Animoca Brands launches Beast Quest Ultimate Heroes on Samsung Galaxy Store

Hong Kong – 23 January 2020: Animoca Brands announces that Beast Quest Ultimate Heroes, the fantasy mobile game based on the best-selling Beast Quest series of fantasy novels, has launched globally (ex-China) on the Samsung Galaxy Store. The game will be made available on other platforms and app stores beginning in March of this year.

An evil wizard has enslaved the magical Beasts of Avantia, the fantasy setting of the Beast Quest series, a land rife with adventure, heroism, and magic. In Beast Quest Ultimate Heroes, players control Tom, the son of the legendary Taladon the Swift, as well as other heroes and Beasts to defend Avantia, defeat evil hordes of enemies, and ultimately free the enslaved Beasts from evil’s thrall. Beast Quest Ultimate Heroes is a 3D tower defense mobile game with collectible card elements, tactics of resource management, and RPG hero and equipment systems. All characters in Beast Quest Ultimate Heroes are drawn from the best-selling children’s fantasy book series by Adam Blade. There are 13 types of tower cards that players use to defend against the enemy hordes, 8 individually controlled heroes to unlock and level up, and 20 items with which to equip Tom.

Beast Quest Ultimate Heroes has 40 levels of gameplay, with more content to be added in future updates.

Beast Quest is the best-selling series of children’s fantasy and adventure novels, particularly popular with boys aged seven years and older. Produced by Working Partners Limited, a Coolabi Group company, over 150 titles have been published and translated into over 30 languages. Beast Quest has sold over 20 million books to date.

Animoca Brands has a successful portfolio of defence and collectible card fantasy mobile games including the highly popular Crazy Kings and Crazy Defense Heroes, which have garnered millions of downloads.

Samsung Galaxy Store was launched in 2009. It has more than 250 million monthly active users globally and is one of the largest third party Android™ marketplaces.

Beast Quest Ultimate Heroes information

Beast Quest Ultimate Heroes is available globally (ex-China) for Samsung mobile devices on the Samsung Galaxy Store. The game is free to download and play, with optional in-app purchases. Beast Quest Ultimate Heroes will launch on other platforms and app stores starting in March 2020.

Samsung Galaxy Store download: http://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.animocabrands.beastquesttd.samsung

Game screenshots:https://www.animocabrands.com/beastquestultimateheroes-samsung

Coolabi Group celebrates 1 million users for Warrior Cats online hub

Independent international media group and rights owner, Coolabi Group is celebrating the significant growth of its global Warrior Cats brand (Warriors). Since the launch of the Warriors online hub and merchandise store in January 2019, the site has attracted over 1.25 million unique users.

WarriorCats.com is the official digital destination for Warriors’ colossal and ever-growing global fan community which has also accumulated over 125,000 registered fans and counting.

The merchandise store sells a wide range of apparel, backpacks, keychains and a brand-new plush range. Over 80,000 fans voted in a series of polls which determined that large plushes of Jayfeather, Firestar and Graystripe were created, all of which sold out within four days of launching on the store

Building on this success, this week Coolabi launched a brand-new mobile app, developed with agency, Kids Industries. The new app increases accessibility, allowing users to see and react to a feed of Warriors content including fan art, exclusives from author Erin Hunter, quizzes, polls and more, plus access the official merchandise store whilst on the move.

It allows the Warriors team to communicate directly with the brand’s fan-base, and users can opt in to receive notifications to be updated with key book releases, events, offers and promotions.

Naomi Dare, Director of Digital at Coolabi Group said: “The growth of Warrior Cats over the years and especially since the launch of the online hub, has been absolutely amazing. To see the Warriors fanbase become a thriving phenomenon just demonstrates how millions of people across the world have become captivated by Warriors and this new app will give fans a more streamlined way to explore new content from hub on their mobiles.  We can’t wait to announce more initiatives in 2020!”

The announcement follows the recent news that WarriorCats.com has just been nominated for ‘Best Website’ in the Digital – Kids category at the Kidscreen Awards 2020.

The new “Warrior Cats Hub” app is available to download now from the Apple App Store and Google Play.

WarriorCats is an epic fantasy adventure book series about five clans of wild cats – ShadowClan, RiverClan, ThunderClan, WindClan and StarClan.  The series was created by Working Partners, a Coolabi Group company. The Warriors books have become a publishing sensation with over 40 million books sold to date and published in over 30 languages.

The latest book, ‘The Broken Code: The Silent Thaw’, which is distributed by Harper Collins in the US, recently debuted at No1 on The New York Times’ Children’s bestseller list.

www.warriorcats.com