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Funcom Reveals New Halloween Game ‘Hide and Shriek’™ Oct 04, 2016 09:33 UTC FUNCOM REVEALS NEW HALLOWEEN GAME ‘HIDE AND SHRIEK’™ – TEASER VIDEO RELEASED; ‘Hide and Shriek’™ is a Halloween-themed competitive multiplayer romp full of hijinks and mischief – Oslo, Norway – October 4th, 2016 – Funcom, an independent developer and publisher of PC and console games, today revealed a new seasonal game set to release on the PC this Halloween. ‘Hide and Shriek’™ is Funcom’s second Halloween-themed game following last year’s successful release of ‘The Park’, a first-person psychological horror experiencewhich also launched on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 earlier this year. Whereas ‘The Park’ offered an immersive single-player story, ‘Hide and Shriek’ is a competitive multiplayer game where players are the ones scaring each other! FIRST ‘HIDE AND SHRIEK’ TEASER TRAILER!Download it from Funcom’s press FTP or embed it from Funcom’s YouTube channel Download the first screenshots from Funcom’s press FTP “Last year we were the ones scaring the players, this year they’ll be doing the scaring,” said Funcom CEO Rui Casais. “’Hide and Shriek’ is a ticket to quick, fun ten-minute multiplayer matches where players get to indulge in the spirit of Halloween by setting each other up with traps and surprises.” Funcom’s Halloween game last year, ‘The Park’, was an experimental project for the company’s Oslo studio mainly intended to increase the development team’s experience with the Unreal Engine. ‘Hide and Shriek’ is a similarly experimental title developed by Funcom’s North Carolina studio, developed by a small team over to increase their competence with the Unreal Engine. ‘Hide and Shriek’ is a one vs. one multiplayer romp played out in ten minute matches. Your objective is simple: be a mischievous little rascal and scare your opponent half to death before time runs out! If there is no clear winner when the timer stops, the player with the most points wins the game. There is just one catch: you are both invisible! You will need to use cunning traps and potent spells to reveal your opponent in order to scare them. Just remember they are looking for you too, and if you`re not careful you might be the one jumping in your seat! ‘Hide and Shriek’ will be available this Halloween on Steam, fully localized to German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese languages. For more information, please visit www.hideandshriekgame.com or visit the game’s Steam page directly. Funcom is an independent developer and publisher of online games for PC, mobile, tablet and consoles. Funcom has provided outstanding entertainment since 1993 and continues to expand its track-record of more than twenty released games. Titles include ‘CONAN EXILES‘, ‘The Secret World’, 'LEGO® Minifigures Online', ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’, ‘The Longest Journey', 'Anarchy Online', 'The Park', and 'Dreamfall: The Longest Journey'. For corporate information, please visit www.funcom.com. For information about Funcom games, please visit www.conanexiles.com, www.playminifigures.com, www.thesecretworld.com, www.anarchy- online.com, www.dreamfall.com, www.theparkgame.com, www.conanexiles.com, or www.ageofconan.com. Funcom is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker FUNCOM. Contacts Erling Ellingsen Press Contact Chief Marketing Officer [email protected] Natascha Röösli Press Contact Community Director Influencer and Community Contact [email protected] Tor Egil Andersen Press Contact Communications Manager [email protected] Eirik Leganger Nergård Press Contact PR Manager [email protected].
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