Our talented Video Team, ReefGamesLive, attended MCM Comic Con this past weekend and had a great time soaking in the excitement and enthusiasm of the occasion. One of the great perks of being lucky enough to work in this industry is getting to go to events like these, and ReefGamesLive (Kaitlyn, Jordan, Nicole and Toby) ensured that Reef Entertainment was able to have a real presence among the festivities. Both Nicole and Kaitlyn attended in incredible cosplay, with Kaitlyn going as Eureka with a life-sized model of Fantie! The character cosplay and model design was faithfully adapted from The Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society (a dungeon-exploring RPG developed by our partner, NIS America, and distributed by Reef Entertainment in a variety of regions across Europe) with the help of our wonderfully talented in-house graphic designer, Menglin. While attending, ReefGamesLive filmed a very special video, so stay tuned, as this will be uploaded to our social channels shortly (@ReefGamesLive on Twitter, Twitch and TikTok)! ReefGamesLive have steadily grown their audience over the past year through entertaining livestreams and video content on their Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok channels, engaging with an ever-growing community of fans interested in our partners’ titles. One of the members of the ReefGamesLive community was in attendance too, and our Video Team actually had an impromptu meet-up with them! We’d like to give a special shout out to Silver Cobra; thanks for being a such a great fan and we’ll see you on the next stream! We are extremely proud of the ReefGamesLive team and the work they do in highlighting the extensive catalogues of our valued partners. Through their wonderful content, fan engagement and the hilarious on-screen chemistry they have with each other, they’ve been able to create a true community that will only continue to grow!

Reef Entertainment recently hosted the management team of our partner, NIS America, who came to London for a visit: Takuro Yamashita: President & CEO Sean Kim: Senior Director Business Development Adam Johnson: Senior Business Development Director Alan Costa: EU Sales & Marketing Manager We had a beautiful boardroom booked in Central London, where we had very valuable discussions about the many achievements NIS America and Reef Entertainment have made together, as well as the future of our flourishing partnership. Our wonderful employees each gave insightful presentations about their roles and ongoing contributions in helping NIS titles reach as wide an audience as possible in Europe. Our talented video team (@ReefGamesLive on Twitter, Twitch and TikTok) also sat down with NIS America EU Sales & Marketing Manager, Alan Costa, for an interview about everything NIS, from the already-released titles in their extensive catalogue to the exciting games coming in the future. We will be posting this interview shortly on our social media channels, so stay tuned! Our ReefGamesLive video team has grown substantially in recent months, branching out into creating all kinds of engaging video content for our partners, and we look forward to seeing everything they have planned for the future. We are very happy that we were able to host the management team of NIS America here, and we thank everyone who came to London for their time and their insights. Reef Entertainment look forward to continuing our ongoing partnership with NIS America and working with them to bring their iconic titles to fans throughout Europe this year and beyond.

Happy New Year everyone, 2023 – full of positivity! Without further ado here’s a look into what’s to come from us and our partners in the first half of the year, which we’re very excited to bring to fans all across Europe! NIS America Raiden IV x MIKADO remix R-Type Final 3 Evolved Void Terrarium 2 The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure, The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie YS IX: Monstrum Nox From Shoot-em-ups/Schmups including: Raiden IV x MIKADO remix and R-Type Final 3 Evolved, to in depth, lore laden RPGs of The Legend of Heroes series of games, to my personal favourite Ys IX: Monstrum Nox releasing now on the PlayStation®5, we have a lot to be excited about from NIS America in 2023! These are just some of the great titles coming from NIS America this year. Please stay tuned for after the NIS 30th Anniversary where we’ll have plenty more upcoming games to talk about!😊 We’re happy to be consistently bringing out best of retro to the latest in long running, well loved NIS America titles and franchises to everyone! Idea Factory Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters (released 24th Jan 2023) Fairy Fencer F: Refrain Chord Dokapon Kingdom Connect Exciting times for us and our partners at Idea Factory with another brand new entry in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series, Neptunia Sisters VS Sisters, having just released (24th Jan!). The title is great fun, brings real-time action to fans, and is depicted in an exciting new way for the series, with a great, fun filled story to boot! Lots of genre variety here! Idea Factory and ourselves are literally bringing the party with Dokapon Kingdom: Connect – a fantastic new party game with RPG elements play your friends in person or online for the first time! For those who want to delve deep into some tactical- strategy this Spring can do so with Fairy Fencer F: Refrain Chord, a long awaited follow up in a very well loved series, delving into a new genre for the first time! Aksys Games Cuddly Forest Friend Norn9: Var Commons Winter’s Wish: Spirits of Edo The AKSYS game line-up is continuing to expand and diversify, not only can you go on plenty of dates this year with your new favourite Otome’s, animal lovers can also spend plenty of time nurturing hope in Cuddly Forest, a great party/ sim game (out 2nd Feb)! Fans have plenty to satiate their appetite for Otome with a couple of great releases in Norn9 and Winter’s Wish! Both are told from different and exciting perspectives, and they’re sure to appeal to a wide variety of fans! Koei Tecmo Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key We’re incredibly happy to keep getting out some of the best Koei titles to our European fans, and this year is no exception! The wait is almost up for Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, and fans of difficult but rewarding Action RPG’s have something very special to look forward to here! JRPG fans will be eagerly awaiting Atelier Ryza 3’s release, which continues this well loved saga with a plethora of exciting characters and gameplay systems. These are few of the standout highlights from what’s to come in the first half of this year, and we can’t wait to update everyone on future titles coming once we have even more information to share! Happy New Year, and happy gaming everyone!

Our partner, NIS America, recently debuted four exciting new titles in their NISA Showcase 2022 digital event: In partnership with NIS America, we will be distributing these titles throughout Europe via numerous retailers and our direct-to-consumer website. We are also offering Limited Editions for fans to pre-order exclusively on our online store, which come included with beautifully-crafted merchandise and collector’s items, as well as retail Deluxe Editions. Throughout the years, we’ve worked on countless Limited Editions for our partners, exciting fans with amazing extras to go alongside their favourite games.

Our partner Aksys Games recently announced that the highly anticipated visual novel and rhythm game Jack Jeanne will receive three Limited Editions in addition to the Standard Edition. Created by noted manga artist Sui Ishida (Tokyo Ghoul), Jack Jeanne will launch in June 2023 for Nintendo Switch™! Exclusive to our direct-to-consumer website, the Bronze Limited Edition features an 80-page hardcover art book, collectible pins of each Univeil Drama School class, a Univeil school scarf, and an acrylic diorama. Alternatively, customers can choose a more premium version in the Silver Limited Edition which includes a crossbody pack, or both the pack and t-shirt with iconic character art in the Gold Limited Edition! All editions are available to pre-order now. Through our partnership with Aksys Games, we have distributed many visual novels to fans in Europe over the years via our online store. The audience for visual novels has grown exponentially in recent years, and Jack Jeanne is a very highly-anticipated title in the genre. This growing fanbase has allowed us to work on increasingly creative and unique Limited Editions, giving fans a wide variety of custom merchandise, artwork, apparel and more to go alongside their favourite games.

Our partner NIS America recently held a very special livestream to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Nippon Ichi Software. This livestream featured special NIS-focused game announcements, new preorders, new merch and plenty of giveaways! The biggest reveals of the stream were the announcement of two new titles: Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless and Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles! Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless is releasing this Autumn! The highly-anticipated latest entry in the long-running JRPG series features a large number of fresh features, as well as brand new characters, and is sure to be a hit with both fans of the series and newcomers alike. In partnership with NIS America, Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless will be distributed by our team to a variety of regions across Europe. Over the years, we have worked with NIS America on bringing many titles from this extremely popular series to European fans. The Disgaea series is NIS America’s flagship franchise, and has enjoyed enduring popularity since the series debuted in 2003, a testament to how the quality storytelling and engaging gameplay that the series is known for have kept fans coming back for two decades. Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles is releasing this Summer! This title brings two classic JRPGs to the West, Rhapsody II & III! These games are part of the Marl Kingdom series, known for its tongue-in-cheek humour, musical numbers and gorgeous, anime-inspired visuals. Reef Entertainment are very excited to be working with NIS America in distributing Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles in Europe, giving fans in the West the opportunity to experience the magic of these titles for the first time. In addition to the game announcements, the NIS 30th Anniversary Livestream also showed off a slew of new merch items, available to pre-order now on our direct-to-consumer website. These merch items include adorable plushes, a stylish desk mat, a beautiful Disgaea 1000-piece puzzle and more! For many years, we’ve worked with NIS America in giving fans in Europe a wide selection of high-quality, exquisitely-crafted merchandise to go alongside their favourite games. NIS America titles are known for their unique character designs and striking artwork, and these elements truly shine through our various physical merchandise items, highlighting the enormous amount of work that goes into bringing the worlds of these games to life. 2023 is looking to be a sensational year, with plenty of amazing upcoming titles to get excited about! Reef Entertainment look forward to working with NIS America in bringing fans a wide variety of titles this year, as well as a huge selection of merch items to accompany them. Congratulations to Nippon Ichi Software for 30 years of memories; here’s to the next 30! For anyone who missed the NIS 30th Anniversary Livestream, a full VOD can be viewed on Twitch.

Reef Entertainment are excited to announce the launch of the new EU online store for our valued partner, Idea Factory International. Stock will now be shipping directly from our brand new Hungarian Distribution Centre to help expedite and ease the process for our EU fans and customers. Our UK and EU direct-to-consumer stores are now separate to streamline the VAT/tax process for our customers. All EU customers will now place their orders through the EU Site to ensure tax is taken at the time of purchase. Reef’s growth over recent years has allowed us to open our new Distribution Centre in Hungary, enabling us to best serve our valued EU customers. This new Distribution Centre has allowed us to launch new EU online stores for our other partners too, having recently launched the new EU online stores for KOEI Tecmo, NIS America and Aksys Games. This means that our European customers are able to buy all their favourite games and merch from these stores without having to worry about customs issues that may arise. As a prominent video game publisher and distributor in Europe, Reef is committed to providing our EU fans with the most seamless and convenient customer experience possible.

Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters, developed by our partner Idea Factory International and published by Reef Entertainment in Europe, is set to release on PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5 and Steam in early 2023. Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters is the latest entry in the iconic Neptunia series, known for its meta-humour and very popular characters. The game is set in Gamindustri, a continent which has been taken over by the latest smartphone to hit the market (the rPhone), and tells the story of Nepgear and the other Goddess Candidates as they try to save their home from the clutches of this new technology. To celebrate the game’s upcoming release, in partnership with Idea Factory International, we’ve been running the ‘rPhone campaign’, giving fans of the series the opportunity to receive texts and phone calls from characters in the game. By texting the word "PUDDING" to +44 7458 155255, fans will opt in to the campaign to intermittently receive text messages addressed from Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters characters, as well as occasional phone calls from the characters featuring pre-recorded messages delivered by their actual voice actors! Check out https://ificalls.me/uk.html for the full terms and conditions of the rPhone campaign.

We hope you enjoyed our partner NIS America’s livestream with Granzella Inc. In case you missed it, two exciting titles were revealed: R-Type® Final 3 Evolved and R-Type® Tactics I • II Cosmos! See below for details on these games, and watch the full livestream on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nisamerica R-Type® Final 3 Evolved R-Type Final 3 Evolved unites R-Type Final 2 and the PS5™! Coming in Spring 2023, this version includes exclusive stages created by Kazuma Kujo, all of the homage stages from the first Stage Pass, and update Version 2.0.0 which contains new playable ships, a new multiplayer mode, global rankings, and more! Through our direct-to-consumer online store, we will be offering both a Deluxe Edition and Special Edition for this title to fans across Europe, with pre-orders going live on the 4th of November. R-Type® Tactics I • II Cosmos R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos is coming to Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5 and PC in Summer 2023. R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos combines the side-scrolling, shoot-'em-up action the series is known for with tactical, turn-based strategy gameplay. This collection includes two titles that have remade in Unreal Engine 5, and marks R-Type Tactics II’s debut in the West! R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos also features a number of exclusive features for R-Type Tactics II, including branching missions and a new third campaign. You will be able to pre-order R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos on our online store at a later date.

Our partner, Aksys Games, announced a slew of new games and localisations in the livestream, and our talented video team co-streamed the event with live commentary! One of the most exciting announcements of the livestream was Tengoku Struggle -Strayside- being localised in the West for the first time. Tengoku Struggle -Strayside- is an otome game, a genre focused on developing romantic connections with the characters, as well as deep, heartfelt storytelling. Originating in Japan, the otome genre has seen a boom in popularity in the West in recent years, and has developed a very dedicated online following. Through our partnership with Aksys Games, we have brought many otome games to market in Europe through our direct-to-consumer website, and our marketing team has promoted these games to the genre’s ever-growing fanbase through social media and blog posts. Our expanding video team streams many otome titles on our Twitch channel (@reefgameslive), engaging fans of the genre with live playthroughs, otome Q&As and more. We have distributed two Aksys otome titles in Europe in 2022 (Variable Barricade and Piofiore: Episodio 1926), with two more Aksys otome releases coming up later this year (Paradigm Paradox and Lover Pretend). Over the years, our partnership with Aksys Games has allowed us to become one of the most prevalent distributors of the otome genre in Europe. For anyone who missed the ALL AKSYS livestream, you can check it out here: https://www.twitch.tv/AksysGames Our ReefGamesLive ALL AKSYS commentary stream can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/reefgameslive

Our partner NIS America just revealed several exciting Nihon Falcom announcements in the past week, including new ports and localisations, release date announcements, a voice actor livestream, and a giveaway of a custom controller on Twitter! Nihon Falcom is a game developer founded in 1981 that has created many titles for consumer game platforms and boasts an extremely enthusiastic fanbase worldwide. In partnership with NIS America, our team has distributed many Nihon Falcom titles to a variety of regions across Europe, including numerous games from the extremely popular Ys and Trails series. Through our direct-to-consumer website and YouTube/social media channels, our Social Media team has been sharing these announcements with fans across Europe, and our dedicated PR Team has shared all the news with numerous European media outlets, ensuring it gets as much coverage as possible. In partnership with NIS America, we ran a contest on our Twitter account to give away a custom-designed Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA PS5 controller to a lucky fan in Europe! We have worked together with our partners on many giveaways and contests throughout the years, exciting fans with Limited and Deluxe Editions, as well as custom merchandise for all their favourite titles. Find out more about Falcom Week announcements on our direct-to-consumer website here: https://store.nisaeurope.com/ Check out our official Twitter account here: https://twitter.com/nisaineurope/

Our continued strong relationship with Sony allows us to put some of our best-selling titles front and center in the PlayStation Store’s biggest promotions. Until the 3rd of August, Terminator: Resistance Enhanced and Neptunia x SENRAN KAGURA: Ninja Wars are available at a 50% discount on the PlayStation Store as part of the Summer Sale. Neptunia x SENRAN KAGURA: Ninja Wars, developed by Idea Factory International and published by Reef Entertainment in Europe, is an action RPG crossover of the iconic Neptunia and SENRAN KAGURA franchises. Terminator: Resistance Enhanced is the updated version of the 2019 FPS Terminator: Resistance, taking advantage of the graphical capabilities of the PlayStation 5™ console. Both Terminator: Resistance and Terminator: Resistance Enhanced were developed by TEYON and published by Reef Entertainment.