CIVIL WAR BREAKS LOOSE ON CAMPUS IN MARVEL AVENGERS ACADEMY

Captain America and Iron Man Choose Teams in Brand New Update for TinyCo’s

Smash Hit Mobile Game

(San Francisco, Calif. & Los Angeles, Calif.) May 5, 2016 – Coinciding with the upcoming theatrical release of Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War, in theaters May 6, TinyCo and Marvel have announced a brand new limited time in-game event for their highly successful MARVEL Avengers Academy mobile game, rolling out fresh new “Civil War” in-game content available now. MARVEL Avengers Academy is available to download for free on the App Store® and Google Play™.

Following MARVEL Avengers Academy’s Guardians of the Galaxy update last month, the Avengers Academy finds itself in a vulnerable state as the threat of incoming enemies heightens the need for campus safety. Captain America and Iron Man take leadership as the two opposing pillars with vastly different opinions on how to best defend the Avengers Academy, albeit this isn’t merely a campus election at stake – lives are on the line!

Captain America, ever responsible and traditional in his methods, is determined to set up a training facility in order to better train the students. Meanwhile, Iron Man, the self-proclaimed genius with a supply of everlasting ego and charm, believes in building an army of robots to protect Avengers Academy.

These two very different takes on solving the same dilemma force students to choose teams: Captain America vs Iron Man. Lines will be divided between former friends as teams are recruited. Each week, players will unlock a new piece of the Civil War story and different quests and prizes will be available depending on the Super Hero players choose. Foes who were once friends will battle it out in combat and in school-wide activities, such as arm-wrestling, aimed to test students at their very best skills. Who will receive a passing score and be most prepared when Hydra and their band of misfit Super Villains pay a menacing visit on-campus all leading up to one final showdown?

New students enrolling in this brand new update for MARVEL Avengers Academy include Captain America’s long-lost friend, Bucky Barnes, aka the dangerous Winter Soldier, who isn’t quite looking to fondly reminisce about the old times. This update also sees the long-awaited introduction of Black Panther, donning a slick outfit, incredible moves, and a mysterious agenda that may just change the Academy forever.

School will officially be out of session if Hydra takes over and it’s up to the players to save it!

MARVEL Avengers Academy is available to download for free on the App Store® and Google Play™. For more information on TinyCo, please visit: http://www.tinyco.com. Visit MARVEL Avengers Academy’s Facebook.com/AvengersAcademy page or follow them @AvengersAcademy on Twitter.

About TinyCo

Founded in 2009, TinyCo has developed more than a dozen successful games for the App Store, Google Play Store and Amazon App store with titles such as MARVEL Avengers Academy and FAMILY GUY: The Quest for Stuff. The company’s mission is to make people happy five minutes at a time through incredible, fun and original mobile entertainment. The company’s investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Pinnacle Ventures and angel investors including Ron Conway and Keith Rabois. For more information about TinyCo, please visit http://www.tinyco.com.

About Marvel Entertainment

Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy-five years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing. For more information visit marvel.com. © 2016 MARVEL

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THE HUNGRY SHARKS RETURN WITH HUNGRY SHARK WORLD 

TAKE CONTROL OF A VERY HUNGRY SHARK^® IN THIS ACTION-PACKED AQUATIC ADVENTURE

HUNGRY SHARK WORLD LAUNCH TRAILER: YOUTUBE LINK

London, UK– May 5, 2016 – Today, Ubisoft^® announced that Hungry Shark World, the 6^th installment in the successful Hungry Shark franchise developed by Future Games of London®, is now available on the App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon Store.

Following the success of Hungry Shark Evolution, this new installment gives players the hungriest experience yet by introducing three all new immersive locations, from the beautiful beaches of the Pacific Islands to the icy depths of the Arctic Ocean and chaotic Arabian Sea. Each level comes with a wide array of prey and enemies to devour that are unique to each environment.

The game features 17 different shark species to upgrade, each with its own characteristics and personality. Players will progress each shark through seven ranks by completing missions and earning gold coins to level up their shark. Each rank of shark offers unlockable special abilities like destroying walls, eating bigger or stronger prey, accumulating higher combo bonuses and acquiring pets to help chomp through even more prey.

Hungry Shark World expands on the previous game with new mechanics, such as Mega Rush—the more destructive, older brother of the beloved Gold Rush—which gives players a competitive edge and pushes them to drive their scores even higher. The new instalment also introduces Super Shoals, large groups of fish that allow your shark to eat more than 100 prey in one gulp. Release your inner scavenger hunter by collecting all the HUNGRY letters to boost your shark up to Super-Size mode and be the number one Hungry Shark by taking part in the level, global and Facebook leaderboards.

Built using the Unity 3D mobile game engine, Hungry Shark World boasts striking 3D models, lighting and beautifully rich environments. Each in-game model has been meticulously constructed and animated for accurate design and movement.

Hungry Shark World is compatible with iPhone 5 or later, iPad Mini 2 or later, iPad Air or later, iPod 6th generation or later and with devices running on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean or above.

Hungry Shark World is available for free on the App Store, Google Play and the Amazon Store:

Apple App Store: http://apple.co/23dcxhl

Google Play Store : http://bit.ly/1rcF76I

Amazon Store : http://amzn.to/26AESTc

For more information on Ubisoft mobile games, please visit https://www.ubisoft.com

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft is a leading creator, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and services, with a rich portfolio of world-renowned brands, including Assassin’s Creed, Just Dance, Tom Clancy’s video game series, Rayman, Far Cry and Watch Dogs. The teams throughout Ubisoft’s worldwide network of studios and business offices are committed to delivering original and memorable gaming experiences across all popular platforms, including consoles, mobile phones, tablets and PCs. For the 2014-15 fiscal year Ubisoft generated sales of €1,464 million. To learn more, please visit www.ubisoftgroup.com. 

© 2012-2016 Future Games of London. All rights Reserved. Hungry Shark is a trademark of Future Games of London. Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Future Games of London is a Ubisoft Entertainment company.

ARK: SURVIVAL EVOLVED KICKS OFF MAY UPDATES WITH GIANT APE, SPITTING ‘DINOS’ AND…SALMON STEAK?!

Seattle, WA – May 4, 2016 – Studio Wildcard, the studio that never sleeps, uncaged today a slew of new content into the ever-growing landscape of ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam, including a trio of dinosaurs, a primitive weapon, a gigantic Boss encounter on snowy-mountain peaks, and more.

• Watch the new ARK: Survival Evolved Spotlight video on YouTube HERE: be/1nQDec_x5f0

In march the new dinosaurs! The cute, dog-like Lystrosaurus can be hugged and petted to temporarily enable a XP-gaining buff in an area around it; the Arthropluera is a giant, rideable centipede possessing a devastating acid-spit attack which you can direct while mounted; and the Sabertooth Salmon, well, these guys are really good for a precambrian salmon-steak dinner.

In search of a new weapon? In the same way the powerful Grappling Hooks changed combat, the Primitive Bolas add a new layer of fighting tactics to players’ already generous quiver of weapons.

ARK: Survival Evolved (Steam PC) Key Updates Include:

• New Boss Fight: Survivors will now face the mighty Megapithecus in its snowy-mountain arena in an epic, brutal boss fight against the giant ape and its army of monkey minions.
• Three New ‘Dinos’: Arthropluera, Lystrosaurus, and Sabertooth Salmon
• New Weapon: Wind up the Primitive Bola then toss at players and smaller creatures to temporarily trip and ensnare them. It can even be used to knock enemy riders off their mounts or pull down flyers from the sky!
• Tribe Member Rankings with Customizable Per-Rank Privileges: This enables Tribes to create arbitrary “Sub-Groups” within their Tribe, name them, and give them all kinds of detailed rank-based access privileges on your structures, inventories, and creatures. Effectively you can now create your very own caste-based society, with Kings, Nobles, Lords, and Serfs, etc.

Lystrosaurus Aicifidelis (above): About two feet long, the Lystrosaurus Aicifidelis is a small, resilient herbivore, that learns fast and therefore gains experience much more quickly than most other creatures, while also recovering its torpor and health much faster than most creatures. Its presence inspires allies, making them learn and gain experience more rapidly, too.

Arthropluera Felsanguis (above): Like the island’s other Arthropods, Arthropluera Felsanguis is large and a very aggressive hunter, with preferences toward the “delicacies” of rotted meat. It is almost entirely a military mount, useful mostly for attacking at a distance, and, thanks to its unique defenses, Arthropleura is generally safe from all but the largest of creatures. Arthropleura has acidic blood. When injured, its blood splashes back on anything that directly attacks it, weakening the durability of weapons and hurting attackers. If that wasn’t enough, Arthropleura also keeps a small reservoir of blood ready to spit at its prey.

Oncorhynchus Grexlamia (above): Commonly known as a Sabertooth Salmon, the Oncorhynchus is a generally passive fish that swims in large schools for protection. Like many of the smaller fish on the Island, Oncorhynchus cannot be tamed, but it is often herded and raised for its resources. Certain ‘cuts’ are considered superb quality, and are often referred to as “Prime Fish” used for specific high-end concoctions. Once provoked, however, Oncorhynchus becomes very aggressive: It locks onto the aggressor with its long “saberteeth” to drain blood. Alone, this isn’t a worry, but when a school of them attack at once, their would-be aggressor quickly loses speed and stamina from bloodloss, drowning if it cannot breath underwater.

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

ARK: Survival Evolved is in development for full launch on Steam PC, Xbox One via the ID@Xbox program, and PlayStation^®4. 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 in the battle, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, subscribe to us on YouTube, visit the website at www.playark.com and watch us tame and train leviathan dinosaurs on Twitch.TV.

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ABOUT STUDIO WILDCARD
Studio Wildcard was co-founded in 2014 by Jesse Rapczak, former Technical Art Director at Microsoft Game Studios, with the mission of bringing AAA quality to ambitious indie productions that are designed for core gamers. With 12 years of industry experience across multiple independent and studio-backed titles, Jesse has teamed up with other veteran developers for a Seattle, WA-based development studio that also includes 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

OCTOPUS TREE ANNOUNCES ROBOT ARENA III COMING TO STEAM MAY 26

Eden Prairie, Minnesota – May 4, 2016 – Octopus Tree, a new publisher focused on bringing exceptional indie titles to gamers worldwide, announced today that Robot Arena III is coming to Steam later this month. Robot Arena III brings players back to the arena for combat, offering even more amazing ways to create, design and build robots.

Watch the coming soon trailer for Robot Arena III HERE:  youtu.be/uMkr73eLFqE

In Robot Arena III players will design and build robots with an extremely intricate and realistic bot creation system. Players can then enter their robot creations into arena combat to see which bot rules the day! Robot Arena III features updated physics and graphics that make it the most realistic and advanced robot combat simulation game.

Robot Arena III Key Features:

• Design, Build and Customize: Create your own unique robotic creation in the Bot Lab. Every aspect of your robot can be customized, including chassis shape, armor type, power sources, locomotion, a huge variety of weapons and much more!
• Get Into the Arena: Test your creations and head into the arena for one-on-one or group robot battles.
• Multiplayer Gameplay: Go up against other robots in the Arena! Play cooperatively or competitively with other machines with online multiplayer.
• Steam Workshop Support: Upload and share your robotic creations to the Robot Arena III community via Steam Workshop!
• New Physics and Graphics: New physics and graphics make Robot Arena III the most realistic and advanced robot combat simulation title.

Robot Arena III will be available on Steam, May 26, for $19.99.

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ABOUT OCTOPUS TREE

Established in 2016, Octopus Tree is a video game publisher focused on individualized attention to independent core game development partners. Octopus Tree offers a variety of funding, publishing, development, marketing, quality assurance and sales services to game developers based on the unique needs of their projects. Octopus Tree publishes games for a variety of channels and platforms. Based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Octopus Tree is a subsidiary of Encore Publishing Group. For more information, visit octopustreegames.com.

ABOUT ENCORE PUBLISHING GROUP
Encore Publishing Group offers a wide variety of best-selling print, productivity, home design, entertainment and educational titles through its portfolio of interactive digital brands. Encore Publishing Group brands include Broderbund’s The Print Shop and PrintMaster, Punch! Software, HOYLE and Octopus Tree. Encore Publishing Group develops and publishes software for a variety of platforms and channels, including North American retail and worldwide digital distribution.  Encore Publishing Group also sells direct to consumers through its managed sites: broderbund.com, encore.com, hoylegaming.com, punchsoftware.com and punchcad.com.