Award-Winning Developer of Fallout 4® and Skyrim® Expands Studio

December 9, 2015 (London, UK) – Bethesda Game Studios®, a ZeniMax® Media company, today announced that it has opened a new development studio in Montreal, Quebec to expand its development capabilities in console, PC, and mobile gaming.

“We’ve worked with some very talented developers in Montreal for a long time, and decided it was time to open a studio there,” said Todd Howard, Game Director and Executive Producer at Bethesda Game Studios. “It’s exciting to think about the new games we’ll be building together.”

Bethesda Game Studios Montreal has already established a core team of more than 40 developers, spanning both console and mobile development. The studio will be managed by industry veteran Yves Lachance as Studio Director.

“Our collaboration with Bethesda Game Studios has been an exhilarating and memorable journey already,” said Lachance. “We are thrilled to be launching the studio in Montreal and contributing our city’s great game-making talent to the kind of games that Bethesda Game Studios is known for.”

Bethesda Game Studios is currently hiring for both its Maryland and Montreal locations. For more information about available jobs, visit http://jobs.zenimax.com.

Bethesda Game Studios recently released Fallout 4, which launched on November 10 with approximately 12 million units for Xbox One, PlayStation® 4 computer entertainment system and PC. Earlier this year the studio released its first mobile game for iOS and Android devices, Fallout Shelter, which quickly became the top downloaded game in 48 countries. Considered one of the top game developers in the world, Bethesda Game Studios is also known for creating the 2006 ‘Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, the 2008 ‘Game of the Year’, Fallout® 3, and the global phenomenon and 2011 ‘Game of the Year’, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim®.

For more information on Fallout 4, visit: www.Fallout4.com. For more information on Fallout Shelter, visit www.FalloutShelter.com.

About ZeniMax Media Inc.

ZeniMax Media is a privately owned media organization headquartered outside Washington DC with international publishing offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Eindhoven, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney. Through its subsidiaries, ZeniMax Media creates and publishes original interactive entertainment content for consoles, the PC, and handheld/wireless devices.  ZeniMax Media divisions include Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, Arkane Studios, Tango Gameworks, MachineGames, Battlecry Studios, ZeniMax Online Studios, ZeniMax Europe Ltd., ZeniMax Asia K.K., ZeniMax Asia Pacific Limited, and ZeniMax Australia Pty Ltd. For more information on ZeniMax Media, visit www.zenimax.com.

About Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks, part of the ZeniMax Media Inc. family of companies, is a worldwide publisher of interactive entertainment software. Titles featured under the Bethesda label include such blockbuster franchises as The Elder Scrolls®, DOOM®, QUAKE®, Fallout®, Wolfenstein®, Dishonored®, The Evil Within™, and RAGE®.  For more information on Bethesda Softworks’ products, visit www.bethsoft.com.

About Bethesda Game Studios

Bethesda Game Studios is the award-winning development studio known around the world for its groundbreaking work on The Elder Scrolls series and the Fallout series. Bethesda Game Studios recently released Fallout 4, which with approximately 12 million units for Xbox One, PlayStation® 4 computer entertainment system and PC. In 2015 the studio also released its first mobile game for iOS and Android devices, Fallout Shelter, which quickly became the top downloaded game in 48 countries. Creators of the 2006 ‘Game of the Year’, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion®, the 2008 ‘Game of the Year’, Fallout® 3, and the 2011 ‘Game of the Year’, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim®, Bethesda Game Studios has earned its reputation as one of the industry’s most respected and accomplished game development studios. For more information on Bethesda Game Studios, visit bgs.bethsoft.com.

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Presto’s big screen presence continues to multiply with roll out to PlayStation consoles

Presto today announced that it has begun streaming to Sony PlayStation 3 and 4 games consoles. The news comes just as Sony kicks off its 20^th anniversary of Sony PlayStation, which has had an incredible legacy of entertaining Australians through fantastic interactive games.

From today, PlayStation 3 and 4 owners can download the Presto app using a registered PlayStation®Network (PSN) account and start enjoying the best in streamed TV and movies available, including the recently arrived The Big Bang Theory and Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye.

The addition of PlayStation 3 and 4 continues Presto’s drive to bring its premium SVOD entertainment to living room wide screens and massively increases the ways in which subscribers can enjoy Presto on the biggest screen in the house.

To celebrate PlayStation’s milestone along with Presto’s launch on PlayStation 3 and 4, Presto has curated a special collection of its hit programs, designed with gamers in mind, to mark the occasion featuring: The Big Bang Theory, Mr. Robot, Heroes, The Walking Dead, Halt and Catch Fire, Entourage, Adventure Time, Parks and Recreation, Flight of the Conchords, Grimm, The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Shaun James, Presto TV CEO, said, “The launch of Presto on PlayStation 3 and 4 consoles represents another big step in providing existing and new Presto subscribers with great new ways to access our premium TV and movies on demand on the big screen.

“PlayStation 4 already offers fantastic and immersive experiences full of game-filled adventure and drama. With the addition of Presto, we’ve made those experiences even richer with Presto’s premium TV and movies from action packed thrillers to hilarious comedy and everything in between, and for gaming fans, our specially curated collection will offer a brilliant selection that is sure to appeal.”

Michael Ephraim, Managing Director Sony Computer Entertainment Australia, said “Partnering with SVOD service Presto is part of our mission to transition PlayStation 4 into an all-encompassing entertainment device, making it the only digitally connected entertainment system to offer all available streaming services in Australia. The Presto service is one of the best on the market with hours and hours of some of the best and most critically acclaimed on-screen entertainment. Now everyone can easily access the Presto library through PS4 and watch their favourite TV shows and films whenever they want.”

Also joining on Presto in December are hit TV programs Bates Motel season 1, Homeland seasons 1-4, Parks and Recreation seasons 1-6; and movies Unbroken, The Social Network and the currently showing steamy drama Fifty Shades of Grey.

For consumers yet to subscribe, Presto is currently offering new customers a one month free trial^ of the Presto Entertainment bundle subscription, providing access to Presto’s full TV and movie libraries