LOS ANGELES – SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 – Netmarble, a leading developer and publisher of high-quality games, announced Solo Leveling: ARISE’s 500th Day Anniversary celebration since its global launch with three special events.

The “Happy 500th Day! Check-In Gift” event runs until September 23. Players who log into the game during the event period will receive various growth items, including a [Legendary] Skill Rune Selection Chest, a 500th Day Celebration! Skill Rune Transcendent Stone Selection Chest, Gold, and more.

Available through September 25, the “500th Day Celebration! Artifact Modification Event” allows players to select a Legendary or higher Artifact (with enhancement tier 5 or higher) and reset the enhancement to tier 0. The modified Artifact can be reset to enhancement tier and will be able to be enhanced again. The “500th Day Celebration! Artifact Crafting Event” will be held during the same period as well. Players can choose their desired main and sub options to craft a customized Artifact.

Solo Leveling: ARISE is an action game adaptation of the hit webtoon, Solo Leveling. Taking on the role of Jinwoo, players can experience his journey through the beloved webtoon tale firsthand, leveling up, taking on dynamic battles, and creating their own combat styles by selecting various combinations of skills and weapons. Not only can players team up with hunters from the webtoon, they can summon their own “Army of Shadows” with the iconic phrase: “Arise.”

Please visit the official website, X, Facebook, Instagram, Discord, and official YouTube channel to stay up-to-date with the latest information about Solo Leveling: ARISE.

About Netmarble Corporation

Founded in Korea in 2000, Netmarble Corporation is a leading global game developer and publisher. Through acclaimed franchises and strategic partnerships with top-tier IP holders, the company delivers innovative and engaging gaming experiences to audiences worldwide. As a parent company of Kabam, SpinX Games, Jam City, and a major shareholder of HYBE and NCSOFT, Netmarble’s diverse portfolio includes Solo Leveling:ARISE, Seven Knights Idle Adventure, Tower of God: New World, Lineage 2: Revolution, MARVEL Future Fight, Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds and The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross. More information can be found at http://company.netmarble.com.

BORDEAUX, France – 12 Sept. 2025 – Wartales, the medieval open-world tactical RPG with more than one million units sold from developer Shiro Games, opens up a whole new field of battle in its latest DLC, Contract: The Fief, arriving on PC via Steam and GOG on 25 Sept. 2025

Take command of a domain of your very own. Enact laws, oversee industry and tradecraft, and manage state affairs as the fiefdom grows and develops. Attend to each district, directing the construction of new buildings for production and culture. 

Contract: The Fief merges seamlessly with Wartales’ campaigns. Add new layers and stakes to the experience by managing the fiefdom from anywhere in the world any time your roving band of mercenaries takes a rest.

Watch closely as factions emerge and vie for influence among peasants, nobles, scholars, and clergy. These groups ultimately determine the domain’s overarching identity – will the realm be known for its strict militarism, as a bustling trade hub, or a center for scholarship?

Issue decrees and mandates to shift the balance of power, taking care to monitor the people’s happiness. Each decision impacts the day-to-day lives of the subjects, granting them the prosperity they need to become cultured and wealthy, or dooming them to short, brutish lives of violence and starvation.

“With Contract: The Fief, we’re adding a whole new way to interact with the world of Wartales,” said Quentin Lapeyre, Game Director at Shiro Games. “Players can expand their horizons and rule over their own fief without pulling them away from their mercenaries’ campaigns. The fief is tied into the existing rest system – this way, you can manage your domain from wherever you are in the world.”

Contract: The Fief DLC will launch on 25 Sept. 2025, on PC via Steam and GOG for $12.99 / €12.99 / £10.99 with a 10% launch discount for 14 days. For more information about Wartales, please visit the official website and follow the game on X/Twitter, Facebook, or Discord. 

About Shiro Games 

Shiro Games is an independent Bordeaux-based studio founded by video game veterans Sebastien Vidal and Nicolas Cannasse to bring new innovative games to life. Based in Bordeaux, France, the studio released its first project Evoland in 2013 and its acclaimed sequel Evoland 2 in 2015. Shiro Games then launched its popular Viking strategy game Northgard on Steam in 2018, which has gone on to sell more than 3 million units across various platforms as well as Dune: Spice Wars, the spice-infused blend of 4X and RTS gameplay. Wartales is their latest title, with several major DLC additions since its release in April 2023. 

FUN FACT: CRITICAL REFLEX Games Are Good for the Soul!

CRITICAL REFLEX HQ – Sept. 16, 2025 –CRITICAL REFLEX, indie curators of the chaotic, terrifying, surreal and just plain weird, have finished hosting the first-ever CRITICAL REFLEX TIME publisher showcase. “Hmm, what could this possibly show me, the video game connoisseur who has seen everything?” you may be asking yourself. WELL. From nightmare-fueled horror experiences to action-packed endorphin-generators and anything in between, you missed quite a bit! And CRITICAL REFLEX’s twitchy, erratic, genre-twisting, mind-bending touch can be found on every project. So let’s break it down!

The debut CRITICAL REFLEX TIME featured a host of games from across CR’s new and upcoming lineup, including:

• A new trailer for Drowned Lake, the upcoming found-footage-style horror title inspired by Brazilian folklore mixing first-person and isometric perspectives. And would you look at that: you can now sign up for its Steam playtest this instant.
• How about Altered Alma, the pixel art dating sim/Metroidvania hybrid with a new trailer and updated Steam demo? Surely you’re in need of a dynamite Metroidvania right now!
• The horror mystery RPG HEAVY AS STONE and high-octane horror shooter SCP: Valravn both have new teasers for you to c o n s u m e…..
• Burden Street Station has a new gameplay trailer featuring all the wild characters you’ll encounter on this surreal and shapeshifting narrative journey about finding God.

You want a second bulleted list? In THESE challenging times? Well here you go!

Other CRITICAL REFLEX TIME Highlights

• The paranoia-driven thriller No, I’m not a Human and chaotic trolley conductor game TROLEU are out now on Steam – go check them out this instant!
• The unique lofi nightmare Eclipsium releases in just a few days on September 19, and October 6 will see the launch of the folklore horror journey CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs!
• A new trailer for the dice-powered action roguelite GIMMIKO
• A tease of what’s to come from CRITICAL REFLEX’s next season of games, including Flawless Abbey, IDET, and Regular Home Renovation Simulator
• A look back at some of CRITICAL REFLEX’s best hits from last season: Buckshot Roulette, Arctic Eggs and more!

…Alright. We know what you want. You want your Mouthwashing fix, too, right? Well Mouthwashing is celebrating its one-year anniversary this month, and to mark the occasion, YouTuber Joetastic is working on an all-new Mouthwashing animation! The full video is expected to release later this month on Joetastic’s YouTube channel, but you can catch bloopers and other snippets throughout the CRITICAL REFLEX TIME showcase!

So go and watch – CRITICAL REFLEX TIME is calling your name! Witness the chaos. The spectacle. The glory with your own eyes. To dive deeper into all things CRITICAL REFLEX, visit www.criticalreflex.com.

Captain your skyship through new content, survive new boss battles, and grapple to consoles soon

[September 11, 2025] – Lost Skies exits Early Access and launches into 1.0 next week, on September 17th, on Steam. Ahead of the full launch, the team is excited to share what players can expect on Day 1 and beyond, including a 25% launch discount, as well as announce that console players will be able to take to the skies on Xbox and PlayStation in the future. 

The team recently shared an FAQ of community questions, delving into what the future holds for Lost Skies beyond its 1.0 launch. Here’s a bit of what players can expect starting on September 17th. 

• An expanded game world from one region in early access to four. The original Outskirts region has been split into three, and a new fourth region (the Midlands) has been added.
• All of these regions have significantly more, roughly 30 islands, to explore and are now separated by new weather barriers, including windwalls and stormwalls.
• Tons of community-built islands made in the free Island Creator tool via the Steam workshop for players to explore solo and with 5 friends. 
• A new boss type (the Arbiter) has been introduced. Arbiters are smaller than Heralds and are designed to create more frequent sky combat encounters.
• Each of the new regions will also contain its own unique Herald boss.
• New hostile creatures like Thornets and Harpies.
• New ship parts (sail controls, new engines, decorations, and more).
• New resources and materials that unlock additional crafting recipes.
• All players who played in Early Access can expect a full progress wipe to start the new journey fresh and take advantage of the added stability and new balances of the in-game systems. 

Head of Bossa Games studio, Anthony Kyne, addressed the community in the latest developer Skywatch and sent a heartfelt thank you to the Skies community. “First off, it’s been an amazing experience building this game with this community from basically the beginning. It’s been an absolute joy seeing videos and comments from you all when we release builds with new features. I want to thank everyone that’s played the builds, given your opinions (good or bad), designed and built islands, made videos, and anything that has helped make this game possible. 

We’re a small team here at Bossa and we’ve made a game we’re extremely proud of – that wouldn’t have been half as good without you. Lastly, a game like Lost Skies can never truly be classed as finished.” Continued Kyne. “The world has endless possibilities for growth. The bigger the success of 1.0 over the coming months, the greater ability to grow that world.” 

Alongside a solo experience that will continue to be available, Bossa Games has already committed to supporting multiplayer for the next few years, with the hope of expanding multiplayer gameplay even further with the continued support of the dedicated playerbase. In addition to the new in-game updates and content, Lost Skies will have a 25% launch discount for anyone eager to grapple across the skies on September 17th on Steam. Console players can look forward to Lost Skies soaring onto Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, and more information on the console ports will be given in the near future. 

Lost Skies launches into full 1.0 on September 17th on Steam. For more information, join the official Discord, and visit the official website.

About Bossa Games

Bossa Games is a multiple award-winning independent studio based in London, UK, with over a decade of great games made by its team. Bossa is recognized as one of the most creative game companies in the world, with titles such as Surgeon Simulator, I Am Bread, and I Am Fish cementing our reputation for disruption.

Bossa Games has a shared mission to ‘Forge the best co-op experiences friends will ever share together’ and our values are our guiding principles and beliefs to get us there. 

About Humble Games 

Best known for critically acclaimed and award-winning hits such as A Hat in Time, Forager, Project Wingman, SIGNALIS, Slay the Spire, Temtem, UNSIGHTED, Unpacking, and Wizard of Legend, Humble Games is Humble Bundle’s publishing arm, composed of a passionate and nimble team that works remotely with a collection of talented global development partners. Humble Games was founded on a shared passion to support developers and deliver excellent content and gaming experiences to players around the world, while continuing the Humble mission to be a force for good in the industry. Humble Games is committed to investing in top-quality games, comprised of both new and existing beloved IPs, all while prioritizing and supporting developer partnerships so that they can focus on bringing their creative visions to life.

LONDON, UK – September 11th, 2025 – This past month, 400 Boys – the electrifying animated short directed by acclaimed artist Robert Valley and produced by Passion – won two Emmy Awards in the Television Academy’s Juried Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. Honours went to Daryl Graham for Character Animation and Robert Valley for Character Design.

Produced as part of Love, Death + Robots Volume 4, 400 Boys marks the third episode directed by Robert Valley and created in collaboration with Passion for Netflix and Blur, following their earlier works Zima Blue and ICE. The win not only celebrates the achievement of the team but also recognises Valley’s growth as a director with a clear, uncompromising creative vision.

Adapted from a short story by Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw, 400 Boys delivers a gang-fueled sci-fi epic rooted in cult influences like The Warriors, yet reimagined through Valley’s unmistakable visual language. Known for his angular, elongated character designs and kinetic storytelling, Valley pushed his creative vision even further in this project, with the full support of the team at Passion.

In 400 Boys, Valley’s signature aesthetic continues to evolve. While retaining the look audiences loved in ICE, the animation takes on greater complexity and fluidity. A major leap came from merging 2D character animation with 3D environments and camera movement, allowing the team to build immersive, cinematic sequences without sacrificing Valley’s hand-drawn aesthetic.

“Rob always wants to put a new wrinkle in his work,” says Christian Mills, Passion Creative Director. ““With 400 Boys, it was the cameras. To achieve the depth he desired in specific shots, we combined 2D animation with 3D camera movement. That gave him a whole new dimension to play with, and an opportunity for a more cinematic feel in his shots.”

The result is a high-octane blend of hand-drawn 2D animation, bold character styling, and dynamic 3D camera moves, crafted using TVPaint, After Effects, and a suite of custom workflows built specifically around the needs of the director.  This hybrid pipeline enabled sweeping camera shots and action choreography not previously seen at this scale in Valley’s work. “The animation style had progressed massively from Zima Blue and ICE. It was all about supporting Rob’s vision, giving him the tools to go bigger while staying true to his style,” adds Ellen Collins, Producer.

The film’s climactic battle sequence, an extended, high-stakes scene involving dozens of characters, environmental destruction, and layered chaos, was the most ambitious the team had ever attempted. The challenge wasn’t just the scale, but making it feel grounded and hand-crafted, from the weight of chains hitting the ground to the atmosphere crackling with kinetic energy. Every department was pushed, from layout and CFX to compositing, as months of planning were brought to life with precision, intensity, and within a tightly managed production timeline. “We had the fortune to work with incredible artists and CFX specialists who worked closely with Rob for months. It all came together thanks to our compositing team, who brought the final look to life with care and precision, each department adding their creative voice to the mix,” adds Collins.

That spirit of collaboration and creative ownership reflects a culture Passion has championed for years. On 400 Boys, creative collaboration wasn’t a tagline, it was the foundation. The project brought together a highly skilled team of 2D and 3D artists, each aligned around a clear vision and committed to pushing into new creative and technical ground.

“We’ve built a studio that allows artists to explore ideas and bring their best work to the table,” Mills notes. “Supporting Rob’s creative vision meant giving our team the freedom to innovate, collaborate, and push boundaries.”

Watch the breakdown here

About PASSION PICTURES

PASSION PICTURES is an internationally renowned production company uniquely specialising in animation and documentary filmmaking and is a three-time Academy Award winner. With teams in London, Paris, New York, LA and Barcelona, PASSION is a fully integrated studio that brings together multiple creative divisions, partner companies, and a wide array of talent. The studio recently won the BAFTA for Best Documentary with “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” and recent animation credits include the emmy winning 400 Boys, the standout episode of season 4 of Netflix’s Love, Death + Robots and Not a Box, Season 1 now streaming on Apple TV+ .

The Future and the Past Collide

Since Sept. 5, Cronos: The New Dawn has been available on Nintendo Switch 2, bringing its acclaimed survival horror experience to handheld players. Following widespread critical praise, the full release launched last Friday across all major platforms — PC  (Steam, GOG, Epic), PS5, Xbox Series X|S. To mark the occasion, a chilling new live-action trailer offers a haunting glimpse into the world of Cronos. With its gripping story and next-gen visuals, the game ushers in a bold new era for the genre — and a standout moment for Nintendo fans.

To further celebrate the launch, Bloober Team released a special Nintendo live-action trailer showcasing one of the game’s most defining features — time travel between two eras. The trailer also highlights powerful moments from the game, including merging monsters, struggles with orphans, limited resources, and other intense scenes that make Cronos a true treat for survival horror fans — dark, unsettling, and packed with fresh ideas the genre hasn’t seen in years. Additionally, the game leverages the hardware capabilities of the Nintendo Switch 2, allowing players to choose from three different aiming modes: standard, gyroscope, and mouse controls.

The game is now available to order on the Nintendo Store. For more information, trailers, and the latest updates on Cronos: The New Dawn, visit: www.cronosnewdawn.com or follow us on social media: X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Discord..

About Bloober Team:

Founded in 2008 and based in Kraków, Bloober Team specializes in creating deep and immersive horror games. With a team of over 250 creative professionals, the studio consistently pushes the boundaries of storytelling, delivering rich and complex narratives to players around the world.

Bloober Team’s award-winning portfolio includes acclaimed titles such as the Layers of Fear series, Blair Witch, Observer: System Redux, and The Medium. Their most celebrated project, developed in collaboration with the Japanese publisher KONAMI, was the highly anticipated remake of the iconic horror game SILENT HILL 2. This title received widespread acclaim, earning positive reviews as well as numerous nominations and awards—including Game of the Year at the Horror Game Awards and Best Game of 2024 by IGN Japan.

The latest release from Bloober Team, Cronos: The New Dawn—the studio’s first original survival horror IP—premiered on September 5th across multiple platforms and garnered praise from both players and the media, marking a significant step forward for the studio.

Thursday 11 September, 2025, Cambridge, UK. Become a master of ranged combat with the new Ranged Skill, unlock powerful Spells, and unleash your imagination in the all-new Creative Mode. RuneScape: Dragonwild’s 0.9 Update launches today as a major expansion for the beloved open-world survival crafting game.

Master ranged combat with the new Ranged Skill and return to Ashenfall wielding Crossbows, a versatile mid-range weapon. Plot your course to Level 50, unlocking a range of new Spells, including two powerful Skill Spells: ‘Snare’ and ‘Spectral Arrows.’ 

Stop your enemies in their tracks with Snare, a new entangling spell that roots targets and leaves them exposed. Or enchant your arrows with Astral Magic to unleash a powerful attack that pierces multiple enemies. 

Let your imagination run wild with the new Creative Mode, a fresh way for base-building fans to enjoy RuneScape: Dragonwilds, free from survival friction.

Build without limits in Creative Mode, where every building piece is unlocked, materials cost nothing, and carry weight is infinite. Enter a new Creative World with maxed Skills, all Crafting recipes unlocked, no enemy attacks, and forever-full Hunger, Thirst and Rest for a truly relaxing, uninterrupted building experience.

RuneScape: Dragonwilds 0.9 Update Key Features:

• Ranged Skill – Level up to 50, unlock new spells, and craft arrows with the Fletching Table
• Crossbows – A new one-handed weapon for versatile ranged combat, allowing shields or torches in the off-hand.
• Skill Spells – Master Snare and Spectral Arrows for tactical ranged playstyle advantages 
• Creative Mode – Build without limits: maxed Skills, no survival constraints, all recipes unlocked. 
• Multiplayer Protection – Secure your chests and gravestone with new privacy options and protect your bases from player-tampering by placing Protection Totems. 
• Custom World Settings – Customise your own world by adjusting enemy health, hunger and thirst rates, processing stations speeds, durability and drop rates to create the perfect world for you and your friends.
• Quality of Life Improvements – Enjoy upgraded controller support, customisable key rebinding, additional character slots, and a range of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and stability improvements.

For the full list of features included in RuneScape: Dragonwilds’ 0.9 Update, check out this blog post.

RuneScape: Dragonwilds is available now on Steam Early Access for £24.99 GBP / $29.99 USD / €29.99 EUR.

About RuneScape: Dragonwilds

The latest game in the RuneScape franchise, RuneScape: Dragonwilds is an open world survival crafting game set on RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, where dragons have awoken. Players will need to gather, build, skill and craft to survive. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

About Jagex

Jagex is a leader in creating deep and engaging forever games that empower communities across PC, mobile and consoles. Jagex’s flagship MMORPG, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts to its world and is a $1billion + lifetime revenue franchise.

Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond live operations; its titles are forever games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped. The most recent entry in the RuneScape franchise, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, launched into Steam Early Access in 2025. An open world survival crafting experience set in the RuneScape universe, RuneScape: Dragonwilds welcomes existing fans and new players alike to the ever expanding and evolving world of RuneScape.

Carrion my wayward son

Shanghai, China — September 11, 2025 | Etheria: Restart has unleashed its latest major content update, adding in two new powerful heroes, as well as a limited-time summon, new stages, and a brand new boss fight.

Two new playable Animuses join the fray in today’s update:

• New SSR Animus: Plume – a support-type Animus specializing in multi-target debuffs. Her unique effect, Curse Quill, causes enemy units to take progressively increased damage while their speed gradually decreases.
• New SR Animus: Hizuki Mari – a control-type Animus. Her passive affects all units in the battle, increasing their attack power while reducing incoming healing, making her a strong counter to healers in PvP battles.

Watch the Character PV Plume: Profaned Plume trailer here:

The update also adds in brand new Grim Pursuit stages and shells, unlocked upon reaching level 100, plus a challenging new boss fight to take on. Carrion Crows-Khloros is the newest boss to join Etheria: Restart, and can be tackled on Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno difficulties.

Alongside the update, Etheria: Restart is running a limited-time Animus Summon event, guaranteeing a limited SSR Animus within 80 pulls.

The full patch notes for the latest update can be found on the official website. Etheria: Restart is available now on PC, iOS, and Android.

About Etheria Restart

Etheria Restart is a free-to-play supernatural hero team-building RPG developed by XD Inc. The game features breathtaking visuals, an immersive narrative, and a rich blend of PvE and PvP content. Players can enhance their experience with optional in-game purchases.

Fast-paced action roguelite features 4-player co-op, 8 travelers with upgradeable abilities and an ever-changing map, making for unique runs every time

South Korea – September 11, 2025 – The Rapids have opened and beckon travelers to claim incredible abilities to battle powerful enemies and bosses, as Shape of Dreams arrives today on PC via Steam! Blending skill-shot combat and co-op gameplay, the full game is now available for players to dive in solo or with friends for a standout roguelite experience.

“The wait is finally over, Shape of Dreams is available on Steam! Our team at Lizard Smoothie has worked so hard, and we are grateful we can share the full game with our community and those who have supported us along the way,” said Eunsop Shim, co-founder and CEO, Lizard Smoothie. “We were empowered by our relationship with NEOWIZ, who helped us earn over 1 million downloads for the prologue and demo version of the game and earn a spot in the top 10 trending titles during Steam Next Fest. We look forward to hearing fans’ thoughts on the game and supporting Shape of Dreams with updates in the future!”

With eight playable character options, wield an ever-changing arsenal of skills, modifiers and artifacts to craft devastating combinations and break through impossible challenges. The action roguelite is available to purchase on Steam for $24.99 USD, regional pricing will apply. Shape of Dreams will offer a 20% discount from launch day until Wednesday, Sept. 24. 

To further celebrate the launch, players can take part in the launch early-bird event by logging in to receive the “Ethereal Forest Hound,” a free commemorative item. In addition, a special limited-time banner will be awarded by completing a quest that requires defeating bosses eight times.

The roguelite title will also be available in two Steam bundles through collaborations with Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and Warm Snow: Rock and Dream and Dream of Snow. These bundles will grant players an additional 10% off from the launch discount. Join over 24,000 community members on Discord, and follow the game’s social channels on X, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube for more info on upcoming events and updates.

NEOWIZ remains committed to working with developers to publish a diverse catalog of titles that appeal to audiences worldwide on console, PC and mobile. To learn more about NEOWIZ’s publishing initiatives, please visit the NEOWIZ website.

About NEOWIZ

Established in 1997, NEOWIZ is a global leader in gaming, renowned for blending remarkable storytelling with exceptional gameplay mechanics. With a legacy spanning over two decades, NEOWIZ has solidified its position as one of Korea’s foremost game companies, captivating audiences worldwide with diverse PC, consoles and mobile titles. Recent successes include Lies of P, DJMAX RESPECT and Cats & Soup, all emblematic of NEOWIZ’s commitment to excellence and gamers worldwide. Welcome to NEOWIZ, where legends come to life.

About Lizard Smoothie

Lizard Smoothie was founded in January 2023 by two college students who love indie games. The team’s debut title, Shape of Dreams, is an upcoming action roguelite that was developed with the sole intention of creating a game that is fun for developers and indie game enthusiasts to play. The team’s work has been recognized by various awards from organizations like GIGDC, IndieGo, BIC and more.

Tech delivers native instant-play for premium game demos that can be shared and embedded anywhere on the web

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 11th, 2025 – Square Enix has made its first-ever investment in Brazil by partnering with game publisher Nuuvem, creators of Latin America’s largest digital gaming platform. This signifies that global publishers are looking at LatAm not just as a consumer market, but as an innovation hub.

The driver behind this partnership is spawnd, a web gaming platform that allows premium game demos to be played, shared, and embedded anywhere on the web, just like a YouTube video — giving players instant access with no subscriptions or downloads necessary. spawnd’s unique tech allows demos to be embedded into store pages, media articles, influencer channels, and even social posts! For players, this means instant access to try-before-you-buy, directly in-browser. 

For developers and publishers, spawnd offers a frictionless discovery funnel, with one-click trials that directly increase organic wishlists, solving one of the biggest pain points in today’s industry. Most demos remain buried in platforms, never reaching their audiences. spawnd fixes this. Furthermore, spawnd’s data-driven analytics board gives devs visibility into user behavior during their demo, including a direct CTA to the Steam page. This means developers and publishers can gather real-time engagement data to optimize marketing and design decisions. The ease of use of spawnd offers accessible global reach, with communities, press, and influencers able to seamlessly share access to your demo. 

Square Enix’s investment supports spawnd as a new model for game distribution and discovery — not just in LatAm, but globally. Contrary to many cloud based solutions that require expensive infrastructure, introduce latency and suffer from long player queues, spawnd employs state of the art browser technologies, delivering smooth gameplay with no queues, delays or limits.

spawnd has soft-launched today, where players can enjoy numerous game demos that are only a click away. Currently spawnd is showcasing its first 12 titles, including exclusive games such as The Posthumous Investigation, CyberWar, Ginsha, Ironhive, Valfaris, Figment and Cris Tales as well as classics such as Cross-Code, SUPERHOT, Townscaper, Monster Sanctuary and Doom 3. The platform also expects to rapidly ramp the catalog up, onboarding over 100 new games by the end of the year through its close partnerships with hundreds of major publishers and studios.

“Square Enix’s investment is a powerful validation of what we’re building with spawnd,“ said Nuuvem CEO and Co-Founder Fernando Campos. “This partnership helps us give publishers and studios a frictionless way to connect their games with the right audiences everywhere—by turning discovery into instant gameplay.”

“Latin America is a strategic territory, full of passionate gamers and a strong bond to the Japanese culture,” said General Manager of Investment and Business Development Dept at Square Enix Holdings, Hideaki Uehara. “Our first investment in Brazil reflects our belief in Nuuvem and in spawnd’s potential to transform game discovery.”

Nuuvem is LatAm’s largest digital gaming platform, with over 3.4M registered players and +11,000 products available partnering with more than 450 publishers and studios, including leading names such as Capcom, SEGA, Bandai Namco, and Cygames. Each month Nuuvem reaches over 45M gamers through its channels – enough to form a line wrapping around the Earth – offering untapped potential for publishers to grow their audiences even further through spawnd.

About Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.

Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, is the holding company leading the group of Square Enix companies (the “Square Enix Group”) with a diverse range of content and service businesses. The Square Enix Group publishes, distributes and licenses entertainment content around the world under its internationally renowned brands including SQUARE ENIX® and TAITO®. The Square Enix Group includes a global network of leading development studios and sales offices located in North America, Europe and Japan. The Square Enix Group also boasts a valuable portfolio of intellectual property including: FINAL FANTASY®, which has sold over 204 million units worldwide; DRAGON QUEST®, which has sold over 95 million units worldwide; and the legendary SPACE INVADERS®.

More information on Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. can be found at http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/

About Nuuvem Inc

Nuuvem is Latin America’s largest digital gaming platform and a key player in game publishing, founded in 2011 by gamers with a passion for delivering exceptional experiences. With standout titles like Enigma of Fear, Songs for a Hero – Definitive Edition, Copycat, Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Asleep, and Bagdex, Nuuvem is dedicated to showcasing the best of Latin American talent to the world. As both a publisher and co-publisher, Nuuvem provides regional expertise and strategic support, ensuring games reach their fullest potential and connecting players with unforgettable stories across local and global markets.