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Thunderful World is the debut games event from Thunderful and hosted by Mark Hamill

Thunderful Games have quickly grown to become a big name in the indie space, formed out of the combined might of Image & Form and Zoink! the company has obtained more talent for its in house studios, as well as helping other indie studios get noticed.

They have now announced that in celebration of all the games they are working on, a new event called Thunderful World will debut on November 11, showcasing their line up, here are the full times for each timezone.

  • AEDT - November 11 6am

  • AEST - November 11 5am

  • ACDT - November 11 5:30am

  • ACST - November 11 4:30am

  • AWST - November 11 3am

Viewers can expect updates to Planet of Lana, The Gunk and other Thunderful titles like Firegirl, Cursed to Golf, Source of Madness, Tinkertown and White Shadows. If that line up wasn’t enough for you, the entire event will be hosted by the pop-culture icon, Mark Hamill.

“Thunderful World? I don’t remember agreeing to promote anything for Thunderful! Though Brjann did leave a book at my house that said something like that…,” said Mark Hamill on hosting the event. “In all seriousness though, when I saw the passion and artistry behind all the incredible games Thunderful are going to present, I was blown away.”

Below is a photo of Mark Hamill, if you don’t know who he is on name alone.

In addition to Mark hosting, Thunderful CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson and Xbox’s CVP of Game Creator Experience & Ecosystem Sarah Bond will also present during the event, see photos of them below as well.

“Thunderful World is the perfect way for us to reach our existing fans and a global audience as we showcase our growing influence in the games development and publishing industry,” said CEO of Thunderful Group, Brjánn Sigurgeirsson. When we shared our plans with Mark, he instantly understood our vision and we are delighted he wants to help us share it with the world.”

“Bold, beautiful, and fun. Those were my first impressions of The Gunk when we first revealed it to the world,” said Sarah Bond, CVP of Game Creator Experience & Ecosystem at Xbox. “I’m so pleased to share more about it at Thunderful World and happy to work with the team to help bring the game exclusively to Xbox and Windows PC, day and date on Game Pass.”

It wouldn’t be an event about games, if there wasn’t a surprise or two, I am crossing my fingers for more Steamworld.