First, a Message from Emily Greer, Co-Founder and CEO of Kongregate It hasn’t been long since our last big announcement, but we’re ready to share more exciting news: Kongregate is creating a new community-driven, developer-centric PC platform -- Kartridge. Kartridge is designed to be rich in social and community features and will allow us to provide more games and features to our playerbase (full screen mode! retail games!). Kartridge will allow us to elevate the experiences of both players and developers alike, without the technology constraints of web browsers. Some Kartridge features will be directly connected to Kongregate.com, while many are brand new to Kartridge. The platform will also further our premium games initiative; developer-controlled price points and a downloadable platform means more games, more developers, & more options. Kartridge is a direct result of the hard work, culture, and engagement that went into Kongregate.com. It’s designed to be community and developer focused, so we hope you sign up to participate in our Beta program. If you are a developer interested in early involvement and

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