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VC Mobile Entertainment Launches Creature Quest™ to Global Audiences

New Game From Hall of Fame Game Designer Jon Van Caneghem Brings Depth and Strategy to Collectible RPGs

Los Angeles, CA – Jan 26, 2017 – Mobile game developer and publisher VC Mobile Entertainment, Inc. (VCME) has launched its first game,Creature Quest, from award-winning game designer and creator of the Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic series, Jon Van Caneghem. The groundbreaking new RPG-meets-Strategy game is now available to global audiences on the App Store®, on Google Play™, and at the Amazon Appstore.

“For Creature Quest, we assembled top veteran game developers to create a game that brings a new level of depth and strategy to mobile devices,” said Jon Van Caneghem. “This is immediately apparent from the ever-changing Quest maps, hundreds of unique Creatures, high-quality artwork, ongoing events, content and feature releases, and more. The entire team has incredible passion for Creature Quest, and we are very excited to finally share the game with the world.”

Creature Quest is an innovative blend of Collectible RPG and Strategy. All roads lead to adventure as players embark on Quests to explore new realms while encountering a variety of Creatures and obstacles along the way. With over 500 Creatures wielding powerful abilities to collect and upgrade, and addicting battles with lots of treasure to discover, players will constantly yearn for just one more battle. Creature Quest also boasts a unique PvP mode that allows players to use their Creature collection to build their own dungeons and challenge other players for great rewards, in addition to guilds, and much more.

Van Caneghem is best known for founding New World Computing, a publisher and developer of PC and console games, and designing and developing a number of best-selling strategy and role-playing titles, including the award-winning Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic series. With Creature Quest, Jon Van Caneghem and his veteran team have drawn on many of the innovations and design sensibilities that made his Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic games into best sellers. From fun and unique stories in each Quest, to hundreds of adventure-seeking Creatures with upgradable abilities, to strategic, fast-moving battles, Creature Quest will appeal to anyone who loves role-playing, collectible, strategy or fantasy games.

Creature Quest is available globally today on the App Store®, on Google Play™, and at the Amazon Appstore, in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Start your adventure today at www.CreatureQuest.com.

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About VC Mobile Entertainment
Founded in 2014 by legendary game designer Jon Van Caneghem with investment partners that include industry leader Tencent Games, VC Mobile Entertainment is on a mission to make games that people love to play. The Los Angeles-based team has decades of experience creating award-winning mobile, PC, console, and online games. For more information, visit www.vcmobile.net.

©2017 VC Mobile Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google Inc.

VC Mobile Entertainment Unveils Its First Mobile Game, Creature Quest™

RPG meets Strategy in this epic new title from Hall of Fame Game Designer Jon Van Caneghem

Los Angeles, CA – Jan 21, 2016 – Mobile game developer and publisher VC Mobile Entertainment (VCME) has taken the covers off its first game, Creature Quest, from award-winning game designer and creator of the Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic series, Jon Van Caneghem. The epic new RPG-meets-strategy game is currently available for iOS devices and has soft launched on the App Store in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland and the Netherlands. Creature Quest will be available for more platforms and regions later this year.

“From the very beginning of my career, I wanted to make games that I loved to play. That same principle drives everyone here at VC Mobile Entertainment,” said Jon Van Caneghem. “The entire team has incredible passion for Creature Quest, and we are very excited to finally share the game and all of its upcoming content for many years to come.”

Creature Quest is an innovative blend of Collectible RPG and Strategy. All roads lead to adventure as players embark on Quests to explore new realms while encountering a variety of Creatures and obstacles along the way. With over 500 Creatures wielding powerful abilities to collect and upgrade, and addicting battles with lots of treasure to discover, players will constantly yearn for just one more battle. Creature Quest also boasts a unique PvP mode, allowing players to use their Creature collection to build their own dungeons and challenge other players for great rewards.

Van Caneghem is best known for founding New World Computing, a publisher and developer of PC and console games, and designing and developing a number of best-selling strategy and role-playing titles, including the award-winning Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic series. With Creature Quest, Jon Van Caneghem and his veteran team have drawn on many of the innovations and design sensibilities that made his Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic games into best sellers. From fun and unique stories in each Quest, to hundreds of adventure-seeking Creatures with upgradable abilities, to strategic, fast-moving battles, Creature Quest will appeal to anyone who loves role-playing, collectible, strategy or fantasy games.

For more information, visit www.CreatureQuest.com.

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About VC Mobile Entertainment
Founded in 2014 by legendary game designer Jon Van Caneghem with investment partners that include industry leader Tencent Games, VC Mobile Entertainment is on a mission to make games that people love to play. The Los Angeles-based team has decades of experience creating award-winning mobile, PC, console, and online games. For more information, visit www.vcmobile.net.

For general inquiries, contact info@vcmobile.net.

For press inquiries, contact media@vcmobile.net.

Hall of Fame Game Designer Jon Van Caneghem launches VC Mobile Entertainment

Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic creator starts new mobile game studio

Los Angeles, CA – May 28, 2015 – Today, the mobile game publisher VC Mobile Entertainment (VCME) announced that it has come out of stealth mode with a Series A investment round totaling $4.5m that included investments from Tencent and Pacific Sky Investments. The new Los Angeles-based development and publishing company is currently developing its first mobile title, which it will publish in 2015. Jon Van Caneghem, the award-winning game designer and former founder of New World Computing and Trion Worlds, started VCME in 2014 and is its CEO.

“We’ve seen some amazing mobile games come to market in the past few years, but we also see a lot of areas where the gameplay is ripe for new innovation,” said Jon Van Caneghem, founder and CEO of VC Mobile Entertainment. “The assistance of our partners and the experience of our talented team will enable us to explore those new areas and build a new generation of mobile games for phones and tablets. Stay tuned for more information on our upcoming title.”

Prior to founding VCME, Van Caneghem led multiple internal studios at Electronic Arts, including the Command & Conquer franchise. Before that he co-founded Trion Worlds, an independent developer and publisher of massively multiplayer games. Van Caneghem is best known for founding New World Computing, a publisher and developer of PC and console games, and designing and developing a number of best-selling strategy and role-playing titles, including the award-winning Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic series. New World Computing successfully exited to 3DO, a console publisher founded by Trip Hawkins. Today, Van Caneghem is bringing his deep game design and development experience, his entrepreneurial skills, and his passion to his latest gaming venture.

With VCME, Van Caneghem has gathered a number of highly skilled and experienced colleagues from his past ventures to help in the development of VCME’s first title and in building a world-class mobile publisher. The founding five members of the team each possess over 20 years of experience in game creation, and have developed hundreds of titles for some of the largest and most influential game studios and publishers in the industry, including Activision, Disney Interactive, Electronic Arts, NCSoft, Nexon, New World Computing, Origin Systems, Sierra Online, and Trion Worlds.

VC Mobile Entertainment is currently looking for talented engineers, developers, artists, marketing, monetization and publishing talent to join its team. For more information, visit www.vcmobile.net.

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About VC Mobile Entertainment
Founded in 2014 by legendary game designer Jon Van Caneghem, VC Mobile Entertainment is on a mission to bring magical game designs to mobile devices. The Los Angeles-based team has decades of experience creating award-winning mobile, PC, console, and online games. For more information, visit www.vcmobile.net.

© 2015. VC Mobile Entertainment. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owner(s).

For general inquiries, contact info@vcmobile.net.

For press inquiries, contact media@vcmobile.net.

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