DISNEY AND MARVEL TEAM UP FOR SUPER-POWERED SEQUEL –DISNEY INFINITY 2.0: MARVEL SUPER HEROES                           

New Chapter in Best-Selling Disney Infinity Franchise Delivers More than 20 Marvel Super Heroes Including Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor and More

MELBOURNE, Aust. – (May 1, 2014) – Today, Disney Interactive and Marvel Entertainment confirmed that the world’s most iconic Super Heroes are assembling for Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes – the 2.0 edition of the #1 best-selling new hybrid toy / video game of 2013, according to the NPD Group’s video games retail sales data.

Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes features more than 20 new interactive figures from across the Marvel universe, original storylines penned by award-wining Marvel comic writer Brian Michael Bendis, and an all-new Toy Box mode that makes it easier for players to create and share their one-of-a-kind levels and mini-games with family and friends. In addition, all characters and power discs from last year’s release of Disney Infinity will be compatible with the Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes Toy Box.

“Disney Infinity was, from the start, built to be an interactive experience where players could bring together their favorite Disney characters and stories to create new Disney memories.  With the introduction of Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes, we’re ushering in a new chapter of adventures, featuring a cast of the world’s most popular Super Heroes,” said Jimmy Pitaro, President of Disney Interactive.  “Bringing popular and iconic Marvel characters to the Disney Infinity platform truly takes this game to the next level.”

“We’ve worked closely with the Disney Interactive team to deliver an incredible line-up of Marvel characters and great storytelling for the next chapter of Disney Infinity,” said Peter Phillips, EVP and General Manager, Interactive & Digital Distribution at Marvel Entertainment. “The 2.0 edition will allow Marvel fans around the world to interact with their favorite Marvel Super Heroes in entirely new ways, including compelling gameplay and a new line of collectible interactive figures.”

The Avengers’ Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor, Captain America, Hulk and Hawkeye will debut when the game launches this Spring, along with additional Play Sets and characters from other popular Marvel and Disney franchises, which will be announced in the coming months. Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes will be available for the PlayStation^®4 and PlayStation^®3 computer entertainment systems, Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system and Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, the WiiU™ system from Nintendo, PC and iOS tablets and smart phones.

“Marvel Super Heroes fit perfectly into Disney Infinity, and with them we are pushing the platform’s limits of creativity and imagination,” said John Blackburn, VP and General Manager of Avalanche Software. “We’ve enhanced and redesigned the gameplay to match the Marvel characters, while also making it easier than ever for players to express and share their own creativity.”

The game is beingdeveloped by Avalanche Software.  For additional information, please visit www.disney.com/Infinity and youtube.com/disneyinfinity, join the Disney Infinity Facebook Community (Facebook.com/disneyinfinity) and Google+ community (https://plus.google.com/+DisneyInfinity), and follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/disneyinfinity) and Instagram (instagram.com/disneyinfinity). To access press materials, please visit http://disneyinteractive.smugmug.com/DisneyInfinity.

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Disney Interactive

Disney Interactive, one of the world’s largest creators of high-quality interactive entertainment across all platforms, is the part of The Walt Disney Company responsible for the global creation and delivery of interactive entertainment, multi-platform video games, and family-focused content across all current and emerging digital media platforms.  Disney Interactive produces and distributes a broad portfolio of content from Disney Interactive Games and Disney Interactive Media.  Products and content released and operated by Disney Interactive include blockbuster mobile, social and console games, online virtual worlds, #1 kid’s entertainment destination Disney.com and the #1 Family/Parenting portfolio on the Web.  Disney Interactive is the interactive entertainment part of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS).

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 years.  Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing.  For more information visit marvel.com.  © MARVEL

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Game Insight’s Cloud Raiders Soars onto Windows Phone 

Game Insight’s cross-platform action strategy game is now available for the Windows Phone platform.

Moscow and San Francisco – April 30, 2014 – Game Insight, a global leader in the development and publishing of free-to-play games for mobile and social platforms, is pleased to announce that its epic cross-platform action-strategy game, Cloud Raiders, is now available for Windows Phone. Players will receive their own massive island stronghold floating in the sky and will fight dreadful pirates, terrifying monsters, and the most dangerous opponents of all – other players. Cloud Raiders, which is additionally available for Android and Facebook, was developed by innoWate studio, creator of the popular city-builder game series My Country.

Additionally, Cloud Raiders has also received an important update, allowing players to form in-game clans. This new feature gives players constant contact with their friends, who can help them by sending troops. Each player’s successful raids will earn points for the whole clan, so defeat more enemies to reach the highest game rating and glorify your clan’s name!

Cloud Raiders takes action-packed strategy games to dizzying new heights. Players have a chance to raise an impregnable sky fortress and fortify it with different types of defense equipment, from cannons and traps to magical artifacts. You must be ready to fight off massive monsters and legendary buccaneers wandering the skies in search of easy prey as well as be prepared for raiding parties sent by enemy players in PvP mode. Get ready to fight players from all over the world through a cross-platform system that will select the most worthy opponent for you regardless of whether they play via a social network or on one of the supported mobile devices. You will also conduct research, brew powerful potions, strengthen your forces, and assemble and train your own army!

Cloud Raiders is a cross-platform game where users can move their experience across multiple platforms and devices. The game is just one of many cross-platform projects from Game Insight that include such smash-hit games as “2020: My Country”, “Dragon Eternity”, and “Sunshine Bay”.

Download Cloud Raiders for Windows Phone here:  http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=c3f87aa8-da07-45d2-a5bc-e2f5a0557015

Assets are available here: http://www.game-insight.com/files/EN/Games/GI_Cloud_Raiders/Android/
Visit the official Cloud Raiders website: www.cloudraiders.com
Watch the official Cloud Raiders trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sIhq3D2OYk

Visit the official Facebook community: http://facebook.com/cloudraidersgame
About Game Insight
Founded in 2010, Game Insight is a global-facing developer and publisher of varied, user-focused, and free-to-play games for all major mobile and social platforms, including iOS, Android, Facebook, Windows, and Web. We are a team of more than 900 passionate game developers who actually play games ourselves. Our internal network consists of 15 different studios that constantly create and update high- quality games, many of which have already become #1 top-grossing hits in mobile application stores and on social networks around the world, which has led Game Insight to build a global audience of more than 250 million users. Visit http://www.game-insight.com/ for more info.

Introducing Pixel Press Floors: Draw Your Own Video Game Today! 

ST. LOUIS – April 30 –Pixel Press is proud to announce the first in a series of draw-your-own-game apps: Pixel Press Floors—which allows users to create side-scrolling platformers complete with coins, fire pits, spikes . . . and of course, platforms! Budding game designers from all over the world can download Floors for free from the App Store today.

Floors allows anyone to draw and share their games with other users—with no coding required. The Pixel Press sketch guide, a pencil, and the Floors app are all that is needed to unlock the creative potential of game enthusiasts of all ages. Unique games are created and played through a simple four-step process: draw, capture & test, design, play & share. Not only can the app turn the drawings from paper into playable, shareable video games—but creators can also start building games right away using the Draw-In-App feature.

Floors was created by Pixel Press, a startup based in St. Louis, Missouri that was successfully funded thanks to more than 2,250 Kickstarter backers–raising $109,000 last June in order to build the Pixel Press ecosystem.

“This is the first step in the Pixel Press journey,” says Robin Rath, co-founder of Pixel Press. “With Floors, we are delivering on the Kickstarter promise of drawing your own platformer. Whether you grew up on classic platformer games and dreamt of one day creating your own, or are interested in a completely new mobile gaming experience, you can now download Floors and get to work on your first hand-drawn video game.” 

How Pixel Press Works

Users begin by downloading the free sketch guide from the company’s website. The guide details the different shapes (“glyphs”) that can be translated into game elements. For example, a coin is drawn as a plus sign, simple boxes are terrain, and an equal sign can mark where the player will start in the level. Once the game is drawn, the user holds the iPad parallel to the sheet of paper so that Floors can capture the drawing; as soon as it recognizes the grid paper, it automatically takes the picture and turns it into a playable video game level. From there, the user can customize the design/gameplay of the game and playtest it before submitting it to the Pixel Press community (the Arcade).

It is also possible to download the app and just enjoy playing levels uploaded by other users. The Pixel Press Arcade allows everyone to “like” levels, and it also displays the number of times a level has been played.

“The Arcade is one of the most exciting elements of Floors,” says Josh Stevens, Pixel Press Community Manager. “As a player, I can scroll through and may see a level created by users I know—or I may see a level that looks challenging from a player who is in a completely different country. As a creator, I can share my level and see how many times others have played it, which is an incredibly exciting experience.”

Pixel Press + Education

The Pixel Press team has been working alongside the GCAA Makerspace (Grand Center Arts Academy) for the past few months on a weekly basis. The idea was to incorporate Floors into the curriculum, which was built around Stanford’s Design Thinking Process:

“Pixel Press is a very promising and radical educational development – and I’m incredibly excited to see its first release, Floors,” says Andrew Goodin, Makerspace Teacher at Grand Center Arts Academy. “At Makerspace, we believe that if students are able to put themselves in the shoes of the players, then they will be able to design better games. Pixel Press is instrumental in this iterative, constantly evolving model of education. Once our students create their levels in Floors, for example, they write down the feedback they receive from each other and also from the Pixel Press team. Being able to make different design choices on the go, and without any programming, is priceless.”

Pixel Press is a powerful educational tool–one that can effectively promote game development and digital inclusion to users all over the world. The company strongly believes that projects such as the one from GCAA Marketplace are just the beginning.

Download Pixel Press Floors for free from the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixel-press-floors/id847758409?ls=1&mt=8

To learn more about Pixel Press, please visit http://projectpixelpress.com/

Roll-up, Roll-up! Stick It To The Man is OUT NOW in Europe on PlayStation®4

The Arm-azing psychic platform adventure game is free on PS Plus right now! 

UK–April 30, 2014–The wait finally is over! The super-awesome dev team Zoink! Games and Indie Publisher Ripstone announced today that Stick It To The Man! is out now on PlayStation®4 in Europe and is totally free for PS Plus users! The insane mind-reading game will also be sticking itself to the US PlayStation Store May 6^th – where it will (of course!) be completely free to download for stateside PS Plus users too!

Stick it to the Man! priced at £6.99 / €7.99 / $9.99 follows the hilarious adventure of Hardhat Tester Ray Doewood, who lives in a word made of paper and stickers. After a bizarre accident at work one day; Ray wakes up with a giant pink spaghetti arm sticking out of his brain – giving him extraordinary mind-reading powers! Suddenly, Ray can hear people’s inner most thoughts and transform the paper world around him by tearing it, folding it and using the crazy stickers he finds to solve brain-twisting puzzles! Digging in the brains of his fellow citizens – including Santa Claus, Captain Ahab and Elvis (to name but a few!); it’s up to Ray to gather clues from countless deranged characters all while trying to get to grips with his awesome new abilities and evading the evil clutches of ‘The Man’! Can you help to get Ray out of this sticky situation?

Those amazing Swedes have taken full advantage of PS4 technology and enhanced the game even further. Have you ever wanted to know what someone was thinking? Now you can tap in and listen to the ridiculous thoughts of Flathood’s strange resident’s through your DualShock®4 speakers, further separating the mindreading world from Ray’s world. Soaking up the new and improved crystal-clear 1080p visuals and buttery smooth frame rate, you’ll find it difficult to peel yourself off the couch! 

European PlayStation®4 users can download Stick It To The Man! on the PlayStation Store right now! And for US users, the game’s arrival is less than a week away!

Check out the website for more information www.stickitgame.com or head to the Facebook page for sneak peeks and competitions. You can even get involved in the conversation on twitter using the hashtag #StickItGame.

Screenshots and other arm-azing game assets can be downloaded here in the Stick It To The Man press kit.

About Zoink!

Zoink! is an award winning team based in Sweden who loves to innovate and create. Founded by Klaus Lyngeled who through his work with film and games has learned how to combine great character design and story with innovative game design. Zoink! are a happy crew of super nerds who love new adventures; they have animated for Disney, made games for Adventure Time, coded music videos for Google and sewn puppets for Nintendo.

Latest games include Adventure Time for iOS, Swing King, and innovative WeeWaa plush toy game for Wii.

About Ripstone Publishing

Ripstone® Publishing is an independent UK based games publisher specialising in digital distribution.

Ripstone’s ethos is built on honesty, integrity and trust, founded in 2011 in order to create a bespoke service for independent game developers.

Publishing video games on a number of different platforms including handheld and home consoles, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android; Ripstone is best known for games such as Pure Chess, the award-winning Knytt Underground, Big Sky Infinity, Men’s Room Mayhem and Stick It To The Man.

Visit http://www.ripstone.com for more information.

République: Episode 2 Arriving May 1st On the App Store, Episode 1 On Sale Now

Episode 2 available now for Kickstarter  Backers and Season Pass Holders

Seattle, WA – April 30th, 2014 – Independent studio Camouflaj announced today that the second of five installments in the critically acclaimed game République is available now on the App Store. Envisioned and executed by industry veterans behind such AAA games as F.E.A.R., Halo 4, and Metal Gear Solid 4, and designed specifically for iOS, République brings console-quality gameplay and graphics to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Episode 2: Metamorphosis explores the origins of intellectual fascism through the player’s continuing efforts to help a young woman named Hope escape an Orwellian prison. Amid growing intrigue and ever-more-dire consequences, she seeks out the librarian, Señor Luis Octavo (voiced by Marcelo Tubert), a sympathetic mentor whose concern for Hope makes him a target of The Overseer’s wrath. This second installment is both action-oriented and contemplative as the veil over Hope’s eyes is lifted. With the player’s help, she gains a better understanding of her captors and the desperate measures necessary if she is to free herself.

“In classic Camouflaj fashion, we opted to go beyond simply telling the next chapter of our story,” said Jeremy Romanowski, artist at Camouflaj. “Episode 2 introduces a dozen new features including a new 3D map, a new guard type and new OMNI abilities, not to mention dozens of enhancements to the first episode. This is a big release.”

Following the two-year development of Episode 1: Exordium, the Bellevue-based development team wasted no time in creating Episode 2, honing its vision to deliver on three key areas: exploration, puzzles, and a deeper connection to Hope. At the heart of the experience is the airy, moonlit library – a labyrinthine environment that spans over 13,000 square feet. Camouflaj worked closely with Unity experts and pushed the hardware to its limits.

“Even though Episode 2’s environments are huge, our goal was to craft a more intimate experience,” said veteran République developer Greg Raab. “After winning the IMGA award for ‘Excellence in Narrative’ at GDC, the team has even greater confidence in our ability to convey epic experiences via our One Touch gameplay.”

Episode 2: Metamorphosis will be unlocked as a $4.99 in-app purchase on May 1 and is available now for owners of the Season Pass ($14.99), a discounted episode bundle pack with exclusive content including an hour-long documentary and one hundred developer commentary clips. Camouflaj plans to release the remaining episodes in three to four-month intervals.

Episode 2’s features include:

• Metamorphosis Library: A stunning new environment that pushes the iOS hardware
• Three Mind-Bending Puzzles: Created in collaboration with Kostya Stankevych, creator of Blueprint 3D
• 3D Map: A stunning 3D representation of Metamorphosis – one of the most requested features – is added to Episodes 1 and 2
• ARC Prizrak: A new guard type with randomized patrol routes and protective armor
• New OMNI Abilities: New voyeuristic abilities enable the player to see through walls and monitor Prizrak patrol routes
• Improved Performance: Optimized performance gains from Unity 4.5, most notably on iPhone 4, iPad mini and iPad 2
• EP2 Soundtrack: All new soundtrack from composer Zinc LeMone, now available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/republique-2-metamorphosis/id860293171
• Part 3 of Video Documentary: A candid look at the development of Episode 2 is available as a free download for Season Pass owners

Available in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese, the second episode République is available for $4.99, £2.99, €4.49, AU$5.49 exclusively on the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch or at www.AppStore.com/Republique. République is also scheduled for release on PC and Mac in 2014. For more information, visit www.camouflaj.com.

About Camouflaj
Founded by former Halo 4 creative director and Metal Gear Solid 4 producer Ryan Payton, Camouflaj is a Seattle-based boutique game studio. Comprised of industry veterans from such award-winning franchises as F.E.A.R., Red Dead Redemption, and S.O.C.O.M., Camouflaj is a nimble team of experienced developers and talented newcomers, dedicated to bringing the high quality, focused game experiences to the broadest possible audiences.

Superfrog HD coming to iOS!

30^th April 2014 – UK – In 1993 the world witnessed the birth of a new type of super hero. Now, twenty years later, independent developer and publisher Team17 have revealed that Superfrog is back and will be available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch via the App Store on the 1^st  May for just  £1.49 / $1.99 / 1,99 €.

Superfrog HD is an updated version of the classic side-scrolling, 2D platformer, re-imagined with enhanced high definition cartoon style graphics.

In the greatest traditions of fairy tales our story sees a handsome prince turned into a slimy frog by an evil and jealous witch… who, in turn, kidnaps the prince’s bride to be and heads for the hills. Our little green friend happens upon a mystery potion (wow, how lucky was that?). Chugging on the vial, the frog prince is bestowed with amazing powers.

Determined to defeat the witch our hero sets out on an adventure that, with your help, will lead him to his true love.

You must explore and traverse 24 finely crafted levels and additional boss levels across 6 differently-themed worlds. The goal of each level is to collect a set number of coins, and then reach the exit. The ultimate aim, as ever, is to save the day, beat the witch and get the girl.

Key Features:
• Enhanced HD graphics
• 24 new levels based on the original designs

• Original 1993 level designs available to unlock
• 6 differently themed worlds
• Classic arcade platform gameplay
• Frog Trials – Endless Runner mode

Superfrog HD will be available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch via the App Store on the 1^st  May for the special offer price of just  £1.49 / $1.99 / 1,99 €.

For more information on Superfrog HD please visit http://www.facebook.com/SuperfrogTeam17

For more information on Team17 please visit http://www.facebook.com/Team17 or @Team17Ltd 

For more information, please contact
Bethany Aston at Team17 Digital Ltd
Email: [email protected] 

About Superfrog HD

Superfrog HD. Developed by Team17 Digital Ltd. © 2013. Team17 and Superfrog™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Team17 Digital Limited. All other trademarks, copyrights and logos are property of their respective owners. Developed and published by Team17 Digital Limited.

About Team17 Digital Ltd
Founded in 1990, Team17 Digital Limited is a leading independent developer and digital publisher headquartered in West Yorkshire (UK). Team17 publishes games for PC, console, mobile and handheld devices and other digital platforms. Visit www.team17.com for more info.