The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 Kickstarter achieved stretch goal #2

$145,000 raised to finance projection mapping, Kickstarter-Editions, optional side quests and outfits, blog, making-of videos and partial orchestral soundtrack

London, UK (February 25th, 2014) –  KING Art has more than doubled its Kickstarter funding goal, with the current amount donated to back the project standing at an impressive $145,000.

The total funds – which also include contributions via Paypal that are not represented on Kickstarter – will now enable KING Art to create a dedicated production blog, behind the scenes videos and on top of that record several tracks from the game with a live orchestra. Benny Oschmann, composer of the Book of Unwritten Tales 2 soundtrack, received an Aggie-awardjust a couple of days ago, for Best Music on The Raven, another KING Art adventure game in 2013.

About BoUT 2
The story takes place one year after the events of The Book of Unwritten Tales. The four playable characters, Wilbur the gnome mage, elven princess Ivo, adventurer Nate and his companion, the Critter, each have their own problems to deal with. But then a new threat appears and the four work together to save the world of Aventásia once more.

Players will play each of our heroes individually but there are also times where two or even three characters are being played simultaneously, in order to solve some of the puzzles & quests. The game many new locations, like flying pirate cities, sunken desert-temples, an elven palace, the Seastone underground and many more.

Video game characters and their off-time
Little light has been shed on what video game characters do between two of their projects, so find out what Nate and Wilbur were up to in between Book of Unwritten Tales 1 and Book of Unwritten Tales 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iesApckBZ3A

About KING Art GmbH
KING Art is an award-winning independent game developer specializing in producing high quality games. They are among the leading experts on story-driven games in Germany and have produced several successful adventure games that received rave reviews by the gaming press. Since 2002 they have also been pioneers in the area of extensive browser games, and have accumulated expert knowledge during the production of more than 30 successfully completed browser game projects.

Forge of Empires Releases Huge PvP Battle System

Guild vs Guild feature is supposed to bring the game to another level with massive battles ahead

Hamburg, February 25, 2014. With Guild vs. Guild, InnoGames just released a massive long time PvP feature for its successful strategic online game Forge of Empires. From now on, the game’s guilds may participate in a large-scale battle for control and power on one persistent continent. Participating guilds need to gain and keep control of sectors by means of battle and trade and will get rewards like recruitment or research boosts according to their success. InnoGames released a video explaining the basics of Guild vs. Guild. The feature is out on all language versions.

In Guild vs. Guild, the goal is to expand one’s own guilds territory by conquering them from NPC-enemies and other guilds, and defending them against enemy takeover. Aside from numerous armies, guilds also need various rare goods to gain control of sectors, so peaceful traders add to their guild’s success as well. Since each sector needs resources and troops from different Ages in order to be conquered, it’s possible for all players of a guild to participate, regardless of their progress in the game – as long as they have reached at least the Iron Age. Controlled territory grants a guild experience points, which then contributes to its power level. The higher the level, the better rewards and perks all guild members will obtain daily.

Forge of Empires is an online strategy game, where players, tasked with leading their own city to prosperity, can research new technologies, build impressive historical buildings and enlarge their sphere of influence through military campaigns and skillful dealing. The game has been awarded the title of “Best Browser Game 2013” at the German Computer Game Award (Deutscher Computerspielpreis).

With about 120 million registered players, InnoGames is one of the world’s leading developers and providers of online games. The Hamburg-based company has scored major successes with games such as Tribal Wars, The West and Grepolis.

TEAM NINJA TROTS OUT THE ROT IT’S ZOMBIES EXPOSED IN EPISODE THREE OF THE YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z DEVELOPER DIARY SERIES 

Team NINJA today released the third episode of the YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z developer diary series exploring the humorous side of Inafune’s zombies, as well as what makes them uniquely deadly. Team members reflect on the conceptualization and creation of the zombies from various aspects of development, with commentary from Conceptor, Keiji Inafune (comcept), Art Director Shinsuke Komaki (comcept), Game Director, Masahiro Yasuma (comcept), Lead Animator, Jason Shum (Spark), Richard Smith, Art Director (Spark) in “Bringing out the Dead”.

In YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z, players will battle fierce zombies as Yaiba, a cyborg ninja who will do anything to get revenge and stay alive. Cleaved in two, he is brought back to life with cyber-technology. Brandishing his ninja sword and the mecha weapons in his cyber arm, he slaughters zombies with brutal, over-the-top abandon. Step into a stylized living comic book where stunning graphics depict a world gone mad. Hordes of undead can only be stopped by Yaiba’s willingness to use any means necessary to get the job done. Will he kill by turning his cyber arm into a razor chainsaw for slicing up undead—or just rip off an opponent’s arms to use as zombie nunchucks? Both possibilities fill Yaiba’s heart with twisted laughter in this upcoming collaboration between famed developers Team NINJA and comcept’s Keiji Inafune.

YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z will be available for the PlayStation^®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360^® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft on March 18, 2014 and Steam® (PC) on March 21, 2014. This title been rated M (Mature) by the ESRB.

For access to the third episode of the YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z developer diaries, visit: https://app.box.com/s/j2drujdhe2e9k3rdq1mg.

More information about YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z can be found at www.YaibaNGZ.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/YaibaNinjaGaidenZ and Twitter https://twitter.com/YaibaNGZ.

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