TRIBECA FESTIVAL REVEALS 2022 OFFICIAL GAMES SELECTIONS

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TRIBECA FESTIVAL REVEALS 2022 OFFICIAL GAMES SELECTIONS

INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERES AND NEVER-BEFORE-PLAYED DIGITAL DEMOS FOR FANS ACROSS THE WORLD, AND IN-PERSON DEMOS ACROSS NEW YORK CITY

GAMES PROGRAMMING WILL FEATURE A SPECIAL LIVE PLAYTHROUGH OF RENOWNED VIDEO GAME WRITER AND DESIGNER SAM BARLOW'S INTERACTIVE THRILLER IMMORTALITY

NEW YORK - (April 26, 2022) - The 2022 Tribeca Festival today unveiled its official Games selections, which celebrate the convergence of games, entertainment, and culture. This year's lineup features nine titles that demonstrate phenomenal storytelling, art, and innovation through interactive experiences. Each selection will vie for the Tribeca Games Award, which honors an unreleased game for its excellence in art and storytelling through design, artistic mastery, and highly immersive worlds.

The games program features the world premieres of Immortality, an interactive trilogy in which players can explore the legend of Marissa Marcel, a film star who disappeared, through her work; OXENFREE II: Lost Signals, the mind-bending follow up to the critically acclaimed narrative adventure OXENFREE, from Night School Studio; and Cuphead - The Delicious Last Course, another helping of classic Cuphead action with new weapons, magical charms, and more.

This year's selections represent the incredible range of how games prove to be a powerful form of storytelling, said Vice President of Tribeca Games and Immersive Casey Baltes. We're continuing to expand how audiences and players interact with games, not only as entertainment but as one of the most impactful cultural mediums.

In 2021, Tribeca Festival featured its first ever Official Selections for Games, including Ember Lab's visually stunning Kena: Bridge of Spirits; Luis Antonio's interactive thriller Twelve Minutes, starring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe; and the inaugural Tribeca Games Award winner, NORCO, which was praised by critics upon its release in March 2022 for its brilliant, narrative-rich experience.

From June 11-19, the Tribeca Festival once again offers digital experiences for global audiences powered by Parsec. Those able to join the Festival in person this year will be the first to experience a playable Games Gallery featuring demos, art, and artifacts for this year's selections, hosted at Tribeca Festival's hub, Spring Studios (50 Varick Street).

Additionally, the Tribeca Games Spotlight, an online showcase of this year's official selections, features never-before-seen footage and interviews from the creators of the official sections as part of the Summer Game Fest - a free, all-digital global celebration of video games streaming online. Games fans across the globe can tune in on June 10 at 3pm EDT via Tribeca's website, major streaming platforms, and summergamefest.com.

The 2022 Tribeca Festival Games Official Selections are as follows:

American Arcadia, (Spain, Greece, Brazil) - World Premiere. Welcome to Arcadia! A 70s retro-futuristic metropolis where all of its citizens enjoy a life of luxury and comfort unaware that they're being broadcast live 24/7! Arcadia is not an ordinary city, but the most-watched reality show on the planet-where a drop in popularity ratings comes at the highest cost: death. Uncover the truth and escape with your life from a televised utopia in Out of the Blue's brand new puzzle platformer game.

Developer: Out of the Blue Studios

Publisher: Raw Fury

As Dusk Falls, (United Kingdom) - World Premiere. As Dusk Falls is an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT that explores the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in small-town Arizona. Starting with a robbery-gone-wrong, the choices you make will have a powerful impact on the characters' lives in this story of betrayal, sacrifice, and resilience.

Developer: INTERIOR/NIGHT

Publisher: Xbox Game Studios

The Cub, (Serbia, United States, Poland) - World Premiere. Welcome to Earth after The Great Climate Catastrophe, where only the ultra-rich managed to evacuate to Mars. Decades have passed and those on Mars venture back to Earth to collect specimens like a safari hunt. As the Cub, a mutant orphan immune to the toxins that killed off most of humanity, players will be relentlessly hunted by a science expedition and must run to safety amongst the ruins of Earth. Featuring an original soundtrack program, Radio Nostalgia from Mars.

Developer: Demagog Studio

Publisher: Untold Tales

Cuphead - The Delicious Last Course, (Canada, United States) - World Premiere. Another helping of classic Cuphead action awaits you in Cuphead - The Delicious Last Course. Brothers Cuphead and Mugman are joined by the clever, adventurous Ms. Chalice for a rollicking adventure on a previously undiscovered Inkwell Isle. With the aid of new weapons, magical charms, and Ms. Chalice's unique abilities, assist the jolly Chef Saltbaker and take on a new cast of fearsome, larger-than-life bosses in Cuphead's final challenging quest.

Developer and Publisher: Studio MDHR

Immortality, (United States) - World Premiere. Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And then Marissa Marcel disappeared. After discovering rare footage from her three lost movies - Ambrosio (1968), Minsky (1970) and Two of Everything (1999) - award-winning Game Director Sam Barlow (Her Story, Telling Lies) has assembled an interactive trilogy in which players can explore the legend of Marissa Marcel through her work.

Developer and Publisher: Half Mermaid

OXENFREE II: Lost Signals, (United States) - World Premiere. OXENFREE II: Lost Signals is the mind-bending follow-up to the critically-acclaimed narrative adventure game OXENFREE fr

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