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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, USA - Utomik, the instant play “unlimited gaming” monthly subscription service, today announced that five favorites from the acclaimed Unreal series of games, published by leading developer, Epic Games, will become available on its service. As of today, three titles are already playable on the service.

Now Playable on Utomik:

• Unreal Tournament: GOTY Edition
• Unreal 2: The Awakening
• Unreal Gold

Coming soon:

• Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition
• Unreal Tournament 3 Black

The addition of these games brings the total number of playable titles now on Utomik up to over 240 including 76 action games of which ten are FPS games.

North Carolina-based, Epic Games, launched the original Unreal game in 1998, which also marked the first release of the studio’s Unreal Engine technology used to power thousands of games. Now in its fourth generation, the Unreal Engine is freely accessible, with full source code available to the Unreal Engine 4 development community.

Utomik’s vision is to “Unleash Gaming” by enabling consumers to access games as easily as they do TV shows, films and music today. The monthly subscription service offers consumers unlimited play on as many games featured on the service as they like, with more titles added each week. Utomik is currently in Open Beta at a 40% discounted price of $5.99 per month. New users can try out the service 14 days for free by registering on www.utomik.com.

"At Epic our passion is to make great games that we love to play and to get them into the hands of as many players as possible," said Joe Kreiner, Epic's head of licensing for the Americas. "We're pleased to grow our community even further by bringing titles from our flagship Unreal series to Utomik."

Utomik’s CEO, Doki Tops, added, “Unreal has created life lasting memories for me. 'Titan' anyone? We are proud that some of the most well-known FPS games around today with quite literally millions of followers will be on Utomik. Our vision to Unleash Gaming matches Epic’s philosophy to open up game development platforms. This breakthrough exploit took the industry by storm and now, once more, Epic is joining a new era in gaming by partnering with Utomik to unleash gaming.”

Los Angeles, CA, May 16, 2016 – VUBIQUITY, the leading global provider of services connecting content owners and video providers to deliver entertainment to any screen, today announced it will be the exclusive global B2B commercial distributor for Utomik, the “unlimited gaming” monthly subscription service. Utomik offers users unlimited play with access to hundreds of popular and classic PC games that they can start playing quickly due to its instant “1-click” play system.

The partnership marks VUBIQUITY’s first major foray into the $32 billion PC gaming industry and will provide broadband distributors with unfettered access to a market of hundreds of millions of gamers. For Utomik, the deal provides potential to gain new subscribers as well as to increase brand awareness. Through the deal, VUBIQUITY’s affiliate partners can either bundle Utomik’s monthly service with subscription broadband packages or offer the service separately, “a la carte”, with minimal overhead or capacity concerns. VUBIQUITY will lead marketing and sales efforts while Utomik will continue to operate its service directly to consumers through its standalone system.

“This relationship allows our partners to capitalize on new opportunities in today’s dynamic content landscape,” said Michele Edelman, VUBIQUITY’s EVP, Marketing & Content Strategy. “As the development and distribution of gaming continues to evolve, Utomik’s library of games and instant download technology combined with the broad reach of our distributors creates new and exciting opportunities for our partners and their gaming customers alike.”

Founded in 2014, the Silicon Valley-based Utomik has captured the imagination of the gaming industry through its vision to “Unleash Gaming” by enabling consumers to access games as easily as they do TV shows, films and music. To date, the service is available in over thirty markets and has secured publishing contracts with sixteen partners for more than 650 titles. Its unique and proprietary instant play technology loads games up to 100 times faster than any other service and means that users can enjoy lag-free play in the game’s original quality. In April, Utomik inked a deal with SEGA to add over twenty of their legendary games to their expanding library including Total War™ and Sonic the Hedgehog™.

“This distribution deal with VUBIQUITY enables us to unleash gaming faster and allows VUBIQUITY and its partners to add gaming to their portfolio of content and services,” said Doki Tops, Founder and CEO of Utomik. “VUBIQUITY’s enterprising approach to content strategy and its wide network of distributors and broadband providers means that our service will be at the fingertips of quite literally hundreds of millions of people.”

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, USA - Utomik, the instant play “unlimited gaming” monthly subscription service, today announced that the award winning Deponia Series, including Deponia, Chaos on Deponia, Goodbye Deponia and Deponia Doomsday from Daedalic Entertainment are now immediately playable on its service.

This is the result of a new partnership between Utomik and Daedalic Entertainment, and brings the total number of games now playable on Utomik close to 220. The addition of the thirty-two Daedalic titles into Utomik brings subscribers of the service unlimited play of 89 epic adventure titles. The service has now secured publishing contracts with sixteen partners for a total of more than 650 titles.

Daedalic Entertainment is the multiple winner of the German Computer Game Award and the European Games Award and with titles including Goodbye Deponia, it has won the German Developer Award twenty-one times. Additionally, Chaos on Deponia earned Daedalic the German Developer Awards for “Best Adventure of the Year”, “Best Sound”, and “Best Story of the Year” in 2013.

Utomik's vision is to “Unleash Gaming” by enabling consumers to access games as easily as they do TV shows, films and music today. The monthly subscription service offers consumers unlimited play on as many games featured on the service as they like, with more titles added each week. Utomik is currently in Open Beta at a 40% discounted price of $5.99 per month. New users can try out the service 14 days for free by registering on www.utomik.com.

Utomik’s CEO, Doki Tops, says, “Deponia titles are awesome point and click games and every adventure gamer’s dream come true. Utomik subscribers now have unlimited play on hundreds of amazing games. When we started out with our vision to Unleash Gaming, we made a promise to add more games each week to the service so that our subscribers never get bored and always have a bigger choice from a wide range of games in all genres. We will continue to deliver on that promise.”

Commenting on the addition of Daedalic games to Utomik’s subscription service, Carsten Fichtelmann, CEO of Daedalic Entertainment, adds, “We are delighted that Utomik subscribers can now play our Deponia Series and many other of our games as often as they want.  For us, subscription-based gaming is a new and exciting way for consumers to access our games.  We definitely see Utomik featuring prominently in the future as a preferred gaming channel.”

- SEGA extends its digital distribution of PC games through Utomik- Alpha Protocol™, EMPIRE: Total War™ & Total War™: SHOGUN II, Sonic the Hedgehog™ 4 Episodes I & II soon playable on Utomik

LONDON + WESTLAKE VILLAGE, USA - SEGA, a world leader in interactive entertainment, and Utomik, the instant play “unlimited gaming” monthly subscription service, today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement. For SEGA, this co-operation opens up a completely new distribution channel for its existing PC game titles and accessibility to a wider group of consumers. For Utomik, this represents a further boost to its fast growing library of games as well as another industry validation of its vision to “Unleash Gaming” by enabling consumers to access games as easily as they do TV shows, films and music today.

The initial addition of twenty-one SEGA PC games into Utomik for Europe and the USA marks the start of this long-term partnership. The new games include titles like Alpha Protocol™, The Cave™ as well as EMPIRE: Total War, Total War: SHOGUN II - Fall of the Samurai and Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Episodes I & II.

Globally, SEGA has offices in the US, the UK and Japan where Sonic the Hedgehog™ - SEGA's much loved blue hedgehog mascot was born. Its UK-based studio, Creative Assembly, is responsible for the award-winning and iconic franchise, the Total War series.

Utomik’s monthly subscription offers consumers unlimited play on as many games featured on the service as they like, with more titles added each week. Today, 190 games are playable and the service has secured publishing contracts with fourteen partners for over 650 titles. Utomik is currently in Open Beta at a 40% discounted price of $5.99 per month. New users can try out the service 14 days for free by registering on www.utomik.com.

Utomik's unique and proprietary instant play technology loads games up to 100 times faster than any other service. All games on Utomik can be played lag-free and 100% in the original quality.

Commenting on the new partnership, John Clark, SEGA Europe’s Vice President of Commercial Publishing, says, “SEGA has always been a pioneer in terms of new and easy to use consumer interaction gaming technologies. We are co-operating with Utomik because it fits our digital strategy and offers a highly effective user-friendly platform. By adding SEGA titles into Utomik’s subscription service, we are opening up a totally new channel for our existing PC games and will reach a broader consumer audience. This first step is important as we believe subscription gaming will become an important component of our business moving forward.”

Utomik’s CEO, Doki Tops, adds, “Utomik is excited to welcome SEGA as its partner. We can’t wait to offer our fast growing number of subscribers the chance to play iconic game titles like Total War “Empire” and Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episodes I & II. We are thrilled that SEGA has also decided to join our journey to “Unleash Gaming” designed to bring more games to more people. We are looking forward to a long term partnership with the SEGA team.”

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, USA - Utomik, the “unlimited gaming” subscription service, today announced the start of its open beta period at a discounted introductory price of $5.99 per month as well as a free, no strings attached, 14-day trial. As from today, consumers can subscribe to Utomik’s open beta service that features games including Darksiders, Overlord, Titan Quest, The Raven, Evoland II and many more. Utomik open beta is now live in 30 countries across Europe, Canada and the US, with more countries following soon.

One Subscription, Unlimited Play.

With a Utomik monthly gaming subscription, normally priced at $9.99 per month but discounted to $5.99 during open beta, consumers can play as many games featured on the service as they like, for as long as they want. Today, 145 games are available to choose from with more added each week. Utomik has secured publishing contracts for 600 titles including AAA, Indie and casual games as well as timeless classics and unexpected gems. Utomik’s service is advertisement-free. Users can register to join the open beta here.

Don’t Wait, Just Play!

Utomik's unique and proprietary instant play technology loads games up to 100 times faster than any other service. It downloads a small part of the game to a user’s hard disk, enough to start playing very quickly, while the rest continues to download to their PC. As games are played directly from a consumer’s own PC – it is lag-free play and has 100% original quality.

Utomik's vision to "Unleash Gaming" is designed to bring more games to more people by moving the industry into the era of subscription gaming, enabling consumers to access games as easily as they do TV shows, films and music today.

Previously, Utomik ran in closed beta mode and during this time, the service generated over 16,000 sign-ups and was extremely well received by its community. On a ratio of 1-10, when asked how fast games start on Utomik, the average emerged at 8 or higher. 77% said they would recommend it to a friend and 63% stated they enjoyed discovering new games this way.

Doki Tops, Utomik CEO, adds, “Gaming just became as accessible as TV shows, movies and music! Our open beta period marks the start of an exciting new phase in Utomik’s journey to ‘Unleash Gaming’. We are providing the remaining piece of the puzzle to people’s on-demand entertainment needs by adding gaming to create the full spectrum of amusement for all. Gamers can now join the movement and play any game they like for as long as they want for just $5.99 per month during open beta. Put simply, don’t wait, just play!”