2K and Firaxis Games Celebrate Rising Tide with Sid Meier’s Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ Free-to-Play Weekend 

Pre-purchase the new expansion pack* and get 10% off or enjoy additional savings on the Civilization Beyond Earth – The Collection bundle this weekend 

Join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #RisingTide

Sydney, Australia – August 14, 2015 – 2K and Firaxis Games today announced pre-purchase details for Sid Meier’s Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ – Rising Tide, the expansion pack for 2014’s turn-based strategy title, Civilization: Beyond Earth. Players who pre-purchase the game will receive a 10% discount on their purchases. Rising Tide is currently in development for Windows PC, as well as Mac and Linux through Aspyr Media, and scheduled for worldwide release on all platforms on October 9, 2015.

Complementing the Rising Tide pre-purchase news, players can also take advantage of the following Beyond Earth offers: 

• The award-winning** Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is free-to-play on Steam this weekend.
• Civilization: Beyond Earth – The Collection, which includes Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth, the Exoplanets Map Pack and the upcoming expansion pack, Rising Tide, will be available for purchase during the free-to-play period with an additional discount from participating digital retailers.

The Exoplanets Map Pack features six custom maps inspired by real exoplanets, including:

• Kepler 186f: This lush forest planet is one of the oldest known Earth-like planets;
• Rigil Khantoris Bb: Orbiting the closest star to our solar system, the historical records of this arid continental planet’s settlement are well-preserved;
• Tau Ceti d: This planet of seas and archipelagos features a booming biodiversity and wealth of resources;
• Mu Arae f: Tidally locked in orbit around a weak star, the southern hemisphere of this planet is a blistering desert where the sun never sets, while the northern hemisphere is perpetually in frozen darkness;
• 82 Eridani e: An alien world of scarce water and wracked by tectonic forces;
• Eta Vulpeculae b: A mysterious new discovery with unknown terrain.

New players who participate in the free-to-play weekend on Steam will have until 1:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, August 17, 2015 to purchase Civilization: Beyond Earth or the Civilization Beyond Earth: The Collection for more than 10% off, and retain their in-game progress.

About Rising Tide 

Rising Tide will expand Beyond Earth to new frontiers on the planet’s surface and across its seas, adding more choices and diplomatic options as players build “one more turn” toward a new vision for humanity’s future. New aquatic gameplay will explore the oceans for colonization by dramatically extending the play space, while an overhauled diplomacy system will provide players with additional layers of dynamic choices and options to shape the diplomatic landscape while engaging with the AI and one another.

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth and Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth – Rising Tide are rated “PG” in both Australia and New Zealand. Rising Tide will be available globally for Windows PC on October 9, 2015. The title will also launch for Mac and Linux this spring through Aspyr Media.

For more information on Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth, please visit www.civilization.com, become a fan on Facebook, follow Civilization on Twitter and subscribe to Civilization on YouTube.

For more information on the Mac and Linux version, please visit www.aspyr.com or follow Aspyr Media on Facebook and Twitter.

*Sid Meier’s Civilization®: Beyond Earth is required to play Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth Rising Tide

**Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth took home more than 15 awards at E3 2014, including Destructoid’s “Best of E3: Best PC” and “Best of E3: Best Strategy Game,” Game Critics Awards’ “Best Strategy Game,” Game Informer’s “Best PC Exclusive” and “Best Strategy Game,” IGN’s “Best of E3 Best Strategy Game,” Nerdist’s “Editor’s Choice E3 2014,” Polygon’s “Editors’ Choice,” The Escapist’s “Best of E3 2014” and more.

2K is a wholly owned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

About Take-Two Interactive Software

Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a leading developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers around the globe.  The Company develops and publishes products through its two wholly-owned labels Rockstar Games and 2K.  Our products are designed for console systems and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets, and are delivered through physical retail, digital download, online platforms and cloud streaming services.  The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at http://www.take2games.com. 

About 2K

Founded in 2005, 2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment globally for console systems, handheld gaming systems and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets, which are delivered through physical retail, digital download, online platforms and cloud streaming services. 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, sports, casual, and family entertainment. The 2K label has some of the most talented development studios in the world today, including Firaxis Games, Visual Concepts, Hangar 13, Cat Daddy Games and 2K China. 2K’s stable of high quality titles includes the critically acclaimed BioShock®, Borderlands™, and XCOM® franchises, the beloved Sid Meier’s Civilization series, the innovative Evolve™, the popular WWE 2K franchise and NBA 2K, the #1 rated and #1 selling basketball franchise*. 2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). For more information, please visit www.2k.com.

*According to 2008 – 2015 Metacritic.com and The NPD Group estimates of U.S. retail video game sales through June 2015. 

About Firaxis Games

Firaxis Games™ is one of the world’s premier game development studios, and home of legendary designer Sid Meier. Firaxis has developed some of the most successful and award-winning PC and video games on the market today, including the award-winning Sid Meier’s Civilization® series, featuring the recently released Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth™ for Windows PC, Sid Meier’s Civilization V for Windows PC, as well as the critically acclaimed expansion packs, Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Brave New World and Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Gods and Kings for Windows PC. Firaxis also released the 2012 Game of the Year award-winning XCOM®: Enemy Unknown for Windows PC, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and Apple iOS, along with the critically acclaimed expansion pack XCOM: Enemy Within for Windows PC, the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation3 computer entertainment system, and Apple iOS. Firaxis Games is owned by Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., and is part of its 2K publishing label. For more information about Firaxis and its games can be found at www.firaxis.com.

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FALLOUT SHELTER NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE ON GOOGLE PLAY^TM

#1 Smash Hit Arrives on Android^TM Devices Worldwide

August 13, 2015 (Rockville, MD) – Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax® Media company, today announced that Fallout Shelter™, the first-ever mobile game set in the celebrated Fallout® universe from Bethesda Game Studios®,  is now available worldwide for FREE on Google Play for Android devices.

Praised for its fun, addicting gameplay, and for its player-friendly approach to in-app purchases, Fallout Shelter has received  accolades from some of the industry’s leading outlets, earning ‘Game of the Week’ from Touch Arcade and nominations for ‘Biggest Surprise’ from IGN and ‘Best Handled/Mobile Game’ from the official Game Critics Awards.

Today’s launch includes all-new game updates, including the introduction of Mr. Handy – the ultimate robotic companion – as a premium reward. Use him to collect resources inside your Vault, send him into the wasteland to collect caps, or defend your Vault from creatures and disasters, including new Deathclaw invasions and Molerat infestations.

Fallout Shelter is a post-nuclear strategy and simulation experience that puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault. Build the perfect Vault from a variety of rooms, oversee your very own thriving community of Vault Dwellers, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

To download Fallout Shelter for Android devices, visit: Google Play.

To learn more about Fallout Shelter, visit the game’s official website: www.FalloutShelter.com. 

Android and Google Play are trademarks of Google Inc.

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^TM, Prey® 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 team known around the world for their groundbreaking work on the Fallout series and The Elder Scrolls series. Creators of the 2006 ‘Game of the Year’, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion®, the 2008 ‘Game of the Year’, Fallout® 3, the 2011 ‘Game of the Year’, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim®, and most recently the highly-anticipated upcoming title, Fallout® 4,  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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Devolver Digital Publisher Weekend on Steam Celebrates All That Is Good and Right in the World

– Overly Generous Discounts Push World Economy into Free Fall –

The Internet – The serial capitalists at Devolver Digital have announced the annual Devolver Digital Publisher Weekend has reared its head once again on Steam with discounts of up to 90 percent off on Devolver Digital games and films [http://store.steampowered.com/sale/devolverweekend2015] from August 13 to August 17.

Celebrated Devolver Digital games that were once thought to be prohibitively expensive to the common gamer have been discounted down to a level that even the unwashed masses may finally indulge in their digital opulence. The exorbitant prices thrust upon critically acclaimed titles like The Talos Principle, Hotline Miami, and Shadow Warrior by the profit-centric publisher have been temporarily lowered so that even the most common gamer from the slums of the internet can taste their glory.

“The corporate jet isn’t going to gold plate itself so I encourage all gamers to go out and spend any and all disposable income on Devolver Digital video games,” said Devolver Digital CFO Fork Parker.

The independent cinematic fare from Devolver Films are also heavily discounted during the weekend event with movie projects like Super Game Jam, Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, and Gaming in Color also up to 75 percent off. Treat yourself, you deserve it.

Additionally, digital gems from Devolver Digital bestie Gambitious are also on sale over the weekend including first-person puzzler Magnetic, transportation simulator Train Fever, and undead tactical strategy game Breach & Clear: Deadline.

For more information on Devolver Digital please visit www.devolverdigital.com or follow us on Twitter @devolverdigital and @forkparker.

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About Devolver Digital
Devolver Digital is a multinational entertainment conglomerate originally founded in 2009 as a division of the Nestle Corporation tasked with developing, marketing, and distributing weapons-grade chocolate. The company was later spun off into an independent game label with no ties to chocolate or any other illicit confections.

CALL OF DUTY: ADVANCED WARFARE RECKONING DLC PACK COMING TO PLAYSTATION AND PC SEPTEMBER 4 

Sydney, Australia – August 14, 2015 – Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare Reckoning, the fourth and final DLC pack for Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC on September 4.  Featuring four new maps, the return of the Exo Grapple playlist and the epic conclusion to Exo Zombies, Reckoning takes players to four unique locations from New Baghdad to South Korea.

• Overload: With a grand view of downtown New Baghdad, the map’s multiple levels and long perimeter site-lines highlight medium to long-range combat.

• Quarantine: The speed picks up in this medium sized map with its tight corners and open areas.  The combination allows for any style of gameplay.

• Fracture: Search this map’s large combat areas, cradled on the shelf of a glacier, to take refuge behind wind turbines and heavy equipment.

• Swarm: In this small to medium sized map, take position in war-scarred storefronts that provide plenty of cover over the streets of Seoul, South Korea, or flank the enemy through close quarter interiors in the center of the map.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Reckoning also brings fans Descent, the dramatic conclusion of the Exo Zombies saga.  Descent brings a new experience that introduces a remote ocean Atlas survival facility, new “fused” Exo Zombie enemies and the Trident Reflected Energy Weapon.  The final episode also unveils the fate of our protagonists – John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire, RED, Burn After Reading), Bill Paxton (Aliens, Titanic, Edge of Tomorrow), Rose McGowan (Planet Terror, Scream), Jon Bernthal (Fury, The Wolf of Wall Street) and Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice, Bubba Ho-Tep), who have found themselves in a harrowing situation as they attempt to discover the true cause of the global pandemic and the terrible secret that Atlas has been hiding.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Reckoning is available from September 4 for a suggested retail price of $19.95.  The Reckoning DLC Pack is also included in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s DLC Season Pass*, featuring all four DLC Packs, as part of the discounted bundle.**

*Downloadable content in the Season Pass may be sold separately.  If you purchase the DLC Season Pass, do not also purchase these standalone DLC Map Packs, as you will be charged for them.  DLC Season Pass and DLC Map Packs may not be available on all platforms or in all territories.  Pricing and release dates may vary by platform.  Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare game required; sold separately. 

**Based on DLC Season Pass suggested retail price of $64.95 and four DLC Map Packs at a suggested retail price of $19.95 each.

About Activision Publishing, Inc.

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