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Press release:
Duesseldorf/Germany, November 10, 2020.
“Liftoff: Drone Racing“, the fast-paced drone racing simulation from astragon Entertainment and developer LuGus Studios, is now available for the PS4 (via PSN) and Xbox One (via the Microsoft store). “Liftoff: Drone Racing” lets you enter the fascinating world of drone racing.

The Release Trailer shows all exciting features of Liftoff: Drone Racing

The heart of the console version is the exclusive career mode, which introduces you to the fascinating world of drone racing. You will make your first steps as a drone pilot within small competitions and soon be able to advance by winning races and completing bigger, but also more difficult competitions. As the number of successes increases, more and more drone parts gradually get unlocked.

Beside the extensive campaign, Liftoff: Drone Racing offers even more exciting game modes including a freestyle mode, a free flight mode, the well-known classic races as well as endless races. All modes can be played alone in single player and with up to six players in multiplayer mode.

Over 100 drone parts, including frames, batteries, propellers, motors, cameras, and antennas provides you with a wide range of customization options in addition to various skins and design opportunities. Choose parts from more than 13 original brands and manufacturers such as Rotor Riot and Armattan to create the drone of your dreams.

Liftoff: Drone Racing is an authentic simulation with realistic physics and controls. To give a better introduction, a tutorial was created to teach you the basics of the controls. As additional support an Assisted Flight mode is available which helps to stabilize the flight path of the drones and guarantees an easy entry for newcomers. Once mastered, you can step by step change your control options to a more difficult level until you reach the controls authentic to the realistic ones of a real drone.

Liftoff: Drone Racing is now available worldwide as a digital download on PlayStation®4 and Xbox One: The Standard Edition at a price of 34,99€/34,99$/29,99£ and the Deluxe Edition at a price of 39,99€/39.,99$/33.49£. Additional to the base game, the Deluxe Edition includes four exclusive skins for your drones.

The box version of Liftoff: Drone Racing Deluxe Edition will be released for PlayStation®4 and Xbox One in selected countries on November 24 at a price of 34,99€/34,99$/29,99£ (RSP).

Whether digital or physical: Liftoff: Drone Racing will be compatible with all next-gen consoles. It will also be playable on PlayStation®5, as well as Xbox Series X and S.

About astragon Entertainment GmbH
astragon Entertainment (founded on July 25, 2000 in Hagen/Germany, since 2019 based in Duesseldorf/Germany) is one of the leading independent German games publishers. The focus of the diverse product portfolio of our company, which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2020, lies on high-quality technical simulation games such as Construction Simulator, or Bus Simulator, but also many other exciting games such as Liftoff: Drone Racing or Drone Swarm. The distribution of high-quality licensed and distribution products such as Farming Simulator, Transport Fever 2 and SnowRunner complete our attractive product range. astragon games are available world-wide on many different platforms such as consoles, smartphones, tablets, and PC. Find more information at: www.astragon.com

About LuGus Studios
LuGus Studios was founded in 2011 by Kevin Haelterman and Tom Lissens in Hasselt, Belgium. Over the last few years, the Belgian developer studio has developed several indie titles for various platforms including “Creature of Habit” or “Runes of Brennos”. In 2018, LuGus Studio released the drone simulator Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing for the PC, which also got another DLC. For more information, please visit www.lugus-studio.be