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Fiesta Patch Introduces New Veterans Day Items, Dances

The latest patch for the free-to-play MMORPG Fiesta is now available.

New camouflage Veteran’s Day items allowing players to honor real world heroes in-game are now available in the Fiesta Store. Players can also partner up with friends and form teams of two for the D-Day tag team PvP event running Thursday through Sunday this week.

The new patch also introduces the new Gender Change item to the Fiesta Store, allowing players to further customize their experience and change the gender of already-existing characters. Because the Gender Change item also resets a character’s appearance to its default state, the Beauty Shop Coupon, which allows players to choose from additional visual customization options for their character, will be 50% off for the remainder of the week.

Finally, Set Items have also come to Fiesta. These powerful items are dropped at random from monsters in the world, and provide additional bonuses when paired with other items from the same set.

For more information, including full patch notes, visit the Fiesta website now.

Official Fiesta Website: http://fiesta.outspark.com
Fiesta Store: http://store.outspark.com/fiesta
Full Patch Notes: http://www.outspark.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1339572

Outspark YouTube Channel: http://youtube.com/outspark
New Dance 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyWrLF1P8F0
New Dance 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOu_EUiLi2Y
New Dance 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9-kSQcCwsI
D-Day Event: http://www.outspark.com/forums/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=783&day=2008-11-13&c=1
Beauty Shop Coupon Sale: http://fiesta.outspark.com/news/?view=news&document_srl=3032

check it out: http://www.playmotogp.com/

My contact at capcom says there’s a 360 and PS3 demo forthcoming, I’ll post about those when they are available on Live and PSN.

“The demo gives players a great first taste of MotoGP 08, allowing access to a quick race around the Mugello circuit, with a choice of riding as either Spanish favorite Dani Pedrosa or America’s Nicky Hayden. Players can also select one of the game’s three riding models and set the opponent AI to create the ideal challenge to match their riding skills.”

So there you have it. Give it a try. I may give it a whirl and review the demo here this week.

Video 1 is an answer to viewer email from the website about when Dangeresque 3 is coming out. Strongbad instead talks about the Directors cut of Dangeresque

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Video 2 is about Dangeresque’s stunts, via viewer mail

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Video 3 is a gameplay video of Episode 4: Dangeresque 3

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With exactly one week left until the launch of the New Xbox Experience there is no better time than now to load your console with classic high-definition games. Xbox LIVE Arcade is providing an even greater incentive to log-on and load-up: discounted best-selling titles! Download a trio of hit Xbox LIVE Arcade games, including “Feeding Frenzy,” “Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3″ and “Worms” for only 400 Microsoft Points each. Stay ahead of the game and have your Xbox 360 ready for the New Xbox Experience by downloading great games, including these three, so you can jump right into the fun on November 19.

Feeding Frenzy: Get ready to devour everything smaller than you and take on the formidable Shark King in the original smash title “Feeding Frenzy.” Travel to the depths of the ocean in this stunning underwater adventure. This game is packed with 40 underwater levels and fascinating fish. Published by Oberon Media and developed by Sprout Games, “Feeding Frenzy” is rated E for Everyone by the ERSB.

Worms: Slither and slide your way to victory in this clever turn-based strategy game for a fraction of its original price. Explore extraordinary landscapes with a team of worms and attempt to survive the chaos. With 20 increasingly difficult single player challenges, three geographical themes and a random landscape generator you’ll have plenty of opportunities to perfect your strategy skills. “Worms” was developed and published by Team 17 Software Ltd. and. The game is rated E10 and now priced at 400 ms points.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3: Choose from 22 fighters from the Mortal Kombat Hall of Fame, each with their own special moves and fatalities. Loaded with multi-tiered environments, you can fight solo, with a friend or against an unlimited number of opponents ONLINE! This best-selling Xbox LIVE Arcade game was developed and published by Midway and is rated M for Mature by the ERSB.

The “Arcade Hits” program brings some of the best-selling Xbox LIVE Arcade games straight to your living room for permanent low prices. For more information on these titles or other “Arcade Hits,” please visit: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/arcadehits/default.htm

Donation to Games For Soldiers Organization Brings Latest Blinged-OutPuzzler to Armed Forces Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan

SEATTLE, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ — PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, announced today that it will ship the first 500 boxed, retail copies of Bejeweled Twist(TM) to the non-profit Games For Soldiers (GFS) organization tomorrow. GFS will deliver the boxed copies of the game to armed services personnel stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan in time for soldiers in the field to enjoy it during the holiday season. The third installment in its ultra-popular Bejeweled(R) franchise, Bejeweled Twist arrives on retail shelves next Tuesday, November 18 and is available now via Web download at http://www.popcap.com.

“We really appreciate PopCap’s generous contribution — one of several the company has made to our organization — and are ramping up to distribute copies of Bejeweled Twist to soldiers in the field by mid-December, just in time for the holidays,” said Jesse Williams, founder of Games For Soldiers and Army National Guard soldier who returned home from a deployment to Afghanistan earlier this year. “So-called ‘casual’ games like Bejeweled, Peggle and Zuma are hugely popular with military personnel of all ages, ranks and backgrounds. These games lend themselves to the occasional and haphazard ‘down time’ common to military life in combat areas, and provide some distraction and even stress relief in what are often high-adrenaline and/or high anxiety environments.”

SPC Williams first began contacting video game publishers while stationed in Afghanistan, securing donations to help outfit his unit’s MWR (Morale, Welfare and Recreation) center. After returning home, he founded the Games For Soldiers organization (http://www.gamesforsoldiers.org), which has shipped thousands of video games to armed services personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008, to both individual soldiers and base recreation centers and Internet cafes. While there are dozens of organizations chartered with distributing books, toiletries, snacks and other items to U.S. Armed Services personnel, Games For Soldiers is the only entity that is specifically focused on donating video games to the troops.

Bejeweled Twist is the recently-launched third installment in the seminal puzzle franchise. From PCs and Macs, PlayStation and Xbox consoles to mobile phones, PDAs, iPods and iPhones, Bejeweled is available for more than a dozen devices and platforms and is the most popular casual game of the 21st century. More than 350 million copies of Bejeweled/Bejeweled 2 have been downloaded from the Web, accounting for nearly a third of the 1 billion-plus downloads of all PopCap(R) titles. Further, the Bejeweled franchise alone has been enjoyed for more than 6 billion hours by consumers worldwide.

Cute, magical, and hell-bent on becoming the world’s most powerful monsters… Who knew?

New York, NY – November 12, 2008
Code Collective, developers of The Far Wilds, today announced details for their upcoming Grand Clash tournament scheduled to begin in late December. The winner of the competition will walk away with $1,000 and runners up will receive varying amounts of in-game gold.

The Grand Clash is held twice a year to determine the current Far Wilds World Champion. Players must demonstrate strategy and ingenuity wielding their own handcrafted armies.

There will be several preliminary tournaments from now until the start of the Grand Clash. This will give players a chance to refine their strategies against other top players and experiment with various army designs.

There will be eight open invitation qualifying tournaments in December. These will have gold prizes and a seat at the Grand Clash final round for the winners. The week before the Grand Clash final round there will be another eight qualifying tournaments to fill out the other eight seats in the final round.

The Grand Clash final round will take place on Saturday January 3rd. It will be a 16 person double elimination tournament.

Prizes

-1st Place – $1,000 cash
-2nd Place – 6000 gold
-3rd Place – 3000 gold
-4th Place – 1500 gold

To participate, players need to download and install the Far Wilds beta or use the Flash version of the game on the site.

Download The Far Wilds beta: http://www.thefarwilds.com/download.html

A tutorial video on how to play is available here: http://thefarwilds.com/tutor/basic3/basic3.htm

About Far Wilds
The Far Wilds, an online strategy game in a fantasy setting that combines elements of collectible card games, real-time strategy and massively multiplayer online games. The Far Wilds emphasizes strategy and clever plays rather than fast clicking. The battlefield is randomly generated so each game is very different. Players must constantly be adapting to the changing game conditions. In addition to this higher level of strategy the configurable armies gives The Far Wilds unique, interesting and addictive gameplay.

Ages have gone by since the ancient evil was sealed behind the rift. The civilized world has since been isolated behind a great wall of defense. Now a few brave souls have ventured out into the wilds to build their kingdoms and carve out new realms in the wilderness beyond the wall.

You are one of these brave souls, a warlord in the outskirts of the known world struggling to establish a kingdom in the wild lands. You must use strategy and wits to establish yourself and not be pushed back further into the wilderness. Failure results in your death and the death of your army, and success cannot be measured in mortal terms.