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UK – 14th December 2017 – Award-winning veteran games developer and international games label Team17 and Playtonic Games, the UK studio formed by veterans of the platforming genre, are excited to announce that Yooka-Laylee is out now for Nintendo Switch™!

Yooka-Laylee on Nintendo Switch includes several improvements and many fan-requested features. “We spent many months adding significant optimisations and dozens of game updates to ensure the Nintendo Switch version of Yooka-Laylee really is the bee’s knees.” said Gavin Price, Studio Director at Playtonic Games. “There’s single Joy-Con™ support across our eight multiplayer games, and a huge list of changes; including brand new camera mode, control improvements, and menu options.
There’s a lot!”

For a full list of all the lovely updates see here: https://www.playtonicgames.com/huge-console-patch-now/

Key Features:
– Take on Capital B with Yooka and Laylee anytime, anywhere on Nintendo Switch!
– Play with your friends! Split Joy-Con support is offered for eight unique local multiplayer arcade games (up to four players).
– Get all the stuff! Yooka-Laylee will reward you for playing with lovely Nintendo Switch achievements.
– Five engrossing worlds that can be explored and expanded. Expanding a world adds in new areas to explore, new characters to meet and bosses to defeat! Visit Tribalstack Tropics, Glitterglaze Glacier, Moodymaze Marsh, Capital Cashino and Galleon Galaxy.

 

About Yooka-Laylee
Developed by Playtonic and published by Team17, Yooka-Laylee stars the charismatic new buddy duo Yooka and Laylee, who use an arsenal of special moves to explore – and expand – gorgeous 3D worlds filled with collectibles to discover, secrets to unlock and a cast of quirky characters to meet (or defeat).

About Team17 Digital Ltd
Founded in 1990, Team17 Digital Limited is a leading international games label that hosts the Worms franchise, Aven Colony, The Escapists, Genesis Alpha One, Sword Legacy: Omen, Yoku’s Island Express, Yooka-Laylee and many more from developers around the world. Visit www.team17.com for more info.

About Playtonic Games
Founded in 2014, Playtonic Games is an independent developer based in Derby, UK. Between them, the Playtonic team has over 100 years of combined experience working on legendary gaming franchises and they released the much-anticipated 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee in 2017. Alongside preparing more love for Yooka-Laylee, they will be working on something possibly containing googly eyes in the future.

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12th December 2017, UK – Award-winning international games label Team17 and independent developer Villa Gorilla have today released a new trailer for its forthcoming charming pinball platform game Yoku’s Island Express.

The festive new trailer showcases some of the snowy surroundings Yoku will uncover as he flips and bumps across his aerial ascent to the highest reaches of Mokumana island. In this frosty setting our favourite dung beetle will meet a whole host of colourful new islanders including Tungaska, Chirp the foreman and Tilo the mountaineer.

In Yoku’s Island Express, newly appointed postmaster Yoku the dung beetle quickly discovers that all is not well on Mokumana island. The ancient island deity is stuck in a restless slumber and its nightmares has caused a host of earthquakes and storms across the island. It’s all down to Yoku to traverse the island using a unique blend of pinball mechanics in an amazing quest to help the islanders.

Yoku’s Island Express is coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch™ and PC in 2018.

About Team17 Digital Ltd
Founded in 1990, Team17 Digital Limited is a leading international games label that hosts The Escapists, Genesis: Alpha One, Overcooked, Yoku’s Island Express, Yooka-Laylee, the Worms franchise and many more from developers around the world. Visit www.team17.com for more info.

About Villa Gorilla
Villa Gorilla is located in Stockholm, Sweden and was founded in 2013 by industry veterans Jens Andersson and Mattias Snygg. Our goal is to create small and unique games with a focus on innovative game design and beautiful execution.

Yoku’s Island Express. Developed by Villa Gorilla. © 2017. Yoku’s Island Express and Villa Gorilla are trademarks or registered trademarks of Villa Gorilla. Published by Team17. © 2017.

Team17 is a registered trademark of Team17 Digital Limited. All other trademarks, copyrights and logos are property of their respective owners.

© 2017 Nintendo. Nintendo Switch and Joy-Con are trademarks of Nintendo.

Yooka-Laylee leaps onto Nintendo Switch December 14! Updated, optimised and ready to play anywhere!https://t.co/VwBw4g5MB8 pic.twitter.com/RCfQkdI62v

— Playtonic (@PlaytonicGames) November 28, 2017

23rd November 2017 – Award-winning veteran games developer and international games label
Team17 today announced that their hit turn-based strategy Worms W.M.D is now available to
download for Nintendo Switch™ from the Nintendo eShop.

With a gorgeous, hand-drawn 2D look, brand new weapons, the introduction of crafting, vehicles
and buildings, plus the return of some much-loved classic weapons and gameplay, Worms W.M.D is
the best worms experience ever – now with HD Rumble and playable anywhere!

Worms W.M.D on Nintendo Switch™ includes all the content from the original game plus the
Liberation and Forts Mode updates and content from the All-Stars pack which features a blockbuster
line-up of guest stars from hit games such as Rocket League, Goat Simulator, The Escapists and
Yooka-Laylee.

Worms W.M.D for Nintendo Switch™ features:
● Extensive single player campaign including 20 training missions, 30 campaign missions and 10
challenges to complete and compete against your friends on the leaderboards with!
● Local multiplayer: Engage in local multiplayer worm warfare with friends using a variety of
different controller options – up to four players can play using a mixture of either individual Joy-
Cons or the Pro Controller. If you want to extend the fun to a six-player battle, then simply pass
the controller!
● Online multiplayer: Take to the battlefield and unleash Wormageddon to your friends online
with full online multiplayer support
● Crafting: No more waiting around while your opponents take their turns! Grab the crafting
crates that drop from the sky during games to make fiendishly upgraded versions of items such
as the Electric Sheep, the Bazooka Pie and the Holy Mine Grenade to unleash on your enemies!
● Vehicles: Worm warfare gets serious with the introduction of vehicles for the first time in the
series. Dominate the landscape in battle-ready tanks, take to the skies to unleash hell from
above in helicopters and pound your enemies into submission in the mech!
● Buildings: Gain the tactical advantage by keeping your worms’ heads down and hiding out in a
building, protecting them from direct attacks!

In addition, brand new content coming first to Nintendo Switch™:
● A new space theme – Wormhole
●  New Mushroom and Tree forts
●  Three new hats
● Three new gravestones

Worms W.M.D is available to download now for Nintendo Switch™ via the Nintendo eShop for
£19.99 / 29,99€ / $29.99.

Worms W.M.D is also available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Mac and Linux via Steam or GOG.

Incoming! #WormsWMD #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/ePml6VkcOM

— Worms (@WormsTeam17) November 15, 2017

2nd October 2017, UK – Award-winning international games label Team17 and China based indie developer Pathea Games today announced their partnership to bring My Time at Portia, Pathea’s forthcoming engrossing 3D sandbox RPG inspired by Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon, Dark Cloud 2 and the works of Miyazaki, to PC and consoles.

Setting sail for Portia, a town on the edge of civilization, you’ll arrive to find a workshop left to you by your Pa – a place where you can begin to craft a new life, using the relics from the past to improve life for the villagers in the town.

Gather materials from Portia’s stunning open world: cut down trees, forage for herbs, mine in the ruins and even grow your own garden. There are many unique areas for you to explore including deserts, island, reefs, highlands, marshlands, mines and more! There are even two different types of dungeons including abandoned dungeons filled with important resources such as relics and ores for you to harvest or more hazardous dungeons where you’ll be able to encounter and battle monsters!

The world of Portia will feel alive as the villagers have their own unique behaviours and will go to school, do their jobs, work out, have fun and have their own stories to share with you. You’ll be able to befriend and romance the villagers within Portia.

Debbie Bestwick, MBE, CEO of Team17 said “We welcome Pathea to the Team17 label and it’s exciting to work with a talented studio in a region with an emerging indie development scene. We’re thrilled to be supporting them in their development roadmap and the bringing the game to multiple platforms in 2018.”

Zifei Wu, President at Pathea Games added “My Time at Portia is a huge passion project for the team here at Pathea games and we’re excited to be working closely with Team17. We’re hugely grateful to the support and enthusiasm of the backers of our campaign so far and the Alpha build we shared was just a very small taste of the world we’re going to create in partnership with Team17 in bringing My Time at Portia to PC and consoles.”

My Time at Portia is planned to head to PC via Steam Early Access in early 2018 and will be coming to consoles later in 2018.

The Kickstarter campaign is heading into its final stages and the team at Pathea has created a small preview of the forthcoming game in the form of an alpha demo which includes 6-8 hours of gameplay,  free to download from Steam, Itch.io, IndieDB and GameJolt.

To celebrate the new partnership, Team17 will be livestreaming My Time at Portia this Thursday at 18:00 BST – watch it at https://www.twitch.tv/team17ltd.

Keep updated with My Time at Portia by following @MyTimeAtPortia and @PatheaGames on Twitter and liking /MyTimeAtPortia and /PatheaGames on Facebook.

Follow updates from Team17 on Twitter @Team17Ltd and on Facebook at /Team17.

About Team17 Digital Ltd
Founded in 1990, Team17 Digital Limited is a leading international games label that hosts the Worms franchise, The Escapists, Overcooked, Yooka-Laylee, Genesis: Alpha One, Yoku’s Island Express, Sword Legacy: Omen and many more from developers around the world. Visit www.team17.com for more info.

About Pathea Games

Pathea Games was founded in 2012, and their mission is to make unique games based on new technology, new ideas and user generated content. They strongly believe that the community input is fundamental for the future of gaming and entertainment. They are currently creating titles for PC and consoles. They are located in Chongqing, China. Visit http://pathea.net for more info.

When we brought Overcooked: Special Edition to Nintendo Switch this July, we were delighted to see how much the Nintendo community embraced our brand of chaotic co-op cookery. We’re thrilled to have seen Nintendo Switch owners all over the world playing on their TV screens, in handheld mode and even using tabletop mode to play together on the go.

But we understand that some players have also experienced a handful of performance issues that we did not detect during development. We’ve been actively working on addressing these issues ever since and we’re now very happy to announce that the first of two planned patches is live!

Patch 1 is now available to download on your Nintendo Switch console and contains the following fixes…

• General improvements to framerate across the entire game
  Improvements to controller input
• HD Rumble no longer activates for all players when Player 1 carries out an action
• A crash triggered after lowering the vibration setting is fixed
• An exploit for chopping in the single-player mode has been removed
• An error in which worktop highlights was missing under certain circumstances is fixed
• A bug causing the timer to cut off when switching between handheld and TV mode has been fixed

Now that Patch 1 is complete and live, we are busy finalising Patch 2, which will introduce even more improvements to performance. Please keep an eye out for it in the near future!

We’re confident that these fixes result in a much-improved playing experience on Nintendo Switch and hope you agree too. If you have any comments at all regarding Overcooked: Special Edition then please let us know at the official Overcooked Facebook page or Twitter account where we’ll be sure to see them.

Thanks for reading and happy over-cooking!

Source: Team17 Site

31st August 2017 – Award-winning veteran games developer and international games label Team17 announced today that their hit turn-based strategy game Worms W.M.D will be invading Nintendo Switch™ later this year.

In Worms W.M.D for Nintendo Switch™, players will be able to feel the full power of all the game’s campaign missions, levels, customisations and updates, including Liberation and the fan favourite Forts Mode whether at home or on the go. And coming first to Nintendo Switch, a whole megaton more!

● A brand new theme – Space!
● New Mushroom and Tree forts
● New customisations including three new outfits and three new gravestones to mourn the passing of your invertebrate pals

Worms W.M.D for Nintendo Switch™ includes support for single Joy-Con play, local wireless multiplayer as well as local and online multiplayer in hilarious all-out tactical worm warfare. So, wherever you are, grab your Concrete Donkeys, un-pin your Holy-Hand Grenades, and re-cape yourSuper Sheep as you prepare to rain hell on upon your enemies later this year!

Worms W.M.D is available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Mac and Linux. The Nintendo Switch™ version will launch in Q4 2017.

To keep up to date with all the information on Worms W.M.D please visit www.team17.com, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

About Team17 Digital Ltd
Founded in 1990, Team17 Digital Limited is a leading international games label that hosts the Worms franchise, Aven Colony, The Escapists, Genesis: Alpha One, Overcooked, Yoku’s Island Express, Yooka-Laylee and many more from developers around the world.
Visit www.team17.com for more info.

About Worms W.M.D
The worms are back in their most destructive game yet. With a gorgeous, hand-drawn 2D look, brand new weapons, the introduction of crafting, vehicles and buildings plus the return of some much-loved classic weapons and gameplay, Worms W.M.D is the best worms experience ever.

Work your way through 30 campaign levels, 20 training missions and 10 challenge missions of increasing difficulty using the huge arsenal of new and classic weapons at your disposal. Use new vehicles to cause chaos amongst the enemy ranks and use buildings to gain the tactical advantage as you try to dominate the battlefield!

Take on opponents in hilarious all-out tactical worm warfare, either in local or online multiplayer, including ranked play. Flatten your opponents with the Concrete Donkey. Turn them into chunks of worm meat with the Holy Hand Grenade. Rain down hell from above in helicopters or pound them into oblivion with the tank and the mech. With over 80 weapons and utilities at your fingertips, this is Worms at its chaotic best!

Worms™ W.M.D.
Developed by Team17 Digital Ltd. © 2017. Team17 and Worms™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Team17 Digital Limited. Original concept Andy Davidson. All other trademarks, copyrights and logos are property of their respective owners. Developed and published by Team17 Digital Limited.

© 2017 Nintendo. Nintendo Switch and Joy-Con are trademarks of Nintendo.

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August 23rd 2017 – Award-winning veteran games developer and international games label Team17 has today revealed new Gamescom trailers for three exciting forthcoming and diverse games from its games label including quirky pinball platformer Yoku’s Island Express, Genesis: Alpha One which combines a unique mix of rogue-like, FPS, base building and survival elements and  Sword Legacy: Omen, a challenging turn-based tactical RPG with a dark, cartoon-inspired aesthetic.

All three games are currently playable to all attendees of Gamescom at Team17’s booth in hall 8.1.

 

Genesis: Alpha One

Our planet has been left ravaged by war; pollution and over-exploitation of resources, humanity’s hope lies with the Genesis Program and the promise of a new home. As the Captain of a Genesis star ship, you journey into uncharted space on this ultimate mission and you must create a crew capable of fighting the alien infestations that threaten it. Take DNA from the aliens that you  encounter and splice it with your crew members to give them new abilities and a better chance to prosper within a hostile galaxy.

Your goal: Find new homes for humanity’s DNA and save the species from extinction. Genesis: Alpha One is heading to Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC in 2018.

 

Sword Legacy: Omen

As Uther Pendragon you will embark on an epic journey through Broken Britannia to avenge your fallen lord and recover the long-lost sword, Excalibur. Fight alongside a rag tag band of unlikely
heroes to defeat your enemies in tense, turn-based tactical combat. Crush your enemies’ willpower and watch them flee the battlefield or even turn on their comrades. Use the environment to your
advantage, moving your heroes into cover and setting the enemy ablaze with explosive barrels before finishing them off with brutal, visceral overkill moves. Sword Legacy: Omen is heading to PC
in 2017.

 

Yoku’s Island Express

Meet Yoku, the pint-sized postman protagonist of Yoku’s Island Express! Use a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration to unlock the secrets of Mokumana
Island, help the locals, awaken ancient deities and much more in this amazing tropical adventure! Yoku’s Island Express is rolling onto Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch™ and PC in 2018.

To keep up to date with all the information on Team17 and its games please visit www.team17.com, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

 

About Team17 Digital Ltd

Founded in 1990, Team17 Digital Limited is a leading international games label that hosts the Worms franchise, Aven Colony, The Escapists, Genesis: Alpha One, Overcooked, Yoku’s Island
Express, Yooka-Laylee and many more from developers around the world. Visit www.team17.com for more info.

 

About Firecast Studio

Founded in 2014, Firecast Studio is an independent developer based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

About Fableware Narrative Design

Founded in 2015, Fableware Narrative Design is an independent storytelling studio based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, specialized in writing and developing content for multiple platforms and transmedia projects, such as Emmy nominated TV Shows, animations, and awarded video games.

Sword Legacy: Omen © 2017. Developed by Firecast Studio and Fableware Narrative Design. Published by Team17 Digital Ltd. Team17 is a trademark or registered trademark of Team17 Digital
Limited. All other trademarks, copyrights and logos are property of their respective owners.

 

About Radiation Blue
Founded in 2015, Radiation Blue is an independent developer based near Freiburg, Germany.
Genesis Alpha One © 2017. Developed by Radiation Blue. Published by Team17 Digital Ltd. Team17 is a trademark or registered trademark of Team17 Digital Limited. All other trademarks, copyrights and logos are property of their respective owners.

 

About Villa Gorilla
Villa Gorilla is located in Stockholm, Sweden and was founded in 2013 by industry veterans Jens Andersson and Mattias Snygg. Our goal is to create small and unique games with a focus on
innovative game design and beautiful execution.

Yoku’s Island Express.

Developed by Villa Gorilla. © 2017. Yoku’s Island Express and Villa Gorilla are trademarks or registered trademarks of Villa Gorilla. Published by Team17. © 2017. Team17 is a registered trademark of Team17 Digital Limited. All other trademarks, copyrights and logos are property of their respective owners.
© 2017 Nintendo. Nintendo Switch and Joy-Con are trademarks of Nintendo.

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15th August 2017 – Award-winning international games label Team17 and developer Mouldy Toof have today released a new trailer for The Escapists 2, the follow up to their award-winning prison-escape game The Escapists.

The new trailer showcases 3 of the 10 prisons within the game, which share a unique twist, all 3 are different types of prisoner transport vehicles! Inmates will need to act quick and employ their stealth skills if they’re to escape the new timed prisons, which feature a variety of transit methods for the pixelated prisoners including:

Cougar Creek Railroad
Locked up on a hurling train chugging across the Cougar Creek Railroad, you and the vultures overhead know what fate awaits once this train reaches the end of the line. If you plan to see another sunrise you’d better disembark by whatever means necessary.

H.M.S Orca
Onboard the H.M.S Orca you’ll find a pity of prisoners who are being shipped off in droves to a remote island far, far away from civilization. Not keen on being marooned, you’d much prefer to find a way off the boat before you stand about as much chance as a fish out of water.

Air Force Con
Meanwhile in Air Force Con, you better fasten your seatbelt! Only the most hardened of criminals get an entire plane during the escort phase. One thing’s for sure though – it’s a one-way- ticket, so you’d better act fast before landing.

The Escapists 2 features:
● A dedicated tutorial for new players to learn the basics of prison life
● 10 unique themed prisons to escape from including 3 transit prisons
● Play each prison solo or multiplayer with both local and online co-op and versus modes for up to four players*
● Drop-in, drop-out online multiplayer experience.  Carefully plan and execute an intricate escape from your initial incarceration with your fellow inmates either online or locally, or simply hop into an existing game already in progress to help pull off the final touches of the escape!
● A brand-new combat system to make every prison brawl even more bruising
● Create your con with over 300 customisations to create your perfect prisoner
● New ways to escape
● New items to craft – Build yourself a homemade Taser to knock out guards plus many more!
 
The Escapists 2 will launch on the 22nd of August for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC with a Nintendo Switch™ version to follow. Players can pre-order the game now via Steam, the Xbox Store and the PlayStation Store, with a physical version for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One available from select retailers.

[*] Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC players will be able to play online multiplayer and local split screen for up to four players while Nintendo Switch™ players will be able to play online up to four players and split screen for two players.

About Team17 Digital Ltd
Founded in 1990, Team17 Digital Limited is a leading international games label that hosts the Worms franchise, Aven Colony, The Escapists, Genesis Alpha One, Overcooked, Sword Legacy: Omen, Yoku’s Island Express, Yooka-Laylee and many more from developers around the world.

Visit www.team17.com for more info

About Mouldy Toof Studios
Based in the UK and founded in 2012, Mouldy Toof Studios are the creators of The Escapists franchise and are part of the Team17 Digital Ltd family.

Source: PR Email