Focus Entertainment Publishing and Uppercut Games announced Magicians: The Devil’s Deal, then planned for 2027

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In a release dated Jun 8, 2026, Focus Entertainment Publishing, a subsidiary of the Pullup Entertainment group, and the Australian studio Uppercut Games announced the first-person shooter Magicians: The Devil’s Deal. The company said the game was planned for release in 2027 on PC, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5. The AMF, France’s financial markets regulator, lists the release as inside information, its label for news a listed company must publish as soon as it can because it may move its price.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6

The company described a narrative-driven game that casts players as Jacob, a stage magician betrayed by his own peers. The release said it was an original property co-owned by Focus Entertainment Publishing and Uppercut Games, and called it a significant milestone in the partnership between the two companies, following Pullup’s minority investment in Uppercut Games.3^,4^,7

The release said the game was revealed at the Xbox Showcase on Jun 7, 2026, and drew enthusiasm from gamers and the media. Vincent Chataignier, deputy chief executive of Focus Entertainment, said Uppercut was executing the vision that first drew Focus to the project. Ed Orman, a co-founder and director at Uppercut, said the studio fell in love with stage magic through 1890s posters.8^,9^,10

The release described Uppercut Games as an independent studio based in Canberra, Australia, founded in 2011 by industry veterans who had worked at Irrational Games (BioShock series). The release listed the mobile shooter EPOCH, Submerged and City of Brass among the studio’s earlier games.11^,12^,13

The release added that Pullup would report its 2025/26 full-year earnings on Jun 11, 2026, after the market close.14

We hold the text of this one release as the issuer’s distributor filed it with the AMF, with its pictures, charts and layout left out, and none of the documents it refers to. The text we hold does not say what the partnership costs or how the companies share the game’s revenue.15