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  • The Dark Mod 1.00 Public Beta Released
    19 Oct 09

    Broken Glass Studios announces the first public beta release of The Dark Mod, a medieval steampunk stealth game toolkit inspired by the Thief series.

    The Dark Mod team consists of a multinational group of professional and amateur game developers, who started work on the project in September of 2004. Their goal was to create a mapping toolkit inspired by Looking Glass Studios' classic stealth game Thief: The Dark Project and its sequel Thief II: The Metal Age. Built upon id Software's Doom 3 (id Tech 4) engine, The Dark Mod completely transforms the sci-fi / horror shooter into a medieval, steampunk, stealth experience. Players must have Doom 3 installed to run The Dark Mod.

     
  • Hudson Entertainment Shuffles the Cards with Creature Defense
    19 Oct 09

    PSP owners will get a taste of something new and addictive this Fall with the downloadable strategy title Creature Defense. Set to be published by Hudson Entertainment, the North and South American publishing arm of HUDSON SOFT, Creature Defense will take the best elements of both the growingly popular “Tower Defense” simulation game and add in card-based gaming fundamentals to create a new challenge in strategy games.

    “Creature Defense comes along when Tower Defense games are taking off in prominence and fantasy card games are beginning to be integrated into videogames,” said Mike Pepe, director of marketing of Hudson Entertainment. “Strategy gamers will love the combination of these two popular gameplay aspects encapsulated into one challenging title.”

     
  • Master Dominions 3: The Awakening with the Wiki
    19 Oct 09

    Dominions 3: The Awakening, developed by Illwinter Game Design and published by Shrapnel Games, is known for both its amazingly deep content driven gameplay and the fantastic community that has made the game a favorite around the world. In a time when games have become disposable it is a joy to see multi-player games cranking up each day, years after Dominions 3: The Awakening's initial release to rave reviews.

    One community project that has been under development for some time is the Dominions 3 Wiki. Spearheaded by Karsten Hiddemann with contributions by many other community fans, the Dominions 3 Wiki is now ready for its prime time debut. You can reach it by visiting:

    http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Main_Page

     
  • East India Company: Privateer Pre-orders Launch
    19 Oct 09

    Today, Paradox Interactive announced that pre-orders for East India Company: Privateer, an expansion for the popular naval strategy title, East India Company, have started.

    Customers who pre-order East India Company: Privateer will be given early access to the free add-on “Designer's Cut.” The add-on, which introduces new gameplay enhancements based off of input from both the game's developers and East India Company fans on the Paradox forums, will release to the rest of the public on October 27.

    East India Company: Privateer Features:
    • Two new campaigns in which you play the game as a privateer of your chosen nation.
    • New missions, including locating and either sinking or capturing enemy ships, blockading enemy ports and escorting friendly fleets.

     
  • Shattered Horizon In-Game Footage Revealed
    19 Oct 09

    Futuremark Games Studio today released a new trailer showing the first in-game footage from Shattered Horizon, their upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter for the PC.

    In Shattered Horizon, a catastrophic explosion on the Moon has filled near-Earth space with billions of tons of rocky debris. Survivors on the Moon are forced into conflict with those trapped on the battered International Space Station. Teams of players fight in zero gravity to control the limited supplies that mean the difference between survival and death in the cold of space.

     
  • "Level Up" Free Content Pack for Killing Floor
    15 Oct 09

    Tripwire Interactive has announced a “Level Up” Free Content pack for Killing Floor. This massive new content pack will be our largest free content pack to date and will be available October 22nd for anyone that owns Killing Floor. To celebrate and to allow as many people as possible to try it out, Tripwire will also be running a free weekend on Steam from Thursday October 22nd through Sunday October 25th. Full details on the pack will be available in a detailed preview article on IGN on Tuesday October 20th, so watch for that one. Also watch the web site (www.killingfloorthegame.com) for more details on this over the next few days!

    Killing Floor is now available in stores across North America and Europe as well as digitally on Steam (www.steampowered.com).

     
  • Miner Wars Delayed
    15 Oct 09

    According to a post by ‘Marek’, one of the developers on the forthcoming science fiction shooter Miner Wars, the game’s release date has been postponed to mid-2010:

     
  • New Beta for World of Battles
    15 Oct 09

    World of Battles is set in a medieval universe where 8 races battle it out to dominate the entire world. Take control of your armies and earn the right to be called the Lord of War. Players can choose to play any one of 8 popular fantasy races, from humans to elves, the Living Dead through to Orcs and Dwarves. World of Battles allows for a very high level of customization, right down to individual soldiers within your battalions. Once your troops are recruited, trained and ready for combat it’s up to you to decide on how best to equip them before heading out into the field of battle.

     
  • Dreamkiller Launches on Steam
    13 Oct 09

    Aspyr Media and Mindware Studios announced that the fast, frantic new horror FPS Dreamkiller is available now exclusively via Steam, Valve Corporation's delivery and management platform for the PC. Dreamkiller for Windows PC features 50 Steam Achievements, Leaderboards and frantic online multiplayer action. To delve deeper into the nightmarish world of Dreamkiller gamers can visit the newly launched official website at http://www.dreamkillergame.com.

     
  • NorbSoftDev Announces Series Title
    10 Oct 09

    Norb Software Development has announced that they have chosen the final name for their line of warfare games. They've been using the working title War3DII and had considered that they would keep this title for the final product. Since war3d.com is taken and they really wanted their own dot com and wanted to avoid any trademark issues, they have chosen "Scourge of War" as the title of their game line.

    A term used in President Lincoln's second inaugrial address, Scourge of War represents that no one really comes out of a battle a complete victor. War takes its toll on everyone involved. NorbSoftDev is in the process of updating all of their media releases as well as their website to reflect the new name. Look for "Scourge of War - Gettysburg" to be released late 2009, early 2010.

     
  • DLC for IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Lands
    09 Oct 09

    505 Games and 1C Company today announced that downloadable content for critically acclaimed WWII aerial combat game IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is now available on Xbox LIVE on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and on the PlayStationNetwork for PLAYSTATION3. The update gives players six more single-player missions across the existing six theatres of war featured in one of the most authentic flight combat games for next-gen consoles. Players can also jump into the cockpit of a brand new plane, the American P47D. The pack is set at 400 MS points for the Xbox 360™ and $4.99 for the PlayStation Network.

     
  • CyberPower Announces Operation Flashpoint Video Contest
    09 Oct 09

    The battle lines have been drawn on remote Skira Island. To the victors go the spoils of war – CyberPower Gamer Dragon 9000 gaming rigs that include the latest AMD Phenom II processors and ATI graphics cards, a wide screen monitor, top of the line keyboards, and other cool prizes. The defeated will be lost and forgotten.

    CyberPower is teaming up with online gaming community Xfire for its Operation Flashpoint Video Capture Contest, which features over $5,000 worth of prizes. And, all you have to do to keep the world safe and win these prizes is to record some grisly raw Operation Flashpoint game footage with the Xfire Video Capture application function and get your friends to vote for your video.

     
  • Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come is Coming to Steam
    09 Oct 09

    NeoCore Games has announced the launch of their first title via digital distribution on Steam. Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come offers a challenging, mission-to-mission story, where the player’s growing army gets stronger and deadlier after each battle.

    “It all happened in the darkest century of the medieval Europe, when a visionary Pope ignited the flames of the first crusade and united the rival nations for one single cause: to conquer the Holy Land.”

     
  • New Demo and Patch for Ironclads: High Seas
    09 Oct 09

    Totem Games have released a new update and a new demo for the naval simulator, Ironclads: High Seas. There are “considerable differences in gameplay” involved:

    The list of changes from version 1.0 to 1.1:

    - The price of repair of the ship is corrected
    - Change of the text of the prevention at ship purchase
    - The bug of the ships group (column) dispersal is eliminated
    - The graphic artefact by the ships removed from the chamber is corrected.
    - Values of experience for level reception are changed
    - The fight termination is added at control loss over a squadron
    - The sequence of the ships in the report on battle results is corrected
    - It is corrected CS ironclad shooting
    - The system of guns destruction is changed
    - The final screen is changed
    - The loading bug is corrected

     
  • Strategy First and GamersGate Partner for Digital Distribution
    09 Oct 09

    GamersGate, a leading platform for digitally distributed PC and Mac games, today announced that it has formed a distribution agreement with Strategy First to host some of their key titles on GamersGate’s online marketplace. To celebrate this partnership, Strategy First and GamersGate are offering the entire lineup of Strategy First titles for 20% off their full price.

    "As an award-winning independent development studio, Strategy First manifests our goals for the future of the game industry, and the future of independent, grass-roots development," said Daniel Hjelmtorp, Product Manager for GamersGate. "This partnership is an important milestone for our business as well as the business of distributing video games digitally."