Press release:
Lesquin, France – 30 November 2023.
The Lesquin-based (France) video games publisher NACON and Hamburg-based (Germany) indie games developer Tivola, are today very happy and pleased to announce that their family friendly equestrian racing game “Wildshade: Unicorn Champions”, is now digitally and physcially available for consoles (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch).
After giving millions of riders around the world the chance to explore the fantasy worlds of Wildshade on mobile devices, players can now have their mounts gallop on consoles.
Players take part in wild tournaments on the back of a horse or a unicorn, in solo or local multiplayer against friends and family with up to 4 players. Throughout the course, mount and rider can jump, speed up, and use magic spells to overtake their opponents.
With each race you can upgrade skills and earn points that you can then use to get new mounts and unlock new accessories. Players can develop a stable of up to 50 unicorns and horses, breeding them to create new, unique mounts with different coat and mane colours and markings.
What fantastic creature are you going to raise so you can be first across the finish line?
Wildshade : Unicorn Champions is now available on PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo SwitchTM.
About NACON:
NACON is a company of the BIGBEN Group founded in 2019 to optimize its know-how through strong synergies in the video game market. By bringing together its 16 development studios, the publishing of AA video games, the design and distribution of premium gaming devices, NACON focuses 30 years of expertise at the service of players. This new unified business unit strengthens NACON’s position in the market and enables it to innovate by creating new unique competitive advantages. https://corporate.nacongaming.com/
About Tivola:
Tivola is an international publisher and developer of mobile games based in Hamburg. They are focused on apps with animals. In their games, players care for cats, train dogs, ride horses. Even dance with a hippo.
Founded in 1995, Tivola started out as a publisher of computer games for children, serving mainly the German market with local brands. Creating both entertaining and educational content, Tivola has won almost every German award in the field of childrens’ software including the “Deutscher Computerspielpreis” and “Deutscher Entwicklerpreis”. After turning to mobile games, Tivola is now reaching a much bigger and far more international audience, animal fans and game lovers from all over the world and of every age. Today, our biggest new games “DogHotel” and “CatHotel” continue the ongoing success of the flagships “PetWorld” and “HorseWorld” – and there’s even more to come!
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Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
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Tags: Family friendly, Nacon, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Racing, Tivola, Unicorn Champions, Wildshade, Xbox One, Xbox Series X