Copenhagen, Denmark – October 10th 2023 – Flashbulb Games is proud to announce this new milestone to fans of Trailmakers. A new free update will soon land, Spacebound is the name of the update and it will include the biggest map they ever made for Trailmakers. 

Spacebound revolves around the fantasy of building your own vehicles for space. For the first time ever in Trailmakers you’ll be able to play in outer space. You can build any kind of vehicle you want and make it work in space and on moons, yes barely everything is possible in the new upcoming space update. Just explore and enjoy!  

“Space has been our holy grail for a long time. On one hand we knew it would be awesome to deliver on this fantasy to our fans who have been calling on this for years. On the other hand, real space is kind of boring and characterized by something not very Trailmaker-y: Lack of gravity and drag. So we had to come up with some new blocks that could make our version of space as playful and fun as the rest of Trailmakers, and I think we really hit the spot.” stated Lasse Outzen, Trailmakers Creative Director. 

Features in Spacebound:
– Four explorable moons with their own atmospheres, biomes and gravity. A real challenge to your building skills as you’ll need all sorts of flying and ground vehicles to discover every secret.
– Space station, a starting point to learn how to use all the new parts and become a true space expert.
–  Asteroid belts and zones, both static and in movement to challenge your piloting skills, perfect for all kinds of multiplayer challenges.
–  One of the moons populated by space pirates, aggressive NPCs to fight with.
Watch the Spacebound teaser here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6JCvPnUN_A&ab

Spacebound will be launched on October 31. You can already wishlist Spacebound on Steam.

Trailmakers is a creative vehicle-building sandbox and open-world rally expedition. You begin your journey in a desolate canyon on a distant planet and must scavenge for discarded vehicle parts. Your goal is to get as far as you can! Build a rig and experience the sweet rush of freedom that follows the acquisition of motorized transportation. The community around Trailmakers has been developed over the last six years, with add-ons and updates. This has also resulted in a strong engagement among the growing worldwide Trailmakers community. 

About Flashbulb Games
Flashbulb was founded in 2016 to create Trailmakers. We are individual experts in our fields and we are battle-proven as a team. Most of us have worked together for years at the now-closed Microsoft Studio ‘Press Play’, and others come from top studios such as Rare, IO and CCP. The vision is to ignite the creative spark in everyone. To create games that you play with – not just play. Games that give players tools and environments to create their versions of fun. flashbulbgames.com

04 October, 2023, Oslo Norway – The Norwegian Indie game studio Ananki Game Studio is thrilled to reveal the brand new The Fate of Baldr cinematic trailer. Defend your ship against mythical bosses while mining resources and upgrading skills. Battle solo or team up with friends in online co-op for a journey of strategy, conquest, and victory.

A group of Viking warriors dock their spaceship on an alien world but are soon attacked by hostile inhabitants. They courageously fight off their attackers, using their advanced firearms and defensive towers. As the battle hardens, the Vikings know that the fate of the entire universe hangs in the balance.

“We are very excited to show off the cinematic trailer for The Fate of Baldr witch we hope the fans will like” stated Ananki Game Studio

Watch the amazing new cinematic trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL1GJlOkWJo&ab

Your journey starts here, wishlist The Fate of Baldr now on Steam.

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About Ananki Game Studio
Ananki Game Studio is an indie game development studio with 3 full time employees based in Oslo, Norway. The team consists of André (CEO/programmer), Asia (2d artist) and Anders (3d artist/programmer). Each of them have 10+ years of prior experience with programming, 2D art and 3D modeling. They’ve been developing games full time since 2020.

Denmark, 3rd of October – Flashbulb Games bounces from excitement as their upcoming silly, high-energy ragdoll brawler Rubber Royale makes the grand appearance at the Steam Next Fest from October 9th to October 16th. Join the topsy-turvy joy! You can play the free Rubber Royale demo now on Steam!

This newest launch of the Rubber IP follows the style of the successful Rubber Bandits that just passed 1 million sold copies on Steam.“We believe a casual royale with all the chaos and wackiness from Rubber Bandits was the next logical step.” 

Flashbulb Games

Experience wacky and chaotic gameplay featuring loveable wobbly idiots in a high-speed knock-out setting. Rubber Royale is easy to pick up and learn. Just jump in, customize your character, and battle strangers or friends in a variety of different game modes with the last man standing being the victor in this crazy royale fiesta of a game.

Rubber Royale features 16 players (8 for the demo) battling each other in three different game modes: Racing, Knock-out, and Throw-out. Goofy, addictive and chaotic fun awaits the casual game fans with hilarious gameplay.

The game is packed with:

• Instant action
• Big, destructible arenas
• A diverse arsenal of weapons to pick up
• Classic, easy-to-understand game modes

This live-multiplayer will receive continuous support with interchanging game modes, characters and more to keep the game exciting and relevant!

Watch the smashing trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l6xryJLVGQI 

Rubber Royale will be released in 2024.

About Flashbulb Games
Flashbulb was founded in 2016 to create Trailmakers. We are individually experts in our fields and we are battle proven as a team. Most of us have worked together for years at the now-closed Microsoft Studio ‘Press Play’, and others come from top studios such as Rare, IO and CCP. The vision is to ignite the creative spark in everyone. To create games that you play with – not just play. Games that give players tools and environments to create their versions of fun. flashbulbgames.com

Göteborg, Sweden – September 6, 2023 – Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit is now up and available for PC players on Steam! Solo developed by Neckbolt aka Niklas Hallin and published by Burning Planet Digital, Molly Medusa takes you to an adventure of the cursed sculptor’s apprentice in the world of interesting acquaintances, mystical temples, and labyrinths that are physically impossible.

“My name is Niklas, and my solo-developed indie game Molly Medusa is finally coming to Steam. Like my previous game (Yono and the Celestial Elephants), it’s a wholesome adventure with focus on puzzles and level design, but this time it’s in third-person 3D, and everything and everyone turns to stone! It’s solo-developed and personal, with puzzle-dungeons, twisting gravity, bosses to petrify, and a sense of adventure and sailing!”, tells Niklas Hallin.

Niklas Hallin, solo developer of Molly Medusa

In Greek mythology, Medusa is generally described as a human female with a head full of snakes instead of hair and eyes that turned those looking at her into stone. That’s our Molly!

Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit is now available at a discounted release price on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2407400/Molly_Medusa_Queen_of_Spit/ 

Check out the latest trailer of Molly Medusa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mztUD8kGPrc

Game features

• Use your Medusa Curse to turn anything living into stone.
• Explore massive temples with interconnected passages and mind-boggling level design.
• Walk on walls! Gravity is local, and any surface can be a floor.
• Find powerful items to aid you in your journey. All items are used for puzzles, combat and boss fights.
• Sail across the Sands of Solitude for extra secrets, treasures and upgrades.
• Choose from two camera options: classic or free.
• Featuring a hard-rocking heavy metal soundtrack by Burning Planet.

About Burning Planet
Molly Medusa’s heavy metal soundtrack is provided by Burning Planet. What began as “Burning Planet Music” in 2015, a music production company for games, has now expanded into an in-your-face, punk driven game publisher – “Burning Planet Digital”. As a publisher, we approach an indie game as if it was a band. Website: www.burningplanet.se 

31 August 2023, Friedrichshafen, Germany – Indie developer Couch in the Woods is happy to release their retro sci-fi action game GRAVIATORS on Steam. 

GRAVIATORS is an easy to learn and easy to master, team arena sports game, set in space. If you’re looking for a casual friendly esports title, you don’t have to search any further as GRAVIATORS will satisfy your competitive urge.

GRAVIATORS offers you a cosmic playground where you compete in pinball-like arenas while harnessing the power of gravity and employing tactical shield abilities. A blend of high-paced and high-energy competition, strategic and exciting mechanics for creative gameplay makes GRAVIATORS a perfect couch party and casual esports game.

“Even if you face defeat, you’ll cherish remaining in the embrace of gravity, orbiting the ball around you in space. Adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. Empty your mind, be massless. Weightless, like gravity.”

Couch in the Woods, Inspired by the honourable teachings of Bruce Lee

GRAVIATORS gameplay trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWphsmTslow

GRAVIATORS on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1958540/GRAVIATORS/

Gameplay
Use your spacepod’s special gravity and shield abilities to control the ball and shoot it into the opponent’s black hole to score points. Bring your friends to your couch to compete against each other or against other teams online. Go solo and play against AI or random people online – the choices and fun are limitless! GRAVIATORS has 3 different game modes:

Versus Arena: Destroy shields around your opponents black hole to get temporary points. Shoot inside the black hole to score goals, and have your points added to the scoreboard!

Planetary Arena: The goals are located on each side of the screen and the playfield is divided by a black hole. Use the black hole to give the ball some extra power! Destroy the shields and score goals to add points to the scoreboard!

Meteor Shower: Protect your planet and survive incoming waves of asteroids! Destroy them quickly to build up a higher multiplier. With further waves, new kinds of asteroids and other dangerous objects will appear.

About Couch in the Woods
Couch in the Woods is a passionate team that is literally playing and developing games on the couch in the woods. Isolated by mountains and trees of the Black Forest, the team founded their small indie game dev studio in 2020 out of the studies. To make their dreams come true, the team drove the research in machine learning for the GRAVIATORS AI to get governmental funding. From the first idea in their student rooms to promoting GRAVIATORS at gaming events, the team is about to launch their first title successfully in cooperation with Bonus Stage Publishing.

London, UK – Monday August 21, 2023 – Tower Studios has confirmed that its much anticipated Sociable Soccer series will launch on all major PC and console platforms within the next few months.

The multi-million dollar title has enjoyed much success over the last few years as a former #1 on Apple Arcade and at last PC and console players will soon be able to experience the thrills of the most exciting multiplayer football game to be launched since Jon Hare’s Sensible Soccer series came out at the end of the last century.

Now as owner and creative director of Sociable Soccer, Hare hopes to take on EA Sports FC and e-football head to head by countering their sumptuous, but predictable, simulation style gameplay with the gritty, 100 miles per hour thrills and spills of gegenpressing, addictive, arcade style online and offline multiplayer matches and a whole world of soccer for single players to immerse themselves in.

All players who bought the Steam Early Access version of Sociable Soccer are to receive the game for free when it launches in November this year. 

Console releases will follow hot on the heels of the PC version with the staggered appearances of Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5, Playstation 4, XBox Series X and XBox One versions all now lined up and getting ready to leave the dressing room to strut their stuff in front of the crowd.

More details to be released over the coming weeks. 

“Everyone who plays Sociable Soccer will remember how much fun it is to beat your friends and family at a game you love, again and again. We are a fast, exhilarating arcade game set in a real football world, not a predictable, boring simulation. If you prefer your life to be steady, polished and uninspiring then stay where you are. If you are up for something new, stylised, fast and addictive then welcome to our Sociable world of soccer.”

Founder of Tower Studios Jon Hare 

About Tower Studios
Tower Studios is a game developer and publisher originally formed on the banks of the River Thames in 2004 by founders of Sensible Software and the Bitmap Brothers, two classic British teams from the previous century.
The company has developed numerous #1 games to date including Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Speedball and Sociable Soccer and is now owned solely by Jon Hare, the most successful and respected football game designer in Europe.

16 August, 2023, Oslo Norway – The Norwegian Indie game studio Ananki Game Studio is thrilled to reveal that their new game The Fate of Baldr will be launched on Steam soon. Join the Vikings in an epic tower defense adventure! Defend your ship against mythical bosses while mining resources and upgrading skills. Battle solo or team up with friends in online co-op for a journey of strategy, conquest, and victory.

“Working on ‘The Fate of Baldr’ has been an incredible journey for us so far. Inspired by the lore of Norse mythology and old school sci-fi we have created a unique universe where viking warriors take on the gods of the nine worlds. We’ve poured our hearts and souls into this project, and we’re very excited to share our vision with the public.” stated Ananki Game Studio.

Watch the latest Gameplay trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN5DPh3l_Xw

Gameplay features

• Ensure the safety of your Viking ship by repelling waves of creatures and gods inspired by Norse mythology.
• Optimize your defense strategy by placing a wide range of towers in key locations.
• Engage the enemies with both melee and ranged weapons.
• Gather resources to upgrade your ship, towers, weapon and equipment.
• Experience the thrill of battle as a single player or team up with others in online cooperative play, with the choice of four distinct and unique class options.

Begin your journey and wishlist The Fate of Baldr now on Steam.

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About Ananki Game Studio
Ananki Game Studio is an indie game development studio with 3 full time employees based in Oslo, Norway. The team consists of André (CEO/programmer), Asia (2d artist) and Anders (3d artist/programmer). Each of them have 10+ years of prior experience with programming, 2D art and 3D modeling. They’ve been developing games full time since 2020.