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Bigmoon Entertainment and Deep Silver Announce ‘DAKAR 18’
 

Official licensed Dakar Rally-Game Coming to Consoles and PC This Year  

Munich, Germany -- January 12th, 2017 -- Bigmoon Entertainment and Deep Silver/Koch Media today announced a global distribution and co-publishing agreement for DAKAR 18. The cross-country rally racing game is aiming to be one of the biggest open worlds ever made in a racing game, coming to PlayStation®4, Xbox One the all in one entertainment system from Microsoft and PC platforms in 2018. Based on the world famous annual rally raid organized by Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) in South America, DAKAR 18 is a realistic simulation of the biggest cross-country rally in the world and features a variety of vehicles, including motorcycles, cars, trucks, quads and SxS. Players will compete in fierce online multiplayer battles as well as playing offline to harness and grow racing skills.

We are proud to be partnering with A.S.O and Koch Media in order to bring a truly realistic DAKAR racing experience to players worldwide,” said Paulo J. Games, Game Director of Bigmoon Entertainment. “As the official developer of the project, we are sure that DAKAR 18 will be the finest representation of real life DAKAR in a video game.
 
DAKAR rally is known as the biggest cross-country rally, and BIGMOON in order to simulate, decided to create one of the biggest Open Worlds ever made in a racing simulation. DAKAR 18 is focused on the realism and promises stunning visuals, which faithfully represent every vehicle and pilot of the DAKAR 2018 rally. The game includes the major official Dakar manufacture teams, vehicles and pilots, the 5 racing class categories (Cars, Bikes, Trucks, Quads and SxS), and much more. In addition, the game will feature a single player, online and offline multiplayer experience.
 
Klemens Kundratitz, CEO of Koch Media states ”We are delighted to work with Bigmoon Entertainment’ on this promising title and look forward to bringing all our expertise to the project: Beyond that we look forward together to establishing the Dakar franchise in the racing community.
 
Dakar will not be a 2 weeks adventure anymore, the fans will have the opportunity to live it all year long by playing at this new game,” said Marc Coma, Sporting Director of Dakar.
 
More information about the Dakar 18 can be found here on https://www.facebook.com/dakarthegame information about the Dakar Rally is available here: http://www.dakar.com
 

About Bigmoon Entertainment
Since its foundation, BIGMOON has set a simple goal: “Develop the best games possible”.
Immersive stories, fantasy world exploration, innovative challenges and great characters are in our DNA as we focus our drive and passion on developing Core RPG, Action-adventure and Strategy games for Core gamers. BIGMOON is an authorized developer for all major game platforms, including Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. BIGMOON also developed other games for consoles like “Lichdom: Battlemage” and “Trapped Dead: Lockdown”, as well as produced art for well-known racing games, such as “WRC 5”, “WRC 3” and “MotoGP 13”.  
About Koch Media
Koch Media is a leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products (software, games and films). The company's own publishing activities, marketing and distribution extend throughout Europe and the USA. The Koch Media group has more than 19 years of experience in the digital media business, and has risen to become the number one distributor in Europe. It has also formed strategic alliances with numerous games and software publishers: Bethesda, Capcom, Kaspersky Labs, NC SOFT, Sega, Square Enix and Tecmo-Koei, etc. in various European countries. With Headquarters in Planegg near Munich/Germany, Koch Media owns branches in Germany, England, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Nordic regions, Benelux and the United States. www.kochmedia.com