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G4BOX Inc., announced that it will launch a brand new website for its military shooter, Cross Fire. The completely redesigned site includes a new blog-style news section and RSS feed, YouTube video integration, a new weapons guide, and a cool new community and contests section. The site re-launch also brings with it the unveiling of the long-teased “Rival Factions” event and an exciting new trailer. To check out the new site features and to download the game for free, visit http://crossfire.z8games.com.

Today, the Cross Fire website will be re-launched in order to better serve the growing Cross Fire community. The new site will offer numerous new and exciting features and benefits including, a blog-style news section with an RSS feed, YouTube video integration featuring community and fan-made videos, an extensive weapons catalogue and stats guide, and an all-new community contests section where players can quickly and easily submit and view screenshots and videos for future contests. All this, in addition to the launch of the highly-anticipated “Rival Factions” event.

“We have been waiting a long time to reveal the completely redesigned Cross Fire website to our community and fans. There are so many great new features that players can use to enhance their game,” said Howard He, Chief Executive Officer of G4BOX. “We’re also quite excited to launch the ongoing “Rival Factions” event, a unique event unlike any other in the free-to-play space.”

At the heart of Cross Fire is the conflict between Black List terrorists and Global Risk mercenaries. Now, as part of the new “Rival Factions” event starting January 22nd 2010, a winner can finally be declared. Upon visiting the “Rival Factions” event page, players will be forced to make an important choice: Black List or Global Risk? Once players choose a side, they will be entered into a game-wide clan for each faction, competing together as one team to influence the outcome of monthly missions that promise to finally tell the real story behind Cross Fire. Competing in missions can also earn players special in-game rewards.

Cross Fire is a free online military first-person shooter for Windows PCs supporting Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Players assume the role of either a Black List or Global Risk operative and compete in various modes of play including Free-for-All, Team Death Match and the exclusive stealth-action Ghost Mode. Cross Fire includes a military ranking system, in-game friends lists, an integrated clan system, and deep character customization options. Cross Fire is part of the Z8Games platform of free-to-play games.

Cross Fire is free-to-download-and-play. Visit the Cross Fire homepage at: http://crossfire.z8games.com

For more information about G4BOX visit www.g4box.com. For more information about the Z8Games lineup of games please visit www.z8games.com.

NecroVisioN: Lost Company, the sequel to the old-school first-person shooter NecroVisioN, launched a new website with overview, key features, latest news and much more about the title. The website is available at http://www.necrovision-game.com

NecroVisioN: Lost Company is the prequel to the old-school horror FPS and covers the events that happened before the NecroVisioN story began. The game contains several unique levels, characters and weapons, as well as a new main hero that tells the original game story from an opposing perspective.

Player now acts as one of the WWI German soldiers that discovers the evil forces unleashed by the war and starts to fight against them. Eventually he leads soldiers from all the nations gathered on the front through massive battles against zombies and demons. Finally the player becomes the first Necromancer that was defeated by Simon Bukner in NecroVisioN.

NecroVisioN: Lost Company is scheduled for release in February 2010.

UFORIA REVEALS THE CHARACTERS OF MERCENARY WARS

Full Character Descriptions Are Revealed For The Hotly-Anticipated Online Modern Warfare Shooter Mercenary Wars

Uforia, a new online game publisher specializing in massively multiplayer online games, today announced the all-new character lineup for its upcoming online modern warfare first-person-shooter Mercenary Wars. See below for full details of the four intriguing characters including Iron Strom, Saladin, Sensou and Blood Loss. For more information and to check out the game which is currently in open beta, players can visit http://uforia.mercenarywars.com.

Iron Storm

Iron Storm is the highest ranking female in the International Hessian Order. She founded the group in order to protect the North American region from newly established groups in other parts of the world. Clare began her military career with the United States Army and then moved on to other branches within the Armed Forces in order to gain expertise in various areas of modern warfare. She excelled within every area of military specialization, but specialized in covert operations with a focus on warfare in the Middle East.

Saladin

Saladin is the founder of the Medjay Mercenary Unit which he created to defend the Middle Eastern region from other mercenary units. Originally born in Yemen, Saladin traveled throughout the region training with some of the most renowned military units and even spending time with paramilitary groups mastering guerrilla tactics. His driving force is the notion that only natives of that region should have control over the natural resources and land, and he will do anything to push invading forces out of this territory.

Sensou

Sensou is the female leader of the United Asian Front after gaining control of the position from the founder of the group, Hyun Sugiyama, during a violent but swift rebellion. Her success stems from being able to unite the various Asian cultures under the umbrella organization — the United Asian Front. Prior to joining the United Asian Front, Sensou (then known by her birth name, Miyuki) was a researcher at various weapons development institutes throughout Asia and Europe. Her knowledge of advanced weapons systems led Sugiyama to recruit her into the organization to develop weapons with which they could eventually overpower the military forces in the region.

Blood Loss

“Blood Loss”, so named for his reputation for his aggressive tactics on the battlefield, is the second-in-command of the International Hessian Order. Along with “Iron Storm” he leads the International Hessian Order. His expertise are weapons that not only overpower the enemy, but completely aniline them. His main focus is not strategy, but logistics of how to win any particular battle. He is also the official tester of new weapons systems that the researchers create.

“We are excited to reveal the unique and interesting characters in Mercenary Wars, and we think our community of players will have a blast when they experience each of their unique, multi-faceted characteristics,” said Chris Keswani, Marketing Manager of Uforia.

About Mercenary Wars

Unlike other first person shooter games available today, Mercenary Wars features a unique stat system that players can use to upgrade and customize their lifelike characters. The combat in the game is designed to feel very realistic, while also allowing players to adjust their speed, accuracy, and health stats. Mercenary Wars is set in the not so distant future in a world where order and society as we know them are a thing of the past. The economies of the world have crashed and have been replaced with total chaos. New alliances have been forged and the world is now controlled by well-trained groups of mercenaries. Players must determine who to swear their allegiance to and fight side-by-side to the death, if necessary, in the quest to ensure becoming the new global powerhouse.

Mercenary Wars will also feature an innovative Artificial Intelligence system where computer controlled “bots” can be used in several ways ranging from practice to enhancing game play. Via four difficulty modes, players can select their desired skill level no matter what their previous FPS experience might be. Other features include multiple gameplay modes, a variety of character types and races, extensive ranking system including more than 50 different character ranks and title, an expansive number of weapons and equipment available for character customization and a built-in player-to-player audio communication tool for enhanced real-world combat simulation.

For more information, visit http://uforia.mercenarywars.com

2K Games announced today that Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot*, the second game add-on content developed by Gearbox Software for the highly acclaimed Borderlands, is now available from Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 for 800 Microsoft Points. Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot will be available for the PlayStation Network beginning January 7, 2010 for $9.99 and Windows PC in early 2010. The explosive excitement of Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot further enhances Borderlands’ reputation as one of this year’s best role playing shooter experiences.

Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot presents fans with new gameplay features that expand upon the popular Borderlands video game in dangerous and exciting ways. The all-new Riot Mode challenges players to test their weaponry against hordes of menacing antagonists, thirsting for carnage in tournaments where the rules of warfare are constantly changing. Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot also offers several new game features, including the ability to earn two more skill points making player’s characters an even deadlier lethal weapon, and an all-new bank feature that provides extra storage capacity for weapons of devastation.

“Our fans loved Borderlands because it was addictive gameplay at its best with over the top action that satisfied their appetites for destruction,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot expands upon the original Borderlands universe by taking the co-operative mayhem that gamers loved about the original game and amplifying it.”

Complete with extensive co-op integration seamlessly blending the single-player and multiplayer experiences, Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot allows players to freely join or leave each other’s games at any time for collaborative mayhem or the freedom to enjoy the game in full single-player mode. It also includes the groundbreaking weapon generation system that offers more than 16 million weapons from which to choose.

Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot is available now on Xbox Live Marketplace for Xbox 360 and will be downloadable on January 9, 2010 for the PlayStation Network for $9.99 and will also be offered for Windows PC users in early 2010. Borderlands™, rated M for Mature by the ESRB, was developed by Gearbox Software and is currently available for Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and Windows PC.

* Requires standalone Borderlands product in order to be played.

For more information, please visit www.borderlandsthegame.com.

2K Games is a division of 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

Stand-up comedian and actor Dane Cook will play Xbox LIVE Gold Members in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in a special Game with Fame event. If you’re a Gold Member (if you’re not a Member, upgrade now!) join us Sunday, December 27, from 10:00 – Midnight ET (7:00 – 9:00 P.M. PT) for some seriously funny battlefield action. If you get a chance to play with Dane Cook, we want to hear all about it! We’ll be posting recaps from gamers all across the country. Send us an email with the subject “GWF — Dane Cook,” and be sure to include your Gamertag and home town!

Send a friend request to the following Gamertag and be online half an hour before (9:30 P.M. ET) the Game with Fame session starts:

* DCook GwF

Dane Cook started his career at the age of 18, and quickly turned into a “comedian phenom and icon” as he was named by Entertainment Weekly. His first CD release, Harmful if Swallowed, went platinum, a rarity among comic albums, and his follow-up double CD/DVD Retaliation debuted at a remarkable number four on the Billboard 200 and went double platinum. Cook has also appeared in numerous films including Dan in Real Life (with Steve Carell), Mr. Brooks (with Kevin Costner), and My Best Friend’s Girl (with Kate Hudson). His latest CD, ISolated INcident, based on his Comedy Central special of the same name, fuels his current ISolated INcident – Global Thermo Comedy Tour.

Check out Dane’s special Game With Fame message! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuL_JN81yFU

If you want to see Dane Cook in action, check out these movies and specials from Zune:

My Best Friend’s Girl: http://social.zune.net/movies/My-Best-Friends-Girl/8bdf484b-9cf4-4abd-b21d-1467015a7f1f

Dan in Real Life: http://social.zune.net/movies/Dan-in-Real-Life/04496f6f-b246-455c-9eaf-e8f5ce2dd895

Employee of the Month: http://social.zune.net/movies/Employee-of-the-Month/9277fccb-bdaf-4c0a-a342-7c113f072a36

Waiting: http://social.zune.net/movies/Waiting/c81ab3fc-512b-4320-9209-901418b13402

Comedy Central Premium Stand-Up Special: ISolated INcident:

http://social.zune.net/tv/episode/CC+Premium+Stand-up+Specials/Dane+Cook+ISolated+INcident/e5d181bc-8ea6-4f38-98e5-0e3ee7dc044c

Comedy Central Presents Stand-Up: Dane Cook: http://social.zune.net/tv/episode/Comedy+Central+Presents+Stand-up/Dane+Cook/451d99d4-c14e-4f30-82ab-78882cc9609d

Dane Cook Game With Fame on Xbox LIVE

Date: December 27th

Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (PST)

Game: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

GAMERTAGS: DCook GwF (note: space between DCook and GwF)

URL: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/gamewithfame/2009/1227-danecook.htm

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A Brand New Website, A New Trailer And All-New Events Are Just Some Of The Highlights Introduced With The Open Beta Test

Uforia today announced its open beta test for the highly-anticipated online modern warfare first person shooter, Mercenary Wars, is live. Starting today at 5 PM PST, open beta testers are invited to test out all the latest features. Along with the open beta, Uforia is also introducing a brand-new Mercenary Wars website with new features and a new trailer for the game. For more information and to participate in the open beta, players can visit http://uforia.mercenarywars.com.

After several successful closed beta tests, all players will now be able to experience this action-packed FPS in a quest to become the new global powerhouse! The open beta test includes the latest content update featuring two new maps, the Black Market System cash shop and a new anti-hack system. Besides the open beta test, players will also be introduced to the brand-new Mercenary Wars homepage which includes new features. Along with the new website, Uforia is unveiling an all-new game trailer highlighting all of the intense action!

“We want to thank our community for their help throughout the beta period and recgnize that they have made a massive contribution in helping us develop this game,” said Chris Keswani, Marketing Manager of Uforia. “We are excited to unveil a new website and game trailer and hope current and new fans will like what’s in store for the game.”

Launch Events

In addition to the open beta test, Mercenary Wars will also host three new events. The first event, Merry Christmas, will feature Santa Hats and Candy Cane guns available for all players to purchase in the game. The items will be sold from December 22 through January 5 and will never be released again. The Rank Raffle is the next event where players will rank up the game to get entered into a raffle with a chance to win great prizes! The higher the rank the more tickets the player will receive. Players will randomly be chosen to win a 23″ monitor, gaming mice and more! And finally the last event is the X-Fire Challenge. The clans that combine for the longest playtime will win large amounts of UFO’s!

Unlike other first person shooter games available today, Mercenary Wars features a unique stat system that players can use to upgrade and customize their lifelike characters. The combat in the game is designed to feel very realistic, while also allowing players to adjust their speed, accuracy, and health stats. Mercenary Wars is set in the not so distant future in a world where order and society as we know them are a thing of the past. The economies of the world have crashed and have been replaced with total chaos. New alliances have been forged and the world is now controlled by well-trained groups of mercenaries. Players must determine who to swear their allegiance to and fight side-by-side to the death, if necessary, in the quest to ensure becoming the new global powerhouse.

Mercenary Wars will also feature an innovative Artificial Intelligence system where computer controlled “bots” can be used in several ways ranging from practice to enhancing game play. Via four difficulty modes, players can select their desired skill level no matter what their previous FPS experience might be. Other features include multiple gameplay modes, a variety of character types and races, extensive ranking system including more than 50 different character ranks and title, an expansive number of weapons and equipment available for character customization and a built-in player-to-player audio communication tool for enhanced real-world combat simulation.

For more information, visit www.mercenarywars.com

2K Games and Gearbox Software Turn the Conventional First-Person Shooter Genre Upside Down with the Release of Borderlands

Four-player co-op, 87 bazillion guns, an arresting art style and a dancing robot – What more could you want?

2K Games announced today that Borderlands is now available in North America for the PS3 and the Xbox 360, and will be available starting October 23 internationally. The Windows PC version will ship in North America and internationally on October 26 and October 30, respectively. Developed by Gearbox Software, Borderlands delivers this year’s most explosive and entertaining role-playing shooter (RPS) by combining the most addictive gaming elements found in action-packed first-person shooters with the deep character development of role-playing games (RPG).

“We are excited by the overwhelmingly positive media response to Borderlands and can’t wait for consumers to see for themselves how it takes the traditional first-person shooter experience and turns it completely upside down,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “Borderlands is unlike anything else on store shelves. It’s got it all, from single-player to four-player co-op, two-player split-screen, character development that grants players a sense of ownership, and the biggest arsenal ever seen in a first-person shooter.”

Featuring extensive co-op integration that seamlessly blends the single-player and multiplayer experiences, Borderlands allows players to freely join or leave each other’s games at any time for collaborative mayhem or the freedom to choose to play in full single-player mode to experience the world on their own. Borderlands also includes a groundbreaking weapon generation system that offers a near infinite variety of weapons to the player. Borderlands combines these features with addictive non-stop action to form a breakthrough experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters and RPGs.

More mayhem is set to come for players of Borderlands via The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, the first in a series of downloadable expansion packs, which is scheduled to arrive for all platforms before the end of the year.

“The Borderlands team at Gearbox has brought together the things we know we love – co-op, skill-based action, character development and millions of guns – in a way we haven’t seen before,” said Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software. “Borderlands is a great shooter that we can play alone or with friends. I think it’s the best video game we’ve ever made and I have never been more excited about a launch.”

As one of this holiday season’s most unique and entertaining titles, Borderlands takes gun lust to a new level by featuring more than 17 million unique weapons. Each weapon has its own combination of manufacturer, specifications and advantages for gamers to wreak havoc on the evils of the wasteland planet of Pandora as they embark on a quest for the elusive Vault. Add Borderlands’ eye-popping and visually compelling art style known as Concept Art Style that combines traditional rendering techniques with hand-drawn textures, and it is easy to see why 2K Games and Gearbox Software have created the must-have game of the year. Additionally, the Windows PC version will support NVIDIA® 3D Vision™, for high resolution, fully immersive 3D gaming.

Borderlands is rated M for Mature by the ESRB. For more information, please visit http://www.borderlandsthegame.com.

The unique rapper who turned his MySpace page into a successful recording contract will play Halo 3 with Xbox LIVE Gold Members June 24. If you’re an Xbox LIVE Gold Member (if not, upgrade now!), and you want a chance to play with Asher Roth, send a friend request to the following Gamertag and be online half an hour before (5:30 P.M. ET) the Game with Fame session starts on Monday, June 22, 6:00 P.M. ET. If you get a chance to play with Asher Roth, we want to hear about it! Send us an e-mail (xlmail@microsoft.com) with the subject: “GWF – Asher Roth.” Be sure to include your Gamertag and home town.

He doesn’t come from the mean streets of the tough city, his roots are in suburbia. But he has impressed rap legends like 50 Cent and Ludacris with his brash and fun style. “[Rap] is for everybody. I couldn’t rap about the drugs that I had or the guns that I sold, but I could rap about how much fun I was having hanging out with my friends. That’s the stuff that felt right to me,” he says. A friend sent a few of his tracks on his MySpace page to former So So Def marketing director Scooter Braun, and he was soon signed to a label. His debut album, Asleep in the Bread Aisle, contains the hit single “I Love College,” and has led to him putting on a series of live sold-out shows where the fun really begins. “My vision is to put on the dopest live show possible,” says Roth. “Let’s make it like Woodstock.”

If you want a sampling of the sound of Asher Roth, we have two music videos available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace:

“Be By Myself” – http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/0cf42d0c-f954-4f47-9537-1d3919f7c590

“I Love College” – http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/55eccb64-c673-437f-8ebe-e50920a16dbc

Asher Roth Game With Fame on Xbox LIVE

Date: June 24th

Location: New York City

Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM (EST)

Game: Halo 3 with Mythic Map Pack add-on

GAMERTAG: AsherRoth GwF (**Note: space between AsherRoth and GwF)

URL: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/gamewithfame/2009/0622-asherroth.htm

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some pre-E3 screens of the upcoming game that blends FPS with RTS seamlessly. More to come from E3 (which, sadly, I won’t attend this year).

Special Events Along With All-New Features and In-Game Items All Part of the Launch Festivities at http://crossfire.subagames.com/

G4BOX Inc. and Wicked Interactive Ltd., North American publishers and distributors of interactive entertainment media, together announced yesterday that SubaGames.com’s free military FPS Cross Fire has now officially gone live and is available to download for free at: http://crossfire.subagames.com.

The Cross Fire Official Launch is marked by a substantial update to the game which includes, three new game modes (including the long-awaited “Free For All” deathmatch and the knives-only battle-arena), playable female characters, and ranked clan matches on a dedicated server. In addition, the official launch will introduce loads of new in-game weapons, items, and accessories. Cross Fire officially went live at 1:00 AM on Thursday April 16th, 2009. The launch is also supported by an in-game event that allows players to earn extra experience for a limited time in order to level-up faster.

“Since Cross Fire went into open beta earlier this year we have built a dedicated community of players,” said Garvin Yeung, Chief Executive Office of Wicked Interactive. “We have worked hard on all the new content included in the official launch version of Cross Fire,” added Howard He, Chief Executive Officer of G4BOX, “We know Cross Fire veterans and new players alike will be able to find something new they can enjoy.”

Cross Fire is an online military first-person shooter for the PC, developed by SmileGate and Neowiz, and co-published by G4BOX and Wicked Interactive. Players assume the role of either a Black List or Global Risk mercenary, and then join an online team that must work together to complete objective-based scenarios. Cross Fire’s flagship feature is its “Ghost Mode”, which puts one team in possession of top-secret cloaking technology, rendering them invisible to the opposing team. This team of “ghosts” is armed only with knives, and must stealthily track and hunt the enemy team. This mode is exclusive to Cross Fire and no other mode exists quite like it in any other first-person shooter.

Cross Fire is free-to-download-and-play. Visit the Cross Fire homepage at: http://crossfire.subagames.com

Now part of the Subagames library of free MMOs.
http://www.subagames.com