SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON – April 10, 2012 – SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA®Europe Ltd. today announced Episode Metal, a special unlockable story that will be available exclusively to players who have purchased both Sonic the Hedgehog™ 4 Episode I and Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II on the same platform.
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April events for Mythos Global detailed, keeps gamers on their toes with completely new events each month
LOS ANGELES – April 6, 2012 – HanbitSoft and T3Fun’s philosophy is to keep Mythos Global an always-fresh Action MMORPG every month with completely new events to add to the gameplay experience for fans. The first two events for April are “Lucky Adventure” and “Mythos Precognition” which both give double luck and double experience buffs at random times and on random days. These two events will be ongoing throughout the month so players will have plenty to show for their time in Mythos’ fantasy world of Uld this month!
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Nyko’s line of charging stations for Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 now protected by patent
LOS ANGELES – April 5, 2012 – Nyko Technologies®, the #1 third-party game accessories company, today announced it has been granted a US patent for its inventive systems for storing and charging video game controllers. Nyko was the first company to announce and market a controller charging dock starting with its Wii Charge Station in January 2007 and continues to innovate on its original design with popular controller charging docks for Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation3. As part of the process of protecting its patent, Nyko has today filed complaints against companies whose products infringe upon Nyko’s Intellectual Property.
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Eight countries must ready their weapons for Conquer Online’s first global PvP tournament
HONG KONG – April 5, 2012 – Following the launch of the iPad and Facebook versions of Conquer Online, one of the longest-running, popular free-to-play PvP MMOs, the game is breaking new ground by treating PC players to a first: a global PvP tournament. With the dreaded new Pirate class storming the shores of Conquer Online, contestants from eight different countries can step up and battle for global supremacy!
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Pea-themed parkour puzzler offers challenging family fun on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
HARRISBURG, Pa. – April 5, 2012 – Gotta Pea, LLC, developer of family-friendly mobile and social online games, today announced its first iOS title, Peakour™ has jumped out of the pod and onto the iTunes App Store. This physics-based puzzler—the first in a line of pea-themed Gotta Pea® games—asks players to strategically maneuver pieces of junk to get from start to finish without falling into the yucky Zompea pit below.
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Epic 80s-Inspired RPG Now Available for iOS; Downloading is Only Half the Battle
RALEIGH, N.C. – April 5, 2012 – Mighty Rabbit Studios, an independent mobile game developer based in North Carolina’s bustling Research Triangle Park, has announced the launch of their first title for iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod®touch: Saturday Morning RPG (SMRPG). An episodically epic role-playing game inspired by the best cartoons and pop culture icons the 80s had to offer, SMRPG is a love-letter to all your best childhood weekend memories. To take up the fight against the forces of retro evil, download the first episode of SMRPG from the App Store today for free.
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WePay, Grantoo’s first official partner, is pledging education grant money for college students who play in next week’s online social trivia tournament
SAN FRANCISCO – April 5, 2012 – Grantoo, a social gaming platform that brings college students and companies together in a socially responsible world of gaming, is hosting its first public tournament on April 8 in partnership with WePay, the easiest way to collect payments online. The tournament will be open to students at 40 colleges nationwide, including Yale, Duke, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and USC. Students will play against each other in Grantoo’s version of trivia in order to win educational grants towards tuition, books, and other educational needs. To sign up for Grantoo’s first public tournament, visit http://signup.grantoo.org.
iOS Hit’s Next Apocalypse-themed Update Torments Pygmies with a Plague of Flying Insects
SAN FRANCISCO – April 4, 2012 – What’s that buzzing noise? Is that a low-hanging cloud coming in? Oh, it’s just a plague of locusts descending on the Pygmies of Pocket God! The Aztec calendar on Apocalypse Island continues to count down in Pocket God Episode 44: The Perfect Swarm, opening a new room in the island’s temple that houses the plague’s source – the locust queen! Available on the iTunes App Store today, Pocket God’s latest content update brings insect-riddled fun as well as a new Mondo Skin Pack to the hit iOS phenomenon.
To utilize the power of the locust swarm, players must access the temple on Apocalypse Island and feed a Pygmy to the locust queen. Impregnated with locusts, the queen’s belly will rumble and players can press it to send locusts spewing out of her tail. The swarm is immediately under the players control, able to be swiped around the screen for deadly effect.
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