Author - Jerry Paxton

Jagged Alliance: Crossfire Announced with Screenshots

2012/06/13
Jerry Paxton
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Ridgewood, NJ, June 13, 2012 – bitComposer Games and Kalypso Media are pleased to announce the first  standalone add-on to their successful strategy game, Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, is set for a summer 2012 release via digital distribution. In Jagged Alliance: Crossfire, players are transported to Khanpaa, a peaceful country suffering under the brutal attacks of mercenary troops. To save his country from these bloody massacres, Ambassador Behnam Atiqullahs has no other choice but to hire his own mercenary teams to get to the bottom of these inexplicable and bloodthirsty attacks and to put an end to Khanpaa’s agony.

Screenshots

Gratuitous Tank Battles Demo Released

2012/06/12
Jerry Paxton
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Positech Games has announced the release of the official demo for their tower defense/strategy title, Gratuitous Tank Battles. You can grab the demo over at their official website and checkout the official product features below.

Unique Features (why GTB is different from every other tower defense game).

·         GTB allows you to play in either the role of attacker or defender on any of the maps
·         GTB has support for ‘adaptive’ Ai instead of pre-scripted waves of enemies, making the gameplay far more complex and fluid.
·         There is a built-in easy-to-use map editor that makes changing an existing map or creating a new one accessible for everyone.
·         An integrated online-challenge system allows you to easily download and play any map that any other player of the game has made and shared, for infinite gameplay variety.
·         Every unit in the game is designed and customised by the player. No more stock units. GTB relies on a high degree of player customisation.
·         You can play an attacking game, then save out a recording of your attack, then play against yourself in a defenders role.
·         The game is easy to mod, adding new units can be done by anyone with a paint program and notepad

NHL 13 Pre-Order Incentives Announced

2012/06/12
Jerry Paxton
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – June 12, 2012 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) announced today its North American pre-order* offers for the highly anticipated EA SPORTS™ NHL® 13. The pre-order offers available span across several of NHL 13’s most played game modes, including: Hockey Ultimate Team (HUT), EA SPORTS Hockey League (EASHL) and Be A Pro. NHL 13 will be available on September 11, 2012 in North America.

Pre-Order Offers by Retailer

GameStop/EB Games: Players will receive 1 Gold HUT pack per week for 16 weeks (September – December 2012).*

Best Buy/Future Shop: Players will receive in-game Reebok 20K package. The package includes in-game gloves, stick, skates and a boost to enhance a Be a Pro and EASHL player.*

Amazon.com/Amazon.ca: Players will receive in-game BAUER gloves, stick, skates and boost to enhance a Be a Pro and EASHL player.*

Origin: Receive in-game Goalie boost to enhance a Be a Pro and EASHL goalie.*

Headlined by all–new True Performance Skating, and supported by an innovative new A.I. system dubbed EA SPORTS Hockey I.Q., NHL 13 will deliver a revamped gameplay experience that accurately captures the speed, creativity and strategy of NHL hockey. In addition, NHL 13 will also deliver new experiences that connect hockey fans to their friends and the real world of hockey with the all-new GM Connected and NHL Moments Live modes.

NHL 13 Stanley Cup® Collector’s Edition Available for Pre-Order**

Celebrate over 20 years of EA SPORTS NHL hockey with the first ever collector’s edition on this console generation. With Stanley Cup® inspired offerings valued at over $40, the NHL 13 Stanley Cup Collector’s Edition includes:

  • Exclusive collectible Stanley Cup tin featuring an embossed Stanley Cup image
  • Two Stanley Cup® Theme HUT packs featuring randomized player items from the Western and Eastern Conference Champions
  • Gold Jumbo HUT Pack (Regular) featuring 24 randomized items, including an exclusive Wayne Gretzky HUT Legend and six other rare items
  • A CCM Boost Pack featuring the all-new CCM RBZ stick (For use in Be a Pro and EASHL).
  • A 10% discount on a one-time purchase at shop.NHL.com
  • A copy of NHL 13

MSRP for Collector’s Edition: $79.99

* Pre-order offers expire September 11, 2012. Conditions and restrictions apply. For details, please visit: http://www.easports.com/nhl/promo/hut-offer

** Pre-order expires September 11, 2012. While supplies last.

DiRT Showdown Launch Trailer

2012/06/12
Jerry Paxton
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Los Angeles, Calif. – June 12, 2012 – Gamers are set to go fast, take chances and never yield as DiRT® Showdown™ ships to stores across North America today on the Codemasters Racing label.  To mark the game’s retail release, Codemasters has unleashed a spectacular launch video featuring DiRT Showdown’s new brand of full-throttle, tire-shredding, panel-smashing gameplay, now showing at www.dirtgame.com.

The launch video showcases the maximum-impact racing, bone-rattling destruction game modes, freestyle Hoonigan events and multiplayer party games set to take center stage on DiRT Showdown’s World tour of motorized mayhem.  From Miami to LA and San Francisco to Yokohama, the trailer features drivers taking down their rivals, boosting to overtake, hitting jumps, performing stunts and sending Showdown Challenges as they go for the win across DiRT Showdown’s wide range of game modes. The video is now playing at www.dirtgame.com.

DiRT Showdown players are also invited to sign up for RaceNet, the free new online extension for Codemasters Racing games that tracks and rewards player achievements.  RaceNet launched in beta alongside the DiRT Showdown demo and new features now include players being invited to take part in regular community challenges and RaceNet events and the ability to add other RaceNet members as friends.  Gamers will be able to earn new RaceNet Awards and XP which can be viewed on a new Driver Profile page and additional new pages will reflect the status of Showdown Challenges and enable players to compare best times and scores with their friends across a range of game modes.  Gamers can enjoy these new features and more by registering at www.racenet.com.

DiRT Showdown will deliver a new world of competitive and combative racing as players race, crash and hoon their way to “Showdown” finals to perform in front of thousands of fans when it ships to stores today for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and PC.

For all the latest updates straight from the studio, crash over to www.dirtgame.com, www.facebook.com/dirtgame or follow the team at www.twitter.com/dirtgame.

Official Launch Trailer

Legends of Pegasus Humans Trailer

2012/06/12
Jerry Paxton
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Ridgewood, NJ, June 12, 2012 – Publisher Kalypso Media and developer Novacore Studios today released a new trailer for upcoming 4X space game Legends of Pegasus. In the first of three trailers focusing on the playable races in the game, we take a closer look at the ‘Humans’ and their first steps into deep space travel and how it opened a new chapter of peace and harmony. However, this peace was short lived and the balance of power soon shifted as greed and the thirst for supremacy led to the discovery of new races, threatening humanity’s very existence.

Humans Trailer

KRATER Launch Trailer

2012/06/12
Jerry Paxton
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden. June 12, 2012. Fatshark today announced that their adventure roll-playing game KRATER is available on Steam for PC Computers. Mac version will be available in July.

“We are very excited about inviting gamers to the world of KRATER, and experience the post-apocalyptic Sweden.” says Martin Wahlund, CEO and Executive Producer, Fatshark. “In KRATER death and injuries actually mean something. We want to bring back the feeling of being scared of dying from old school RPG’s.”

KRATER is a lush post-apocalyptic top down RPG and the base pillars are crafting, exploration and consequence. Consequence brings not only the ability for the characters to level up and improve themselves, but also permanent injuries and death.

KRATER’s Steam page; http://store.steampowered.com/app/42170/

To get the latest info on all Fatshark activities; follow us www.twitter.com/fatsharkgames, like us www.facebook.com/fatsharkgames, contact us press@fatshark.se, or visit us www.fatshark.se.

Launch Trailer

Death Road Announced

2012/06/12
Jerry Paxton
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Brighton, June 12th, 2012 – They’re fast, they’re powerful and they’re armed up to the radiator grill: Publisher Lace Mamba Global and developer Active Zone Group put players behind the wheels of some extremely futuristic vehicles – in Death Road, the upcoming action-packed high velocity racing game for PC. Today, Lace Mamba Global announces to publish digital and retail editions of the game. The release is scheduled for August 10th, 2012, in the UK and Ireland. Additional local release dates will be announced separately.

Death Road offers a full single player campaign and arcade multiplayer races for up to 8 pilots, featuring 7 gameplay modes, ranging from standard races and time trials to combat, elimination and mine field modes. Players choose from 11 different hovering and flying racing spacecrafts. Equipped with different weapon systems, ranging from lasers to tactical nukes, it’s not only speeding skills that will make a difference, but also the wise use of lethal force. Throughout the game, players will be awarded with special achievements for epic feats.

There are eight different racing tracks in Death Road, taking players through desert or city locations, or even old factory areas.

Death Road will be released in the UK and Ireland on August 10th, 2012. The recommended retail price is £19.99 / €19.99. Further releases in more territories world-wide will follow, for example on October 05th, 2012, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The Secret World Gold, Beta Weekend Announced

2012/06/12
Jerry Paxton
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Durham, USA – June 12th, 2012 – Funcom is thrilled to invite thousands of gamers from all over the world into the bowels of hell itself, in the third Beta Weekend for the company’s highly anticipated modern-day massively multiplayer online game ‘The Secret World’. Starting on June 15th at 9am PDT and ending on June 17th at 11.59pm PDT, gamers will be able to explore a wealth of new content that was not available in the two previous Beta Weekends, including the Dragon and Illuminati starter experiences.

Whereas players in previous Beta Weekends got to sample only the Templar starter experience and the troubled town of Kingsmouth, this weekend the game will be opened up to include the massive region known as The Savage Coast, as well as two epic dungeons: The Polaris and Hell Rising. This represents only a fraction of the content available at launch, but still spans over dozens upon dozens of hours of pure gameplay. The best way to gain access to the Beta Weekend is to pre-order ‘The Secret World’. This grants access to all Beta Weekends leading up to launch. Funcom is also teaming up with major partners all over the world this week, including world-leading hardware manufacturer NVIDIA, to conduct a massive giveaway of keys that will enable play for this weekend only.

Funcom is also excited to share that over 1.3 million gamers are now registered as potential beta testers for ‘The Secret World’, shattering all previous company records including that of its previous MMO ‘Age of Conan’. The company is regularly inviting more and more from this pool of people into the ongoing and very successful Closed Beta. A recent survey among the tens of thousands of testers, who have played in the Closed Beta, confirms that the vast majority is enjoying the game and will play it at launch.

“We are very encouraged by both the numbers of beta registrations and the positive feedback we are getting from our testers,” says Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas. “The fact that so many gamers want to play ‘The Secret World’ combined with the high purchase intent among testers is something we consider a very positive indicator.”

The company can also share today that ‘The Secret World’ has now gone GOLD, and that production of physical units have started and that these will soon be rolled out to retail in preparation of launch on July 3rd. For those who have pre-ordered, Early Access will commence on June 29th as planned.

‘The Secret World’ is developed by Funcom and co-published by EA Partners, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA). For more information about the game or how to register for the beta, please visit www.thesecretworld.com.

Ship Simulator Extremes Collection Announced

2012/06/12
Jerry Paxton
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Stockholm, June 12th 2012 – Paradox Interactive and developer VSTEP have today announced that Ship Simulator Extremes Collection will release on June 19th with a recommended retail price of €29.99/$29.99.

The most complete Ship Simulator game to date, Ship Simulator Extremes Collection includes the acclaimed Ship Simulator Extremes along with ALL previously released add-on and DLC content in a single package along with including the acclaimed Ferry DLC pack.
This comprehensive collection features hundreds of hours of maritime seafaring realism as you captain an extensive range of accurately recreated sea craft of all sizes.

View the Ship Simulator Extremes Collection Announcement trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGmmZ9wK5p4

Included within Ship Simulator Extremes Collection are 10 new vessels, gameplay features and player campaigns. The Ferry Pack DLC adds five ferry boats each with their own specific controls and options as you play your part in the daily commute of thousands of passengers in the many famous in-game harbours.

Ship Simulator Extremes Collection will release on June 19th, 2012 via retail and all major digital distribution platforms for a recommended retail price of $29.99. The collection gives you maximum access to everything ever released for this best-selling ship simulator, making this a must for every simulation fan!