full game, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, was a critical and commercial success and has driven the dedicated team at Torn Banner to continue to develop great games and ongoing content for their passionate community of fans. For more information visit TornBanner.com or follow @TornBanner.

POKÉMON CROWNS CHAMPIONS AT THE 2016 POKÉMON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Pokémon TCG and video game players from more than 30 countries competed in San Francisco at the premier Pokémon event of the year