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Pinball FX Makes a Holiday Splash With Nine Tables Releasing Today

Enjoy tables based on Star Trek, Gloomhaven, Exploding Kittens, Terraforming Mars, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Zen Original designs

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December 7, 2023

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[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]

ZEN Studios :

SAN FRANCISCO Dec. 7, 2023  Zen Studios is packing the holiday season with a huge update today! Seven brand-new and two remastered tables have arrived in Pinball FX on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam and the Epic Games Store to brighten the end of the year for pinball fans. The tables will launch on Nintendo Switch on December 28.

Trailer: YouTube
 

Star Trek™ Pinball Pack

Star Trek™ Pinball: Kelvin Timeline: Experience the vision of the newest trilogy of Star Trek blockbuster movies in this epic table. Join Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise on their mission to discover new civilizations, form alliances and neutralize threats to the Federation.

Star Trek™ Pinball: Discovery: Michael Burnham and the shipmates of the U.S.S. Discovery rely on your pinball prowess, as you play through iconic moments from the first four seasons of the series. Make contact with the residents of 10-C and utilize the time loop for victory!

Star Trek™ Pinball: Deep Space Nine: Travel to the edges of the final frontier and arrive at the space station Deep Space Nine! Use your pinball skills to lead the crew and Captain Benjamin Sisko in ending the Dominion War.

The Star Trek™ Pinball Pack is available for $14.99.
 

A Charlie Brown Christmas™ Pinball

Find the real meaning of Christmas in A Charlie Brown Christmas™ Pinball! Join the Peanuts crew in putting on a play and decorating the most perfect tree there is.

A Charlie Brown Christmas™ Pinball is available for $5.49.
 

Game Night Pinball Volume 1

Terraforming Mars Pinball: The race for taming the Red Planet has begun! Run one of the mega-corporations and use your pinball skills to raise the oxygen level, heat up the planet, and create vast oceans on your way to the top of the leaderboards.

Gloomhaven™ Pinball: Delve into the world of Gloomhaven as mercenaries! Infiltrate the Inox Encampment, defeat Jekserah’s army of corpses among other adventures to enter the Void and confront The Gloom!

Exploding Kittens®: A Pinball Cat-astrophe: Complete main modes inspired by the kitty-powered card game, clean the Transdimensional Litter Box, and collect famous Tacocat, Cattermelon, and other cards to get the highest scores.

Game Night Pinball Volume 1 is available for $9.99.
 

Charity Pack

Support pinball and charity with this two-pack, available for $4.99! The purchase of Epic Quest and Excalibur brings joy to those in need and helps preserve pinball culture, as Zen will donate 50% of proceeds to Project Pinball (United States 46-3417202) and 50% to the Budapest Pinball Museum (Hungary MK/20980/2013) for each sale of this product.

Project Pinball: The Project Pinball Charity Group, Inc. is a non-profit organization that places pinball machines in Children’s Hospitals, Ronald McDonald Houses, and Assisted Living Facilities to provide recreational relief to patients, family members, and hospital staff. Donating pinball machines since 2011, they have donated pinball machines to hospitals across the United States.

Budapest Pinball Museum: The museum - by now with over 160 pinball and arcade machines - opened its doors in Budapest on April 10, 2014. The museum is considered to be Europe’s biggest interactive pinball museum in continuous operation.
 

About Asmodee Entertainment

Asmodee Entertainment is the outbound licensing and book publishing platform of Asmodee, the global games publisher and distributor. Its mission is to extend Asmodee’s intellectual properties into TV/film, novels and comics, location-based entertainment, and consumer products, working closely with Asmodee Boardgames and Asmodee Interactive. Through best-in-class partnerships across the full spectrum of opportunities, Asmodee Entertainment will create truly global intellectual properties and brands. For more information, visit asmodee-entertainment.biz.
 

About Exploding Kittens

Exploding Kittens is a leading game and entertainment company with a mission to inspire people to connect, laugh, and play fun games in the physical world. After initially seeking to raise $10K through Kickstarter, the Exploding Kittens campaign raised $8.7M in 30 days from 219,000 backers. To date, Exploding Kittens is the #1 most-backed project in Kickstarter history and has sold over 20 million games.

Started by former Xbox game designer Elan Lee and The Oatmeal’s founder Matthew Inman, Exploding Kittens and its family of games seek to reshape traditional game night into an entertaining person-to-person experience. Today, there are nearly 30 games available for purchase, an exclusive Exploding Kittens mobile game for Netflix subscribers, a free-to-play app, Kitty Letter, and an Exploding Kittens mobile app available on iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch, as well as an animated Netflix series titled ‘Exploding Kittens’ in production.
 

About FryxGames

FryxGames is a Swedish family business focusing on publishing games designed and developed by different members of the big Fryxelius family. With some games being developed through several years or decades, we put pride in publishing games that are thematically inspiring and mechanically innovative. With six games published so far, including After the Virus and the international best-seller Terraforming Mars, we still have many more games we want to share with the global game community. fryxgames.se
 

About Cephalofair Games

Cephalofair Games is the independent board game publisher responsible for the massively popular game Gloomhaven, as well as its spin-offs, expansions and sequels, including Frosthaven. Cephalofair Games was founded in 2014 by Isaac Childres as a hobby project, and it has quickly grown to a powerful force in the board game community, selling hundreds of thousands of games with a staff of four. See more at cephalofair.com
 

About Zen Studios

Zen Studios is a leading global producer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for all major digital game platforms. Recognized as one of the premier gaming studios in the world, Zen has worked with some of the most iconic entertainment studios, including Lucasfilm, Marvel Entertainment, NBC Universal, and FOX Digital Entertainment.

Zen’s Pinball FX franchise has defined video game pinball excellence since 2007, and critically acclaimed titles like Circus Electrique and Operencia: The Stolen Sun have proven its devotion to creating captivating RPGs. Zen Studios joined Saber Interactive in November 2020. For more information on Zen’s library of titles, visit zenstudios.com.
 

About Embracer Group

Embracer Group is a global Group of creative and entrepreneurial businesses in PC, console, mobile and board games and other related media. The Group has an extensive catalog of over 900 owned or controlled franchises.

With its head office based in Karlstad, Sweden, Embracer Group has a global presence through its twelve operative groups: THQ Nordic, PLAION, Coffee Stain, Amplifier Game Invest, Saber Interactive, DECA Games, Gearbox Entertainment, Easybrain, Asmodee, Dark Horse, Embracer Freemode and Crystal Dynamics – Eidos. The Group has 135 internal game development studios and is engaging more than 15,500 employees in more than 40 countries.

Embracer Group’s shares are publicly listed on Nasdaq First North Growth market Stockholm under the ticker EMBRAC B with FNCA Sweden AB as its Certified Adviser; [email protected] +46-8-528 00 399.

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