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HOLD ONTO YOUR CHEF’S HAT: YUM YUM COOKSTAR OUT NOW

It’s Time To Become The Star Chef You Were Always Meant To Be

Theale, UK – 11 November, 2022: Apron? Check. Chef’s hat? Check. A ton of great recipes? Check. Ravenscourt and Planet Entertainment are happy to announce that Yum Yum Cookstar is out now.

The cooking game is available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

In Yum Yum Cookstar, players stir, fry, chop and bake their way through more than 70 unique recipes in a wild competition hosted by Chef Yum Yum. Turn your kitchen – and its appliances – into your very own culinary kingdom, through various customisation options.

Chef Yum Yum presents colorful and creative dishes for everyone, including vegetarian variants; her varied menu includes Rainbow Waffles, Sushi Burritos, French Toast Cake and much more.

Several game modes – including four difficulty levels, a Daily Cooking Challenge and judge-curated Invitational Tournaments – will keep aspiring chefs busy.

Three judges join Chef Yum Yum: Ambrosia, Basil and Max rate players’ cooking with comedic lines written by National Lampoon. Share their praise or scathing reviews – if you dare – from the game straight to social media and let the world participate in your wins and losses.

Yum Yum Cookstar also includes a hot original dance soundtrack produced by Nile Rodgers who produced Madonna, David Bowie and Chic.

Features:
·   Over 70 unique recipes
·   Touch, motion or controller
·   Rhythm based minigames
·   Share comedic judge reactions on social media!
·   Customisable kitchen and appliances
·   4 difficulty modes: Relaxed, Casual, Pro, Cookstar

For more info about Yum Yum Cookstar, visit the official website 
 
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About Ravenscourt
Established in 2014 - and operating from its Munich headquarters in Germany - Ravenscourt’s mission is delivering amazing games to a broad audience from both established studios and industry newcomers.
With a diverse portfolio, managing the titles of multiple international studios, Ravenscourt games span everything from adventure and management sims through to city builders and indie gems. The label even boasts a good old sing-along karaoke franchise.
Our players delight in engrossing narrative driven adventures, relish the challenge of building new worlds and love solving puzzles. We have more delights in store for them...
The publishing label Ravenscourt stands for worthy interactive entertainment for a broad range of players. It is a proud part of PLAION.
About PLAION
PLAION is a leading independent developer and producer of games and entertainment products, with ten development studios and five publishing units based all over the world. Founded in 1994 as Koch Media, PLAION offers a unique breadth of services and solutions, dynamically growing its business to push ourselves and our partners to the forefront in all the segments we operate in.

PLAION runs a multi-label strategy, with fully owned publishing units, such as Deep Silver, Prime Matter, Milestone, Vertigo Games and Ravenscourt, publishing games for consoles, PC and VR platforms across all physical and digital channels.

Additionally - as a global publishing partner - PLAION has formed long-term multinational publishing collaborations with numerous game publishers including Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Capcom, Focus Multimedia, Giants Software, Koei Tecmo, Paradox, Sega, SNK, Square Enix, Techland, THQ Nordic, Tripwire, Warner Bros and many others.

With its parent company in Höfen, Austria - and the HQ in Munich, Germany - PLAION owns local publishing companies in Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, the United States as well as Japan and Hong Kong.

PLAION owns ten game development studios: Deep Silver Volition (Champaign, IL, USA), Deep Silver Dambuster Studios (Nottingham, UK), Fishlabs (Hamburg, DE), Warhorse Studios (Prague, CZ), Milestone (Milan, IT), Voxler (Paris, FR) , DigixArt (Montpellier, FR), Flying Wild Hog (Warsaw, Kraków, Rzeszów, PL), Free Radical Design (Nottingham, UK) and Vertigo Games (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, NL). Additionally, PLAION collaborates with numerous independent development studios around the world.

Part of PLAION is also PLAION PICTURES, a leading independent film distributor in Europe with a library of more than 1.400 titles. Further business operations include Sola Media, a sales agency and production company for family entertainment, Spotfilm Networx, a multi-channel streaming network, and a sub-label dedicated to Japanese animation.

PLAION also owns the leading video game merchandise company DPI Merchandising (Denver, Roseburg, USA and Munich, DE) and a Quality Assurance Facility in Olomouc, CZ.

PLAION is an Embracer Group company.