FOR AN EVEN MIGHTIER NO. 9, DEEP SILVER AND COMCEPT TEAM UP TO ADD MORE VALUE
Mighty No. 9 will be available as retail
and digital version on 15th September in the Americas and 18th September worldwide
Comcept and Deep Silver today announced their partnership for Comcept’s upcoming side-scrolling action game and Kickstarter sensation, Mighty No. 9. Created by Keiji Inafune − the “father of Mega Man” − Comcept and Japanese co-developer Inti Creates, Mighty No. 9 will be available on 15th September 2015 in the Americas and on 18th September 2015 worldwide as a digital download as well as physical retail version for Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®4, Wii UTM, PC, Linux and Mac as well as digital only on the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®3. Portable versions for PlayStation® Vita and Nintendo 3DSTM will follow at a later point.
This co-operation allows Comcept to not only broaden the audience for Mighty No. 9 by bringing the game to retail, but also provides them with additional resources to add significant value for both existing Kickstarter backers and new players alike. This includes:
An all-new stage including an epic battle with Beck’s rival Ray that, upon completion, unlocks Ray as a playable character for the entire main game, adding unique skills and all-new gameplay mechanics. The stage will be available as additional downloadable content, adding huge replay value. This extra content will be included in the retail editions and will be offered free of charge to all backers of the project at the launch of the game.
Japanese and French voice-overs have been recorded and will be added to all versions of the game alongside the already planned English VO.
Deep Silver will provide localized versions with subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Polish an Brazilian Portuguese.
While Comcept remains the owner of the Mighty No. 9 brand, the two companies will join their forces to effectively market and distribute the game, with Deep Silver spearheading the sales area and also assisting Comcept in the QA testing of the game.
“This is a great opportunity for Comcept: The partnership enables us to deliver Mighty No. 9 to a wider audience while adding some great extra value to the game,” says Keiji Inafune, CEO, Comcept. “This comes with the price of a short delay, but we are confident that the extra content is worth the wait.”
“The incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign for Mighty No. 9 through Keiji Inafune and his team has shown how huge their fan base is and how much anticipation there is for a true spiritual successor of classic side-scrolling action games. Deep Silver is proud to publish this game and help Comcept in bringing their vision to life,” comments Klemens Kundratitz, CEO, Deep Silver.
About Mighty No. 9
Created by Keiji Inafune and an all-star team of veteran devs, Mighty No. 9 is a challenging side-scrolling action game that transforms the feel of 8 and 16-bit classics, as players remember them, into a fresh modern-day classic.
In the year 20XX, breakthroughs in robotic technology have ushered in a new era of peace & prosperity. Violence is confined to the Battle Coliseum, where robot combatants face off in spectacular duels. Dr. White created 9 robot siblings known as the “Mighty Numbers”, who were the most popular and powerful team of robots in the Battle Coliseum and always in the top ranks. But, during one competition there was a cyber-attack, infecting them with a computer virus causing them to become crazed and rampant. You play as Beck, the 9th in a line of powerful robots, and the only one not infected by the mysterious computer virus that caused mechanized creatures the world over to go berserk.
Run, jump, blast and transform your way through 9 initial stages (plus 3 later stages) which you can tackle in any order you choose, using weapons and abilities stolen from your enemies, in order to take down your fellow Mighty Number robots and to confront the final evil that threatens the planet!
About Comcept
Comcept handles design and development of consumer titles with major game publishers such as Sony Computer Entertainment and Koei Tecmo Games. We create large-scale titles such as Soul Sacrifice, Soul Sacrifice Delta, and YAIBA: Ninja Gaiden Z. In September of 2013 we successfully Kickstarted $4 million for project Mighty No. 9, becoming the first consumer game title to be launched by our company.
In addition, we have been ambitiously pursuing in-house design and development of mobile titles. Our title Boiling OSSAN Eggs! released in April 2012 has been met with steady success―exceeding two million downloads primarily in Japan and Asia―and we continue cultivating that position alongside our core business of consumer game development. Outside of games, we handle such content development as publications and comics, and have a deep relationship with the promotion of e-Sports in Japan.
comcept‘s business outlook is the mass production of original content concentrating the creative power of the internationally-respected Keiji Inafune and the group of veteran creators supporting him. This content is developed for a range of entertainment fields― of which video games is but one―and we have taken on a multitude of foreign staff under the basic concept of transmitting such content globally.
With a mere three years since its founding, comcept succeeds in providing various works to a global audience. There are few cases of well-known creators splitting off from large game companies and achieving such results on their own. Rest assured that the future holds many Inafune titles for consumers around the world.
For more information, please visit
http://comcept.co.jp/
About Inti Creates
Inti Creates is based in Chiba Prefecture, Japan and was founded in 1996 by a group of game industry veterans with a knack for creating superb 2D action games. In 2008, Inti Creates opened a development studio in Nagoya, Japan, thus boosting their ability to develop games and increasing their base of creators to 90 employees (as of April 2015). Over the years, Inti Creates has worked very hard to become one of Japan's biggest and most successful independent developers, having developed dozens of games for major video game publishing companies such as Capcom, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Sega, and Sony Computer Entertainment. In August of 2014 Inti Creates reached a new milestone with the release of their first completely self-developed/self-published games Azure Striker Gunvolt and Mighty Gunvolt in Japan and North America, with a European release that followed in April of 2015. For more information, please visit http://www.inticreates.com.
About Deep Silver
Deep Silver develops and distributes interactive games for all platforms. The Deep Silver label means to captivate all gamers who have a passion for thrilling gameplay in exciting game worlds. Deep Silver works with its partners to achieve a maximum of success while maintaining the highest possible quality, always focusing on what the customer desires.
Deep Silver has published more than 200 games since 2003, including its own brands like the open world extravaganza Saints Row, the zombie action franchise Dead Island, the grim post-apocalyptic future of the Metro series and action packed role-playing from the Sacred world. Upcoming highlights from Deep Silver include Dead Island 2 and Homefront: The Revolution. Deep Silver also owns the development studios Deep Silver Dambuster Studios in Nottingham, UK; Deep Silver Fishlabs in Hamburg, Germany, and Deep Silver Volition based in Champaign, IL, USA. For more information please visit www.deepsilver.com
Koch Media is a leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products (software, games and films). The company's own publishing activities, marketing and distribution extend throughout Europe and the USA. The Koch Media group has more than 20 years of experience in the digital media business, and has risen to become the number one distributor in Europe. It has also formed strategic alliances with numerous games and software publishers: Bethesda, Capcom, Kaspersky Labs, NC SOFT, Sega, Square Enix and Tecmo-Koei, etc. in various European countries. With Headquarters in Planegg near Munich/Germany, Koch Media owns branches in Germany, England, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Nordic regions, Benelux and the United States. www.kochmedia.com
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