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Skylanders Charges into Gamescom with Exciting Announcements and Franchise Firsts

Sydney, Australia – August 5, 2015 – Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), continues to blaze the toys-to-life trail with Skylanders franchise firsts, racing and online multiplayer gameplay on console in Skylanders® SuperChargers, developed by Vicarious Visions. Whether fans prefer co-operative play in Adventure Mode or competitive multiplayer with up to four players in Racing Mode, Skylanders SuperChargers’ online gaming is fueled with adrenaline-pumping action right out of the box.

Skylanders’ all-new Racing Mode, playable in Land, Sea and Sky environments, features supercharged racing combat, layering in even more depth and excitement to the game’s online multiplayer component.  The high-octane mode is further amplified with all-new time trials, which include three-lap races that take friendly competition up a notch as players battle for the best time score on the leaderboard.  All Skylanders SuperChargers Starter Packs will come loaded with six dynamic race tracks – two each for Land, Sea and Sky. With hidden routes, power-ups, and diverse locations, Racing Mode offers completely new ways to enjoy the game. Whether played in offline split-screen or online multiplayer, gamers can choose the best route to finish a race, trying to avoid attacks along the way as they navigate through dynamic environments. Voice-chat is available with friends for an added layer of excitement.

Skylanders SuperChargers delivers more ways to play than ever before:

• Single-player Adventure Mode
• Online and local co-operative Adventure Mode
• Local 2-player head-to-head racing in split screen
• Online competitive racing with up to 4 players

“Skylanders fans told us they wanted to go head-to-head in online multiplayer with their friends and family, and we delivered. Skylanders SuperChargers enables gamers to race against friends all over the world and brings an exciting new expansion to the Skylanders gameplay experience,” said John Coyne, senior vice president of consumer marketing, Activision Publishing, Inc.  “We continue to be firmly committed to driving Skylanders’ spirit for providing originality, innovation, creativity and fun with each game.”

Skylanders SuperChargers continues to rev its engine with the addition of Skylanders SuperChargers Racing Action Packs at launch and beyond. These optional expansion packs, one each for Land, Sea and Sky, unlock even more thrilling racing content for Portal Masters. Each pack comes loaded with three special toys, including a SuperCharger, its signature vehicle and a villain trophy. The villain trophy unlocks two new tracks and new modes, including SuperVillain Cup, Boss Pursuit and Mirror Cup. There are 12 boss villains across all three packs, with four in each pack, which players can defeat and play as. Fans can then store these boss villains on their villain trophy toy to play at a friend’s house.

Fans can augment their SuperCharger experience with a complementary, dedicated racing combat game — Skylanders SuperChargers Racing — for the Wii™ system and Nintendo 3DS™ hand-held system. All-new tracks, augmented with power-ups, boosts, hazards and more, offer up to 50 different and exciting gameplay experiences. On Nintendo 3DS, gamers can go head-to-head with competitive multiplayer via local play or online with up to four players. Iconic Nintendo character Bowser™ and his Sky vehicle, Clown Cruiser are available in the Skylanders SuperChargers Racing Starter Packs for Wii and Nintendo 3DS and can also be played on the Wii U™ system.   The Supercharged character not only works in Skylanders SuperChargers Racing, but also as amiibo in compatible Nintendo games, so players can store their saved data in both modes with a simple twist of the figure’s base.

About Skylanders SuperChargers

Skylanders SuperChargers expands upon the franchise’s signature gameplay to introduce a brand-new play pattern to fans, vehicles-to-life.  For the first time ever, kids can explore and navigate the mountainous terrains, deep sea environments and big blue skies of Skylands like never before by going behind the wheel of powerful, tricked-out land, sea and sky vehicles – bringing them from physical world into the digital world in a high octane action-adventure videogame. The game offers a diverse and dynamic story-driven gameplay experience, filled with vehicle-based and on-foot adventures featuring combat, puzzles, mini games, activities and platforming — all set within a variety of new compelling environments. Skylanders SuperChargers has 20 land, sea and sky vehicles that are fun to play in the game and in the real world. There is also a new class of heroes — 20 SuperCharger toys that feature all-new powerful attacks and moves, upgrades and personalities. The game supports all 300+ Skylander toys from previous games.

Skylanders SuperChargers will be available on September 24 in Australia and September 25 in New Zealand on the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation® 4 system, PlayStation® 3 system and Nintendo’s Wii U™ system. Additionally, the complete Skylanders SuperChargers experience will be available on iPad® ¹.  Skylanders SuperChargers Racing will be available on September 24 in Australia and September 25 in New Zealand for Wii™ and Nintendo 3DS.

About the Skylanders^® Franchise

The award-winning, $3 billion Skylanders franchise has sold through more than 250 million action figures² since pioneering the toys-to-life category in 2011 with the debut of Skylanders® Spyro’s Adventure. The game originated a play pattern that seamlessly bridged physical and virtual worlds across multiple platforms. In 2012, Skylanders® Giants further evolved the genre and added LightCore^® characters to the collection of interaction figures.  Skylanders® SWAP Force^™, which launched in 2013, introduced an all new play pattern – swapability. In 2014, Skylanders^® Trap Team reversed the magic of bringing toys to life by allowing players to pull characters out of the digital world into the physical world and became the number 1 kids’ console game globally².

About Activision Publishing

Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading global producer and publisher of interactive entertainment. Activision maintains operations throughout the world. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company’s website, www.activision.com or by following @Activision.

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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: Information in this press release that involves Activision Publishing’s expectations, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future, including statements about the expected release dates of Skylanders SuperChargers and Skylanders SuperChargers Racing are forward-looking statements that are not facts and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause Activision Publishing’s actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements set forth in this release include unanticipated product delays and other factors identified in the risk factors sections of Activision Blizzard’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. The forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information available to Activision Publishing and Activision Blizzard as of the date of this release, and neither Activision Publishing nor Activision Blizzard assumes any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements believed to be true when made may ultimately prove to be incorrect. These statements are not guarantees of the future performance of Activision Publishing or Activision Blizzard and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond its control and may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations.

© 2015 Activision Publishing, Inc., SKYLANDERS, SKYLANDERS SUPERCHARGERS, SKYLANDERS SUPERCHARGERS RACING, SWAP FORCE, SKYLANDERS UNIVERSE, LIGHTCORE and ACTIVISION are trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc.

^¹Available on select tablet devices

² Based on revenue from January – June, 2015, according to the NPD Group, GfK Chart-track, and Activision Blizzard internal estimates, including toys and accessories.

RED BULL AIR RACE – THE GAME
“PUT AWAY YOUR TRAY TABLE”: WING RACERS SPORTS GAMES AND SLIGHTLY MAD STUDIOS DEVELOP THE OFFICIAL COMPUTER GAME OF THE WORLD’S FASTEST MOTORSPORT SERIES

COLOGNE, Germany  – August 5, 2015 – Good news for all fans of truly spectacular computer games: Wing Racers Sports Games GmbH in cooperation with Red Bull Air Race GmbH and Slightly Mad Studios is developing and publishing the official game of the spectacular Red Bull Air Race World Championship.

Founded in 2003 and the official global Air Racing Championship since 2005, the Red Bull Air Race is being followed by millions of excited fans worldwide. In the world’s fastest motorsport series, 14 pilots compete in an extraordinary motorsport – a perfect mastery of speed, precision and skill decides between victory and defeat. Each pilot races a lightweight and highly agile racing plane through a predefined racetrack marked by 25-meter-high pylons called Air Gates – just a few meters above the ground, all in the fastest time possible, with the least amount of penalties.

Wing Racers Sports Games GmbH is equally excited to work with a development partner that stands for quality and competence: Project CARS, the most recent title produced by Slightly Mad Studios, has become a worldwide hit. Red Bull Air Race – The Game is scheduled for a 2016 release exclusively for the PC platform and will be the first time that the world’s fastest motorsport series can be played on a PC – in its full glory and just as breathtaking.

Red Bull Air Race – The Game will see races take place in authentic locations with the real pilots of the highly popular motorsport series, and it comes with the same high-speed dynamics and nail-biting action present in the global phenomenon known as the Red Bull Air Race. “We are delighted to partner with Wing Racers Sports Games GmbH – the perfect partner for realizing this project,” says Erich Wolf, General Manager of Red Bull Air Race GmbH. “We are working closely together to capture the look and feel of our World Championship – which we want to bring into the game so that gamers around the world can experience its thrill and excitement.”

Jens Ott, Managing Director Wing Racers Sports Games GmbH, is the game’s project leader and equally excited about finally being able to announce Red Bull Air Race – The Game: “We have been working stealthily for many months on this action-packed title – and we can’t wait to show everybody the first scenes of the game. Stay tuned: over the next weeks and months we are going to share many more details and features of Red Bull Air Race – The Game.“

You can see the first teaser trailer of Red Bull Air Race – The Game here: http://youtu.be/mpAZOyaA1Cs.

For more information regarding Red Bull Air Race, please visit www.redbullairrace.com.

THE RED BULL AIR RACE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Created in 2003, officially the World Championship of air racing since 2005, the Red Bull Air Race is followed by millions of fans worldwide. The fastest motorsport series in the world features 14 of the best race pilots in a pure motor-sport competition that combines speed, precision and skill. Using the fastest, most agile and lightweight racing planes, pilots navigate a low-level aerial track made up of air-filled pylons 25 meters high. New since 2014 is the Challenger Cup, a competition which enables talented pilots to work towards acquiring entry into the Master Class of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. More information: www.redbullairrace.com

ABOUT SLIGHTLY MAD STUDIOS

Founded in 2009, Slightly Mad Studios is a multi-award-winning studio with a heritage and pedigree in the creation of some of the world’s most memorable and successful racing franchises including GTR, GT Legends, BMW M3 Challenge, Need For Speed: Shift, Test Drive and Project CARS. More information: http://www.slightlymadstudios.com/

Rewrite History with Every Match in the Arena of Fate Closed Beta

Be the first to experience Crytek’s thrilling new MOBA as the game gets ready for launch

FRANKFURT, Germany – August 5, 2015 – Prepare to step into the shoes of history’s most notable and notorious characters as Crytek’s Arena of Fate enters Closed Beta today.

Featuring fast and furious multiplayer action, Arena of Fate invites players to battle it out in 5 vs. 5 matches as they master the unique traits of famous figures such as Sherlock Holmes, Nikola Tesla, Cleopatra, and many more.

Matches in Arena of Fate are inspired by the competitive spirit and last-ditch drama of real sports, adding a unique twist to the MOBA genre as players fight to claim victory before a 20-minute time limit ticks away. Every point is precious, and the final score will be determined by each team’s ability to work in harmony as they unleash the distinctive skills of their heroes.

The game also includes a club system that paves the way for ongoing league challenges, tournaments, and enhanced matchmaking and social features.

Crytek’s Vesselin Handjiev, Managing Director of Crytek Black Sea, said: “As die-hard MOBA enthusiasts, our team has worked hard to create a truly original experience for players. We can’t wait to see how the game is received during Closed Beta testing, and will put all the feedback we receive to good use as we further refine Arena of Fate ahead of its launch.”

Players who want to be among the first to try Arena of Fate in its Closed Beta form can do so at this year’s gamescom expo in Cologne from August 6-9. The game will be playable at booth C-040 in Hall 7.1 of the Cologne Exhibition Center’s Entertainment Area.

Today also sees the release of a new Arena of Fate trailer, which shows off some of the legendary characters starring in the game and whets the appetite for the intense gameplay on offer. Watch the trailer now at YouTube.com/arenaoffate.

To apply for a place in the Arena of Fate Closed Beta, sign up at www.arenaoffate.com.

About Crytek

Crytek is an independent videogame developer, publisher and technology provider with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and seven other studios around the world. Established in 1999, Crytek has created multiple award-winning titles, including the original Far Cry, the Crysis series, Ryse: Son of Rome and Warface. All of Crytek’s games are developed using CRYENGINE, the company’s cutting-edge 3D game technology, which is also the first choice of other leading developers and licensees when creating games for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation^®4, and Android. Crytek’s ongoing growth in the games-as-a-service market has extended the company’s reach as they continue to deliver top quality interactive experiences to players through self-publishing platforms online.

For more information visit www.crytek.com and www.cryengine.com.

Unlockable Adventure Worlds in LEGO® Dimensions™ Give Players More to Explore Throughout the Main Game and Expansion Packs

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today at gamescom revealed that LEGO Dimensions, the upcoming entertainment experience that merges physical LEGO brick building with interactive console gameplay, will include unlockable Adventure Worlds that provide open-world environments for players to explore.  Separate from the game’s main story which takes players on a heroic journey through universes as varied as The Simpsons and Doctor Who in their quest to save the LEGO Multiverse, players will also be able to access fourteen distinct Adventure Worlds for each of the fan-favourite entertainment properties in the game. Every character in LEGO Dimensions, including the three Starter Pack characters and any Expansion Pack character, has the ability to unlock the corresponding Adventure World of same brand to provide players with additional gameplay content that is based on that entertainment property.

Players will immediately have access to three unique Adventure Worlds based on DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, and The LEGO Movie.  Each of these Adventure Worlds can be unlocked by one of the three heroes from the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack: LEGO Batman can unlock the DC Comics Adventure World, LEGO Gandalf can unlock The Lord of the Rings Adventure World and Wyldstyle can unlock The LEGO Movie Adventure World.  Additionally, each of the remaining Adventure Worlds can be unlocked by any character from the same franchise available in the LEGO Dimensions Level Packs, Team Packs and Fun Packs.

In a new trailer giving the first glimpse of the Adventure Worlds, X-PO (voiced by Joel McHale), the robot guide from LEGO Dimensions, shows off worlds full of beauty and mystery where players will be able to race, collect studs and gold bricks, and explore classic locations from the varied brands available in the game for even more adventure beyond the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack.

View the trailer online here, 

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment also revealed a Ghostbusters Level Pack with a LEGO Peter Venkman minifigure and Ghostbusters Fun Packs with LEGO Stay Puft and LEGO Slimer minifigures

Launching in Australia on September 28, 2015, LEGO Dimensions will be available for Xbox One, the all-in one games and entertainment system from Microsoft and the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation4 and PlayStation3 computer entertainment systems and the Wii U system from Nintendo.

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