Calling all Commanders: Pocket Platoons Deployed for Launch.
Build Your Army Today!

Publisher of award-winning MMORPG, TERA, brings big battles to small screens with new World War II mobile strategy game available now on iOS and Android devices.

SEATTLE — August 27, 2015 — En Masse Entertainment, publisher of TERA — one of the most-played MMORPGs on Steam— is excited to announce today’s launch of Pocket Platoons for iOS and Android devices across North America and Europe, with an Amazon Kindle Fire version coming soon. In Pocket Platoons, En Masse’s second mobile title, players build bases of operations and control customized armies in a stylized, WWII-themed strategy spectacular.

“Sometimes great things come in small packages, and that’s exactly how we feel about Pocket Platoons,” says Chris Lee, En Masse Entertainment CEO. “This game offers an amazing amount of depth with its wide range of units and variety of modes. We trust players will find its emphasis on tactical strategy, army composition, and unit positioning makes Pocket Platoons a real gem of a game.”

Choose between the Allies and Axis factions, build your base, recruit and train your army, and then lead your troops into battle. Enjoy a variety of single-player skirmishes, PvP battles, and epic 5v5 coalition combat. With over 300 campaign stages, hundreds of progression quests, dozens of tactical units, and a wide variety of combat modes to master, Pocket Platoons brings a new experience to the mobile strategy genre, rewarding player skill and a deep understanding of battlefield positioning and combat tactics.

Pocket Platoons is free to download now on the App Store and Google Play™, and will be available soon at the Amazon Appstore. For more information please visit the official Pocket Platoons product page.

About En Masse Entertainment

Based in Seattle Washington, En Masse Entertainment embodies the evolution of modern game publishing. The company’s mission is to publish great games and provide great service. Beginning with En Masse’s inaugural title, TERA, and continuing with Zombies Monsters Robots and its first mobile game, Fruit Attacks, the company has built a track record of excellence and innovation. The team at En Masse includes experts in online technology, live service, branding, community, and player support, allowing them to thrive as a publisher in the digital era. For more information, visit EnMasse.com.

Onikira: Demon Killer, an awesome side-scrolling, 2D beat’em-up set in fantasy feudal Japan, is out now!

Thursday, August 27, 2015, Manchester, UK – Headup Games and Merge Games today announce the release of Onikira: Demon Killer for PC. Onikira will launch across Steam and other digital stores priced $13.99, £10.59 or €13.99.

A Contributor’s Pack, containing Onikira – Demon Killer; The Onikira Soundtrack; Digital Artwork from Digital Furnace Games; and a Gift-copy of Onikira – Demon Killer for a friend is also available priced $19.99, £14.99 or €19.99.

Developed by Irish-based indie, Digital Furnace Games, Onikira: Demon Killer is an awesome side-scrolling, 2D beat’em-up set in fantasy feudal Japan. As Yamazaki Jiro, a lone samurai, players battle to prevent the forces of the Japanese underworld, Yomi, from consuming the land of the living.

Onikira: Demon Killer blends together complex deep fighting mechanics usually found in traditional 3D beat-em’ups and merges them with classic 2D platform-game mechanics. Onikira’s expressive fighting system enables players to engage in whichever way suits them best. Some players will prefer to go toe-to toe with heavy weapons and mash buttons while others will opt for a ranged game style, avoiding heavy melee encounters.

Onikira: Demon Killer boasts seven challenging areas and players can express themselves with over forty uber-cool moves, using four devastating weapons. Each level is littered with foul demons that players must dispatch back to the underworld and players must also face two mini-bosses and two epic mega bosses.

Check out the game’s Steam page here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/310850/

Square Enix announces exclusive Rise of the Tomb Raider Collector’s Edition for Xbox One

Highly Limited Edition Comes Loaded with Iconic Lara Croft Relics and Collectibles

LONDON (August 26, 2015) – Square Enix Inc. today announced a collector’s edition forRise of the Tomb Raider® that is available exclusively from the Square Enix e-store and the Official Tomb Raider store.

The collector’s edition is packed with valuable memorabilia, including a 12 inch tall statue of Lara Croft that depicts her search for answers on her first tomb raiding expedition, a model of the jade necklace that was Lara’s first archeological discovery, and a collectible steel book case.

The exclusive Rise of the Tomb Raider Collector’s Edition (£109.99) is available for pre-order here. It includes:

• Full Xbox One retail copy of Rise of the Tomb Raider
• 12 inch tall statue of Lara Croft
• Collectible steel case
• Replica of Lara’s leather in-game journal
• Model of Lara’s jade necklace

Rise of the Tomb Raider launches exclusively for Xbox One and Xbox 360 on Nov. 13, 2015 in Europe, and is coming to other platforms in 2016.

Related Links
Official Homepage: http://www.TOMBRAIDER.com
Official Twitter: @TOMBRAIDER
Official Facebook page: http://facebook.com/TOMBRAIDER
Official Tumblr: http://officialTOMBRAIDERblog.tumblr.com/
Official YouTube Channel: http://youtube.com/TOMBRAIDER

About TOMB RAIDER
The TOMB RAIDER franchise has sold over 42 million copies worldwide and inspired one of the most successful video game film adaptations in history, grossing over $300 million at the global box office with protagonist Lara Croft becoming a contemporary global icon. TOMB RAIDER, released March 5, 2013 has received over 70 “Best of” nominations and is the fastest selling game in the history of the franchise with more than 6.5 million units sold. TOMB RAIDER: DEFINITIVE EDITION released January 28, 2014 and is one of the highest rated games on next generation systems. All of this has made TOMB RAIDER once again a destination brand for action-adventure.

About Square Enix, Inc.
Square Enix, Inc. develops, publishes, distributes and licenses SQUARE ENIX, EIDOS® and TAITO® branded entertainment content throughout the Americas as part of the Square Enix Group. The Square Enix Group operates a global network of leading development studios and boasts a valuable portfolio of intellectual property, including: FINAL FANTASY, which has sold over 110 million units worldwide; DRAGON QUEST®, which has sold over 66 million units worldwide; TOMB RAIDER®, which has sold over 42 million units worldwide; and the legendary SPACE INVADERS®. Square Enix, Inc. is a U.S.-based, wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.

More information on Square Enix, Inc. can be found at http://www.square-enix.com/

FINAL FANTASY, the FINAL FANTASY logo, DRAGON QUEST, SQUARE ENIX, the SQUARE ENIX logo, SPACE INVADERS, LARA CROFT, TOMB RAIDER, and RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Square Enix Group. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Diablo III’s latest update, Patch 2.3.0, is now live in Australia and New Zealand for PC, Xbox One, and PS4, and it’s full of cool new stuff!

Extensive patch notes are available here: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19859662/patch-230-now-live-8-25-2015

Don’t feel like reading? Check out our video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gRsRqP2JKg

New zone: The Ruins of Sescheron
The frozen wasteland that is the Ruins of Sescheron are now open for exploration! Filled with new enemies, traps, and environmental hazards, you’ll be able to explore the region and learn more about what befell the barbarians of Mount Arreat. Explore the Immortal Throne and obtain the ultimate treasure: Kanai’s Cube.

New Feature: Kanai’s Cube
Kanai’s Cube is a new artisan that offers a slew of new recipes to fully customise your items and catalogue your Legendary powers. Several recipes are available to players immediately upon acquiring Kanai’s Cube:

• Extract Legendary Power: Destroy an item to add its Legendary power to your catalogue of collected powers. Once a power has been extracted, it can be equipped to your character without the need to equip the item. Players may have one Weapon, one Armour, and one Jewellery power equipped at a time. Players may only equip powers from items that their characters can normally equip and use.
• Reforge a Legendary Item: Completely re-rolls a Legendary item as though it had dropped for the first time. This includes any powers that may have been previously enchanted on the item. Note that reforged items may re-roll as either Ancient or non-Ancient, so reforge at your own discretion!
• Upgrade Rare Item: Upgrades the quality of a level 70 Rare item to Legendary. This item will roll as a randomised Legendary that shares that item’s equipment type.
• Convert Set Item: Converts a Set item to a randomised piece of gear from the same Set. For example, if you convert a pair of Asheara’s Finders, you could get Asheara’s Custodian, Asheara’s Pace, or Asheara’s Ward in return.
• Remove Level Requirement: Removes the level requirement from an item, allowing it to be equipped by a character of any level.
• Convert Gems: Converts 9 of any colour gem to 9 of any other colour.
• Convert Crafting Materials: Converts 100 normal, magic, or rare Crafting Materials to 100 of another type of non-legendary Crafting Material

To acquire Kanai’s Cube, visit Zoltun Kulle in New Tristram, Hidden Camp, Bastion’s Keep Stronghold, or The Survivor’s Enclave in Adventure Mode. He’ll be quite pleased to guide you on your way. 

New Feature: Season Journey
Each player approaches a new Season a little differently, and we wanted to celebrate individual player successes. Beginning in Season 4, you’ll be able to track your personal progress through the Season Journey interface.

A player’s Season Journey is divided into chapters, each with their own descriptive goals and achievements. The further you advance in your Season Journey, the more difficult the milestones become, and you’ll find there are challenges for every level of player. Completing the highest level Tiers will unlock new portrait frame rewards to celebrate your accomplishments.

We’ve also posted stacks of Patch 2.3.0 screenshots on the Blizzard press site: http://blizzard.gamespress.com/en-AU/Diablo-III#?tab=screenshots

Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut Brings The Godfather Of Post-Apocalyptic RPG To The New Generation

Remastered and enhanced versions for Xbox One and PS4 launching on October 16, 2015
Deep Silver and inXile today announced that Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut will be available at retail and digitally for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 from 16^th October in Australia and New Zealand. Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut  includes overhauled graphics, expanded voice-overs, gameplay enhancements & tweaks as well as some brand-new features.
Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut takes last year’s critically acclaimed PC release and offers a complete visual overhaul; including a more sophisticated lighting system, upgraded environments and improved textures as well as brand new, higher quality character models. On the audio side all major speaking parts and NPCs have also received new voice-overs and weapon sounds have been revisited in order to provide more variety and punch. This comes along with new features and gameplay advances such as improvements to combat encounters,  additional passes to balancing, enhanced cutscenes plus all-new “Precision Strike” and “Perk & Traits” systems. In addition, the game’s UI and control scheme have been completely reworked and optimized for consoles.

Key Features:

•        The Director’s Cut: Overhauled graphics with fully redone character and level art, voice-over expanded with tens of thousands of lines, and new features make this the definitive version of Wasteland 2.
•        Turn-Based Tactical Combat: Tackle explosive and deadly squad-based combat encounters against the wasteland’s raiders, mutants, robots and more that will test the limits of your planning and tactics.
•        Your Squad Your Way: Don’t feel like finding the key for a door? Pick the lock, bash it down with your boot, or just blow it open with a rocket launcher!
•        A Huge Reactive Story: With hundreds of choices and consequences at your disposal, with both short and long term reactivity to the players choices and 80-100 hours of gameplay, no two players will have the same experience.
•        Huge & Customizable: Dozens of hours of game. Hundreds of characters. Thousands of variations on your Rangers’ appearance. Over 150 weapons. Dozens of skills!
•        Enhanced Classic RPG Game Play: Classic RPG game play ideas updated with modern design philosophies.

About Wasteland 2
Wasteland 2 is the direct sequel to 1988’s Wasteland, the first-ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG and the inspiration behind the Fallout series. Until Wasteland, no other CRPG had ever allowed players to control and command individual party members for tactical purposes or given them the chance to make moral choices that would directly affect the world around them. Wasteland was a pioneer in multi-path problem solving, dripping in choice and consequence and eschewing the typical one-key-per-lock puzzle solving methods of its peers, in favor of putting the power into players’ hands to advance based on their own particular play style.

The Wasteland series’ impressive and innovative lineage has been preserved at its very core, but modernized for the fans of today with Wasteland 2. Immerse yourself in turn-based tactical combat that will test the very limits of your strategy skills as you fight to survive a desolate world where brute strength alone isn’t enough to save you. Deck out your Ranger squad with the most devastating weaponry this side of the fallout zone and get ready for maximum destruction with the RPG-style character advancement and customization that made the first Wasteland so brutal. Save an ally from certain death or let them perish – the choice is yours, but so are the consequences.

The Wasteland’s hellish landscape has been waiting for you to make your mark… or die trying.

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