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Press release:
London, UK – 26th February 2020: Curve Digital is delighted to unveil the colourful retro-inspired racing game, “Hotshot Racing“, from Lucky Mountain Games and experienced racing genre stalwarts, Sumo Digital.

Hotshot Racing channels classic arcade racers sporting colorful polygonal visuals, boost-fuelled drift gameplay and a silky smooth 60 frames per second in the game’s single-player modes regardless of platform.

To see Hotshot Racing in action, check out the brand new reveal trailer here: https://youtu.be/Qce9nk7hkYg

Hotshot Racing is set to emulate and expand upon the classic ‘90s arcade racing game formula featuring eight different hotshot drivers to choose from (each with their own personality and multiple varied four-wheeled rides), 16 personality-filled sun-baked tracks from across the globe, and multiple game modes for players to prove their driving prowess.

“When we first played Hotshot Racing we were immediately transported to the halcyon days of our youth when we used to pop 50p coins into classic arcade racers like Virtua Racing, Crusin’ USA, SEGA Rally and others that used to punctuate seafronts across the UK” said Simon Byron, Curve Digital’s Publishing Director.

“It’s fantastic to see this type of gameplay make a triumphant return and we can’t wait to see what people make of it!”

Hotshot Racing will also feature multiple single-player and multiplayer game modes – both online and offline including 4-player local split-screen co-op.

There’s the traditional Grand Prix mode where challengers race on multiple tracks in multi-round championship, Time Trial mode where players complete laps as they wish to seek out the fastest lap time for the online leaderboards, Cops and Robbers mode where the criminals need to evade capture to secure a big cash bonus whereas the police need to take them down, and the Drive or Explode where players need to race to checkpoints to avoid exploding.

Hotshot Racing is set to launch for PC and consoles later this Spring and is available to Wishlist on Steam from today via https://store.steampowered.com/app/609920/Hotshot_Racing

To find out more about this retro-inspired release and to stay up to date on the latest reveals please visit http://www.curve-digital.com/en-gb/games/featured/49/hotshot-racing/

About Curve Digital
Curve Digital is a leading publisher of video games on both PC and consoles. Since 2013, Curve Digital has been working with the world’s best game developers to help bring their games to broad global audiences; from renowned indie hits like Autonauts to the likes of the multi-million-selling Human: Fall Flat.

In recent years Curve Digital has become industry recognised, winning ‘Indie Games Publisher of the Year’ at both MCV Awards 2018 and 2019, as well as ‘Publishing Star’ at the Develop: Star Awards 2019 and ‘Best Publisher Award’ at the TIGA Awards 2019.

About Lucky Mountain Games
Lucky Mountain Games was founded by 3D Artist Trevor Ley. Trevor has worked at EA, Sony London and Rockstar London. During this time he worked on a number of franchises such as Harry Potter, Battlefield, Burnout, Midnight Club and Max Payne.

Since Lucky Mountain Games was founded the studio has worked with a number of games studios from indie to AAA. Currently, Lucky Mountain Games is working in partnership with Curve Digital and Sumo Digital on a soon to be released AA title, Hotshot Racing.

About Sumo Digital
Founded in 2003, award-winning Sumo Digital employs over 650 staff across its eight studios in Sheffield, Nottingham, Newcastle, Brighton (The Chinese Room), Leeds (Red Kite Games), Leamington Spa and Warrington, UK and Pune, India.

Developing successful games across all platforms and genres, Sumo is recognised for its versatility, proprietary technology and creativity across a portfolio of games featuring titles for major publishers including Microsoft, Sony, Sega and 2K.

Sumo Digital is part of the Sumo Group plc.