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BERLIN, Germany – February 2, 2012 – (GameNewswire) The Berlin based publisher and developer Infernum announced today the start date of the Brick-Force closed beta. Selected players will be able to experience the sandbox shooter starting February 28th. The open beta and official release of the online game will follow in spring.

Fans that wish to participate in the closed beta can register on the official website www.brick-force.com. But there is another brick in the wall: All players who register for the beta will be rewarded with an exclusive in-game helmet, once the open beta is underway. Blasting through Brick-Force’s shooter mode, beta participants will be equipped perfectly for the cross-platform online game. Those who prefer building instead of blasting still have much to look forward to with the satisfying sandbox mode. This creative mode will be playable not only in the browser but also on iOS or Android. Brick by brick, players will have the freedom to create the worlds and maps that they’ve always dreamed of, limited only by their imagination.

Brick-Force – Build, Share, Play
This sandbox shooter allows players to create worlds and maps that they’ve always dreamed of, brick by brick. They can also share these virtual playgrounds with community and use them as the backdrop for fast paced shooter hunts against fellow players or computerized opponents. This comic style online game is built on the ‘Unity 3D’ engine and will be playable directly in a web browser. The ‘sandbox’ mode, in which players use simple building blocks to construct complex environments, can be played on social networks and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Brick-Force is being developed by Korean game developer EXE Games as a co-production with Infernum. Beta and launch of the free-to-play title in Europe and North America are planned for spring 2012. www.brickforce.com


Facts
Title: Brick-Force
Genre: Sandbox Shooter Platform: Browser, Mobile devices (cross-platform)
Publisher: Infernum Productions AG Developer: EXE Games
Release: Spring 2012
Beta: 28.02.2012
Website: www.brick-force.com

About Infernum
Infernum Productions AG is an international publisher and developer of online games, based in Berlin. The company was founded in summer 2011 by Andreas Weidenhaupt, Tobias Gerlinger and Markus Melching, and focuses on high-quality free-to-play online titles. Infernum also expands its game experiences by extending titles to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets (cross platform). For more information please visit: www.infernum.com.

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Calabasas, Calif. and San Francisco – February 2, 2012 – (GameIndustryWire) The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), the professional video games organization advancing the artistic values of the interactive entertainment community, and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), the world’s leading social game developer, today announced that Brian Reynolds, chief game designer, Zynga, has been appointed to the AIAS’ Board of Directors effective immediately.

A twenty-one-year industry veteran, Brian Reynolds is recognized as one of the industry's most talented and productive game designers. Honored by PC Gamer magazine as one of twenty-five "Game Gods" and one of IGN’s “Top 100 Game Creators of All Time,” Reynolds played a key role founding three successful videogame studios: Firaxis, Big Huge Games, and Zynga East. At Zynga, Brian led FrontierVille to 35 million players and now helps game teams across the company innovate on social gameplay.

“Zynga has been leading the charge for delivering quality social gaming to an ever expanding demographic,” said Martin Rae, president, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. “And they have been at the forefront of one of the major shifts in our industry. Brian’s work at Zynga has helped redefine how people enjoy and interact with the medium of gaming, and we are proud to have his experience and deep insight on the Board as gaming further becomes a part of everyone’s everyday life.”

“I’m incredibly excited to be joining the Academy Board,” said Brian Reynolds, Zynga’s Chief Game Designer. “Their awards program has always been a gold standard of recognition and career advancement for game makers and I’m honored to have a chance to help advance it. Likewise, the D.I.C.E. Summit blows me away every year with the quality and caliber of developers they bring together. I believe this opportunity is an important step in the continuing assimilation of social games into the broader game community.”

“Brian brings wonderful insight, creativity, and passion to the Board of Directors,” said Mike Capps, president, Epic Games, and member of the Academy’s Board of Directors. “During his twenty-one years in games, Brian has created exceptional console, downloadable, and social games – all while staunchly supporting the advancement of our dynamic industry. Welcome, Brian!”

Reynolds’ videogames have sold over 6 million copies worldwide, and he has masterminded the design of several smash hits including Civilization II®, Alpha Centauri®, and Rise of Nations®, as well as Catan® for Xbox360 Live Arcade. Highly regarded for his mastery of the art of programming, Reynolds' dual specialty gives him the substantial advantage of being able to bring his own visions to life - and he has built a reputation for finely tuned gameplay. As Chief Game Designer for Zynga, Brian now applies these talents to the rapidly growing world of social games, and with his cohorts at Zynga East in Maryland, is hard at work on creating newgames.

In June 2006, Brian was also elected Chair of the International Game Developers Association the non-profit professional society dedicated to advancing the careers of game developers worldwide, and he continues to serve the organization in an advisory role. Brian is particularly interested in finding ways to get developers a better deal on intellectual property rights, credit and recognition, awards programs, and general quality of life - leading him to focus his volunteer work in those areas. Brian’s other volunteer work has included judging the International Game Festival, the Game Developers Choice Awards, and the AIAS Interactive Awards.

The AIAS Board of Directors is the governing body of the 22,000 plus member Academy and is composed of 16 industry leaders representing Blizzard Entertainment, Capcom, EA, Google, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, as well as representatives from the independent development community like Day 1 Studios, Epic Games, and Insomniac Games.

For a complete list of the AIAS’ Board of Directors, please visit www.interactive.org.

About the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) was founded in 1996 as a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote, advance and recognize common interests and outstanding achievements in the interactive arts and sciences. The Academy conducts its annual awards show, the Interactive Achievement Awards, to promote and acknowledge exceptional accomplishments in the field. To further enhance awareness of the Academy’s vision, the organization created the D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit in 2002, a once yearly conference dedicated to exploring approaches to the creative process and artistic expression as they uniquely apply to the development of interactive entertainment. With more than 22,000 members, including Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, THQ, Day One Studios, Epic Games and Insomniac Games, The Academy celebrates and honors the creativity of video games worldwide. More information can be found at http://www.interactive.org and http://www.dicesummit.org. Follow the AIAS on Facebook and Twitter.

About Zynga Inc.
Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is the world's largest social game developer with more than 227 million monthly active users playing its games, which include CityVille, FarmVille, Words With Friends, Scramble With Friends, CastleVille, Hidden Chronicles, Zynga Poker, Empires & Allies, Indiana Jones™ Adventure World, The Pioneer Trail, Mafia Wars and Café World. Zynga's games are available on a number of global platforms, including Facebook, Google+, Tencent, Apple iOS and Google Android. Through Zynga.org, Zynga players have raised more than $10 million for world social causes. Zynga is headquartered in San Francisco.

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CALABASAS, Calif. – February 2, 2012 – (GameIndustryWire) The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), the professional video games organization advancing the artistic values of the interactive entertainment community, today announced that Min Kim, vice president of live games at Nexon America, Inc., has been appointed to the AIAS’ Board of Directors effective immediately.

As vice president of live games, Min is responsible for all the product initiatives at Nexon America. Prior to co-founding Nexon America, Min launched the Global Edition of Nexon’s flagship title, MapleStory. He has made significant contributions to the adoption of digital content cards at retail, and recently launched Karma Koin. He also serves on the America’s Advisory Board for the Merchant Risk Council.

“As one of the earliest advocates of Free-to-Play online games, Min has been instrumental in bringing this business model to gamers worldwide,” said Martin Rae, president, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. “Their introduction of Free-to-Play, giving players free access to games in favor of generating revenue from microtransactions, has quite literally been a game changer. Nexon has been quite involved already with Academy activities and we’re really excited to have Min’s input at the board level.”

“Min will make a welcome addition to the Board,” said Shuhei Yoshida, president of worldwide studios, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and member of the Academy’s Board of Directors. “Through games such as their flagship title, MapleStory, and now recently, Dragon Nest and Vindictus, Nexon has paved the way for Free-to-Play titles over the last decade to push this genre forward to ever expanding audiences in MMO gaming. We will greatly benefit from that same passion - there is no doubt he will work to make great strides in pushing the mission of the AIAS forward.”

The AIAS Board of Directors is the governing body of the 22,000 plus member Academy and is composed of 16 industry leaders representing Blizzard Entertainment, Capcom, EA, Google, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, as well as representatives from the independent development community like Day 1 Studios, Epic Games, and Insomniac Games.

For a complete list of the AIAS’ Board of Directors, please visit www.interactive.org.

About the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) was founded in 1996 as a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote, advance and recognize common interests and outstanding achievements in the interactive arts and sciences. The Academy conducts its annual awards show, the Interactive Achievement Awards, to promote and acknowledge exceptional accomplishments in the field. To further enhance awareness of the Academy’s vision, the organization created the D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit in 2002, a once yearly conference dedicated to exploring approaches to the creative process and artistic expression as they uniquely apply to the development of interactive entertainment. With more than 22,000 members, including Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, THQ, Day One Studios, Epic Games and Insomniac Games, The Academy celebrates and honors the creativity of video games worldwide. More information can be found at http://www.interactive.org and http://www.dicesummit.org. Follow the AIAS on Facebook and Twitter.

About Nexon America
Nexon America, Inc. is the North American publishing arm of NEXON Co. Ltd., which has created and delivered what’s next online for gamers for more than 15 years. Based in Los Angeles, Nexon America was founded in 2005 to bring the best of online entertainment to North American audiences. The company's growing library of titles includes “MapleStory,” “Mabinogi,” “Combat Arms,” “Dungeon Fighter Online,” “Atlantica Online,” “Vindictus,” “Dragon Nest,” and “Sudden Attack.” The foundation of all Nexon America titles is the microtransaction-based business model, in which users can play the full game for free and can also choose to purchase in-game items to enhance their gaming experience.

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KARLSRUHE, Germany – February 2, 2012 – Mobile gaming company flaregames, announces today a EUR 6 million initial financing led by Accel Partners. The funding will be used to scale the company, to attract additional talent, and to market the company’s upcoming line-up of free-to-play games for mobile devices, which will consist of 5 games by the end of Q2 2012.

“Our first focus is on getting fun, high-quality games to market, and reaching the mass-market as well as mid-core gamers with our line-up this year,” said Klaas Kersting, CEO of flaregames. “Our investors see the opportunity for mobile game companies to grow fast and the team’s extensive knowledge of the free-to-play gaming market is an asset that will enable us to create new mobile games that are both fun and commercially successful.”

“The mobile games business will likely be larger than the social games business,” said Harry Nelis, partner at Accel Partners. “We’re backing flaregames because we believe in the team, technology, business model and most of all know that Klaas will drive the company to its full potential as it strives to become a major mobile games company.”

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About flaregames
Founded in 2011, flaregames is a mobile game company focused on bringing free-to-play games to market. The production pipeline consists of several high-quality games aimed at mainstream and mid-core gamers. The 30-person company currently has a full portfolio of titles in development internally and is backed by Accel Partners. Founder and CEO Klaas Kersting is actively scaling the company as it pushes to release its line-up throughout 2012 on its proprietary distribution platform. For more information, please visit: www.flaregames.com

About Accel
Founded in 1983, Accel Partners has a long history of partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class businesses. Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies, with offices in Palo Alto, California, New York City, London and Bangalore, as well as in China via its partnership with IDG-Accel.

Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful companies, many of which have defined their categories, including AdMob, Alfresco, Angry Birds (Rovio), Atlassian, ComScore, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Groupon, Kayak, Playfish, QlikTech, Spotify, and Wonga. For more information, please visit the Accel Partners web site at www.accel.com find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/accel.

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SAN FRANCISCO – January 31, 2012 – (GameIndustryWire) PlayFast, a technology company focused on developing and deploying digital distribution platforms and solutions for games, today announced an update to its technology enabling any PC game to be embedded in a web page and streamed to consumer desktops. As a result, players can start experiencing the game before it has been completely downloaded, making getting into the game faster and easier than ever before.

With the technology update, the company is also offering potential partners the opportunity to bring any of their PC titles to the browser. Interested publishers and developers should contact Charles Speyer, Head of Business Development at PlayFast – cspeyer [at] playfast-tech [dot] com.

“We have had a full turnkey digital distribution platform available for some time now and are addressing the streaming aspect as a feature that many publishers would like to have without the need for a large scale implementation,” said Sean Kauppinen, CEO of PlayFast. “Publishers can offer their games directly to consumers on a landing page, and monetize on social networks including Facebook or Twitter. While many cloud services will offer this type of service in the future, we’re able to offer it today.”

PlayFast’s PlayNow Browser Technology takes PC games and delivers them to the browser by prioritizing and streaming the game content. The technology enables publishers and developers to monetize existing catalogs and add new revenue streams to both online and offline PC games.

PlayFast also has streaming download technology that addresses the increasing size of game downloads, which is one of the greatest challenges for the online games market today. By reducing the size of the download necessary to being played, download abandonment is significantly reduced and players quickly get into the game.

About PlayFast Technologies
Founded in 2008, PlayFast is focused on digital distribution for games by addressing the current and emerging needs of consumers and content owners. The company’s proprietary technology enables consumers to get into games 7-20 times faster than traditional downloads. With an approach that enables new digital publishers to enter direct-to-consumer digital distribution, and existing publishers to fully realize the potential of the market, PlayFast is an essential partner for companies looking to maximize their digital revenues. For more information, please visit: http://www.playfast-tech.com/

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SAN FRANCISCO – January 26, 2012 – Following a spectacularly romantic Valentine's Day in the fairytale world of Luvinia, a beautiful, brand new fantasy free-to-play MMORPG, players will be able to tie-the-knot and invite friends and family to breathtaking wedding celebrations. Now players can meet their soulmate, quest and craft together, battle and romance, then give their heart over in grand spectacle.

About Outspark
Founded in 2007, Outspark publishes free-to-play Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs) with deep social features for the rapidly growing online games market. It has quickly become a global leader in the space, paving a way for a new era of digital entertainment. Outspark’s online portal and social community has attracted over nine million registered players, and continues to grow with engaging social features and a metrics-driven approach that enhances the user experience. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Outspark offers a variety of next-generation client and social web MMOs, with an ever-evolving portfolio of new games and content. For more information, please visit www.outspark.com

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NEW YORK – January 23, 2011 – Paradox Interactive today announced that Hearts of Iron The Card Game, a free-to-play, browser-based, online Collectible Card Game (CCG) set in World War II, has now received additional content in the form of 60 new cards and various updates.

Playing between January 23rd and February 6th, winners of “Head to Head” or tournament matches will receive a free booster pack from this new set. The game is available here: http://hoitcg.com/

The 60 new cards include:

- 6 new doctrines, 5 new HQ cards; both faction specific and universal
- Three new leaders of World War II join the fray: Keith Park, Albert Kesselring and Ivan Chernyakhovsky. These three leaders will have different abilities that are going to help their faction greatly
- More Infantry, support, tank and air cards that will be very useful assets to your army

Other updates to the game:

- New feature ”Hidden”, which lets you collect cards that are hidden from your opponent in battle. Mind games will now be a part of your strategy. The hidden cards will only be revealed to your adversary as they are used.
- New themes for the reverse of your cards. Each player will receive two new free themes, and will be able to buy a handful of new ones.
- Time in Head to Head matches will be changed from 30 minutes, to 40 minutes. This change will make larger decks more viable to use.

A beginners guide is available here: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?549676-The-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Hearts-of-Iron-TCG

New cards from the "Hidden and Dangerous" set include:

Main Features:
• Free-to-Play
• Play as the Axis, Allies, or Comintern
• 200 Unique cards, with authentic World War II art and photography
• Competitive game modes where players can earn booster packs
• Deck editor lets you collect, build and customize decks according to your play style
• Trade cards with other players.

About Paradox Interactive
Since 1999, Paradox Interactive has been a leading global developer and publisher of PC-based strategy games. World-renowned for its strategy catalog, the company holds a particularly strong presence in the United States and Europe.

Its steadily-growing portfolio includes firmly established PC franchises such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Victoria and the Hearts of Iron series, as well as now encompassing titles on other platforms such as Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West released in 2010 on PlayStation®Network for the PlayStation®3 and the forthcoming Defenders of Ardania on iPad as well as PC.

2011-2012 will be Paradox Interactive's most ambitious line-up of titles to date with such anticipated releases as Defenders of Ardania, Sword of the Stars II, King Arthur II: The Role-playing Wargame, Crusader Kings II, Naval War: Arctic Circle, Warlock: Master of the Arcane and War of the Roses. It is also expanding its presence in the free-to-play arena through Paradox Connect with upcoming games such as Salem: The Crafting MMO.

For more information, please visit www.paradoxplaza.com and follow www.facebook.com/ParadoxInteractive and www.twitter.com/pdxinteractive and visit our forum http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/.

Our offices are located in New York, USA and Stockholm, Sweden. We work with renowned distributors world wide and are present on all major digital download portals. We share a passion for gaming and gamers and our goal is to provide deep and challenging games with hours of gameplay to our growing 350,000 + member community.

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CALABASAS, Calif. – January 19, 2012 – The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) today announced more confirmed speakers for the 2012 D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit. The event will be held at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, February 8-10, 2012, and feature a line-up of industry leaders, decision makers and visionaries from the disciplines that are shaping the future of interactive entertainment.

Kicking off the conference on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 prior to the Wednesday Keynote Opener, will be the “Hot Topics” sessions co-moderated by Adam Sessler, host of G4’s X-Play and Perrin Kaplan, Zebra Partners. The three debates will feature:

• “Is the Publishing Model Broken?”: Michael Pachter, Wedbush Morgan and Jesse Divnich, EEDAR
• “Mobile vs. Console”: Perrin Kaplan, Zebra Partners and Gabriel Leydon, Addmired, Inc.
• “Game Journalism”: Adam Sessler, host of G4’s X-Play and Jamin Warren, Kill Screen Magazine

Additional speakers added to the 2012 line-up include:
• Sefton Hill, Co-founder and Game Director, Rocksteady Games who led the creative direction of the highly acclaimed Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Asylum. His session topic is titled, “Escaping the Asylum”
• TJ Galda, Senior CG Supervisor, Electronic Arts leads art production and has worked on two Academy Award nominated films, Over the Hedge, Kung Fu Panda, Fantastic Four, and many more. His session topic will cover “Nonlinear Story Telling: Crafting a New Genre”

“I can’t think of a better way to set the tone and kick-off the D.I.C.E. Summit than with the big questions that are top of mind for our industry,” said Martin Rae, president, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. “This year’s Hot Topics line-up will put some of the most brilliant, opinionated minds in the interactive entertainment industry head-to-head in front of an audience of their peers – and with some of the most provocative topics we’ve seen there’s no telling what we’ll hear! In addition to this powerhouse roundtable, we have some exciting new speakers to announce that will be especially interesting for our creative community.”

The D.I.C.E. Summit 2012 is the home of the 15th annual Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony. On February 9, 2012, industry leaders and members gather to pay tribute and recognize the individuals and products that contribute to the growth of the interactive entertainment industry. Comedian, actor and spirited game enthusiast Jay Mohr will return as host.

Registration for D.I.C.E. Summit ends Monday, January 30th at midnight. For more information and registration: www.dicesummit.org

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SAN FRANCISCO – January 19, 2011 – Luvinia Online, the brand new free-to-play fantasy MMORPG from Outspark, today unleashed an exciting new region of the mysterious world of Savejela that is sure to leave players gasping as they embark on 130 new quests, battle 20 new breeds of monsters, collect rare materials, and craft nearly a dozen new weapons and armor.

“What defines Luvinia is the sheer majesty of its landscape with vast destinations to explore, extensive training, and rich crafting systems. Friends can quest together for hours and never tire of the adventure,” said Philip Yun, CEO of Outspark “In Zendo Hunting Season, developer Shanda Games delivers epic entertainment for the mid-level player and gives new players much to look forward to.”

Although access to the new map begins at Level 40+, from January 18 through January 25 at 2pm PT, Luvinia Game Masters will be teleporting lower-level players from Geneway College to Zendo for action-packed in-game tours. Space is limited so be sure to gather early.

To celebrate the wonder that is Luvinia, Outspark is running an exciting SHARE THE LUV promotion where players refer friends to win valuable Planar Essence that unlocks secret passages and makes special items permanent like the awesome new Desert Panther Mount. Friends get an extra boost too with a helpful new user pack that includes a Turtle mount, riding skills and choice of chic costumes.

For the free Luvinia game download, details on Zendo events, and to join the SHARE THE LUV promotion, visit http://luvinia.outspark.com. Stay up-to-date on all the latest news including exclusive sneak peeks of the February surprise by following Luvinia on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/outsparkluvinia and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/#/luviniagame. It’s going to be huge - stay tuned!

New Brick-Force Trailer Shows Off Shooter Features

Infernum's Sandbox Fun-Shooter Game to Include Capture the Flag, Deathmatch and Other Multiplayer Modes

BERLIN - January 17, 2012 – Infernum, the Berlin-based publisher and developer of online games, has released a new trailer video for the upcoming release of its cross-platform online game Brick-Force. The in-game video shows a range of game modes, which players can experience in self-designed worlds of the sandbox fun-shooter. Features such as the classics “Capture the Flag“, “Deathmatch“ or “Defusion“ mode in which bombs are planted, defused, and defended bring explosive entertainment into the newly created maps.

In the edgy world of Brick-Force, there is plenty of variety to go around: With different Bricks players create their own world according to their imagination by themselves or within teams. These maps are then playable for personal shooter matches or can be shared with the community. Solo or together with friends, the square heroes face off against team-mates (PvP) or computerized opponents (PvE) with humorous designed challenges.

Before Brick-Force goes live this spring, fans can now register for closed beta at the official website www.brick-force.com to build, share and play.

Brick-Force – Build, Share, Play
This sandbox fun-shooter allows players to create worlds and maps that they’ve always dreamed of, brick by brick. They can also share these virtual playgrounds with community and use them as the backdrop for fast paced shooter hunts against fellow players or computerized opponents. This comic style online game is built on the ‘Unity 3D’ engine and will be playable directly in a web browser. The ‘sandbox’ mode, in which players use simple building blocks to construct complex environments, can be played on social networks and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Brick-Force is being developed by Korean game developer EXE Games as a co-production with Infernum. Beta and launch of the free-to-play title in Europe and North America are planned for spring 2012. www.brick-force.com

Facts
Title: Brick-Force
Genre: Sandbox Fun-Shooter Platform: Browser, Mobile devices (cross-platform)
Publisher: Infernum Productions AG Developer: EXE Games

Release: Spring 2012 Beta: Spring 2012
PEGI: Evaluation pending
Languages: tba Website: www.brick-force.com

About Infernum
Infernum Productions AG is an international publisher and developer of online games, based in Berlin. The company was founded in summer 2011 by Andreas Weidenhaupt, Tobias Gerlinger and Markus Melching, and focuses on high-quality free-to-play online titles. Infernum also expands its game experiences by extending titles to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets (cross platform). For more information please visit: www.infernum.com

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