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Ben 10: Power Trip Announcement Trailer

2020/06/29
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London, June 29th, 2020 – Cartoon Network, the number one global animated series network, and worldwide family entertainment publisher Outright Games, working with developer studio PHL Collective are thrilled to announce, “Ben 10: Power Trip”, a brand-new video game from the iconic kids’ franchise. This all new adventure sees Ben team up with longtime rival Kevin 11 to battle the evil magician Hex, launching October 9th, 2020 on PlayStation® 4, Nintendo Switch™, Xbox One, PC digital.

“Ben 10: Power Trip” takes place in the animated universe of Ben Tennyson, where he uses his trusted Omnitrix to transform into different alien creatures and save the world. The game tells a unique story where Ben must uncover the truth behind four mysterious crystals that threaten to take over his world. Players will be able to transform into powerful aliens and work together to battle fearsome foes in this co-op adventure.

“Ben 10 is a beloved kids’ franchise and we are beyond excited to again be creating a game with these characters” said Terry Malham, CEO of Outright Games. “Our long running partnership with Cartoon Network has allowed us to take big steps forward with this title and create a game that will entertain Ben 10 fans and their families as they play together in this brand-new adventure”

“Ben 10: Power Trip” will launch on October 9th, 2020 on PlayStation® 4, Nintendo Switch™, Xbox One and PC digital and is available to pre-order now.

Mega Man X 1-8: The Collection Vinyl Box Set Announced

2020/06/26
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London, 26th July 2020 – CAPCOM and Laced Records continue their partnership to bring classic video game music to vinyl with Mega Man™ X 1-8: The Collection, a deluxe eight-disc box set featuring 210 tracks from the mainline titles in the Mega Man X series spanning 1993-2004.

Launched on the Super NES® as the gaming world transitioned from 8-bit to 16-bit consoles, the Mega Man X series introduced more mobility to the action-platforming series, as well as new plotlines and characters including X, Zero, and Axl.

Composers include Setsuo Yamamoto (Mega Man X), Yuki “Sato” Iwai (Mega Man X & Mega Man X2), Yuko Takehara (Mega Man X), Makoto “Tomozou” Tomozawa (Mega Man X), Kinuyo Yamashita (Mega Man X3), Toshihiko Horiyama (Mega Man X4), Naoto Tanaka (Mega Man X5) and Akemi Kimura (Mega Man X6, Mega Man X7 & Mega Man X8); Yuko Komiyama, Shinya “Midnight” Okada and Seiko Kobuchi (Mega Man X7 & Mega Man X8 as ‘Capcom Sound Team’); Makoto Asai, Teruo Konishi, Shuichi Mizohata, Noriyuki Iwadare and Takuya Miyawaki (Mega Man X7 as ‘Valuewave’); and the music of Yasuaki “Bun Bun” Fujita and original Mega Man composer Manami Matsumae.

Every track has been remastered specifically for this release and will be pressed onto eight audiophile-quality, heavyweight 180g vinyl LPs. These come packaged in deluxe spined inner sleeves, housed in a luxury rigid board slip case. The box set features brand new original artwork by illustrator and Mega Man maven ultimatemaverickx.

The Limited Edition Mega Man™ X 1-8: The Collection — exclusive to the Laced Records store — features yellow and purple discs. Pre-orders are open now at:
— www.lacedrecords.com/mega-man
— www.lacedrecords.co/mega-man outside of the US

Hunting Simulator 2 Launch Trailer

2020/06/26
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Lesquin, France, June 25, 2020 – NACON today has released the launch trailer for Hunting Simulator 2, which release is scheduled in North America for Tuesday June 30 on PS4™ and Xbox One consoles. A brand-new hunting simulation game developed by Neopica, Hunting Simulator 2 offers long hours of gameplay and a unique experience right in the heart of nature. A PC version of the game will be available from July 16th.

Discover Hunting Simulator 2’s launch trailer:

The hunt season will be open in North America on PS4™ and Xbox One on June 30th. Hunting Simulator 2 will be available on PC on July 16, and on Nintendo Switch™ at a later date.

In Hunting Simulator 2, you explore bigger, more varied and more spectacular natural environments thanks to completely redesigned graphics and sound effects. The game provides many hours of challenges and immersion among the flora and fauna of some of the most beautiful areas of Europe and the United States. There are over 33 animal species to find in Hunting Simulator 2. The artificial intelligence for each species has had significant work put in to recreate their unique and realistic behaviors.

Via an all-new interface, hunters can also choose every piece of their gear from over 75 weapons and accessories, as well as 90 official clothing items faithfully recreated from the sport’s top specialist brands: Browning, Winchester, Verney Carron, Bushnell, Kryptek and many more.

Stellaris: Console Edition Gets New DLC Packs

2020/06/25
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STOCKHOLM – Jun 25, 2020 – Paradox Interactive today released the Apocalypse Expansion and Humanoids Species Pack for Stellaris: Console Edition. This release completes the game’s second expansion pass for PlayStation® 4 and Xbox One, which also includes the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack released earlier this year. Expansion Pass Two contains three DLC, previously released for the PC version, that further enrich the empires of ambitious spacefarers with new constructions, cosmetics, weapons, stories, and more. Players who have yet to pick up Expansion Pass Two can purchase it for the suggested retail price of $24.99 / £19.99 / €24.99 at the Microsoft and PlayStation stores.

Expansion Pass Two includes:

  • Apocalypse Expansion: Redefine stellar warfare with a host of new offensive and defensive options. Destroy entire worlds with terrifying new planet-killer weapons, fight against (or alongside) ruthless space pirates, and maybe discover a few non-violent game features as well.
  • Synthetic Dawn Story Pack: Provides an all-new way for players to establish their empire across the stars, starting the game as a Machine Empire — a society made up entirely of robots. Unique game features and event chains will allow the machines to expand as a robotic consciousness and create an AI-led network that grows to galactic dominance.
  • Humanoids Species Pack: Features a selection of new portraits and ship models for players who wish to forge their path among the stars as the irrepressible human race – or at least as a species that resembles future, spacefaring humans to some degree.

Featuring the same deep strategic gameplay as Paradox’s original Stellaris, with rich and diverse alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris: Console Edition puts the complexity of the galaxy at your thumbsticks. Whether you’re exploring the unknown, discovering the mysteries of the universe, or conquering it for the glory of your empire, console players have more inter-galactic strategy awaiting them than ever before. The physical edition of Stellaris: Console Edition is available in stores in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Stay tuned for additional news, content and updates coming to Stellaris: Console Edition at its website here: https://console.stellaris.com/

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Announced for Netflix

2020/06/25
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June 25, 2020 – CD PROJEKT RED, Studio Trigger, and Netflix announce an all new original anime series CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS set in the same universe as the upcoming game, Cyberpunk 2077. The series will premiere in 2022.

CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.

CD PROJEKT RED, the company behind the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, is producing the series, with a creative team formed of talent from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Cyberpunk 2077. The team at CD PROJEKT RED has been working on this new series since 2018.
Acclaimed Japan-based animation company, Studio Trigger, will serve as the animation studio on the series and bring the world of Cyberpunk to life with their signature, vibrant style. Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) will direct the series along with assistant director Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Promare), creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), character designers Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal) and Yuto Kaneko(Little Witch Academia), and the adapted screenplay by Yoshiki Usa (SSSS.GRIDMAN, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare).
The original score will be composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).

“We are so excited to finally reveal that we are working on an anime in the Cyberpunk world,” said Adam Badowski, Cyberpunk 2077 Game Director and CD PROJEKT RED Head of Studio. “We’ve devoured just about all the cyberpunk fiction there is to watch, read, and play; it’s a genre that leaves so much room for creativity, and has had such a strong influence on us. CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS is our love letter to cyberpunk as a whole, and to stories told in animated form.”

“We at TRIGGER are thrilled to work with CD PROJEKT RED to create a brand-new story set in the world of the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077. It’s a huge challenge to adapt this universe into an anime, but we are eager to face it head-on,” said Masahiko Otsuka, CEO, Studio TRIGGER. Director Hiroyuki Imaishi adds, “I’ve always loved cyberpunk as a genre, but always found it difficult to create as an original work. This is why I’m very excited to be working with CD PROJEKT RED on this project. It won’t be easy to please both game and anime fans, but I love a challenge, and I’m looking forward to the production. We’ll do our best to meet and exceed expectations.”

Caesars Announces Universal Mask Policy for All Properties

2020/06/24
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LAS VEGAS (June 24, 2020) — Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: CZR) (“Caesars”, “Caesars Entertainment” or the “Company”) today announced that everyone indoors at its properties across the Caesars network will be required to wear masks at all times, except when eating or drinking. The updated mask policy becomes effective on June 24, 2020 at 12 p.m. Pacific Time and applies to all employees, vendors, contractors, guests and passersby in properties. Previously, all employees plus guests at table games were required to wear masks at Caesars properties.

“We promised that Caesars would continue to evaluate the latest recommendations, directives and medical science regarding the COVID-19 public health emergency and modify our enhanced health and safety protocols accordingly,” said Tony Rodio, CEO of Caesars Entertainment. “As a result, we are immediately requiring everyone in our properties to wear masks, because the scientific evidence strongly suggests that wearing masks and practicing social distancing may be the most important deterrents to spreading COVID-19 from person to person,” he added.

Caesars will continue to implement all the enhanced health and safety requirements in its revised operating plans. Also, the Company will take steps to ensure that everyone inside its properties wears a mask. Anyone who refuses to wear a mask, after being asked, will be directed to leave the property.

The universal mask requirement will apply to all of Caesars businesses currently open in Louisiana, Mississippi, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, and Indiana, as well as tribal properties in Arizona, California and North Carolina. The mask requirement will also apply to additional Caesars properties as they reopen in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois and Ontario. Caesars will continue to open properties in line with regulatory approvals and customer demand.

Among the enhanced health and safety protocols are more frequent cleaning and sanitization. Caesars has also implemented a health screening program for all employees. For more information on the Company’s health and safety protocols, visit: www.Caesars.com/health.

Project CARS 3 Release Date

2020/06/24
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June 24, 2020 – Tighten your helmet straps and fasten your racing harnesses, Project CARS 3, the latest instalment in the renowned Project CARS franchise is going to race across the finish line and into homes in the Americas on August 28, 2020 for PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PCs via STEAM.

The new racing game will feature all the authentic motorsport and racing content fans expect: the biggest roster of cars in the franchise’s history, new tracks (including venues such as the home of the Brazilian Grand Prix, Interlagos, and the roads of Tuscany), plus an exciting, fully-fledged career mode that will entice players to go on a driver’s journey from weekend warrior to racing legend. Also new to the franchise are authentic car upgrades, customization and personalization options for both cars and drivers, and improved assists to welcome rookie drivers into the thrilling world of motor racing at its most intense levels.

 

DreamHack and ESL Extend Partnership with Esport1

2020/06/24
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Cologne/Stockholm — DreamHack, the premier gaming lifestyle festival, and ESL, the world’s largest esports company, today announced a three-year media deal with Hungarian esports outlet, Esport1 — the partnership began already in January 2019 and has now been extended for another three years, lasting until March 2023. Within the framework of the mutual agreement, Esport1 has acquired the rights to distribute, promote and broadcast the licensed content of all ESL Pro Tour stops for Counter Strike: Global Offensive via their channels, owning the exclusive right to broadcast in Hungarian language.

As part of the deal, all tournaments within ESL Pro Tour for CS:GO — including the ESL Pro League, ESL One, Intel® Extreme Masters, DreamHack Masters, and DreamHack Open — will be broadcast in Hungarian language via respective distribution channels that include all Esport1 digital channels. The deal covers the exclusive rights for Esport1 to bring finest CS:GO gameplay to the Hungarian fans in Hungarian.

“There has never been a more exciting time in esports than now,” said DreamHack Co-CEO Roger Lodewick. “All of us at DreamHack are thrilled to be able to offer content to our fans in Hungary, in their native language, thanks to this collaboration with Esport1. We look forward to sharing our passion for esports with these fans.”

“We are delighted to expand our portfolio and secure a long-term agreement with Esport1,” says Frank Uddo, Senior Vice President Global Media at ESL. “Esport1 is a leader in the esports media landscape in Hungary and we are excited to build on the great foundation that has already been established.”

“Esport1.hu and ESL have a strong working relationship dating back multiple years now. We are happy to take our partnership to the next level, by including DreamHack and establishing a long-term partnership. Together with Dreamhack and ESL, we’ll bring top quality CS:GO esports broadcasts to Hungary, exclusively in Hungarian language, on multiple digital platforms, including our latest project, a digital esport TV on mindiGO platform with Antenna Hungária called EsportGuru. Our goal is to maintain our leading position in the Hungarian esports market, and this partnership will help us in doing so”, adds Balázs György Biró, Head of Communications of Esport1.

Othercide Webseries Episode 1

2020/06/24
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June 24, 2020 – Othercide, the new horror-inspired tactical RPG, is coming to PlayStation®4, Xbox One and PC on July 28 (and later this summer for Nintendo Switch), but Focus Home Interactive and Lightbulb Crew are here today with the first episode in a new developer diary series going behind the scenes to explore the makings of this uniquely stylized and nightmarish game world.

A perfect entry point for newcomers, today’s video breaks down the key characters and creatures you’ll discover in Othercide: the Mother, her Daughters, and the terrifying Others. Learn about the game’s distinctive art design, inspired by multiple sources from around the world, as well as the real life experiences of art director Alexandre Chaudret. As Humanity’s last hope in a gothic noir universe, you’ll lead your army of Daughters in a spectacular dance of combat actions and counters against fearsome enemies and bosses with the Dynamic Timeline System. You will fight. You will fail. You will rise again.

Pre-orders for Othercide are available now with a 15% discount on Steam and Xbox One at https://shop.othercidegame.com. Steam also offers a special bundle featuring the base game, its original soundtrack and digital art book at an additional discount. PlayStation®4 and Nintendo Switch pre-orders will open in the near future.

And keep your eyes peeled for the next episode in Othercide’s developer diary series! For more information, visit https://www.othercidegame.com.

Unsolved Mysteries Official Trailer Released

2020/06/23
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June 23, 2020 – The iconic series UNSOLVED MYSTERIES is back! Fusing signature elements from the original series with contemporary immersive, character-driven storytelling, the 12 new episodes are rooted in the experiences of ordinary people who have lived the unthinkable — from the trauma of a loved one’s unexplained disappearance or horrific death, to the shock of a bizarre paranormal encounter. Alongside detectives and journalists, family members offer clues, present theories, and identify suspects, hoping one viewer holds the key to solving the mystery. From the creators of the original docuseries, Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, and 21 Laps Entertainment, the producers of Stranger Things.

The first six episodes of UNSOLVED MYSTERIES release globally on Netflix JULY 1, 2020!