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South Park: The Fractured But Whole Danger Deck DLC Launched

2017/12/19
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SAN FRANCISCO — December 19, 2017 — Today, Ubisoft and South Park Digital Studios announced that South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ Danger Deck add-on content is now available on PlayStation® 4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One and PC. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and developed by Ubisoft San Francisco, Danger Deck adds a brand-new challenge arena to South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Danger Deck is available for the suggested retail price of $5.99 or as part of the season pass available for $29.99.

The challenging Danger Deck will teleport you to never-before-seen locations throughout South Park to engage in enemy encounters custom-crafted by the Freedom Pals. These increasingly difficult encounters will test the limits of any superhero. The combat will incorporate a variety of enemies from the game, such as the King Crab, Coked-Out Cops, Rebecca the Raisins Girl and Aunt Sheila. You’ll be rewarded with items and costumes that are also usable on alternate playthroughs of the game.

In addition to Danger Deck, the South Park: Fractured But Whole season pass will include the forthcoming add-on content From Dusk Till Casa Bonita, a new story where players team up with The Coon and Mysterion to defeat a demonic presence at Casa Bonita, as well as Bring the Crunch, which will introduce a new story and an all-new superhero class.

For more information about South Park: The Fractured But Whole, please visit southparkgame.com, and for the latest on all Ubisoft games, please visit news.ubisoft.com.

Shooty Fruity Launch Trailer

2017/12/19
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Farnborough, UK. (December 19, 2017) — nDreams, the UK’s leading purveyor of virtual reality produce, has announced that Shooty Fruity is now ripe for consumption on PlayStation®VR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, priced at €19.99/$19.99/£15.99.  Designed from the ground up for VR and motion controllers, Shooty Fruity challenges players to scan, pack and serve across multiple jobs, all whilst firing stacks of guns at mutant fruit.

Featuring unique multi-tasking gameplay mechanics only possible on VR platforms, blast perilous pomegranates, bloody blueberries, savage strawberries, and more hilariously deadly fruit while doing your job.  Progress through your career from a produce scanning, pistol wielding inductee to a Gatling Gun-firing human blender!  Newly revealed content, hot off the Super Megamart conveyor, include the game’s third job role – Packing parcels in the warehouse – and the Slow-mo power up, which takes bullet-time combat to a new level of berry-bursting depravity.  In between the numerous shifts, new weapons can be purchased in the staff room, the game’s central hub where players can also customize and test their load out, including, automatic shotguns, rocket launchers and more, or check out their high scores on the leaderboard arcade machine.

You can check out the game and the newly revealed features in the launch trailer here:

“I must admit, nothing is more satisfying after braving the holiday crowds and queues than playing Shooty Fruity and unleashing my rocket launchers on bags of mutant fruit, splatting their overripe assets all over the place,” said Patrick O’Luanaigh, CEO/Store Manager at nDreams, “We can’t wait to see what new Shooty Fruity employees make of its unique blend of multi-tasking VR-only gameplay”.

You can sign up to your new job by purchasing the game at:

Epic Car Factory Trailer and Pre-Orders

2017/12/19
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Wiesbaden, 18 December 2017 –  Assemble Entertainment announces the release of Epic Car Factory. The retro-styled business simulation is being developed by Epic Devs and will be released early 2018 at a price of €14.99 for PC, Mac and Linux (SteamOS) on digital portals such as Steam. Assemble also published a first trailer and starts the pre-order on Steam with a 15% discount!

Epic Car Factory lets you be the CEO of your very own car company. You are responsible for developing, building, and marketing vehicles for the world stage. Try to stay in the black while navigating the tumultuous market and striving to beat out the competition. To thrive you’ll need more than heart and determination. You’ll need to hire the right people, focus on the right projects, research the right parts, decide which customers to court, and make the tough calls. Your company will succeed or fail based on the choices you make!

Epic Car Factory is a grand business simulation game filled with…

  • Car Development (over 70 cars types to research)
  • Research (24 different parts with 5 quality levels)
  • Employees (over 40 possible employees, different professions and training options)
  • Contract Jobs (Dozens to help supplement your factories income)
  • Advertising and marketing (to help get the product to the buyer)
  • Random economic Events (Because the market is volatile)
  • Dynamic time control (Make every second count or skip ahead weeks)
  • And more!

For Honor: Season 4 – Frost Wind Festival Launch Trailer

2017/12/18
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SAN FRANCISCO — December 18, 2017 — Today, Ubisoft announced that For Honor will host a winter event, the Frost Wind Festival, across all available platforms from December 21, 2017 to January 4, 2018. During the event, players can participate in a new Brawl mode and loot exclusive winter-themed cosmetic gear.

Starting December 21, the Frost Winds will blow through the world of For Honor to bring forth an icy battlefield. Players will be able to access a new 2v2 Brawl mode, Ice Brawlers, where they will fight atop a lake of thin ice. As the battle continues, they must be wary of the cracking ice that will eventually lead them to an icy grave.

The Frost Wind Festival also brings winter-themed rewards that players can use to customize their heroes. Battle outfits, new weapons, mood effects, emotes, and more can be obtained by playing any game mode during the event. In addition, for a limited time, players can access a new Mask outfit, which are unique per faction, for a discounted price of 15,000 Steel per Hero. A bundle featuring winter-themed items, which will dynamically change based on owned items, will also be available for each Hero starting on December 28.

Developed by Ubisoft Montreal in collaboration with other Ubisoft studios,* For Honor offers an engaging campaign and thrilling multiplayer modes. Players embody warriors of the three Great Factions – the bold Knights, the brutal Vikings and the deadly Samurai – fighting to the death on intense and believable melee battlefields. The Art of Battle, the game’s innovative combat system, puts players in total control of their warriors, allowing them to utilize the unique skills and combat style of each hero to vanquish all enemies who stand in their way.

For more information about For Honor, please visit forhonorgame.com and follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/ForHonorGame and on Twitter at twitter.com/ForHonorGame.

For the latest on For Honor and other Ubisoft games, please visit ubiblog.com.

PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2 PLUS Announced for Nintendo Switch

2017/12/18
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December 18, 2017 – BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. is bringing the dot-munching action and brilliant neon visuals of PAC-MAN™ Championship Edition 2 PLUS to Nintendo Switch™ on February 22, 2018 in the Americas.

In PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2 PLUS, Switch players and PAC-MAN fans alike can experience the reimagined retro series with intense mazes and fast action at home and on the go. This game includes PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2, which features a number of gameplay modes including Score Attack mode, Adventure mode and big boss battles, giving players endless opportunity to build on and improve their skills. Beloved ghosts, Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde will be in hot pursuit as PAC-MAN furiously devours Pac Dots and players chase the high score for a coveted spot at the top of the leaderboards. The Nintendo Switch version of PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2 PLUS also comes with an exclusive two player co-op mode called PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2 PLUS 2P for twice the fun! Team up on a single Nintendo Switch with each player controlling their PAC-MAN character with a single Joy-Con™ across multiple mazes to rack up the highest score possible. Special co-op maneuvers give this mode a unique spin on traditional PAC-MAN gameplay.

Six Flags Great Adventure Snowball Fight Record Attempt

2017/12/18
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Jackson, NJ — December 17, 2017 — Six Flags Great Adventure’s record attempt for the world’s largest snowball fight, which was postponed last weekend — ironically, due to a snow storm — took place today with 505 guests hurling a combination of indoor and real snow balls at each other for one minute. Nine Six Flags theme parks across North America participated in this national Six Flags Snow Day presented by Hallmark Channel.

The current world record of 7,681 participants was set in Canada last year. Six Flags aimed to break the record with 9,000 participants last weekend, but extreme winter weather along the East Coast snarled park events from Massachusetts down to Atlanta. Last weekend, 4,317 guests participated throughout five Six Flags parks in California, Texas and Missouri, and events in the remaining four parks, including Six Flags Great Adventure, took place this weekend. Total event participation has not been finalized.

In 2016, Six Flags broke the Guinness World Records® title for most couples kissing under the mistletoe.

Six Flags Great Adventure magically transforms into a winter wonderland for Holiday in the Park weekends and select days through Jan. 1, 2018. More than a million glittering lights, dazzling holiday entertainment, delicious seasonal treats, Santa’s village and many popular rides provide a way for guests to create holiday memories at Six Flags Great Adventure this winter. This year’s event features two new shows, a newly-themed section, plus more shopping, dining and rides than ever before. Holiday in the Park is included with all Season Passes and active Memberships.

More information about Holiday in the Park is available at www.sixflags.com/greatadventure

Funcom and Cabinet Group Create Heroic Signatures for Conan Ownership and More

2017/12/18
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OSLO, Norway – December 18th, 2017 – Game developer and publisher Funcom is excited to announce that it is teaming up with Cabinet Group LLC to establish HEROIC SIGNATURES, a new company that will hold and manage the interactive rights to numerous attractive intellectual properties from the writings of Robert E Howard and the Swedish original pen & paper and board games. These properties include Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane, and Mutant Chronicles, all of which have been made popular through motion pictures, comic books, novels, tabletop games, miniatures, and more. Other properties include Dark Agnes, Kult, Kull of Atlantis, Mutant: Year Zero, and El Borak. HEROIC SIGNATURES’ portfolio includes a total of 29 different intellectual properties making up several decades worth of rich worlds and characters.

“Heroic Signatures is now the guardian and caretaker of a veritable treasure chest of incredible worlds, each of them ready to be brought into the interactive space,” said Funcom CEO, Rui Casais. “Any developer or publisher will be able to license these properties, and our ambition is to see a multitude of games grow from these worlds and to see the properties strengthened across the board to the benefit of everyone who works with them.”

Cabinet Group LLC controls the overall rights to all properties. Funcom and Cabinet Group LLC will each own 50% of HEROIC SIGNATURES, which will control and manage the interactive rights to each property, i.e. the right for video gaming on all platforms.

Funcom will utilize these properties, in addition to the Company’s internal properties, as part of an increased focus on co-development and publishing partnerships with third party developers. Funcom has previously shared that it will be going into select publishing partnerships with developers, and these partnerships are intended to be targeted to leverage the core strengths and markets of Funcom, with focus on quality over quantity of projects. The first of these projects developed by a third party and published by Funcom, will be revealed next year.

To fund publishing partnerships with third party developers, and secondarily to have more flexibility in investing in production of new games internally, Funcom has secured a 10.6 million USD investment from SwedBank Robur Fonder AB which has previously invested in several other major game developers and publishers.

“We see this as a new giant leap in Funcom’s turnaround,” says Erik Sprinchorn, fund manager at SwedBank Robur Fonder. “Building on its impressive recent development, multiple new revenue sources from IP and strategic expansion into publishing will increase cash flow robustness and boost further growth. Combined with additional funding and a reverse split the company is now really well positioned as an attractive long-term investment.”

For more information about Funcom, visit www.funcom.com. HEROIC SIGNATURES can be contacted via www.heroicsignatures.com.

Bohemia Interactive Unveils Experimental Project Lucie

2017/12/15
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December 15, 2017 – Bohemia Interactive today announced Project Lucie, an experimental VR puzzle game for Oculus Rift, which is also playable with classic mouse & keyboard controls. Project Lucie is the latest free addition to Bohemia Incubator, a label for experimental games that are made available to the public. The launch follows the graduation of another Incubator title, Ylands, which entered Steam Early Access last week. In celebration, a brand new video introduces Project Lucie, and wishes Ylands good luck!

In Project Lucie, players take on the role of Lucie, an 8 year old kid with a big imagination, and follow her story by completing puzzles that come to life! Beyond Lucie’s story, an Editor mode invites players to explore their own imagination by building their very own puzzles. While it’s playable on PC with a mouse and keyboard, the game is built to support Oculus Rift and Touch controllers – to fully immerse players in a Virtual Reality environment, and provide a complete gameplay experience: full physical simulation, and complete presence within Lucie’s world and imagination. A Pre-Alpha version of Project Lucie is now available to play for free via the Bohemia Store.

“Project Lucie is at a very early stage of development” explains Project Lead, Laurent Lavigne, in his Welcome Blog. “It includes just one of Lucie’s stories, together with a creative sandbox and editor mode. We hope this ‘slice’ of features presents the core of what the game’s about. As part of Bohemia Incubator, our intention is to let players try our game, and share with us their feedback, comments and recommendations.”

Project Lucie is the third game to be made available under the Bohemia Incubator label. This Incubator release enables a small but dedicated team at Bohemia Interactive to test game concepts and validate design decisions, as well as to guide the development of supporting technologies and services. In addition, it is a way to learn more about different areas of game development, game genres, and platforms.

While there are similarities between Bohemia Incubator and Steam Early Access, a key difference is that Incubator games can be much more basic, experimental, and rough. Moreover, Bohemia Interactive might even decide to cancel or stop supporting an Incubator game. To reflect this, people will often be able to play the games for free while they are part of Bohemia Incubator (such as Project Lucie).

For more in-depth information about Bohemia Incubator, please visit http://incubator.bohemia.net, and check out the Incubator FAQ. To keep track of all the latest news, be sure to follow Bohemia Interactive on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

E! Announces Its Inaugural People’s Choice Awards for November 11

2017/12/15
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Los Angeles, December 14, 2017 – E!, the global pop culture powerhouse, announced today that the 44th installment of the “People’s Choice Awards” will premiere on November 11, 2018 with Den of Thieves’ Jesse Ignjatovic and Evan Prager as Executive Producers.  Den of Thieves joins Wilshire Studios who have produced E!’s signature “Live from the Red Carpet” series for over two decades providing cross platform, in depth coverage of Hollywood’s biggest award shows.  As previously announced, E! acquired the “People’s Choice Awards” and serves as the exclusive home of the popular annual award show that celebrates the best in pop culture and is voted on entirely by fans. E!’s telecast of “People’s Choice Awards” will air globally across E!’s 17 international channels reaching 153 countries in 24 languages.  E!’s ownership of “People’s Choice Awards” includes the annual live event along with all digital and social assets.

“Den of Thieves, Jesse and Evan have an incredible track record in live event production, and we are excited to tap into their expertise, along with Wilshire Studios, as we evolve and supercharge this fan-centric, iconic franchise for the next generation,” said Jen Neal, Executive Producer, Live Events, Executive Vice President, Marketing for E! “By moving ‘People’s Choice Awards’ outside of the traditional awards season, we establishing a new window to celebrate the best in pop culture and will harness E!’s tremendous multi-platform reach to engage fans and drive momentum throughout the year.”

“We are thrilled to be producing the 2018 ‘People’s Choice Awards’ for E!. The PCAs are an iconic award show because they truly reflect the fans — through the power of their votes,” said Jesse Ignjatovic, Executive Producer, Den of Thieves. “There is no better home for this show than on E! and we can’t wait to bring that fan energy to the stage in 2018.”

Den of Thieves is a full service production company that specializes in the live event & award show space, having produced the “MTV Video Music Awards” for 11 consecutive years, the “iHeart Radio Music Awards,” “MTV Movie Awards,” “Radio Disney Music Awards,” “The Gong Show” on ABC, “American Idol” on Fox and several other projects featured on both television networks and digital outlets.

“The People’s Choice Awards” is the only major awards show voted on entirely by the public for fan favorites in movies, music, television and digital. Only fans determine the nominees and winners for the annual awards show and nearly 300 million votes were cast for its most recent installment, which aired January 18, 2017.

“People’s Choice Awards” was originally created in 1975 by Robert Stivers.  “People’s Choice Awards” was previously owned by Procter & Gamble and produced by Mark Burnett airing on CBS.

Far Cry 5: The Resistance Trailer

2017/12/15
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Here’s a new trailer for the upcoming Far Cry 5 titled “The Resistance”.

About Far Cry 5

Far Cry 5 will be available March 27, 2018 on PlayStation® 4 Pro, PlayStation®4, the Xbox One, Xbox One X, Xbox One S, and Windows PC. Set in America, a first for the franchise, Far Cry 5 offers players total freedom to navigate a serene-looking yet deeply twisted world as the new junior deputy of fictional Hope County, Montana. Players will find that their arrival accelerates a years-long silent coup by a fanatical doomsday cult, the Project at Eden’s Gate, igniting a violent takeover of the county. Under siege and cut off from the rest of the world, players will join forces with residents of Hope County and form the Resistance.

For more information about the game, please visit http://farcry.com.