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.

Join Ananki Game Studio on Discord and follow on social media: Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.

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.

Querétaro City, Mexico, 9 August, 2023 – Ready, Set, Go! Seashell Studio is delighted to announce that Running Fable is now available for Xbox and Nintendo Switch users. So get ready to enjoy this fabulous cross-platform racing experience with your friends and family right away!

“The day is finally upon us! We’ve been dreaming of this day for about 3 years now, and we couldn’t be happier. Go tell your friends, your roommates, your cousins, and even your grandma. “Running Fable” is good fun for everyone, and now with cross-play integration, also everywhere!” – comments Rodrigo Cuadriello from Seashell Studio.

Running Fable presents a new take on the racing genre, combining the adrenaline rush of high-speed racing with the tactics of strategy games. Strategically place items and traps all over the map to transform the racetrack before each rally begins. Trick your opponents and make it to the finish line first!

Watch Nintendo launch trailer on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/ij1YT_rnV20

Get the game on Xbox: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/running-fable/9p9ntcz7hzll

Get the game on Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/running-fable-switch/

Friedrichshafen, Germany – 2nd of August, 2023 – Couch in the Woods studio is thrilled to share the release date of their amazingly fun, arcade-y and super competitive title, GRAVIATORS. The new casual friendly e-sports title will launch on the 31st of August!

While we’re waiting for the release day, feel free to tune into GRAVIATORS stream on the 3rd of August 7:00PM CEST, where they will go over some gameplay mechanics, battle showcase, a showcase of online highscore system, and more! 

GRAVIATORS is a team arena sports game in space, where you compete in pinball-like arenas and use your spacepods special gravity and shield abilities to control and shoot the ball to score points on the enemy goal. Graviators is a perfect casual friendly eSports title.

Watch trailer on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/vjZqNDTyUW0

Wishlist the game on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1958540/GRAVIATORS/

Gameplay

Use your spacepods 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 other teams online. Go solo and play against AI or random people online – the choice and fun are limitless! GRAVIATORS has 3 different game modes:

Versus Arena: Destroy shields around your opponent’s black hole to get temporary points. Shoot inside the black hole to score goals and add your points 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 it 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.

Stay tuned for more information and come together to ride the gravity wave.

About Couch in the Woods
Couch in the Woods is a passionate team which 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.

26 July 2023, Querétaro City, Mexico – Seashell Studio are thrilled to announce the launch date of Running Fable. An adrenaline-fueled cross-platform multiplayer racing strategy game is set to hit both Xbox and Nintendo Switch platforms on August 9th.

“At Seashell Studio we are thrilled to be just a few days away from launching Running Fable on the Nintendo and Xbox. This will let more players enjoy the experience of racing, trolling, and flimflam their friends across multiple platforms. You know what they say, the more, the merrier!” – comments Daniel Cárdenas from Seashell Studio.

Check out Running Fable new gameplay trailer: https://youtu.be/fQnbLtl4sRg

Running Fable presents a new take on the racing genre combining the adrenaline rush of high-speed racing with the tactics of strategy games. Strategically place items and traps all over the map to transform the racetrack before each rally begins. Trick your opponents and make it to the finish line first!

Running Fable is a family friendly, party game for up to 10 players that is bound to captivate players of all ages and backgrounds. Initially launched on Steam, the game’s release on Xbox and Nintendo Switch will break the platform barriers and enable the racing experience with no limits. Compete with folks around the world and watch your score on global leaderboards with crossplay integration for the ultimate battle.

Running Fable gameplay features:

• Real-time item placement – strategically set items and traps all over the map. The other players won’t be able to see your placements until the race starts! You can choose to place a trap in the land, water, air or even beneath a bush, drastically changing the racetrack.
• Race to the trophy – Run, jump, dodge, fly, and hare your way up to the trophy!
• Trophy Points + Trap Points = Round Score – Build up your total score by reaching the goal as fast as possible, or by placing your traps cunningly. A mix of both is the key to celebrate victoriously!
• Customizable characters –  Up to 40 different customization options. Each player can dress up their characters with a great variety of hats, outfits, and taunt animations, even between each round within the online lobby! 

Be sure to wishlist Running Fable on Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/running-fable-switch/

Be sure to wishlist Running Fable on Xbox: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/running-fable/9p9ntcz7hzll

About Seashell Studio
Seashell Studio is an independent game developer studio from Mexico that focuses on providing high-quality videogames and animated products which have already been recognized with outstanding awards. Back in 2020 they released Lunch a Palooza, their first game on Steam. More information about Seashell Studio can be found by visiting their website: https://www.seashellstudio.mx/

Join Seashell Studio on Discord and follow on social media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. 

Untersiggenthal, Switzerland – July 20th, 2023 – Nifty Productions are thrilled to announce their new entry to the world of RTS games that we all grew to play and love with their new title, Smelogs Playground. 

A new easy to pick up, rewarding to master strategy game that offers a vivid experience with multiple new features and quality of life additions to ensure players get a much smoother and fluid experience. 

“We’ve thought for the longest time that the RTS market was starved, strategy games don’t get a lot of attention from players due to their difficult to play nature. We do value RTS games and we wanted to give people what they wanted! A new strategy game that offers unique features that is also easy to pick up and play”  says Simon Füglister, Founder & Game Designer at Nifty Productions. 

Nifty Productions is giving the exclusive chance to all players to gain access to Smelogs Playground by joining the Discord server, just look for Smelogs Playground.

Watch the gameplay trailer on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/aAch-layhRI

Wishlist Smelogs Playground now on Epic Games Store!

Wishlist Smelogs Playground now on Steam!

Smelogs Playground’s key features:

• Volumetric fog of war that adds more dynamism to the gameplay and the aesthetic of the game. 
• Base Editor that helps players determine their strategy before starting the match, giving them enough time to set their units and buildings in a more strategic way. 
• Dynamic Tech Tree provides a wonderful,dynamic way to change and side-grade units. Adapt your playstyle quickly to suit the changes happening within the match!  

Gain access to Smelogs Playground by joining the Discord Server! Also follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Twitch.

About Nifty Productions
Nifty Productions is an innovative independent Game Studio founded in 2021 and based in Untersiggenthal, Switzerland. Our mission is to craft high-quality, accessible games that resonate with the global market. Collaborating with talented individuals and partners from across the globe, we strive to bring unique experiences to players worldwide.