Paris, April 1st, 2009

Microds, the owner of the Syberia franchise, announces the production of a new episode in the adventures of Kate Walker on the PlayStation 3 console and PC, bringing together console manufacturers with the world of the PC through a major collaborative innovation.
Syberia 3, the new episode in the adventures of Kate Walker, actually
allows those playing on PC and those playing on PS3 to collaborate online, thanks to a simultaneous data exchange and sharing mode on the two platforms.
Syberia 3 will therefore see teams of players being formed so as to
optimize their chances of reaching the end of the adventure by pooling the abilities of each of the participants. Only PS3 players who have collaborated with PC players, and vice versa, will be able to accompany Kate to the end of the adventure. This innovative gameplay is a first in video gaming, and in particular within the "point & click adventure segment. Microds ambition is to enable all players, irrespective of their gaming platform, to be able to participate collectively in the adventure so as to live the experience of collaborative gaming.
This innovation will be offered for all future Microds titles and will also be included in games currently being developed at partner studios. After having traveled throughout Europe in Syberia and Syberia 2, Kate Walker starts out on the mammoths trail in a world on the border between reality and imagination, where strange white birds indicate the presence of extinct mammals. Syberia 3 takes Kate on an adventure which mixes suspense, myth, ecology and action. She crosses paths with a weird Vic McPherson who is investigating the murky business of international trafficking of ancient works of art and prehistoric ivory
In Syberia 3 dreht sich wieder alles um die Anwltin Kate Walker. Diese lsst sich auf ein unbekanntes Abenteuer ein. Auch auf alte Bekannte, wie Vic McPherson wird sie im Laufe ihres Abenteuer treffen. Zusammen mit ihr, die das schmutzige Geschft des internationalen Handels mit antiken Kunstwerken und prhistorische Elfenbein untersucht, startet Kate Walker eine Reise in eine Welt zwischen Realitt und Fantasie, und trifft erneut auf ausgestorbene Sugetiere.
Syberia 3 wird komplett in 3D realisiert.

Paris, April 17, 2009

Following the countless messages and questions from fans which followed our announcement on April 1st regarding the launch of Syberia 3, Emmanuel Olivier, President of Microds, gives more details on that announcement. Syberia 3 is not an April Fool's joke. The game is highly expected by the community of fans of adventure games and fans of Kate Walker and it will be launched, it is one of our most strategic projects at Microds and we have been anticipating it for a long time. "It will be released on PC for sure, however, on PS3, this could actually turn into an April Fools joke because SONY is the only decision-maker on this point, as strange as it may seem to some people. "Benot Sokal, the author of Syberia and Syberia 2, has mentioned several times in the press that he would only participate in a sequel to his masterpiece if he had enough financial means to design and develop an exceptional title. Today Microds is ready to invest in this ambitious production. But everyone knows that to amortize the development costs of a major video game with that level of quality, it is essential to develop it for multiple platforms, PC and consoles. 'However Sony Computer Entertainment has already censured Microds in 2003 by denying that Syberia was released on PS2 in the United States though it had previously been released in Europe on that console. The same refusal happened for a dozen other Microds titles for the U.S.
"Beyond this censorship of the authors and their producers who believe in their creations and who take the financial risks when building up productions for the console without knowing whether they will be approved or denied by SONY in the last minute, the exorbitant royalties demanded by SONY to manufacture the games on its consoles seriously hamper the financing ability of independent producers. Microds has paid more than 15 million Euros of royalties to SONY for its entire catalog, which represents 55% of the Microds turnover for this platform. April Fools? Well no!