Falling Stars trailer
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Coming for PS2
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Burda:ic Releases New Florensia Trailer
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008MUNICH, Germany – July 23, 2008
Burda:ic today released a new trailer of Florensia, a free-to-play MMORPG from Japanese developer NETTS. An adventure-filled fantasy world, Florensia features uncharted islands, dark dungeons, vast plains, and buried treasures just waiting to be discovered by aspiring explorers and privateers.
About Florensia
Florensia is a vibrant, maritime world that brings players from around the globe together to explore the islands of Cardiff, Exeter, and Magnel. Choosing one of four starting classes, from the sword-wielding Mercenary to the spell casting Noble, players will do battle with a huge variety of weapons and magical abilities as they explore expansive, underground dungeons and sail uncharted seas. Free-to-play and featuring a wide range of quests on dry land and across the ocean, Florensia is a distinctive blend of vibrant, colorful graphics and classically accessible MMORPG gameplay.
More information about Florensia can be found at http://www.florensia-online.com/.
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Beanstalk Games portal opens
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Columbus, Ohio – July 23, 2008- Brighter Minds Media, LLC (Brighter Minds), a wholly owned subsidiary of Brighter Minds Media, Inc. (TSX: BRI. V) is thrilled to announce the launch of BeanstalkGames.com, the online game destination for the whole family. Like Jack ascending the beanstalk, people of any age who have a love for adventure can climb into this exciting new world to discover the newest games and online activities.
Dedicated to bringing the fun of casual games to the whole family, Beanstalk Games will be a one-stop website for game enthusiasts of all ages. The site will host an extensive backlist of titles available for free-to-play trial including a selection of favorites from all the most popular casual gaming categories: puzzle, card and board, mahjong, match three, sim adventure, hidden object, time management, and many more.
Jody McLain, VP of Online Games and Marketing for Brighter Minds feels it is important to have a website devoted to bringing all-inclusive entertainment to the family. “We hope that any member of the family can share in the gaming fun at Beanstalk Games – from mom, dad, grandma and grandpa, to children, grandchildren, nieces, or nephews of any age.”
Unlike many available gaming sites, Beanstalk Games will also have games created specifically for the youngest and fastest growing faction of casual game fans – kids. Beanstalk Games is determined to provide families with the same high-level of quality game play for their children that many adult and casual game fans have come to expect for themselves. By searching out and developing content created with kids in mind, and offering a wealth of information that parents and gamers may find helpful in selecting games for children, Beanstalk Games will serve as not only a gaming site but also as a valuable resource for evaluating family games.
“I love playing casual games, but kids are people, too! As a parent, I know that it can be difficult to find appropriate, enriching, and high-quality games for my kids,” notes McLain. “Our vision is to make Beanstalk Games a place that is fun for all ages, but also valuable and useful for parents. By creating user forums and providing reviews from multiple view points, we hope to create a community where parents can find out anything they want to know about the games they, or their kids, are playing.”
The site will offer reviews from notable experts and professional game reviewers, educators, parents, and kids. Beanstalk Games will also offer detailed information about target ages, game content, and ratings (when applicable). Simply by logging in, users will have access to a community website where families can go to find, play, evaluate, and talk about all the latest computer games. Though Beanstalk Games is currently in the beta stage and not all elements have been implemented, Brighter Minds will be continually updating and adding new resources and functionality to the site.
Brighter Minds Media is confident Beanstalk Games will be an immediate hit with members of the entire family. This magical world may not offer gold, but quality time with family is just as valuable…and you won’t have to sell your cow to get there.
Games for Windows Live: all multiplayer features completely free
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Games for Windows – LIVE is all about making great Windows games even better – and today we have some exciting news to share regarding changes to Games for Windows – LIVE service for developers, publishers, and gamers:
- Effective today, all Games for Windows – LIVE multiplayer features are now completely free. Achievements, enhanced TruSkill ® matchmaking, cross-platform play with XBOX 360 (in games that support it), voice and text chat, a friends list that is consistent across both Windows and XBOX 360 – everything – is now free to Windows gamers. This change immediately affects all currently available Games for Windows – LIVE titles and all future titles.
- At E3, three great new titles announced support for Games for Windows – LIVE. Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II (Relic/THQ), Battlestations: Pacific (Eidos Interactive Ltd) and Fallout 3 (Bethesda) (game details at bottom of document).
- Microsoft also announced plans for a new Games for Windows – LIVE marketplace (coming this fall), with support for free and paid downloadable game content. The marketplace will keep gamers coming back for exciting new game content, trailers and demos that will enhance the Games for Windows – LIVE experience, while also giving publishers and developers new ways to offer ongoing value to their customers .
- The Games for Windows – LIVE interface will also be getting a PC-friendly makeover this fall, exchanging console-focused blades and buttons, for a slick new display the provides access to the community features of LIVE via menus and interfaces familiar to PC gamers.
- Microsoft is also making it easier for all publishers and developers to add achievements, friends, chat and all of the other Games for Windows – LIVE features to games (single player and multiplayer) with fewer technical requirements and testing hurdles. The number of Technical Certification Requirements has been reduced by more than one-third, and we’re providing simple, straight-forward instructions on how to implement LIVE features in Windows games.
GFW – LIVE: Game Details:
- Dawn of War 2: The highly anticipated sequel from one of the industry’s premiere Real-Time Strategy (RTS) developers, Relic Entertainment, is scheduled to bring the 41st Millennium’s savage warfare to life like never before in spring 2009. Powered by an enhanced version of Relic’s proprietary Essence Engine 2.0™, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II will take players to the brutal frontlines of war where they’ll experience intense action and visceral combat through a non-linear single player experience and a fully co-operative multiplayer campaign. Set in Games Workshop’s highly popular Warhammer 40,000 science fiction universe, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is being developed exclusively for Windows PC.
- Battlestations: Pacific: This title delivers intense, action-packed combat and strategic warfare at an extraordinary scale and features two distinctly different single player campaigns. As the Americans, the game picks up the story where Battlestations: Midway left off and allows players to fight their way from The Battle of Midway to Okinawa as they try to secure peace in the Pacific. As the Japanese however, players take control of the Imperial Japanese fleet and have the unique chance to fight at Pearl Harbor before attempting to change the course of history and take full control of the Pacific Ocean.
cdv Promotes Sacred 2: Fallen Angel with Blind Guardian Appearance at Comic Con 2008
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008German Power Metal Band to Sign Autographs in Support of Action RPG Sacred 2: Fallen Angel at Comic Con Booth 5129
Cary, NC, July 23, 2008 – cdv Software Entertainment USA is pleased to announce that Hansi Kürsch and André Olbrich, lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the definitive power metal band BLIND GUARDIAN, will be signing autographs in the Sacred 2: Fallen Angel area (Booth 5129) at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego. The band members will be available on Friday and Saturday, July 25 and 26, from 5 to 6 pm to meet fans and promote a new song written exclusively for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. Fans will also be able to visit the booth to enjoy hands-on play time with Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, the Action RPG set to release this fall on PC and next-generation consoles.
“The opportunity for Blind Guardian to work on a popular video game is quite exciting alone,” said Hansi Kürsch, lead singer of BLIND GUARDIAN. “To have us be able to contribute to and have our band exist within a game as rich as Sacred 2: Fallen Angel has been very rewarding for us, as gamers and fans of the Sacred series.”
“We’ve been long-time fans of Blind Guardian’s music,” added developer Ascaron Entertainment’s founder Holger Flöttmann. “The opportunity to have one of our favorite bands write a song and include their alter egos in-game has been a wonderful experience. It also signifies how great music and amazing games can fit together to deliver an even more enjoyable experience to gamers.”
“The members of Blind Guardian and their US record label, Nuclear Blast, have been extremely easy to work with,” indicated Mario Kroll, Director of Marketing and Public Relations for cdv Software Entertainment USA. “To have musicians of this caliber and popularity not only help and create, but also promote Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is something we’re incredibly excited about.”
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel will release for the PC in North America in September 2008. Console versions will be released in November 2008. For more information, please visit the Sacred 2 website at http://www.sacred2.com.
Visit BLIND GUARDIAN online at http://www.blind-guardian.com and http://www.myspace.com/blindguardian.
BLIND GUARDIAN music and DVDs will be available for purchase throughout the convention at the Nuclear Blast area (Booth 116) at Comic Con 2008.
Atlus issues apology to Izuna 2 amazon.com customers
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008|
Apparently there was a mixup and Atlus is taking full responsibility. I’m posting this as a public service.
ATTENTION: AMAZON.COM IZUNA 2: THE UNEMPLOYED NINJA RETURNS CUSTOMERS
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| We screwed up, Amazon didn’t, and unfortunately that means that no Amazon.com copies of Izuna 2 went out the door with the free-with-purchase mini-poster insert. We humbly apologize. Mini-posters will soon be mailed to all affected Izuna 2 Amazon.com customers. We ask for your patience, and that you refrain from looking up how to construct molotov cocktails, advanced explosives, and other potentially anger-motivated instruments of revenge.
New orders will be fulfilled with the mini-poster included as advertised. Again, thank you for your patience, and to everyone who brought this to our attention so quickly! It’s good to see a company own up, kudos Atlus, I’m sure everyone will be happy that they still get their pre-order posters! (I want one!!) |
Watchmen Video game is coming from WB Interactive
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES A NEW VIDEOGAME BASED ON WATCHMEN
Episodic Game Prequels Upcoming Warner Bros. Pictures’ Film Based On
DC Comics’ Award-Winning Graphic Novel
Burbank, Calif. – July 23, 2008 – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will publish WATCHMEN, an episodic downloadable game based on the upcoming Warner Bros. Pictures’ film for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in 2009.
The game captures the action and intrigue of the “Watchmen” feature film, directed by Zack Snyder, who previously helmed the blockbuster “300.” The screenplay for “Watchmen” is by David Hayter and Alex Tse, based on the award-winning graphic novel illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics. The film is produced by Lawrence Gordon (“Die Hard”), Lloyd Levin (“United 93”) and Deborah Snyder (“300”), with Herbert W. Gains (“The Brave One”) and Thomas Tull (“The Dark Knight”) serving as executive producers. “Watchmen” is a presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with Legendary Pictures.
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, “Watchmen” will take us to the brink of destruction. In alternate 1985 America – in which costumed superheroes are not only real but have ultimately been outlawed – one former hero goes looking for the truth behind the murder of one of his own, but uncovers a devastating conspiracy to drag the world implacably closer to its own end.
Playing the film’s core group of “masks,” the masked adventurers at the center of the story, are Malin Akerman (“The Heartbreak Kid”), Billy Crudup (“The Good Shepherd”), Matthew Goode (“Match Point”), Carla Gugino (“Night at the Museum”), Oscar nominee Jackie Earle Haley (“Little Children”), Stephen McHattie (“Shoot ‘em Up”), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy”), and Patrick Wilson (“Little Children”).
“We’re bringing the Watchmen universe to gamers in a distinct episodic game revealing action and combat for a great overall experience for fans,” said Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President, Production and Development, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “The filmmakers have been extremely helpful in developing the high-quality game story and we are working to match the outstanding visual style of the film.”
The videogame based on WATCHMEN will go beyond the film and delve into the characters, rivalries and challenges in a mature action-brawler. The game provides gamers with visceral superhero combat as urban vigilantes Rorschach and Nite Owl.
Dokapon Kingdom
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008July 23, 2008
Atlus today released new screens of Dokapon Kingdom, the irresistible multiplayer RPG for Wii™ and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. The King of Dokapon has offered you his throne; all he asks in return is that you dispose of an invading horde of thieving monsters. Trouble is – you’re not the only one he asked. Contend with up to three friends as you navigate playfields littered with challenges, monsters to defeat, and rare secrets to unlock. Warning: relationship counseling not included.
Dokapon Kingdom, the “Friendship-Destroying Game,” releases on both Wii™ and PlayStation®2 on October 14, 2008.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Perimeter 2: Exodus trailer
A new gameplay video from the upcoming RTS “Perimeter 2″ has been published on the game’s homepage. The trailer is focused on the Exodus technologies and illustrates the development of a typical Exodus base of operations. The video also shows all units and terraforming features of this playable faction.
Learn more about the Exodus faction:
http://perimeter2.kdvgames.com/universe/exodus.php
Perimeter 2 Homepage:
http://perimeter2.kdvgames.com
KDV Games homepage
http://kdvgames.com
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Perimeter 2: Exodus trailer
A new gameplay video from the upcoming RTS “Perimeter 2″ has been published on the game’s homepage. The trailer is focused on the Exodus technologies and illustrates the development of a typical Exodus base of operations. The video also shows all units and terraforming features of this playable faction.
Learn more about the Exodus faction:
http://perimeter2.kdvgames.com/universe/exodus.php
Perimeter 2 Homepage:
http://perimeter2.kdvgames.com
KDV Games homepage
http://kdvgames.com
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