AMANITA DESIGN’S SAMOROST 3 COMING TO WINDOWS PC AND MAC ON MARCH 24

Machinarium and Botanicula Studio Returns to Its Roots for a New Point-and-Click Exploration Adventure Game

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Feb. 26, 2016 – Amanita Design, the independent minds behind award-winning games like Machinarium and Botanicula, have announced that their latest title, Samorost 3, is expected to launch on Windows PC and Mac systems on March 24. Samorost 3 is a point-and-click exploration adventure game that loosely continues the stories established in Samorost (2003) and Samorost 2 (2005), both cult hits of early indie gaming.

“Samorost 3 is by far our biggest, most ambitious project to date,” said Samorost creator and Amanita Design founder Jakub Dvorský. “Our goal was to create something playful yet dense, blending the challenging logic puzzles of Machinarium with the more relaxed gameplay and tone of Botanicula. We think it offers something that both longtime fans of the series and newcomers will be able to enjoy.”

As Samorost 3 begins, a little space gnome finds a strange magical flute that falls from the sky. He uses the instrument’s powers to travel to the cosmos in search of its origins, scouring the alien landscapes of five planets and four moons to solve clever mysteries along the way. Each of Samorost 3’s organically inspired biomes presents a uniquely colorful world full of hidden surprises and achievements for keen players to discover.

Samorost 3’s surreal art style and character designs sell a universe that is at once astonishingly otherworldly and oddly familiar, brought to life with highly detailed graphics and animations. Beyond instilling an intensely atmospheric energy, the game’s abstract yet expressive sound design, accompanied by an original soundtrack from Tomáš “Floex” Dvorák, often plays a crucial role in delivering subtle environmental clues for players to piece together.

Samorost 3 is expected to arrive on PC and Mac on March 24 for $19.99 through Steam, GOG.com, Humble Store, the Mac App Store, and its official website: www.samorost3.net. Samorost 3 Cosmic Edition – containing the full game, a digital art book and its original soundtrack – will be available for $24.99. The core game is expected to come to iOS and Android smartphones and tablets later this year.

About Amanita Design

Amanita Design is a small, independent game development studio based in the Czech Republic. It was established in 2003 when Jakub Dvorský completed his thesis project at the Academy of Arts in Prague by creating a free online flash game called Samorost. In 2005, animator Václav Blín joined the studio and Samorost 2 was created. Since then, our team has expanded further to include several excellent collaborators – musicians Floex and Dva, programmers David Oliva, Peter Stehlík and Jan Werner, painter Adolf Lachman, sound effects expert Tomáš Dvorák and animator Jaromír Plachý. Besides making computer games, the studio has also created music videos, websites, animated works, and illustrations, and has done production design, as well.

For more information, visit www.amanita-design.net, and follow the studio on Facebook and Twitter.

February 17th, 2016–MangaGamer Announces Partnership for Heart of Crown for PC!

Today we would like to congratulate our partners at Japanime Games and Culture Select for successfully reaching their funding goal for the Heart of Crown PC Game!

Heart of Crown is an exciting deck-building card game with high-quality artwork by FlipFlops, the creators of the manga, Everyday Tales of a Cat God, and the artists for Etrian Odyssey II: The girl of six flowers, where you and other players compete to push your princess’s claim to throne and see her crowned as the new ruler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQbX8_v3Bs

The PC version will feature all of the expansions currently being offered on Japanime Games’ Kickstarter, and offers three different modes of gameplay: online ranked play, campaign play, and free play!

In ranked play, players of the PC version can compete against each other in online multiplayer matches that reproduce the physical card-game one-to-one, with added ranking lists so you can strive to be the top player! Free play will offer the same multiplayer experience, only in unranked matches. Then, using the points earned in ranked or free play, players can proceed through campaign mode, unlocking story missions, new cards, and furthering your princess’s claim to throne!

While Japanime Games will be focusing on the localization of the physical game, we at MangaGamer are sponsoring the PC game’s localization by Culture Select! We’ll be working closely with Culture Select to ensure the best quality release when it hits our storefront.

The PC version has just gone up on Steam Greenlight, so go give it your vote if you want to see this great game on Steam in addition to MangaGamer!

ABOUT JAPANIMEGAMES

Japanime Games is dedicated to bringing you the finest games from Japan and beyond! It’s our goal to import and translate the best games from Asia to bring those great games to a wider audience. Our games feature some of the finest art that can be found along with engaging gameplay and quality components. We are committed to great customer service and have hundreds of thousands of happy customers.

ABOUT CULTURE SELECT

Culture Select is a Delaware, USA based company that aims to connect the creative work of authors in limited local markets with an international audience. We strive to give smaller markets and the worldwide audience a chance to reach independent developers, free of language barriers and other restrictions.

ABOUT MANGAGAMER.COM
MangaGamer.com is the world’s first legal download site for English translated Visual Novels. Since its launch in July 2008, it has offered services where fans can download and enjoy popular Visual Novels such as minori’s ef -a fairy tale of two and OVERDRIVE’s Dengeki Stryker right from their home. Don’t forget to visit us on Facebook and Twitter!

NEW GAMEPLAY VIDEO: GET YOUR FIRST LOOK INTO THE WORLD OF THE DESCENDANT

Gaming Corps, a Swedish game studio composed of industry veterans, is giving a tantalizing look into the story and gameplay of their upcoming episodic post-apocalyptic thriller, The Descendant. With the first episode arriving on March 24, this new in-game video for The Descendant showcases key gameplay and character-driven moments from the first episode. The Descendant is a five-part episodic adventure game series where every choice the player makes can influence the fate of mankind. Download the latest trailer and read on for more info.

View the video HERE: https://youtu.be/KXJI6Vpc7c8

The Descendant combines investigative gameplay, challenging puzzles, and difficult choices with branching dialogue

Set in the near future, climate change has wrecked the planet, and a man-made extinction event has rendered Earth unsustainable for human life.

In order to survive this catastrophic collapse, a coalition formed from the world’s governments invite people to carry out aptitude tests, resulting in only a few thousand ‘descendants of humanity’ hand-picked to survive the apocalypse, cryogenically suspended in underground bunkers known as Arks until the world recovers from the impending nuclear holocaust. When news breaks of what the coalition intend to achieve, people flock to the government’s tests with demand for sanctuary far outweighing the spaces available. Only a few are selected — those with certain undisclosed traits. Why were they chosen? What genetic qualities was the government looking for in these individuals to reseed the planet?

While the descendants sleep through the apocalypse, teams of janitors aren’t quite so lucky – their life underground spent ensuring that each of the Arks, scattered across the world, are carefully maintained so that one day, their precious cargo may wake from its slumber to repopulate the Earth, and build the new world envisioned by the coalition. Centuries pass. Earth becomes habitable again. The descendants are awakened and begin climbing out of storage — except one, Ark-01.

Players awake to explore the dangerous Ark-01 facility, both in the past, immediately after the outbreak of the ecological disaster, and in the present time of the world, seeking any survivors while unraveling a mysterious conspiracy in the process. What do the descendants do next? How do they restart, and “Was humanity worth saving?”

Written by experienced games writer Giles Armstrong (a member of both BAFTA and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, whose credits include Velocity 2X, Here Be Monsters, and the Buzz! series) The Descendant features two intertwining narratives. In the past you’ll play as Mia, an Ark janitor tasked with keeping the precious descendants housed inside Ark-01 alive, while in the present you’ll play as Donnie, one of the investigators trying to rescue any survivors who may still be trapped within the facility.

The first of five episodes of The Descendant will be available on Steam starting March 24. An “Exclusive Season 1 Bundle” is available now from the game’s official website until 48 hours before the first episode releases. This pre-launch bundle includes all five episodes of the game (with episodes 2 -5 to be released over the course of 2016), grants players 48-hours early access to each episode, and features a full game Soundtrack, a Digital Poster and a Digital Art Book.

For more information on The Descendant, visit the official website, ‘Like’ the game on Facebook​, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

NEW POKÉMON GAMES ANNOUNCED VIA POKÉMON DIRECT

Newest Generation of Pokémon Core Series Games coming to Nintendo 3DS Late 2016

Tiny Troopers Joint Ops Deploys Onto Xbox One with Brand New, Exclusive Content 

Explosive, Twin-Stick Arcade Shooter Now Available on Xbox One with Exclusive Zombie Wave Maps, a Brand New Soundtrack, and Ultra Hard Mode 

Watford, United Kingdom—February 26, 2016—Wired Productions, an independent videogame publisher, today announced that Tiny Troopers Joint Ops, its military-themed, twin-stick arcade shooter originally developed by Kukouri Mobile Entertainment, is now available for digital purchase across North America and Europe for Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, along with brand new, Xbox One exclusive content. Developed for Xbox One by Australian-based Epiphany Games, the Xbox One version of Tiny Troopers Joint Ops includes four brand new Zombie Wave maps, a brand new soundtrack, and an Ultra Hard Mode for those who like their shooters extra tough.

To celebrate the launch of Tiny Troopers Joint Ops on Xbox One, Wired Productions has shared two brand new trailers showcasing the game’s missions as well as its brand new, Xbox One exclusive features. To view these explosive new trailers, please visit the following URLs:

Xbox One Features Trailer: https://youtu.be/yyGwJlNIIPI

Missions Trailer: https://youtu.be/9X4UvwDHES0

In Tiny Troopers Joint Ops, players take control of miniature marines as they battle evil foes from around the world with a multitude of weapons and specialist soldiers.  Collect medals, dog tags, and intel during the course of each mission. With hours of explosive, gun-toting gameplay, Tiny Troopers Joint Ops is miniature warfare on a massive scale!

Experience the all new, Xbox One exclusive Zombie Wave Maps: battle the desert-dwelling dead as they descend in droves in “Operation: Zombie Storm,” fight back against a flock of poultry that ain’t paltry in “ZFC,” cruise and clear the airfield of cantankerous cadavers in “Zombie Patrol,” and call in help from the skies while facing endless waves of Zombies in “Z-End.” Players who think they can handle the heat should make sure to try the Ultra Hard Mode! All of the above is complemented by a brand new cinematic soundtrack completely exclusive to Xbox One.

Tiny Troopers Joint Ops Features:

• Over 60 action-packed mini-maps of mayhem including Zombie Survival Mode with online leaderboards
• Recruit specialist mercenaries such as Medics, Machine Gunners and the Elite Delta Force to subdue enemy insurgents
• Twin-stick arcade control system to blast your way through waves of enemy rebels

Published by Wired Productions, Tiny Troopers Joint Ops is now available digitally on Xbox One across North America, Europe, and the UK for $9.99, €9.99, and £7.99 respectively. This title has been rated “T for Teen” by the ESRB.

For the latest news and information about Wired Productions, visit the official website at www.wiredproductions.com, follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/WiredP (@WiredP), and Like us on Facebook via www.facebook.com/wiredpro.

About Wired Productions:

Wired Productions are an established independent games publisher based in Watford, Hertfordshire, UK.  Wired have produced over 35 titles, and are the team responsible for the 1.3 million unit selling We Sing franchise as well as producing and co-developing The Voice branded console products.  In 2013/14, Wired Productions moved back into digital console publishing with Let’s Fish! Hooked On on the PlayStation Vita, Tiny Troopers Joint Ops on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita (including cross buy) and Last Inua on PC & Mac.  For more information visit www.wiredproductions.com or follow at: www.facebook.com/WiredPro and on Twitter https://twitter.com/WiredP.

About Kukouri Mobile Entertainment:

Privately held mobile games developer, Kukouri Mobile Entertainment develops games for high end mobile devices like Apple iPhone, iPad and Android platforms, with offices in south-eastern Finland. Kukouri’s breakout title Tiny Troopers and its sequel Tiny Troopers 2 Special Ops have enjoyed critical and commercial success globally, with downloads in excess of 22 million. Motivated and highly skilled, Kukouri’s team makes games that always have that extra something in them. For more information visit, www.kukouri.com, or follow via twitter: www.twitter.com/Kukouri

About Epiphany Games:

Epiphany Games is a Mid-Sized Development Studio located in Sydney which focuses on multi-platform games. The company consists of a number of a highly experienced game developers with over fifty years of combined game development experience for producing high quality projects on time and on budget.

KOEI TECMO REVEALS ARNICE’S DEMON SIDE IN NIGHTS OF AZURE 

Additional information on summoned demon allies explored! 

Hertfordshire, 26 February 2016- In the fictional kingdom of Ruswal, where GUST’s new RPG Nights of Azure takes place, the beautiful protagonist, Arnice, is called to protect humanity from demons that plague the land in the night. Opting to fight fire with fire, Arnice has the power to summon demon allies, who serve by her side when she ventures in the battlefield.

These Servans have several functions, as some of them can be called as healers, attackers, defenders, tricksters, followers, or mages and they have quite lively characters. Arnice can upgrade and equip them when she is at the hotel base, and they all gain experience from battle.

Putting together a nicely functioning team of up to four Servans before starting a mission helps Arnice balance her team according to the requirements of each task. Furthermore, as the Servans have personalities of their own, it’s always entertaining to see how they will react when teamed up with others.

However, there is another element that determines which allies could form a strong team. All Servans have a ‘transformation factor’ attached to them. This influences Arnice significantly as she also has the power to transform into a Demon!

Overall Arnice can take five different demon forms, depending on the sum of the transformation factor of the Servans that accompany her. The basic form is the Demon Form, which allows Arnice the power to manipulate fire. Rabbit Form gives her unnatural speed, and Phantom Form transforms her into a blue sharpshooter, allowing her to strike from a distance! A stronger form is the well balanced Armor Form that increases both the offensive and defensive attributes of the protagonist. And last, but certainly not least, Arnice can transform into an overpowering demonic creature when she takes on the Nightmare Form!

Koei Tecmo has released an image-packed batch of assets, screens and character art covering the types of Servans and the way they can be used in battle, as well as screen and video focusing on Arnice’s impressive transformations!

Nights of Azure will be released on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system on 1^st April 2016.

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About Nights of Azure

Shaped under the keen eye of Keisuke Kikuchi (Fatal Frame, Deception IV), Nights of Azure marks a new, darker, direction for GUST, while it maintains a lot of the gameplay elements dedicated fans of the studio love.

Nights of Azure is game is set on the imaginary island-kingdom of Ruswal, where nights are plagued by Azure-blooded demons. It tells a tragic epic tale of two friends tangled up in a web of fate and faced with impossible decisions that will test their loyalty to their quest and to each other to the limits.

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

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