[July 09, 2015]

Marvel Contest of Champions Unveils New Game Update in Anticipation of Marvel's Ant-Man Feature Film

Kabam, a world leader in developing AAA high quality mobile games, announced today the release of new game content for its global hit Marvel Contest of Champions, inspired by the highly anticipated Marvel's Ant-Man film hitting theatres on July 17. The Marvel Contest of Champions Ant-Man update feature includes new summoner masteries, new alliance quest game modes, special in-game Ant-Man story quest, events and more. New characters including Ant-Man, Yellowjacket, Elektra, War Machine and more will make their debut in-game throughout the upcoming weeks.

"Kabam continues to update Marvel Contest of Champions to new and exciting places," said Cuz Parry, Creative Director for Kabam's Vancouver Studio. "The Ant-Man update was created for our loyal fans who love the Marvel Cinematic Universe and in anticipation of Marvel's Ant-Man feature film coming later this month."

As part of the update, Kabam has added a brand new Alliance feature called Alliance Quests, where Summoners can strategize and quest through an all-new map in real time with their Alliance.

In the Marvel Contest of Champions Ant-Man update, Ant-Man has discovered something odd happening in the ant-sized world of the Battlerealm. While he was ant-sized, Ant-Man notices a battalion of tiny Adaptoids carrying tiny fragments of ISO-8 to a mysterious location. Unravel the mystery of what's going on in the Battlerealm in the brand new Ant-Man Event Quests.

More on the latest update for Marvel Contest of Champions:

Alliance Quests:

• Brand new game mode providing a new challenge for competitive alliances
• Alliance Quests will pit your alliance against a map of challenging champions and bosses
• Summoners will be able to play alongside their teammates on the quest-board synchronously completing objectives
• Alliance members work together to defeat the quest's boss
• The first Alliance Quest will have an upgraded Ultron Prime as the main boss, urging Summoners to get Ant-Man to help defeat him
• Quests will be driven by Live Operations, with new challenges for alliances coming out regularly

Event Quests:

• Expect to see a new Ant-Man quest every four to five days, expanding the storyline and introducing new content
• Ant-Man joins the contest, alerting the Summoner to shrunken Adaptoids mining ISO-8 in the Battlerealm
• Summoners progress through the quest to learn that Yellowjacket is heading up the mysterious Adaptoid worker army

Arenas:

• Summoners can compete on their own in the Player vs. Player Arenas or team up with their alliance in the Alliance Arenas for both Ant-Man and Yelowjacket
• To participate in the Alliance Arenas, alliance members must acquire Pym Canisters through the event quests and redeem them to access the arenas

For more information and the latest updates, visit www.playcontestofchampions.com or Facebook (News - Alert) at https://www.facebook.com/marvelcontestofchampions. Also, follow Marvel Contest of Champions on Twitter (News - Alert) at @MarvelChampions. Find press kit here: https://kabam.box.com/s/7wzxv5jgkyxbvgph43vokn6izzsf95pt

ABOUT KABAM

Kabam, Inc. ("Kabam") creates, develops, and publishes games that are available on mobile devices via its own dedicated channel in the Apple App Store, Google (News - Alert) Play, and the Amazon Appstore. Valued at more than $1 billion, Kabam is the 6th fastest growing company overall in North America, according to Deloitte (News - Alert) LLP. The company has been profitable since 2012. Kabam's Kingdoms of Camelot franchise has grossed more than $250 million, making it one of the top 10 strategy franchises of all time. Kabam has also created four titles that have grossed more than $100 million each in their life. In 2014, Kabam had three titles rank in the Top 50 Grossing apps on the App Store. Kabam has more than 825 employees around the world, with corporate headquarters in San Francisco. The company's investors include Alibaba, Canaan Partners, Google, MGM, Intel (News - Alert), Pinnacle Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Warner Brothers and others. More information about Kabam can be found at www.kabam.com.

About Marvel's Ant-Man

The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe brings a founding member of The Avengers to the big screen for the first time with Marvel Studios' Ant-Man. Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

Marvel's Ant-Man stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang aka Ant-Man, Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne, Corey Stoll as Darren Cross aka Yellowjacket, Bobby Cannavale as Paxton, Michael Peña as Luis and Michael Douglas as Hank Pym.

Peyton Reed directs Marvel's Ant-Man with Kevin Feige, p.g.a. producing and Louis D'Esposito, Alan Fine, Victoria Alonso, Michael Grillo, Stan Lee and Edgar Wright serving as executive producers. The Story is by Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish and the Screenplay is by Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish and Adam McKay & Paul Rudd. Marvel's Ant-Man delivers a high-stakes, tension-filled adventure on July 17, 2015.

About Marvel Entertainment

Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy-five years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing. For more information visit marvel.com. © 2015 MARVEL

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