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Author - Jerry Paxton
Haarlem, The Netherlands – May 21, 2014 – During the past five years and through one of the toughest periods in recent economic history, Iceberg Interactive has strived to become a major force in PC game publishing by striking a rich vein of gold in the dark reaches of space and fantasy. By concentrating on a small number of niche genres that continue to grow in popularity including space and fantasy worlds, 4X, strategy, and simulation, Iceberg Interactive is celebrating its fifth year of growth with its biggest, most impressive line-up to date.
Headlining the five-game 2014 roster is Amplitude Studios’ fantasy-based 4X game Endless Legend, the 4X space strategy title StarDrive 2, the space sim Starpoint Gemini 2, the 4X space strategy title Lords of the Black Sun, and the arcade combat flight game, Vector Thrust, the majority of which are currently in Steam’s Early Access program.
Since its inception in 2009, Iceberg Interactive has carved out a unique niche as a resilient, resourceful, and fleet-footed indie publisher. By taking risks with rookie developers, managing its costs wisely, and investing in genres that big publishers have left for dead, Iceberg has positioned itself as a leader in the 4X, sci-fi, and strategy genres.
“Iceberg’s progress to date stems from the fact that we are all gamers, and we like to play the games we publish – this gives us a certain affinity with our customers – we are all about games, and it reflects in the deep, rich games we publish,” says Erik Schreuder, CEO of Iceberg Interactive. “The demand for strategy, 4X, and space games never stops. It’s just that most of the larger publishers feel that, because these games aren’t multi-million unit sellers, they are not commercially viable. This is where we see our opportunity. PC gamers are a very vocal lot, and have responded in kind by letting us know how much they love our games and consistently ask us to keep them coming.”
Among the 70-plus titles published and distributed since 2009, Iceberg has created a name for itself with standout titles Killing Floor, Wings of Prey, Armada 2526, Starpoint Gemini, APB Reloaded and Dark Fall: Lost Souls. More recent hits include Horizon, Gas Guzzlers Extreme, Endless Space, and StarDrive.
Erik Schreuder is available for interviews to reveal how Iceberg’s strategies and approaches to the indie PC market, its knowledge of Steam, and its passionate embrace of the 4X strategy genre, have buoyed the company and carved out a reliable niche for growth.
For more on Iceberg Interactive, visit its Website, www.iceberg-games.com, YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/channel/
Newport Beach, California – May 20, 2014 – inXile Entertainment announced an end of August launch window for Wasteland 2, one of the most successfully crowd funded projects/video games of all-time and sequel to the critically acclaimed smash hit Wasteland and the post-apocalyptic predecessor to the Fallout® series. In addition to the end of August launch window announcement, inXile Entertainment has released the entire Arizona portion of the game via the Wasteland 2 early access beta, which is only available at http://store.steampowered.com/app/240760/.
The highly anticipated, post-apocalyptic turn-based Wasteland 2 offers an alternative history. America lays lifeless in the hot ashes and radioactive embers of a deadly nuclear holocaust and players must take command of an elite squad of desert Rangers, formed in the time-honoured tradition of the Texas and Arizona Rangers. Setting out across post-apocalyptic and treacherous landscapes players try to help the last remaining remnants of humanity in their struggle for survival against hordes of desperate bandits, insane criminals, decaying mutants and much worse.
“It’s exciting to be in the home stretch on a game I’ve been wanting to get to for the last two decades. The feedback from our backers on the early beta has been great and I’m proud of the way Wasteland 2 is shaping up. The scope of the game is immense with a word count that is greater than The Lord of the Rings novels and a solid 50 hour+ game experience that has diversity from beginning to end. My goal has been to over deliver on our backer’s expectations for Wasteland 2,” said Brian Fargo of inXile Entertainment.
Developed by an amazing team of RPG pioneers that include Brian Fargo and Chris Avellone and with a musical score composed by the legendary Mark Morgan, Wasteland 2 is a return to form for RPGs because it actually provides options and choices. Options allow players to make fundamental choices in customization and character creation throughout the game’s role-playing progression with decisions that carry consequences and impact a living world.
Wasteland 2’s early access beta mode, which GameSpot called “one of the best post-apocalyptic role-playing games to emerge in a long time,” is available on the Steam store http://store.steampowered.com/app/240760/. End of August marks the launch window for the full game, available for PC, Mac and Linux gamers.
For additional information on the backstory of Wasteland 2 as well as the game’s key RPG pillars please visit: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxMevjNSr2EjbDBpZ2ZMdmNnc28/view?pli=1&sle=true#
LOS GATOS, Calif. – (May 20, 2014) – Zepp Labs, a leader in sports sensor technology and new leader in tennis data, today released the first ever consumer technology that enables tennis players and coaches to capture and analyze serves in 3D on their smartphone or tablet. Simply attach the Zepp™ multi-sport sensor to the handle of any racket, serve a ball and instantly see 3D results on your smartphone or tablet (iPhone, iPad or Android device) when using new and improved Zepp Tennis™ app. The new app also measures important serve metrics such as racket speed, ball speed potential, spin, backswing time and impact time, which gives players and coaches a new more scientific way to evaluate performance on the court. Additionally, the new sweet spot feature shows you where you make contact with the ball on the racket strings—a key element in gauging your contact quality and consistency.
“3D performance analysis is something that’s never been available to tennis consumers before, and we’re incredibly proud to be the first company to offer it,” said Jason Fass, CEO of Zepp Labs. “Players know that small adjustments can make a huge impact on their game. Using Zepp, now they can help pinpoint where to make adjustments on their serve and work on repeating their ideal swing.”
Additional features include the ability to overlay and compare two serves, compare your serve to a tennis pro or even your own coach, view your serve history and track your serve trends and performance over time. Users can also choose between 3D Serve Practice and Play Tracking, the former offering 3D serve analysis only and the latter providing the ability to track and aggregate swing data about your forehand, backhand and serve during a practice session or a match.
The Zepp multi-sport sensor is available at Apple stores, select Best Buy and Verizon stores, tennis-warehouse.com and Zepp.com for $149.99. The new Zepp Tennis app is free and available in the App Store and Google Play. The Zepp multi-sport sensor also works for golf, baseball and softball using the Zepp Golf and Zepp Baseball apps.
Additional Information on Zepp Tennis’ New Metrics
- Racket Speed Impact measures, in miles per hour, the velocity of the sweet spot of your racket when it impacts with the ball.
- Ball Speed Potential is a prediction of ball speed based on your racket speed assuming you strike the ball as well as possible.
- Ball Spin indicates the amount of spin the racket puts on the ball after impact and is calculated on a scale of 0 (no spin) to 10 (maximum amount of spin).
- Backswing Time measures, in seconds, the time between tossing the ball until the lower point of the racket drop position, or when you have brought your racket up, and bent your arm in an L shape, and the racket head has dropped in preparation to swing and make impact.
- Impact Time measures, in seconds, the time from the end of the backswing until the racket impacts the ball.
Blue Force Gear (often abbreviated as “BFG”) has been making tactical gear since 2004. The company prides itself on crafting products that allow the operator to retain high mobility while on-mission or, in our case, playing long-duration airsoft games. One of their biggest innovations has been the creation of the Ten-Speed magazine pouch line. These magazine pouches feature military grade elastic and the company’s ULTRAcomp laminate material which molds to the shape of the magazine inserted into them. They don’t rattle around when you are running and they don’t fall out if you have to dive into a prone position. Blue Force Gear married their Ten-Speed SR25 magazine pouch with a form fitting chest rig to create the Ten-Speed SR25 Chest Rig.
The core chest rig of the Ten-Speed SR25 Chest Rig system is made from 500D CORDURA Ballistic Nylon, making it very thin and easy to wear. The material, while thin, is also very rugged and seems to be able to put up with a good amount of abuse. In the center of the chest rig’s main panel are three sewn-in Ten-Speed SR25 magazine pouches surrounded by a 3×3 MOLLE webbing panel on each side. Additionally, the chest rig features an inner pocket, measuring 18″ inches by 7″ inches in which you can store things like maps, documents, IDs, money, phones – the list goes on… I should mention, however, that the inner pouch isn’t all that thick, so you would be best served by only storing flatter items there. Thicker items tend to distort the overall shape of the main panel. The chest rig connects around the user’s back in an “H style” harness that features a small strip of Velcro for patch placement.
We used our Ten-Speed SR25 Chest Rig in our designated marksman loadout to go with our ARES Knight’s Armament M110 SASS airsoft rifle. This particular airsoft gun’s magazines are spot-on in dimension to their real-steel counterparts. So, it was a great way to test out what the chest rig was capable of. Initially, I had some issue inserting the M110 magazines into the tight mag pouches and couldn’t possibly see how I would be able to insert magazines in them while on the go. Thankfully, the Blue Force Gear press contact gave me some helpful advice and I left the magazine pouches full for a couple days to stretch them out. After, the pouches were still tight, but a lot more broken in. They are tight be design, of course, as they do not flop around or make a lot of noise while running or sneaking around.
The Blue Force Gear Ten-Speed SR25 Chest Rig is the ultimate in lightweight, minimalist, chest rigs for those of you carrying SR25 style magazines. It’s actually minimalistic to a fault as that means there is not a lot of space to add pouches or gear. I would have liked to have seen the addition of a few MOLLE rows up the front shoulder straps of the chest rig. It wouldn’t have added a lot to the chest rig’s weight, and could have been a nice bit of real estate to put a flashlight or small utility pouch. Of course, you can always wear the Ten-Speed SR25 Chest Rig over armor if you like – you would just have to be careful to size it correctly as to not cause any hangups while moving about. Blue Force Gear’s Ten-Speed SR25 Chest Rig retails for $90 dollars and is available now over at their official website.
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May 20, 2014 — Wargaming today announced details of the company’s presence at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2014 in Los Angeles on June 10 – 12. With a massive 10,000 square feet booth located at 623 in the South Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center, Wargaming plans to showcase a number of titles to E3 attendees.
The company’s multiplatform lineup will include the PC sensation World of Tanks, with its major overhaul currently underway, and World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition with a brand new line of vehicles. Rounding out the lineup, Wargaming will announce the release date of the mobile MMO action game World of Tanks Blitz that successfully soft-launched in Scandinavian countries and will go live globally soon.
Visitors at the booth will be able to participate in exclusive giveaways during the show and try their hand at a number of Wargaming titles, including World of Tanks, World of Warplanes, World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition, and World of Tanks Blitz at one of the many gaming stations.
Wargaming will also exhibit two armored vehicles at E3: the M4 Sherman medium tank will be on display outside of the South Hall, while the T-62A medium tank will be featured within the booth during the expo.
Copenhagen, Denmark — May 20, 2014 — Danish independent studio Full Control today announced that Space Hulk now includes cooperative play mode, as part of the latest free game patch that also has a number of updates and bug fixes. The patch also coincides with the new campaign ‘Harbinger of Torment’ which is now available for PC, Mac and Linux. Space Hulk is the digital adaptation of the classic Games Workshop board-game, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, and is available on PC, Mac, Linux and iPad,
“We are excited to release the new co-op mode in Space Hulk. It’s been in development for several months now, as we made a complete overhaul of the multiplayer mode to make it a seamless experience so players can easily jump into a co-op game”, said Thomas Hentschel Lund, CEO of Full Control. “In honor of launching co-op we are also releasing a new five-mission campaign, ‘Harbinger of Torment’, that is now available to Windows, Mac and Linux players”.
Players can now challenge friends, in up to 4-player co-op battles where three gamers each control a squad of terminators and one player controls the Genestealers. To support co-op gameplay, Full Control has given multiplayer a complete overhaul and is introducing a lobby system where players can see other gamers who are online and ready to play. The new co-op functionality is free withSpace Hulk, so all players need to do is log in, visit the new lobby and play.
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May 20, 2014 — Today we would like to share the 1st screenshots for ‘In Sheep’s Clothing,’ the fourth episode in the critically-acclaimed series ‘The Wolf Among Us,’ based on Bill Willingham’s award-winning comic book series ‘FABLES’ and licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Has the Wolf met his match? Beaten and bloody, Bigby is confronted by the realization that a society built on secrets is ripe for exploitation. And that the disenfranchised of Fabletown may see his prey not as the cause of their problems, but as their solution. Constantly caught between ‘the rules’ and doing the right thing, Bigby must tread a path fraught with danger in this penultimate episode of ‘The Wolf Among Us.’
Previously in their review of ‘A Crooked Mile,’ Gamespot commended the episode’s “unrelenting tension,” claiming that its, “overall consistency and expert pacing ensured my uninterrupted attention.”
IGN.com gave the episode a 9.2 ‘Editor’s Choice’ review, saying, “It’s a smart, brutal, and emotional episode that pushes the story forward and fleshes out nearly every player on the board,” also adding that, “A Crooked Mile represents a new high point for the series.”
The Escapist gave the episode a 5 out of 5 perfect score, saying it has, “a wham-bang climax that sticks in your craw.” Nerdist also claimed that the finale, “will leave you breathless, reeling from a shocking new encounter with a new, even more dangerous adversary.”
The fourth episode of The Wolf Among Us, ‘In Sheep’s Clothing,’ will soon be available on the Xbox Games Store for $4.99 USD or equivalent, or as part of a season pass upgrade including access to episodes 2-5 as they are released for $14.99 USD. On PC/Mac, the episode will be available as part of a season pass for $24.99 USD. This episode will also be available on PlayStation®Network for PlayStation 3 individually for $4.99 USD, or as part of a season pass which includes access to all five episodes. For iOS, the episode will be available as an in-app purchase individually for $4.99 USD, or as part of the episodes 2-5 multi-pack for $14.99.
Release date information has not yet been confirmed. For more information on the game as it happens, visit the official website, Facebook, and follow Telltale Games onTwitter.
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Sharon MA – May 20th, 2014 — Egosoft is extremely pleased to finally announce the release of X Rebirth 2.0 – Secret Service Missions. After considerable effort and with an eye to all the great feedback we’ve received, X Rebirth 2.0 represents a major update for a wide variety of gameplay mechanics. Together with the new plot chain, which offers all players membership in the Argon Federation secret service, X Rebirth 2.0 brings a host of new features and improvements including:
- New playership modifications allowing for different cockpit configurations for special purposes.
- Two new configurable radar modes for the event monitor
- An autopilot for your playership
- Several new commands for ships in your squad, permitting much finer control over their actions.
- A massive overhaul of the game’s balancing, as well as the introduction of three difficulty levels, and achievements for the new difficulty level “hard.”
- Multiple new gamestarts in different areas of the universe specially tailored for traders, builders or fighters
- A set of beautiful new capital ships which are especially useful for trading in Omicron Lyrae
- An overhauled visual look and feel resulting from improved shaders and soft shadows
- Lots of UI and menu improvements
- Ability to deal remotely with lots of NPCs without the need to land on stations
- Redesigned highway gameplay
- Better support for joysticks
X Rebirth 2.0 – Secret Service Missions will be released on May 20th 2014 on the Steam digital distribution platform, and is available as a free update to all our customers.
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Buena Park, CA (MAY 2014) – Knott’s Berry Farm and Knott’s Soak City water park are pleased to announce that they will be offering FREE admission to active and retired United States Military personnel Saturday through Monday of Memorial Day weekend (May 24-26).
A tribute to the Knott’s Berry Farm Armed Forces Program all active Military, Retired Military, Department of Defense personnel are eligible for free admission. A valid military ID must be presented to receive free admission.
Active and retired members of the U.S. military will also be able to purchase discounted admission tickets for members of their immediate family (maximum of six) for Knott’s Berry Farm for only $38.00 for each Regular ticket $33.00 each for a Junior ticket and $30.00 for each Regular Knott’s Soak City ticket.
“We would like thank our men and women in the military and their families for the sacrifice they make”, said Raffi Kaprelyan, general manager of Knott’s Berry Farm, “this program is a small way we can show our gratitude and appreciation for all of their hard work and dedication to the safety of our country.”
For more information on everything there is to do at Knott’s Berry Farm and Knott’s Soak City go to www.knotts.com.