Worldwide Release Begins Mid-January 2017!
Mobile Game "Yu-Gi-Oh! DUEL LINKS"

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. announces that mobile game "Yu-Gi-Oh! DUEL LINKS" will begin releasing worldwide^*1 in mid-January 2017.

"Yu-Gi-Oh! DUEL LINKS" is all the fun of the trading card game – enjoyed in nine languages and 75 countries and regions, including Japan, North America, and Europe – optimized for smartphones. The game will be released in 11 languages^*2 and approximately 150 countries and regions. It was released in Japan on November 17^th, 2016, where in the two weeks since its launch it has been downloaded more than 5 million times.

Celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, "Yu-Gi-Oh!" is a popular manga (created by Kazuki Takahashi) serialized in Shueisha Inc.’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since 1996. Since 1998, Konami Digital Entertainment has released console titles based on the anime adaptation of the manga (broadcast on TV Tokyo affiliates). It has also released a trading card game since 1999.

KONAMI will continue to release top-quality Yu-Gi-Oh! products and services for players around the world to enjoy.

• *1Certain countries and regions, including China and South Korea, will not be included in the January 2017 release. Once the game’s release in these countries has been determined, this information will be made available.
• *2Supported languages are: Japanese, English, Korean, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German.