POOL NATION FX IS NOW AVAILABLE ON STEAM – RACK UP THE ULTIMATE BILLIARDS SIMULATOR

93% User Approval Rating on Original Pool Nation (PC), 3 Million Downloads on Xbox One – New Pool Hall and Online Tournaments Added for PC Release

Manchester, UK – October 7, 2015 –After a highly successful launch on Xbox One earlier this year, indie developer Cherry Pop Games has now delivered the ultimate billiards simulator Pool Nation FX onto Steam’s Early Access program. Available now, Pool Nation FX delivers a stunningly realistic on or offline billiards experience, expanding upon the incredibly popular Xbox One release with a variety of new multiplayer features, trick shot editor, and ruleset customization providing a multitude of personalized options.

Developed with Unreal Engine 4, Pool Nation FX is available now for $12.99 and as a special limited-time bonus, owners of the original Pool Nation on Steam can purchase the game for $7.79, a discount of 40% off the game’s full price!

For more information, please visit – http://www.poolnationfx.com/ or buy Pool Nation FX now on Steam.

Prepare yourself for pixel perfect physics and photo-realistic graphics in this truly immersive representation of the sport. Practice, spectate and play live matches seamlessly online. Players can compete in Leagues, share, challenge and create epic trick shots with the exclusive Trickshot Editor, enroll in the Pool Nation Cup, explore the unique rule set customization tool and re-discover this much-loved sport.

Customization

• Use the rule set customization tool to create your favorite game type using nine existing rule sets including; 9 Ball, 8 Ball, 8 Ball UK Red and Yellows, Snooker, Killer, Speed, Golf (online and offline modes)
• Control your aim level settings; aiming aid off and on then play novice through to pro
• Use the in-game currency to customize table baize, cues, balls and decals
• Raise, lower, and rotate trickshot objects on all axis in the artistic pool mode

Game Modes & Features

• Trickshots – Create unique trickshots with the artistic pool mode, including a variety of objects and special effects
• Leagues (Online competitive mode) –  Players must climb the ladder and play with skill to avoid relegation to lower leagues
• Play for Cash – Online competitive mode. Players progress through varying difficulty levels, the more coins you earn, the higher levels you unlock
• Friendlies – Invite friends to play online, customize your game type, rules, locations and more
• Versus – Offline game for one or two players. Play against the AI or locally against friends.
• Pool Career – Offline single-player career, start out in the qualifiers earn your place in the first cup.
• Snooker Career – Enjoy traditional Snooker, along with the standard billiards game types
• Daily Challenges – Play the daily game of 3 Ball to unlock a chance to win free coins, pot 3 balls to win a random daily prize
• Daily Trickshot Challenges – Complete a specific trickshot challenge to win coins. Each provides a selection of designated objects and effects to nail the shot.
• Endurance – Keep sinking balls into pockets as they fall from above. Pot multiple balls in a row, or perform a skill shot and earn a ‘Drop Stop’ giving you a brief respite from the falling balls.

During the Steam Early Access development cycle, the following features will be added:

• Spectate, join and play matches seamlessly online in a digital Pool Nation Pool Hall
• Online Tournaments for 8 or more people
• Customizable PC specific controls for extra customization

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About Cherry Pop Games

Cherry Pop Games is an independent, multi-platform development studio located in Manchester, UK. We are dedicated to producing amazing games for all types of players. The team’s first title was Pool Nation, which was released on Xbox LIVE Arcade in 2012, followed shortly after on the PlayStation Network. Cherry Pop Games’ most recent project is Pool Nation FX, developed using Unreal Engine 4, which will release in 2015.

New Studio Sentient Play Announces K.O.M.R.A.D. Conversation Game for Apple Watch, iPhone, & iPad

When the Soviets abandoned a secret AI experiment in 1985 they forgot one thing: to turn off the power

AUSTIN, TEXAS – October 7, 2015 – Sentient Play, an independent developer of AI-driven “conversation games,” is announcing that K.O.M.R.A.D. will release soon for Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. Designed by Brad Becker, former Chief Design Officer of IBM’s sophisticated AI platform Watson, K.O.M.R.A.D. gives an entertaining glimpse into how far artificial intelligence has come in the past 30 years… and where it could be headed.

Your phone or Apple Watch chimes with a text message from an unknown number. In broken English, you’re informed that your online accounts have been hijacked — passwords changed, identity stolen. You can get it all back in return for a simple task: hack into a Russian computer untouched since the 1980s and probe it for useful information. How, exactly? That’s where your people skills come in, because K.O.M.R.A.D. isn’t any ordinary computer — it’s an experimental Soviet artificial intelligence that doesn’t know the Cold War ended.

Playing out as a real-time conversation between you and the roused AI, K.O.M.R.A.D. is a psychological narrative game based on real history and real technology. What does a Cold War era computer know, what assumptions will it make, and how can you gain its trust? Find out through brief text exchanges delivered via push notifications over several days. If you manage to make K.O.M.R.A.D. your ally, you can use this powerful technology for good. And if you fail, well, the fallout might be nuclear.

Inspired by 1980s text adventures and gamebooks, conversation games such as K.O.M.R.A.D. will tell stories via interactive dialogues optimized for Apple Watch and other mobile devices, in short bursts convenient for playing on the go and with branching outcomes that tailor consequences to players’ choices. K.O.M.R.A.D. will be the first release from the newly formed Sentient Play, a lab Becker founded to explore the potential of interaction between people and advanced technology such as virtual reality, wearables, and AI.

“By simulating an experience of chatting with an advanced artificial intelligence, I want to give people a chance to play with the future,” says Becker, whose work on IBM Watson included design, user experience, and envisioning the AI’s potential applications. “But Sentient Play isn’t only here for fun and games. Technology is advancing ahead of our understanding of what people actually need and want from it. Games like K.O.M.R.A.D. will help us figure that out while we still have time to shape the technology.”

To receive alerts about K.O.M.R.A.D.‘s development and release plans, visit http://sentientplay.com or follow @SentientPlay on Twitter.

About Sentient Play

Sentient Play was founded in 2015 by Brad Becker, former Chief Design Officer of IBM Watson, to use games and prototyping to more quickly shape a people-centric design for future technology. The studio’s first conversation game, K.O.M.R.A.D., will release soon for Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad.

JOURNEY THROUGH THE “RUINS OF THE GODS” IN CABAL 2

New Content Update Opens Additional Map Zone, Increases Level Cap, Unlocks Three New Dungeons Featuring Upgraded Gear in the CABAL 2 Universe 

IRVINE, CALIF. – Oct. 7, 2015 – Warriors, come out and play! ESTsoft, Inc. revealed details for its latest content update for CABAL 2, available starting Oct. 14. The new update features an all-new map zone, Gray Canyon, for gamers at level 40 and above to explore along with additional dungeons and a higher level cap.

“We know how important our players are and what they mean for the CABAL 2 experience,” said Ajmal Popal, Assistant Product Manager, ESTsoft. “We have listened to player feedback and have created our most extensive content update to date, including raising the level cap.”

The “Ruins of the Gods” update will open up a distinctly different gaming experience for level 40 players, as they can now explore the new Gray Canyon map expansion. The expanded map isn’t without its perks, as it includes three new high level dungeons that contain quests for upgraded gear drops. Silent Snowfield (a level 43 dungeon), Ancient Academy (level 45), and Tomb of Kain (completion of the other two dungeons required for entry), will offer players their most difficult dungeon challenges yet!

Along with an expanded zone and three dungeons to fight through, players will also have the chance to break past the level 40 barrier. The max level cap has been raised to level 45, giving players the chance to continue to rank up and grow even stronger.

CABAL 2 features combat that is fluid and skill-based, but also offers all the depth and strategy players would expect from a genuine MMO experience. Designed by passionate MMO gamers for fans of the genre, the game’s fast-paced combat and focus on role-playing game (RPG) elements harken back to classic MMOs.

Evolving from the wildly-successful CABAL Online, which hosts nearly 30 million users from more than 60 countries around the world, CABAL 2 is a high-fantasy MMO for PC which combines deep, immersive RPG elements with epic skill-based battles. This next chapter in the CABAL series bring a unique style of gameplay sure to appeal to players who are both nostalgic for the classic MMOs of the past, but also still enjoy the technical advancements of modern PC gaming.

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For more information, and to download CABAL 2, please visit www.cabal2.com.

About ESTsoft, Inc.

ESTsoft Inc. is the North American publishing and operations arm of ESTsoft Corp, a leading Korean software company since 1993. ESTsoft delivers essential software products and innovative online games around the world. ESTsoft has been a KOSDAQ listed company since 2008.

New content and trailer for Valhalla Hills

Update brings players new game mode called “Open Game” and many more changes

Hamburg, October 7th, 2015: Valhalla Hills by Daedalic Entertainment and Funatics has been available in Steam’s Early Access for a couple of weeks now. In this time, a lot of community and player feedback has been collected and taken into consideration. The result is this first big update, implementing the new game mode “Open Game”, among many other things.

This new mode features all current game elements without having to unlock them individually by playing. Also, from October 16th till November 15th, the Viking’s town will turn into a spooktacular scenery thanks to various Halloween decorations. So, this update is a good opportunity to check out, or to return to the world of Valhalla Hills!

About Valhalla Hills:

Valhalla Hills is a modern strategy game inspired by classic game designs like “The Settlers II” or “Cultures”.

The player has to lead the exiled Viking heroes to the highest peak of a mountain, where a magic portal leads the way to Valhalla. But the Vikings need to do one thing first: survive!

The player has to face the dangers and challenges of the harsh mountains and find a way to the peak. Since the Vikings wouldn’t last long in the mountains, they have to take care of clothing, food and shelter and defend against ghostly mountain dwellers and wild beasts. These sturdy people have their own head and since a good keg of mead is a solid reason to slack around, all this is easier said than done. However, another threat looms, sailing in from the ocean…

Features:

 High replay value through procedurally generated maps
 Developed by Funatics, the creators of Cultures and the Settlers II
 Exactly what strategy simulation fans were waiting for!
 Developed with the Unreal 4 Engine
 The first game created in this style since “The Settlers”
 Many exciting extras like individually naming your Vikings

Watch the brand new trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztowh_JJmIo

Valhalla Hills on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/351910/

About Daedalic Entertainment

Daedalic Entertainment, based in Hamburg, publishes and develops computer and video games for all platforms. The studio focuses on interactive literature and character and narrative-driven games like adventures and RPGs. Daedalic Entertainment has a staff of more than 120 employees, including the Writer’s Room, a team of writers unique to the German media industry.

Since May 2014, Daedalic Entertainment is part of the Bastei Lübbe group of companies. Since August 2014 the studio also established Daedalic Entertainment West, based in Düsseldorf.

With titles like Goodbye Deponia, Daedalic won the German Developer Award 21 times („Studio of the Year“ 2009 and 2013, among others). With Chaos on Deponia the studio from Hamburg won the German Games Award as “Best German Game 2013”.

And for six times, Daedalic Entertainment won the German Video Game Award and the European Games Award.

Titles like Silence, The Devil’s Men and Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth show that Daedalic wants to raise the bar higher for the whole adventure genre. Blackguards earned them a place among RPG creators. As a publisher, the studio releases unique and outstanding titles like Divinity: Original Sin, Valhalla Hills and Bounty Train.

http://www.daedalic.com
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About Funatics Software

Funatics Software is among Germany’s most experienced and by now also among the oldest development studios. Since their founding in 1998, Funatics gathered experience through all the fields of game development. They brought board-games to the PC, developed for Windows, NDS and PSP and supported other projects. Accordingly, Funatics did both, various commissioned projects and development of original ideas, nationally as well as internationally and always at top-notch quality levels.

The first title under Funatics’ label was the adaptation of the board-game classic ‘The Settlers of Catan’. It is, even by today’s standards, considered the best board-game adaptation of all time. With ‘Zanzarah – The Hidden Portal’ Funatics developed an action-adventure earning critical acclaim and awards nationally as well as internationally. In close cooperation with Ubisoft and Blue Byte several installments of the strategy-series ‘The Settlers’ have been developed. Within the last couple of years, Funatics released various successful strategy games like “Cultures Online”, “Ufo Online: Fight for Earth” and “Panzer General Online” which were browser games and partly iOS ports.

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Discover an Ancient World and Free the Animal Gods

YouTube – https://youtu.be/EJTcvkM5AL0
Steam page​ -​ http://store.steampowered.com/app/370220/

A classic old-school action RPG, set in a 2D dark and mystical fantasy world

October 7, 2015 – Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA – independent videogame developer, Still Games, announced today that action RPG Animal Gods is now complete and will be available digitally for the PC, Mac and Linux via Steam on October 12 and to follow on the Nintendo Wii U™.

“We’re thrilled to be launching Animal Gods a year ahead of schedule and to reward our loyal fans and backers from our successful Kickstarter,” said Kara Myren, Lead Programmer at Still Games​. “Animal Gods is a story that we’ve been wanting to tell for a long time.  It’s developed into such awesome and interesting game, that we can’t wait to share it with our eager Kickstarter backers and expectant fans!”

Animal Gods is a fully illustrated, top-down, 2D action RPG where players adopt the role of Thistle, a young priest and hunter from an ancient age. Thistle’s journey will take her to tall mysterious forests, fields of stone and even discover a lost world.  Set in a ravaged ancient European setting, our hero sets out to stop an arcane cult’s leader and release the cursed Gods of old.
Featuring fast paced, precise action, players traverse the non-linear world of Animal Gods, exploring the dungeons in any order whilst wielding  mythical items; the Rift Bow, Flame Cloak and the Sword of Wind.

About the Still Games
Still Games is an independent game studio started in 2013 by Kara Myren and Peter Harmon. They develop games from a studio located on the edge of a cliff in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Their mission is to build fantastical worlds that support a gameplay focused player experience.

MARVEL Future Fight, Recruits Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Latest Update

Netmarble Delivers More Robust Content to Blockbuster Mobile Action RPG

SEOUL, Korea (October 7, 2015) – MARVEL Future Fight, the blockbuster Mobile Action RPG from leading Korean gaming company, Netmarble Games, has released the newest update featuring brand new characters from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Coinciding with the season three launch of the hit ABC Television show, players will now be able to recruit notable agents such as leader Phil Coulson, Daisy Johnson (Skye), Bobbi Morse, Lincoln Campbell, Deathlok, Sif and a variety of other operatives on their teams. Non-stop action awaits as the world’s best agents are on-hand and ready to take action.

In addition to brand new characters, players can now delve further into the world of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. with the inclusion of two brand new stages. Infiltrate Hydra’s Arctic Base and destroy all enemies in sight as the snowy obstacles may prove difficult. Opposite of the arctic environment, players can also explore a small settlement hidden in the mountains that serves as the sanctuary for the Inhumans that fans of the show may recall as the Afterlife.

“It is very rewarding to see players respond so positively to the new content we bring into our game,” said Seungwon Lee, President of Overseas, Netmarble Games. “We’re very excited to feature Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. within our new update for MARVEL Future Fight. With season three having just kicked off for the hit television show, it is a great time to have fans experience this exciting story in a new interactive way.”

“We’re excited that the first opportunity to integrate our TV content and mobile games is with Marvel Future Fight and “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD,” said Peter Phillips, EVP/GM, Interactive & Digital Distribution, Marvel Entertainment. “While TV is one of the primary ways in which Marvel delivers amazing stories to our fans, our popular mobile games give people an opportunity to keep the story going.”

Additional exciting new gameplay features in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. update include:

• New Characters: The beloved Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. team joins the battle as notable characters such as Phil Coulson, Daisy Johnson (Skye), Lincoln Campbell, Deathlok, Sif, Melinda May, Gordon, Raina, Leo Fitz are introduced
• Expanded Storyline: The Future Fight saga continues with two new Chapters and 16 Stages co-written by the television show creative team with famed comic writer, Peter David
• New Stages and HYDRA’s Arctic Base: Serving as the base for terrorist-military organization, HYDRA, players must employ their best operatives to overtake HYDRA in this arctic environment

Afterlife – The sanctuary for Inhumans, located in a remote mountain community

• New Uniforms and Special gear: Comic book version uniforms give popular characters special abilities such as Quake, aka Daisy Johnson (Skye), Deathlok and Bobbi Morse, aka Mockingbird and custom gear can now be created for all characters
• New Monsters: Nine new monsters are added to the roster as players must battle it out against Inhumans and their minions
• Introduction of Alliance PvE Battle Mode: A brand new storyline and mode in which players who form teams and earn the highest score will be rewarded with crystals for in-game item purchases
• Increased Level Caps/Upgraded Character Balancing: Hero levels caps have been expanded to level 60, Player account level expanded to level 60, additionally three characters have been upgraded to 6 star skill sets – Captain Marvel, Destroyer and Luke Cage
• Limited-time Comic Book Cover: A brand new exclusive limited-time comic book cover set

Famed Marvel Comics writer Peter David took part in the creation of MARVEL Future Fight, which features over 62 playable characters including Ant-Man, Iron Man, Thor, Spider-Man, Daredevil and heroes from Guardians of the Galaxy and Secret Wars. Players can build their own team of heroes to face off against villains such as Doctor Octopus or Ultron, all while enjoying gorgeous graphics and innovative controls. MARVEL Future Fight also features co-op for added support and action packed entertainment.

MARVEL Future Fight has launched in 148 countries and has hit the Top 10 charts in 118 countries including Korea, Taiwan, the United States and the UK, while registering 20 million downloads in its first 2 months. MARVEL Future Fight has held its place at the top of both the App Store℠ and Google Play™ Store worldwide charts, landing overall at #6 for May 2015*. MARVEL Future Fight dominated the iPhone® games ranks, reaching #1 in daily downloads in over 40 countries including the United States, South Korea, and France.

*Source: May 2015 AppAnnie Report

MARVEL Future Fight is available worldwide on the App Store and Google Play.

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marvel-future-fight/id955705796

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netmarble.mherosgb

For more information on MARVEL Future Fight, please visit http://marvelfuturefight.netmarble.com.

About Netmarble Games Corporation

Netmarble Games Corp. strives to enrich people’s lives by providing great games to global audiences. Based in Seoul, Korea, Netmarble Games Corp. has produced some of the most successful mobile games such as MARVEL Future Fight, Raven (Evilbane in US), Seven Knights, Everyone’s Marble, and Monster Taming. The company has more than 2,500 employees worldwide, numerous studios and consistently ranks as a top developer and publisher in Asia and globally. Netmarble Games Corp. has a strategic partnership with CJ E&M Corporation, Asia’s largest entertainment company, Tencent Holdings, Asia’s largest internet company, and NCsoft, a prominent MMO company, as company shareholders. The company is the largest shareholder to SGN, a leading casual game developer. More information can be found at www.netmarble.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. © 2015 MARVEL

First Person PC and Virtual Reality Exploration Adventure, P·O·L·L·E·N™ is Greenlit on Steam Greenlight in a Record Breaking 36 Hours

Inspired by Science Fiction Classics Solaris, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Moon, P·O·L·L·E·N is Greenlit and Scheduled for Launch on Steam for Windows PC in 2016

Helsinki, Finland – October 7th, 2015 – Virtual reality studio Mindfield Games today announced that its first person virtual reality and PC exploration adventure P·O·L·L·E·N, has been Greenlit on Steam Greenlight in a record breaking 36 hours. P·O·L·L·E·N is a strikingly beautiful first-person psychological space thriller where everything object or machine and their hidden features can be interacted with. Designed and optimised to be played on a PC monitor or in Virtual Reality, players expand the story inside the Saturnian moon’s Research Station M by searching for clues, unlocking new areas by solving puzzles, and finding out what hides under Titan’s surface. 

“We’ve been blown away with the feedback from the Steam community, the overwhelming positive comments and the fact that P.O.L.L.E.N has been Greenlit in a record-breaking 36 hours”, said Olli Sinerma, Co-Founder of Mindfield Games. “In P.O.L.L.E.N we chose to do first person virtual reality where you will no longer be playing a game – you are inside it. The 86% of yes votes on Greenlight shows that people want to experience this too” 

Inspired by science-fiction classics Solaris, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Moon, as well as adventure games Gone Home and The Dig, P·O·L·L·E·N is a first-person space exploration game set on Titan, the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere and vast liquid seas, where life may exist. P·O·L·L·E·N. places the player inside the suit and helmet of a space mechanic in a fully interactive world where each object has a functionality and action. 

P·O·L·L·E·N, will be coming to PC in Early 2016 and will support HTC Vive, OSVR, Oculus Rift and traditional display. Later in the year P·O·L·L·E·N will also be available for PlayStation 4 and supports PlayStation VR.

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Mindfield Games Ltd.

Mindfield Games is an eleven person company from Helsinki, Finland that focuses on virtual reality. The team consists entirely of game industry professionals with a background on PC, console and mobile game development from companies such as Remedy, Rovio, Housemarque and Redlynx/Ubisoft. 

Mindfield Games’ first title, the first person exploration adventure game P·O·L·L·E·N. will be released for PC in Q1/2016 and is optimized for Virtual Reality.