Puzzle & Dragons and Clash of Clans Team Up for Special In-game Features
GungHo Online Entertainment and Supercell Collaborate on Each Other's Titles, Bringing Together Two of the Largest Gaming Audiences in the World Today
TOKYO, JAPAN and HELSINKI, FINLAND (June 6, 2013) – GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc., a multiplatform publisher for the online gaming community, and mobile game developer Supercell today announced they are working together to create a series of exclusive in-game features that will appear in each company's flagship titles. Puzzle & Dragons, GungHo Online Entertainment's monster-themed puzzle RPG for iOS and Android, will incorporate special Clash of Clans content including a themed dungeon and exclusive monsters. Clash of Clans, Supercell's combat strategy game, and Hay Day, its popular farm simulation game, will both feature extensive cross-promotions for Puzzle & Dragons. The joint powerhouse collaboration will launch on June 24th and will run for two weeks.
“It is an honor to announce the collaboration of Puzzle & Dragons and the Supercell games, Hay Day and Clash of Clans,” said Kazuki Morishita, President/CEO and Executive Producer of GungHo Online Entertainment. “Supercell and GungHo share the same approach to game development so it seemed only natural to collaborate together. We will continuously support each other and our shared vision of delivering fun and exciting gameplay to everyone.”
A mobile gaming phenomenon, Puzzle & Dragons continues to see tremendous growth with over 14 million players in Japan as the game's addictive combination of puzzle, dungeon crawling, and monster collecting gameplay draws in more fans. The free-to-play game from GungHo Online Entertainment continues to dominate the App Store reflected by its staying power of being #1 and also Japan's top grossing app of all time, to date. Players capture, collect, and evolve hundreds of elemental monsters as they use quick thinking to chain combos and maximize the abilities and skills of their monsters. During the promotion, Puzzle & Dragons will showcase a special Clash of Clans-themed dungeon, where players can fight and collect Clash of Clans-themed monsters. The dungeon will have multiple difficulty levels for players to defeat.
"We are very honored to work with GungHo and learn from the masters of free-to-play gaming," said Ilkka Paananen, CEO, Supercell. "The more time we spend with GungHo, the more we realize how remarkably similar our two companies are. We are deeply committed to helping each other expand into new markets and equally committed to having an incredible amount of fun working together.”
A global blockbuster, Supercell's Clash of Clans is a combat strategy game in which players grow and defend their villages by building and training troops, gathering resources, and teaming up with other players. Players claim a village and raise an army of Barbarians, War Wizards, Dragons, and other mighty fighters. Gamers! can then join or create a clan with other players from around the world and rise through the ranks together in an MMO-style progression system. Clash of Clans has ranked as the #1 grossing app overall on iPad in 135 countries, according to App Annie's Store Stats. App Annie also reports that the game held the #1 spot on the US's top grossing iPad game charts for 104 consecutive days; the next closest game held the spot for 34 days. While the promotion runs, Clash of Clans will feature a Puzzle & Dragons cross promotion in its Inbox and Battle Log sections.
Hay Day reinvents the farming experience with smooth, gesture-based controls that mimic real-life farming actions and an open market that allows players to buy and sell goods just like a real farmer. Players manage the entire food chain—from the assembly of raw materials to the production of finished goods—using swiping controls that replicate the true activities of a farm. Hay Day has ranked as the #1 grossing app overall on iPad in 90 countries, and #1 in Games in 101 Countries, according to App Annie. During the promotional period, Hay Day will promote Puzzle & Dragons in its in-game newspaper and will also feature a Puzzle & Dragons game trailer in its multimedia theater section.
For more information on GungHo Online Entertainment America, visit www.gunghoonline.com. Fans can also follow on Facebook and Twitter. For more information on Supercell, visit www.supercell.com.
About GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
GungHo Online Entertainment (GOE) is an established Japanese publisher of networked multiplatform titles including mobile, and is best noted for its wildly popular Ragnarok Online series as well as recent mobile hit Puzzle & Dragons. Since its formation, the company's vision has been to work closely with its content partners to build, grow, and sustain interactive entertainment properties with a strong online component across PC, browser, mobile, console, and handheld platforms. GOE's content partners include leading developers Game Arts, Acquire, Grasshopper Manufacture Inc., and GRAVITY, all of which are subsidiaries of GOE. For more information, visit www.gungho.co.jp.
About Supercell
Supercell reimagines games with a Tablet First strategy. Based in Helsinki, Finland, with North American operations in San Francisco, Supercell was formed by games industry veterans who have collectively developed more than 165 games across 12 platforms. For more information on Supercell, visit: www.supercell.com.
TOKYO, JAPAN and HELSINKI, FINLAND (June 6, 2013) – GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc., a multiplatform publisher for the online gaming community, and mobile game developer Supercell today announced they are working together to create a series of exclusive in-game features that will appear in each company's flagship titles. Puzzle & Dragons, GungHo Online Entertainment's monster-themed puzzle RPG for iOS and Android, will incorporate special Clash of Clans content including a themed dungeon and exclusive monsters. Clash of Clans, Supercell's combat strategy game, and Hay Day, its popular farm simulation game, will both feature extensive cross-promotions for Puzzle & Dragons. The joint powerhouse collaboration will launch on June 24th and will run for two weeks.
“It is an honor to announce the collaboration of Puzzle & Dragons and the Supercell games, Hay Day and Clash of Clans,” said Kazuki Morishita, President/CEO and Executive Producer of GungHo Online Entertainment. “Supercell and GungHo share the same approach to game development so it seemed only natural to collaborate together. We will continuously support each other and our shared vision of delivering fun and exciting gameplay to everyone.”
A mobile gaming phenomenon, Puzzle & Dragons continues to see tremendous growth with over 14 million players in Japan as the game's addictive combination of puzzle, dungeon crawling, and monster collecting gameplay draws in more fans. The free-to-play game from GungHo Online Entertainment continues to dominate the App Store reflected by its staying power of being #1 and also Japan's top grossing app of all time, to date. Players capture, collect, and evolve hundreds of elemental monsters as they use quick thinking to chain combos and maximize the abilities and skills of their monsters. During the promotion, Puzzle & Dragons will showcase a special Clash of Clans-themed dungeon, where players can fight and collect Clash of Clans-themed monsters. The dungeon will have multiple difficulty levels for players to defeat.
"We are very honored to work with GungHo and learn from the masters of free-to-play gaming," said Ilkka Paananen, CEO, Supercell. "The more time we spend with GungHo, the more we realize how remarkably similar our two companies are. We are deeply committed to helping each other expand into new markets and equally committed to having an incredible amount of fun working together.”
A global blockbuster, Supercell's Clash of Clans is a combat strategy game in which players grow and defend their villages by building and training troops, gathering resources, and teaming up with other players. Players claim a village and raise an army of Barbarians, War Wizards, Dragons, and other mighty fighters. Gamers! can then join or create a clan with other players from around the world and rise through the ranks together in an MMO-style progression system. Clash of Clans has ranked as the #1 grossing app overall on iPad in 135 countries, according to App Annie's Store Stats. App Annie also reports that the game held the #1 spot on the US's top grossing iPad game charts for 104 consecutive days; the next closest game held the spot for 34 days. While the promotion runs, Clash of Clans will feature a Puzzle & Dragons cross promotion in its Inbox and Battle Log sections.
Hay Day reinvents the farming experience with smooth, gesture-based controls that mimic real-life farming actions and an open market that allows players to buy and sell goods just like a real farmer. Players manage the entire food chain—from the assembly of raw materials to the production of finished goods—using swiping controls that replicate the true activities of a farm. Hay Day has ranked as the #1 grossing app overall on iPad in 90 countries, and #1 in Games in 101 Countries, according to App Annie. During the promotional period, Hay Day will promote Puzzle & Dragons in its in-game newspaper and will also feature a Puzzle & Dragons game trailer in its multimedia theater section.
For more information on GungHo Online Entertainment America, visit www.gunghoonline.com. Fans can also follow on Facebook and Twitter. For more information on Supercell, visit www.supercell.com.
About GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
GungHo Online Entertainment (GOE) is an established Japanese publisher of networked multiplatform titles including mobile, and is best noted for its wildly popular Ragnarok Online series as well as recent mobile hit Puzzle & Dragons. Since its formation, the company's vision has been to work closely with its content partners to build, grow, and sustain interactive entertainment properties with a strong online component across PC, browser, mobile, console, and handheld platforms. GOE's content partners include leading developers Game Arts, Acquire, Grasshopper Manufacture Inc., and GRAVITY, all of which are subsidiaries of GOE. For more information, visit www.gungho.co.jp.
About Supercell
Supercell reimagines games with a Tablet First strategy. Based in Helsinki, Finland, with North American operations in San Francisco, Supercell was formed by games industry veterans who have collectively developed more than 165 games across 12 platforms. For more information on Supercell, visit: www.supercell.com.
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