Kongregate has reteamed with 22cans to launch The Trail: Frontier Challenge on the Nintendo Switch! Imagined by industry legend Peter Molyneux, creator of Black & White and the “God Game” genre, 22cans is bringing the popular PC game, with touch controls, to console for the first time. The Trail: Frontier Challenge is an innovative and exploration-driven simulation game -- taking players on a massive journey through the beautiful and expansive American wilderness. After choosing a character, players will throw on a backpack and embark on a stunning adventure through mountains and forests, collecting items to craft and trade with, while avoiding exhaustion from their travels. As they amass fortune and notoriety, they will work with others around the globe to build a thriving community and ultimately become the leader of the most successful town in the new American frontier. "The Nintendo Switch is a fantastic platform and one that is perfectly suited for The Trail: Frontier Challenge,” said Peter Molyneux, Creative Director, 22cans. “Whether players are relaxing at home, or off on their own travels, there’s a completely

Kongregate and AntabStudio's cyberspace hacking shoot-em-up GRIDD: Retroenhanced on Xbox One is now Xbox One X Enhanced! With the launch of the Xbox One X today, GRIDD looks better than ever, now playable in 4k UHD and HDR!

Bringing gamers together is important to us here at Kongregate, and one of our newest ways to build community is our recent participation in Extra Life, a gaming charity that benefits local children’s hospitals. In 2016, we ran our very first Extra Life event and got a pretty overwhelming response, raising over $10,000 for the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland. Our 2017 Extra Life event is planned for November 4, 2017, and we’re excited to help kids once more! What is Extra Life? Extra Life is a charity that brings together gamers from around the world in a 24-hour gaming marathon to support Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. It's like being part of a running marathon, but instead of all that exhausting running, you play games without sleeping. Many teams around the United States and Canada all play to raise money to help pay for expensive medical equipment or specialized treatment for hospital staff. You are not required to livestream your gaming, but many of the teams do, including us. Twitch is a huge supporter of

Office Space: Idle Profits, a hilarious idle game based on the cult Mike Judge film, is now on Steam! Originally launched in April on mobile devices, the game features characters from the '90s comedy about office counter-culture. Developed by San Diego-based developer Ultrabit, a Kongregate-owned development studio, Office Space: Idle Profits lets players take on the role of a disgruntled Initech employee and work with Peter, Samir, and Michael Bolton to plant a virus on the company’s mainframe that will siphon undetectable pennies out of each department and place them in a retirement account. It’s basically the plot to Superman 3... As players infect the company department by department they’ll also collect popular characters and assign them to the department where they’ll be most productive, earning even more money. “We're super excited to be bringing the game to a new audience and a new platform,” said Cooper Bachman, General Manager at Ultrabit. “Our entire team were huge fans of the original movie before working on the game, so we hope that passion shows through in the

We at Kongregate are excited to announce the acquisition of Synapse Games! This acquisition expands Kongregate’s family of in-house game development studios to two, following the addition of San Diego-based Ultrabit in 2015. Synapse will continue to grow their library of popular games for Kongregate’s web and mobile portfolio. Synapse Games was founded in 2009 in Chicago by current CEO Alex Reeve, and has 22 employees. They started working with Kongregate in 2011 with the studio's first web game War Metal Tyrant. The core-CCG quickly amassed a following, and has been played over 61 million times. In 2014, Synapse followed up the success of War Metal Tyrant with the sequel Tyrant Unleashed, published simultaneously on web and mobile. Other Synapse titles include the turn-based strategy game Global Assault (2014) and fantasy CCG Spellstone (2015). Most recently Synapse released their first game in the idle genre, Castaway Cove (2017) and the hit battle CCG Animation Throwdown: The Quest For Cards (2016) in conjunction with Fox Next, Kongregate, and San Mateo-based Chinzilla Games. Animation Throwdown: The Quest For Cards brought

Do you hate your job? Have you had to move desks 5 times this year? Do you always miss out on the office birthday cake? Well, get ready to stick it to the man because Office Space: Idle Profits is coming soon to Steam! Based on Mike Judge’s cult '90s film, the hit idle game features all your favorite characters including Milton, Lumberg, and Michael Bolton. In the game, players take on the role of a disgruntled Initech employee and team up with Peter, Samir, and Michael Bolton to plant a virus on the company's mainframe that steals pennies from each transaction the company makes. Players will infect the company floor by floor and watch the pennies roll in. It’s the ultimate payback! Launched on iOS & Android in April of this year, Idle Profits on Steam will be the first version to launch on PC and will feature Steam Achievements. The game will be completely cross-platform, so players will be able to easily move their game progress from mobile to Steam and back again. Players can wishlist