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January 15, 2014

2K and Turtle Rock Studios Announce Evolve™

Upcoming shooter from the creators of Left 4 Dead to offer evolution of multiplayer gaming

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Sydney, Australia – January 15, 2014 – 2K and Turtle Rock Studios, creators of the cooperative shooter classic Left 4 Dead, today officially announced Evolve™, an all-new multiplayer shooter experience. First revealed exclusively on the cover of Game Informer magazine’s current February issue, Evolve will be available this spring for Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, and Windows PC.

Evolve expertly blends cooperative and competitive multiplayer experiences as a team of four hunters face off against a single, player-controlled monster. Set on an alien planet in the distant future, gamers hunt their prey in adrenaline-pumping 4v1 matches. Players experience Evolve as a first-person shooter when playing cooperatively as the four hunters, while they control the monster in the third-person perspective, providing a gameplay experience unique to Evolve. In addition to revealing Evolve, Game Informer details Goliath, the first monster included in the game, and the first squad of four hunters, each with their own unique classes and abilities.

“Our philosophy is to build incredibly fun game experiences that we can’t find anywhere else,” said Chris Ashton, co-founder and design director at Turtle Rock Studios. “Evolve’s co-op vs. lone wolf formula has created some of the most intense multiplayer matches we’ve ever experienced.”

“Evolve will be a generation-defining multiplayer experience,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “As our first new IP for next-gen systems, 2K is working with Turtle Rock Studios to deliver a game that’s instantly entertaining and impossible to put down.”

Evolve is available for pre-order beginning today at participating retailers. Those who pre-order the game from participating retailers will be rewarded with the Monster Expansion Pack, which includes the Savage Goliath skin at launch and a new monster character as soon as it becomes available after Evolve is released. To see a list of retailers that you can pre-order Evolve from now, please visit www.evolvegame.com/preorder.

To learn more about Evolve, gamers can pick up the latest issue of Game Informer magazine or visit www.gameinformer.com/evolve throughout the month of January for an exclusive look at the game.

Evolve will be available in spring 2014 for Xbox One, PlayStation®4 system and PC. Evolve is not yet rated by the Classification Board. For more information on Evolve, follow us on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook, subscribe on YouTube and visit www.evolvegame.com.

About Evolve

From Turtle Rock Studios, creators of Left 4 Dead, comes Evolve, the next-generation of multiplayer shooters where four hunters face off against a single, player-controlled monster in adrenaline-pumping 4V1 matches. Play as the monster to use savage abilities and an animalistic sense to kill your human enemies, or choose one of four hunter classes (Trapper, Support, Assault and Medic) and team up to take down the beast on the planet Shear, where flora and fauna act as an adversary to man and monster alike. Level up to unlock new hunter or monster characters as well as upgrades, skins and perks. Earn your infamy on the leaderboards and become the apex predator.

2K is a 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, marketer and publisher 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, handheld gaming 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, Irrational Games, 2K Marin, 2K Australia, 2K Czech, 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 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.

About Turtle Rock Studios

Founded in 2002, Turtle Rock Studios is an independent AAA game development studio based in Southern California. Turtle Rock Studios created the critically-acclaimed Left 4 Dead and has also developed additional content for Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2 and titles in the Counter-Strike universe including Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and Counter-Strike: Source. Turtle Rock Studios is currently developing Evolve.

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Pre-order bonus announced for Evolve

Travis Bruno

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While we have yet to see any gameplay or learn that much about the game, that hasn’t going to stop 2K Games from announcing a pre-order bonus for their newly announced title Evolve. Today the company revealed that anyone who does pre-order the game will receive a “Monster Expansion Pack” which will add in a Savage Goliath skin and a new monster character that will be released some time after the game is released sometime in the Spring on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

For those who might never have heard of Evolve before, the game is a multiplayer first-person and third-person shooter set on an alien planet in the future. Being developed by the Left 4 Dead creators, Turtle Rock Studios, the game will blend co-op and competitive gameplay as four hunters face off against an player controlled alien monster.

Bardbarian Grinding its Axe onto iOS January 16th

Simon Wolfe

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January 15, 2014

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Publisher BulkyPix and developer TreeFortress are looking to blend genres and multi-use axes in their upcoming game Bardbarian. While it was previously selected to join 100 other games on Steam Greenlight, it looks like iOS users will be able to check the game out for themselves on Thursday, January 16th.

Bardbarian follows Brad, a barbarian that utilizes the power of rock with his axe-guitar to take on enemies with his allies in defense of his village. With hand-drawn art with some nice looking detail, players will face off against plenty of enemies with 12 different allies able to come to Brad’s aid.

Those wanting to see what kind of rocking power Brad is packing can check out Bardbarian when it releases to iOS on January 16th, 2014 for just $0.99.

Nippon Ichi working on a ‘Yandere Hell’ PS3 game

Travis Bruno

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January 15, 2014

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Here’s a breakout sounding title for you. Today thanks to the latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation, courtesy of Re:Zaregoto, Nippon Ichi Software is working on a new PlayStation 3 game and it just so happens to be roughly be called “I Thought it’d be Harem Paradise, but it was Yandere Hell.”

Currently details are relatively scarce but it is said that the game is a visual novel that will follow the theme of “mascot characters” and high school girls. Currently the game is set for release on April 24th in Japan and you can probably expect more details to be revealed in the next few days, and maybe even an NIS America localization might be in the cards somewhere in the future depending on those details.

The Wolf Among Us Episode 2 to be released in early February

Travis Bruno

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January 15, 2014

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While fans of Telltale Games were pleased to see the second season of The Walking Dead start last month, a number of fans have also been curious about when they would be seeing the second episode of The Wolf Among Us. The first episode, our review of which can be found here, was originally released in early October and fans of the episodic series have been eager to see how the story will continue.

Well it seems that they won’t have to wait too much longer as, in a forum thread, Telltale president Kevin Bruner revealed that Episode 2 will be released in the first week of February. The reason the episode was delayed is due to a “variety of reasons” but did not elaborate as to what those reasons were beyond saying that “several things conspired against us” and that the holidays also played a role in the delay.

Horizon Set to Explore Full Release to Steam in February

Simon Wolfe

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January 15, 2014

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After making it to Steam in beta through Early Access, Horizon is gearing up to release this February onto the digital platform. The space-strategy from Iceberg Interactive, publishers of Gas Guzzlers Extreme, and developer L3O Interactive is just now finishing up the final weeks of beta to prep the game for the full launch.

Based around the same concepts of 4X, the community influence has had a big hand in the final touches, including the addition of “Classic 4X” mode, which gives players 1 of 8 races to choose from to conquer a whole universe. Plus, players can expect a lot in the way of customization from races, to ships, to research branches.

Those wanting to see what Horizon has to offer can hop on into the Early Access on PC from Steam now, or wait until the final release hits in February 2014, while those in Europe can expect a retail box release as well.

Xbox Live – A Week of Deals (1/14 – 1/20)

Joshua Moris

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January 15, 2014

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Xbox Live – A Week of Deals (1/14 – 1/20)

For those of us that still have nuclear reactors in our living rooms (Xbox 360), we can take advantage of some online deals that have surfaced on Major Nelson’s blog. Nordic Games is happy to present discounts over 50% on former THQ titles below.

Name	Type	Discount
ArcaniA	Games on Demand	67% off
ArcaniA Fall of Setarrif	Add-on	67% off
Darksiders	Games on Demand	67% off
Darksiders II	Games on Demand	67% off
Darksiders II Argul’s Tomb	Add-on	67% off
Darksiders II Death Rides Pack	Add-on	67% off
Darksiders II Season Pass	Add-on	67% off
MX vs ATV Reflex	Games on Demand	75% off
Painkiller Hell & Damnation	Games on Demand	50% off
Stacking	Arcade	50% off
Wheel of Fortune	Games on Demand	50% off

Remember, you only have until the 20th of this month to collect on these deals. Haven’t played Darksiders yet? I suggest you make this week a priority! Hop to it gamers; you have games to play!

Monster Monpiece English screenshots and PEGI listing discovered

Travis Bruno

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January 15, 2014

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Back when Idea Factory opened up their international branch in North America I believedthat it might make a few of their titles a bit easier to see in the West, especially a few of the more risque titles such as Monster Monpiece and it looks like all signs may be pointing towards that prediction coming true.

Not only has Idea Factory International’s official website provided us with four English screenshots of Monster Monpiece but a PEGI listing, originally found by NeoGAF, has also appeared for the game which rates the game for anyone twelve years or older. Now at the moment no actual localization has been announced as of yet, but Vita fans can only hope. For now, have an English description of the game, also from Idea Factory’s website:

God’s hammer struck twice, punishing the of world of Yafaniel below…
In the world of Yafaniel, humans and an unusual species called “monster girls” coexist.
May Esperio, an Academy student from Kunaguva, is training hard to become a “master” of monster girls with her best friends, Elza and Karen.
However, after an encounter with a mysterious stranger, Elza became “Lost”, a victim of a strange affliction that plagues both humans and monster girls.
Elza and the monster girls in her service have begun stealing the Magus Quartzes that are held in each of Yafaniel’s major cities.
May decides to travel the world pursuing Elza in an attempt to cure her. However, May knows that if she fails to save Elza, the whole world may be destroyed!

Conception II’s seven heroines revealed

Travis Bruno

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January 15, 2014

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As you may know, Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars involves players traveling through dungeons with a beautiful girl and their star children to fight against the enemies inside. Well to make those star children players must first improve their relationship with any of the seven heroines that are in the game.

Today Atlus USA has chosen to reveal the names and some details about all seven of the heroines in the game, including a hint at their unique personality traits that players will need to understand so they can improve their relationship. Learn more about the girls below and if you have a decent connection, you can check out their full transformation sequences here.

Chloe
Chloe is the older sister of your new friend Chlotz, and only a year older than your character. Her abilities are so exceptional that she works as an instructor at the Academy. Chloe uses a Remote Turret to perforate her opponents.

Ellie
Ellie is a first-year student who’s very energetic and often cheers on those around her. Though she looks cute and young, she’s very mature and perceptive. Ellie uses a magical staff called a Summoning Gun to dish out serious magic damage.

Feene
Feene is an earnest, polite third-year student. She is considered one of the strongest Disciples, and has already seen action on the front lines. Her formidable Gunblade has seen its fair share of battles as well.

Fuuko
Fuuko is the first female student that you’ll meet. She is bright and amicable, and quick to make friends. She sees herself as a very down-to-earth kind of person. Fuuko uses her Dual Pistols in dungeons with deadly accuracy.

Narika
The vice representative of your class. She is shy and reserved, without much self-confidence, but has a good heart and is very kind to others. Her Bowgun speaks differently about her – it packs a huge punch to monsters.

Serina
Despite her diminutive size, she is actually a third-year Disciple with incredible power. She has a good heart, but often tries to keep her true feelings hidden. Her Kick Gun is an incredible hybrid of fashion-forward footwear and death-dealing.

Torri
As a result of being raised in a research facility, Torri is very naïve about the outside world and usually believes anything she’s told. Torri materializes a powerful gatling gun to obliterate anything in her path.

Ghost Recon Online To Hit Steam Early Access

Joe Morgan

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January 15, 2014

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Ubisoft, the studio behind the popular Assassin’s Creed IV, announced that their online tactical third-person shooter, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online, will be coming to Steam Early Access.

Since it’s launch, the game has evolved with the help of four million registered users. They’ve provided time and feedback that will help shape the experience delivered to the community.

Said Ubisoft Producer Corey Facteau,

“Bringing Ghost Recon Online to Steam has been our goal since the game’s inception. We took the time necessary to reach a quality level that can go head to head with the top online games available today before releasing on Steam. As the top shooter for gamers who enjoy team gameplay, we have also seen our audience expand to include MOBA fans, who comprise fifty percent of our user base. To ensure a seamless transition to the new platform, we will use the Early Access program to fine tune the Ghost Recon Online experience before unleashing the game to the rest of the world.”

For more information you can check out their official website at GhostReconOnline.com.