Wargaming and TeSL Announce Cooperation for Wargaming.net League APAC 2014 

The two gaming companies join forces to take Asian eSports to the next level

April 22, 2014 – Wargaming today announced the appointment of TeSL as their official broadcasting partner of Wargaming.net League APAC (hereinafter WGL APAC) for 2014. Wargaming has also announced an upgrade of its eSports broadcast service, which will now allow gamers to enjoy WGL Asia in five languages including Chinese, English, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese. This cooperation marks a definitive milestone within the Asian eSports industry.

At a joint press conference held on 22^nd April 2014, special guests including Breaker, eScAlpha, Edison the professional anchors, and yoe Flashwolves – the first professional ‘World of Tanks’ eSports team sponsored by WaninBank Corp. in Taiwan – shared their stories from playing ‘World of Tanks’, as well as their expectations for the new WGL season in 2014.

This year, Wargaming and TeSL will bring the most professional broadcasting standards of WGL Asia to more than 10 countries (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan and Australia) in five languages – Chinese, English, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese. This move builds upon Wargaming’s priority to offer the best experience to its players, at the same time supporting TeSL to escalate the standards of Asian eSports to greater heights.

Global eSports players and fans can soon join in the WGL APAC action when the Silver and Golden Series are broadcasted by TeSL. The entire experience will be bolstered by TeSL’s numerous years of expertise in broadcasting, their stable of professional commentators, as well as their excellent production standards. For more details, please find the rules of the WGL APAC below. For further information, please visit the official website of TeSL and Wargaming Asia (http://www.worldoftanks.asia/).

About Wargaming

Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher and one of the leaders in the free-to-play MMO market. Founded as a privately held company in 1998, Wargaming has shipped more than 15 titles. Currently, Wargaming is focused on its team-based MMO war series dedicated to the mid-20th century warfare that will include the armored World of Tanks, the flight combat World of Warplanes, and the naval World of Warships. The three intertwined titles will form a common gaming universe integrated within the portal www.wargaming.net.

Official website:

• www.wargaming.com  

About Wargaming.net League APAC

Wargaming.net League is a regional professional league held by Wargaming, and is divided into two divisions – WGL Asia and WGL Korea. There are four levels in this tournament and they are the Bronze Series, the Silver Series, the Golden Series and the Season Finals.

For WGL Asia, players will have to compete in the Bronze series, which is a weekly single elimination tournament, and finish in the top four spots to advance to the Silver Series. After advancing to the Silver series, the four qualifying teams will fight it out to gain the highest points by ranking.  After seven weeks of tournaments, the top eight teams with the highest points will advance to the Golden Series. In the Golden Series, the eight teams will be ranked by points for a single elimination tournament.

The top two teams of the single elimination tournament will then go on to represent the WGL Asia division to compete in the Season Finals, as will the team that wins the single elimination tournament of the WGL Korea division. The final teams will then have to pass a Round Robin trial and a single elimination competition to win the total grand prize of USD100,000 dollars and the titles of season champions.

QUALIFYING NOW LIVE FOR NISSAN PLAYSTATION® GT ACADEMY

* Do you have what it takes to go from Gran Turismo®6 to the real race track?

* Nissan and PlayStation looking for next gamer-to-racer star

SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 22^nd April, 2014 – Giving Gran Turismo®6 virtual racers the opportunity to realise their dreams of becoming a real-life professional racing driver, the 2014 season of the Nissan PlayStation® GT Academy competition is now live in Australia!

GT Academy has successfully challenged the traditional and costly route into professional motorsport since 2008. Anyone in a participating country with Gran Turismo 6 and a PlayStation®3 will be able to enter the free qualifying rounds within the game’s automatic online update. Racing driver hopefuls can also get involved via a series of live events.

Kazunori Yamauchi, President of Polyphony Digital, is excited to see qualifying begin across the globe for GT Academy 2014. “I am very happy that qualifying has now begun for a sixth season of GT Academy, kick starting our world-wide search to unearth another gamer with the talent to become a real life racer. Every GT6™ gamer will have the chance to develop their skills in a series of stunning Nissan NISMO vehicles and compare lap times with their friends while competing for a coveted spot at the next stage of the competition.”

The successful PlayStation gamers fromAustralia, India, Mexico, Middle East and Thailand will win a place at a National Final event held in their country. From there, the leading competitors will qualify for the International Race Camp at the world-famous Silverstone Circuit, an established week-long bootcamp where the finalists will be put through their paces on and off the track, to unearth this year’s GT Academy champion.

The overall International winner will receive three months’ intensive training to prepare them for taking to the track with Nissan at the Dubai 24 Hour race in January 2015. In Dubai they’ll go wheel-to-wheel with experienced racing drivers and have the chance to prove themselves worthy of becoming a NISMO Athlete, one of the elite racing drivers competing for Nissan under the banner of its motor sport arm, NISMO.

With qualifying now open, this is the chance for today’s GT6 gamers to follow in the footsteps of previous GT Academy winners who have gone from sofa to pro thanks to this innovative collaboration between Nissan and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Last year’s GT Academy champions are competing in the Blancpain Endurance Series this season, and Lucas Ordoñez (2008 champion) will be racing alongside Wolfgang Reip (2012 champion) in the mould-breaking Nissan ZEOD RC at the Le Mans 24 Hours. Meanwhile, Jann Mardenborough (2011 champion) now has an eye on a career in Formula One®, having secured a GP3 drive in 2014 with Arden International and being selected to take part in a bespoke Red Bull Racing Driver Development Programme.

“Everyone should enter GT Academy!” encourages NISMO Athlete Mardenborough, who is about to start competing in a Formula One® feeder series less than three years after winning the competition. “It’s open for anyone to enter. If you have a PlayStation 3 and a copy of Gran Turismo 6, just see how you go against everyone across Europe – that’s all I had in mind the year I won. If being a racing driver was your childhood dream, then the NISMO PlayStation GT Academy is your perfect opportunity to live it!”

The GT Academy qualifying update is available to access now on GT6 and can be played until 16:59 Australian Eastern Standard Time on Monday 16 June 2014. It is available to anyone with a PSN (PlayStation®Network) ID and a copy of Gran Turismo 6. Entry details can be found on: http://gran-turismo.com or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/NismoAUS and http://www.facebook.com/PlayStationAU.

TRIALS FRONTIER DOWNLOADS TOP 6 MILLION IN ONE WEEK

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA– April 22, 2014 – Ubisoft has announced that Trials Frontier, one week after its release, has been downloaded more than 6 million times. The free-to-play mobile title from RedLynx, part of the best-selling and award-winning Trials series, launched on April 10 only on the App Store.

Trials Frontier is currently the number one free app on the App Store in 75 countries and   has been reviewed by more than 10,000 players who have rated the game an average of 4.6 stars.

Download the game from the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/trials-frontier/id659283309?mt=8 

“We are thrilled with the success Trials Frontier has had in its first week of launch,” said Jean-Michel Detoc, Managing Director of Ubisoft Mobile. “Trials Frontier has the most first week downloads of any Ubisoft mobile title to date, and the thousands of players reviews we received are amazingly positive, an achievement Redlynx and Ubisoft are proud to announce. In order to keep players engaged, we have a robust post-launch content plan including new bikes and multiplayer modes that will allow players to continue exploring and enjoying the world of Trials Frontier.” 

Trials Frontier transports players to the distant future where they find themselves the newcomer in a run-down town desperate for a hero. Players practice their skills, learning how to race, flip and cruise through tracks as they earn new gear for their bikes and complete missions for the townsfolk in order to prepare for a face-off with the town villain, Butch. As players progress through the game they unlock new maps, tracks, bikes and fine-tune their racing skills.

Trials Frontier will receive regular post-launch updates that include new bikes, missions and the introduction of infinite multiplayer brawls to keep players competing and racing on the newest bikes. Stay connected with friends through time challenges, leader-board sharing capabilities and social network integration to prove who has the fastest time.

Players can connect with Trials Fusion, available on consoles since April 16 and coming to Windows PC on April 24, to gain access to bonus rider gear and see what some of the tracks looked like in their prime.

For the latest information on Trials Frontier, please visit: www.facebook.com/trialsfrontier.game and www.trialsgame.com

AVALANCHE 2: SUPER AVALANCHE IS READY TO ROCK THE VOTE ON STEAM GREENLIGHT

Play the 2013 “PAX 10” Platformer for Free and Vote it onto Steam Today!

OAKLAND, CA – April 21, 2014 – Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche, the sequel to the 2007 endless climber played more than 60 million times, needs your help to get on Steam – but don’t worry, all you have to do is play the new demo launched today by developer Beast Games and vote! In just seconds you can help one more marshmallow get its wings!

Brought to you by Midnight City, Majesco Entertainment Company’s (NASDAQ: COOL) independent digital label, Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche is an endless climber with a newly integrated RPG twist. Inspired by popular modern rougelikes such as Spelunky and Binding of Isaac, every game is different. Featuring shops, upgrades, NPC’s and boss battles galore, this isn’t your average climber. The teaser demo lets you play for up to 30 minute a day, giving you a taste of the many powerups and personalizations available.

Modeled after the original, wildly popular flash game Avalanche, Avalanche 2 pulls players back into the warm embrace of a marshmallow hero powering through an endless shower of blocks. New additions include over 100,000 possible combinations of powerups, not to mention the over one million customization combos. As the puffed-up protagonists vault towards the heavens, new block types, enemies and environments keep the action fresh, while increasingly challenging missions and procedurally generated boss battles offer plenty of variety in the climb to the top. To help unlock new powerups, players collect coins as they smash enemies and pull off split-second close call bonuses. Keep an eye out for banks to withdraw and deposit your coinage and stores and vendors who offer up their wares in exchange for your coveted coin.

Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche is available for pre-order at $9.99 via www.superavalanche.com – buyers will receive a Steam or Desura code at launch. The full version of Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche will include local two-player cooperative mode so friends can get in on the action!

The Demo is Available on the Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche Website: www.superavalanche.com

Vote for Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche on Greenlight: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=158613297

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