PLANO, Texas – February 27, 2015 – Robot Entertainment today announced that Tencent has made a minority investment in the independent game development studio. The investment provides Robot Entertainment with additional financial strength and a strong partnership with the world’s leading game publisher. Both will bolster Robot Entertainment to deliver a screamingly fun ORCS MUST DIE! UNCHAINED ™ in 2015.
“Taking on Tencent as an investor gives us additional financial flexibility but, more importantly, it creates a long-lasting and valuable partnership with the world’s premier publisher and operator of games”, said Robot Entertainment CEO Patrick Hudson. “It’s a very exciting time for Robot Entertainment. We’re looking forward to showing Orcs Must Die! Unchained to fans at PAX East in Boston and releasing the game to market later this year on PC and PlayStation 4.”
“We are delighted to take our partnership with Robot Entertainment to the next level after licensing the ground-breaking online game Orcs Must Die! Unchained in China,” said Steven Ma, Senior Vice President of Tencent Games. “With Robot Entertainment’s relentless pursuit of new and unique experiences for gamers combined with our strength in games publishing and operations in China, this partnership will help broaden our games portfolio and deliver on our mission to bring innovation and excitement to the increasingly sophisticated gamers in China.”
ORCS MUST DIE! UNCHAINED will be playable in booth #9148 at PAX East in Boston, March 6-8. Gamers will have the opportunity to choose their favorite hero in ORCS MUST DIE! UNCHAINED and play the new closed beta phase 2 update for the first time ever. The new update will include new hero abilities, a new boss mechanic, new redesigned maps, new traps and more. Players who play the game at the booth will be invited to the closed beta immediately after PAX East.
ORCS MUST DIE! UNCHAINED is a wisecracking third-person multiplayer action game. Players control powerful heroes, summon deadly minions and place devious traps to attack and defend in a wild battle for fortress supremacy. For the first time in Orcs Must Die!, teams of players are responsible for both sides of the
battle – building traps to stop the enemy assault AND summoning their own armies to lead against the enemy defense. Through this innovation, which combines Tower Defense and Multiplayer Online Battle Arena gameplay elements, Robot Entertainment created a new kind of game experience.
ORCS MUST DIE! UNCHAINED, the third game of the successful Orcs Must Die! franchise, will be published in North America by Robot Entertainment, in Europe by Gameforge, and in the Greater China Region by Tencent. The game supports up to 10 players (5 vs 5 multiplayer). Currently in development, ORCS MUST DIE! UNCHAINED will be available as a free digital download on PC and Sony PS4 in 2015. The original Orcs Must Die! released to critical acclaim in October 2011, winning the AIAS Strategy Game of the Year. It was followed in 2012 by the co-operative sequel, Orcs Must Die! 2. For more information about ORCS MUST DIE! UNCHAINED and the rest of the Orcs Must Die! series visit http://www.OrcsMustDie.com, or follow the game on Facebook and Twitter.