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First competitive Cities: Skylines event announced: Red Bull Metropolis!
Red Bull Metropolis, the first major competitive Cities: Skylines event will see content creators go head to head to put their urban planning skills to the ultimate test! Taking place on Twitch and YouTube on August 21st, the unique competition designed with full support from Paradox Interactive and the Cities: Skylines community will feature a series of refreshing, time limited challenges. The tournament will challenge leading content creators including, Biffa Plays Indie Games, quill18, RTGame, and The Spiffing Brit in a series of time limited trials to prove once and for all who is the ultimate urban architect! Fans can tune in to watch Red Bull Metropolis on YouTube & Twitch from 4pm GMT on August 21st.
Red Bull Metropolis will pit the exclusively invited Cities: Skylines content creators Biffa Plays Indie Games, quill18, RTGame and The Spiffing Brit against each other, competing in a series of six challenges in the hopes of securing a place in the final. Each challenge will be individually scored with points awarded for fulfilling certain criteria, with players being ranked for each challenge and awarded points placing them on a league table. After all five challenges are judged, the top two scoring players will compete in the sixth and final challenge to determine the Red Bull Metropolis Champion. Following each challenge, viewers will also get an exciting appearance from City Planner Plays, who will be offering special expert videos on how to best complete each map from a professional City Planner’s perspective.
The first of its kind competition offers fans of the genre an exciting and unique new way to engage with the iconic city-builder. The event is the newest in a series of creative and unique Red Bull tournaments, offering unique twists on traditional formats. Red Bull Kumite is the most prestigious fighting game invitational, Red Bull Solo Q is a global 1v1 League of Legends event, and Red Bull Flick, is a 2v2 CS:GO competition played on custom maps designed by Red Bull. Red Bull Metropolis is the first event offering a competitive take on a city building game, a traditionally casual genre.
Red Bull Metropolis was developed with full support from Paradox Interactive and the Cities: Skylines community to create captivating maps for the ultimate player experience. The sky’s the limit for the creators, as they battle it out across six challenges that will require them to use their innovation, imagination and skill. Challenges range from tasking the creators to reduce their city’s traffic by building an effective bike network, to saving the city from a Meteor falling from space…all of which must be completed within the 30 minute time limit allocated! Points will be awarded based on a number of in-game factors, as well as creativity, integration and realism.
The six hour tournament will be broadcast live on Twitch and YouTube, alongside the invited content creators’ channels on August 21st. This format enables fans to watch the way they want – either on the Red Bull channels together with the gameplay challenges, interviews, expert analysis and commentary – or on their favourite creators’ channel to see their perspective throughout.
Stay tuned for more exciting details around which broadcast talent will be joining our content creators live to bring the competition to fans around the world!
“We are always looking for new ways that players can engage with Cities: Skylines, and this creative partnership with Red Bull is a wonderful way to bring competition to everyone’s favorite city builder,” said Ebba Ljungerud, CEO of Paradox Interactive.
Clarion Gaming will be providing operators and suppliers active in the Spanish industry with an insight to its objectives and vision for ICE Barcelona as part of its co-sponsorship of the 12th Expo and Congress which runs across 18th and 19th September at the Torremolinos Congress and Exhibition Centre.
Based in the capital of the Costa del Sol and organised by ANDESA, ACODISA and ANMARE, the event will host the Secretary General of the Treasury of the Junta de Andalucía, Mr Manuel Vázquez Martín, who will be accompanied by eight regional regulators with responsibilities in gaming.
Stuart Hunter, Managing Director of Clarion Gaming is delighted at the opportunity for members of the ICE leadership team to network with members of the Spanish industry and outline the plans which are in place to make the 2025 edition of ICE Barcelona one of the most significant in the history of the show.
He stated: “We are committed to partnering with all members of the Spanish industry to ensure that ICE meets the demands of the sector and is sensitive to the needs and requirements of operators, suppliers, trade bodies and regulators.
“The ability to network, to outline our vision for ICE Barcelona and to listen to the market in such an environment is invaluable. Senior members of the Clarion team will be present at the 12th Expo and Congress and all of the feedback that we receive will be fed back into the show development process.
He added: “The ICE success story has been built on a steadfast commitment to work with our stakeholders and we very much look forward to engaging with delegates of the Expo Congress.”
Clarion Gaming will be showing a specially commissioned ICE Barcelona video prior to the Regulators’ Roundtable in order to share some of the exciting initiatives that are in development to mark the historic first edition of ICE to take place in Barcelona.
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21VIRAL, the game aggregation provider focusing on Latin America today, confirmed it is committed to raising the industry standards by introducing next-generation AI technology via its GameConnector platform. This AI technology is designed to ‘speed up’ integration between operators and game content studios, reducing the time from months to weeks.
21VIRAL was founded by industry entrepreneurs with 20+ years of successful experience building and streamlining high-tech supply chain platform technology solutions and enhancing commercial benefits to stakeholders.
Christoph Härtel, CEO of 21VIRAL, emphasized the company’s customer-first approach. He stated, “Our goal is to build a product and solution experience that truly meets the needs of our customers. This is why we decided to specialize in the Latin American market, given its current and expected growth rates.”
“We looked at market-product fit and listened to operators seeking unique game content for their local market in weeks rather than months. So, we launched GameConnector, which will be debuted at the SBC Summit in Lisbon.
The 21VIRAL GameConnector is the equivalent of an engineering hub. It reduces integration headaches for operators and game providers, increases speed to market by using AI, and includes transparent game pricing and commission reporting, which is also a headache for operators in terms of figuring out which games make them money.
We have onboarded several industry-established operators and game providers in record time using AI to facilitate faster and more streamlined workflows. However, one of the limiting factors of scale-up businesses, especially if you are an operator or game provider, is the technical integration expertise and market access within the supply chain.
Part of the solution to these problems is commercial pricing transparency and integration support, so we have created more accessibility for onboarding operators and game providers. GameConnector will be the enabler for all the technical integration, heavy lifting, and onboarding. We will also offer reverse integration, a process where we integrate our GameConnector Platform into their systems, thereby reducing their work effort. Therefore, the operators have little to zero work effort – it’s a win-win for all parties involved.”
Emerging-markets leader expands its content portfolio with new games from rising star supplier
QTech Games, the leading game distributor for emerging markets, has continued to build the strong momentum in its premium pipeline, thanks to its latest deal with rising-star supplier, Naga Games.
Integrating content from one of the most innovative and creative online slots providers adds yet more creative muscle to QTech Games’ burgeoning platform, which is taking the widest range of online games to emerging territories with established names, such as Evolution and Yggdrasil, sitting alongside the industry’s most exciting up-and-coming providers.
Among the games made available to its partners via the deal are Naga Games’ latest releases, Super Phoenix and Chasin’ Leprechaun Coins, which ride on the back of unique maths modelling that powers the volatility spectrum, and helps foster some truly engaging gameplay.
Naga Games’ gaming suite has been optimised for mobile, a cornerstone of QTech’s RNG model, which is founded on its fully-owned and customised technical platform, affording games providers and operators the fastest integration available. Through this leading platform, which has sealed its definitive status as a global gaming one-stop shop, clients enjoy the best performance and customer support available, localised to every region across both developing and more mature markets.
The deal organically broadens Naga Games’ international footprint, unlocking untapped jurisdictions from Asia to Eastern Europe and Latin America for diversified growth.
Philip Doftvik, CEO at QTech Games, said: “We’re committed to rolling out high-quality content that drives revenue for our partners. So, this deal with Naga Games extends our impressive sequential pipeline for 2024. In today’s marketplace, only premium games of the highest standard separate you from the crowd, so we’re delighted to see how Naga Games has fulfilled this demand. That means stunning graphics, coupled to the latest maths models for improved gameplay and high-variance volatility where desired.”
Naga Games added: “We’re reinvigorating the slots space with more immersive gaming experiences. Teaming up with QTech represents a fantastic opportunity to strengthen our product distribution across emerging territories and deliver our great games to a range of top-tier partners. They remain the pre-eminent player in these exciting and diverse margin markets. We can’t wait to see how our games connect with new audiences, and we will look to expand this partnership over the year ahead.
“In an era of customisation, QTech Games is really embracing their brand promise of tailoring top-class content for varied cultures. It’s what keeps them at the cutting edge of relevance for all kinds of players in the creative crucible of emerging markets where no-one can afford to stand still.
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