Press release

MANTIS BURN RACING® GOES FREE ON STEAM FROM 22 – 25 FEBRUARY ALONGSIDE PC ESPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP
 


Birmingham, UK – 16th February, 2018 – VooFoo Studios today announced that their award-nominated top-down racing game, Mantis Burn Racing®, will be FREE to play on Steam from February 22nd through February 25th. With the game’s first PC-based eSports championship taking place alongside the Free Weekend, there’s never been a better time to experience the buzz of drifting past opponents in this thrillingly addictive top-down racing game.
 
Steam players will be able to play Mantis Burn Racing® for FREE: including all of the DLC packs, from 6PM GMT, on Thursday 22nd February until 9PM GMT, on Sunday 25th February. If you enjoy Mantis Burn Racing’s fun and highly competitive top-down style racing and want to keep playing after the Free Weekend, you can get 50% off the game and all DLC packs until 6PM GMT on Tuesday 27th February – what’s more, if you purchase the game during the Free Weekend all your in-game progress will carry over.
 
The E4i Mantis Burn Racing® Championship is a weekend-long event streamed, casted, and entertained live on The Overpowered Noobs’ Twitch channel, and hosted through its eSports division, ESPORTS 4INDIE (E4i).
 
The weekend of February 24-25th will see all registered players through a day of competition and festivities, playing for loot and to qualify for the Sunday Twitch event (Feb 25), where the best of the best will claim the handsome prize pool and the prestigious title of “Mantis Burn Racing® Badass.
 
Join the E4I Championship: Live on Twitch: Saturday & Sunday, February 24-25th
 
All players are invited to register now at: opnoobs.com/e4i/mantis-burn-racing
 
For full event details, rules, and regulations, visit opnoobs.com/e4i/mantis-burn-racing
 
About Mantis Burn Racing:
 
Mantis Burn Racing® is a modern top-down style racing game that combines physics-based gameplay with intuitive arcade racing in highly competitive, fast and addictive races. Prove your skills in 5 unique classes of vehicles over an epic 11-season single-player career with more than 150 events and 13 event types in frenetic, bumper-to-bumper races where winning is everything!
 
View the game trailer here: https://youtu.be/c9JvYmer0cM

Press Contacts:
For more information please contact VooFoo Studios at: press@voofoostudios.com
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Notes to Editors:

About VooFoo Studios Ltd
VooFoo Studios Ltd is an independent UK based video games development studio, founded in 2007 by a small team of experienced industry professionals. Utilising its own proprietary cutting edge technology, VooFoo's first game, the critically acclaimed Hustle Kings, was released for PlayStation 3 in 2009, reaching the top of the PSN charts and earning VooFoo nominations for two highly coveted Develop Awards. Building on this early success VooFoo have gone on to develop Hustle Kings on PlayStation Vita, Backgammon Blitz and the acclaimed ‘Pure’ series of games – Pure Chess, Pure Pool and Pure Hold’em – all of which have further established our reputation for developing visually stunning, commercially successful games. VooFoo’s first self-published game, the TIGA Games Industry Awards nominated, Mantis Burn Racing®, is available now on PlayStation®4, Xbox One and Steam® (for Windows PC).

About The Overpowered Noobs (OPN)
The Overpowered Noobs is a talent community of passionate PC gamers gathered around the media outlet that has become opnoobs.com. Extending their passion onto Twitch, The Overpowered Noobs have since 2014 interviewed and collaborated with thousands of game creators and industry ambassadors. Their latest service, ESPORTS 4INDIE (E4i), has for a tag line “Unleashing the eSports Phenomenon Unto Indie” and serves as the first host and organizer of eSports championships for indie games. Scheduled encounters, qualifiers and finals forming championships, prize pool and giveaways, always free and always open to the gaming community at large: the overpowered noobs bring it all together live, streamed, analyzed, and entertained on Twitch.

 

About VooFoo Studios Ltd.
VooFoo Studios Ltd is an independent UK based video games development studio, founded in 2007 by a small team of experienced industry professionals. Utilising its own proprietary cutting edge technology, VooFoo's first game, the critically acclaimed Hustle Kings, was released for PlayStation 3 in 2009, reaching the top of the PSN charts and earning VooFoo nominations for two highly coveted Develop Awards. Building on this early success VooFoo have gone on to develop Hustle Kings on PlayStation Vita, Backgammon Blitz and the acclaimed ‘Pure’ series of games – Pure Chess, Pure Pool and Pure Hold’em – all of which have further established our reputation for developing visually stunning, commercially successful games. VooFoo’s first self-published game, the TIGA Games Industry Awards nominated, Mantis Burn Racing®, is available now on PlayStation®4, Xbox One and Steam® (for Windows PC).