Speedball 2 video game - Tournament: The Championship Goes Online

LEAD YOUR TEAM TO VICTORY AND CLIMB THE WORLWIDE RANKINGS

Speedball 2 – Tournament, the ferocious and extreme sports game for PC, now with state-of-the-art 3D graphics combines brutal gameplay with extreme online multiplayer action. Control your team of heavily armoured players as you play on the extensive online network accessed through the game’s innovative GameCenter.

The GameCenter provides a unique opportunity to play friendly matches or official ladder games against other ranked players. For official matches it offers a sophisticated ladder and ranking system where all match results are saved on the server and integrated into the player and league statistics.

Once you have logged into the GameCenter you can also view Speedball rankings, player blogs or join the network of individual clans. Create your own profile to display your match statistics and then add friends, images and information on your team.

Manage your team

Before joining the online battle for glory, choose from a selection of 32 teams from 4 different leagues, each with their own emblem and uniform. Or customise your own personal team and choose every aspect of its style including team skin, armour colours and tags. Then select from one of 4 futuristic arenas to start playing.

Select a winning combination from three differently skilled player classes in order to triumph in Speedball 2 – Tournament. Teams now incorporate all-new female and cyborg players so you can choose males for power, females for speed and dexterity or droids for their strength against vicious attacks. All players vary in their abilities, so it’s up to you to use your team to its best advantage.

About Speedball 2 - Tournament

In a degenerative futuristic society, gang disputes are ultimately settled by a brutal street sport called Speedball. Two heavily armoured teams, nine-on-nine, must fight a vicious battle for possession of a steel ball using brute force. Punch and kick your way through the opposition, pounding players to the ground as you go. Use any violent, dirty or malicious tactics to score goals and other points and win the game.

Fast facts:

• Publisher: Ascaron Entertainment


• Web: www.Ascaron.com / www.Speedball2.com


• Developer: Kylotonn Entertainment


• Co-Producer: The Bitmap Brothers & Frogster Interactive Pictures AG


• Release date: February 2008


• PEGI: 12+ (expected)


• Format: PC


• Genre: Futuristic Sports

UK TV videoGaiden Christmas Special

videoGaiden celebrates a very special Christmas with a very special Christmas Special this Christmas, and every gamer is invited.

The blockbuster festive show features a catalogue of legendary icons, and will be available for your viewing pleasure on Sunday 23rd December at 11:30pm, on BBC2 Scotland (Sky Channel 990). There has never been a Christmas special like it.

The videoGaiden party is already rolling at www.bbc.co.uk/videogaiden with two of eighteen webshows already online, and a new one arriving every single weekend. Jump on board.

Good Meeting!

About videoGaiden

videoGaiden began in 2005 with a run of 6 x 10 minute episodes, the second series following a year later with 6 half hour shows. This third season sees the show switch primarily to the internet, with 18 x 15 minute (approx) episodes, and 3 TV specials.

These shows are complimented by the continual release of extra content on our website (www.bbc.co.uk/videogaiden), as demonstrated in the first instance by the advent calendar. Check the calendar – content ranges from the whimsical to the downright unpleasant, dependant on your sensibilities of course.

Specially shot reviews for mobile phones will be going live next week, with further content being continually released until the end of March.

videoGaiden is written and presented by Robert Florence and Ryan Macleod, the brains behind the internet hit, Consolevania.

Pro Evolution Soccer - PES 2008 arrives on Sony PSP and Nintendo DS

PES 2008 comes to handheld

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH's unveils bespoke versions for PSP (PlayStationPortable) and Nintendo DS

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has released details of its handheld versions of PES 2008, with versions for PSP and Nintendo DS scheduled for release in the New Year.

Developed by Konami’s football Studio in Tokyo, both contain all the realism and intuitive controls associated with the series, but within bespoke versions tailored for their host format. The PSP version of PES 2008 shares a lot in common with the existing PlayStation 2 game, with a wide range of tournaments and leagues on offer, alongside an all-new World Tour mode, wherein users are set a series of challenges as they tour the globe. As each task is successfully completed, further tests designed to show the capability of your chosen squad are unlocked.

Full Edit modes have also been incorporated into PES 2008, while the data sharing aspect has been totally reworked to allow users to continue building their team while away from their home system. As such, Master League information can now be swapped between the PSP and PlayStation 2 versions, as can League, World Tour and Cup Mode data.

Similarly, the Nintendo DS version of PES 2008 includes Exhibition, Penalty Shoot-Out and Konami Cup elements, and a variant on the World Tour system where the player faces elite teams from every continent. The wireless elements of the Nintendo DS have also been well used, with a Network Mode facilitating multi-player games of up four users with copies of the game, while one-against-one matches can be played with just one copy of PES 2008. Players can also trade players with friends, while coins are collected and can be used to add the world’s best players to your team.

With PES 2008 still enjoying major success on PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PC-DVD, handheld users can look forward to stunning versions of the truly beautiful game in 2008.

PES 2008 will be released for PSP (PlayStationPortable) and Nintendo DS in Q1, 2008. Versions for PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PC-DVD are available now.

BubbleWorld PC video game download

From the creative minds at Bibo Games comes BubbleWorld, an enjoyable, refreshing mix of hidden objects, matching skills and mouse control, for kids, their moms, dads and even grandparents!

The objective of BubbleWorld, according to Marco Pesce, CEO of Bibo Games, is to bring all the family together for hours of gameplaying fun. BubbleWorld has been created as a family game, one that could be as challenging and fun to play for kids as for their moms and dads. Not only does it offer you an entertaining way to pass your free time, but it may also serve as a great learning game for your kids because it raises their powers of perception and their confidence and dexterity with the PC’s mouse.

Can you help poor Cindy? She and her friends are trapped in a world of bubbles as a result of a wicked spell cast by the evil Witch Makeeba.

In seventy levels of fascinating gameplay, becoming increasingly more difficult, you must click on the matching bubbles trapping each pair of her friends to release them. Sounds easy but you have a limited time available and the bubbles bounces all over the screen! Special “bonus” bubbles give you a chance to increase the time you have remaining – a green pair gives you another 20 seconds, while a blue pair gives an extra 50 seconds. But, to make things more difficult, from time to time a pair of bubbles will start to flash. When this happens you must rush to free that pair before they burst and you lose ten seconds of your valuable remaining time.

Each level ends when you run out of time or have managed to free all the trapped friends, and you earn 100 points for each freed pair. If you complete the level without running out of time, you go on to the next level. Otherwise you start back at your opening position for that level. To make things more interesting, new types of friends appear in later levels.

Be Warned – Don’t start to play this game unless you are prepared to keep going as you progress through the various levels, because it’s truly addictive! Don’t blame us if you suddenly find that hours have magically disappeared while you enjoy the fun, for believe us – you will enjoy it!

Read more information about BubbleWorld at http://www.bibogames.com/

Download an evaluation copy from http://www.bibogames.com/bubbleworld.exe

BubbleWorld requires Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/2003/XP/Vista and costs $19.95 (USD). All registered customers are entitled to free priority technical support. Additional information on BubbleWorld, as well as its evaluation version is available at no cost from http://www.bibogames.com

Neverwinter Nights 2 Download Patch 1.11 Released

A new auto-update patch has been released for Neverwinter Nights 2 featuring numerous updates and fixes for the main game, Mask of the Betrayer expansion pack, toolset and the DM client.

Fixes include:

• Functionality improvements


• Exploits removed


• In-game messaging improvements


• Animation issues addressed


• Dialogue fixes


• Toolset crashes fixed


• Spell fixes


• Scripting improvements

Download the patch here

Myth Makers: Orbs of Doom video game for the Nintendo Wii

Video games publisher and games developer Data Design Interactive are pleased to announce that its Nintendo Wii development team, working on the popular ‘Popcorn Arcade’ label, have had another game gain Nintendo approval. ‘Myth Makers: Orbs of Doom’ is the 13th title available from Popcorn Arcade and will ship this fall.

Myth Makers: Orbs of Doom

The evil sinister Rebus has trapped the Myth Makers in the Orbs of Doom; you must complete his mind boggling challenges in order to save them. This quest will test your skill, tax your mind and your nerve as you balance your way through a mixture of twisty bends, narrow ledges and peculiar obstacles. Myth Makers: Orbs of Doom provides madcap fun using a tilt control method, designed to fit the gestures and hand motions of the Wii Remote.

• 8 magical Myth Makers characters to choose from.


• Over 40 amazing brain busting levels set across 5 lavish environments!


• Try setting new records by racing against the clock and explore the other exciting modes of play.


• Knock the other competitors off the track in the exciting multi-player mode allowing you to play with up to 4 opponents simultaneously.

Picross 4 kids Child's Play Puzzle play online

This week, Wii Picross announces the release of "Picross 4 Kids", an imaginative book of original picross puzzles created for younger players. Fifty percent of all proceeds this year are to be donated to the Child's Play 2007 charity, which supports Children's Hospitals in many different countries.

Picross 4 Kids is fully illustrated with a wide variety of comical situations featuring inventive uses of picross puzzles. The book is 52 pages long with over 100 puzzles, and includes a thorough tutorial as well as a complete solution guide. It is carefully designed to be accessible to children as young 5 or 6 years old, but it offers a a variety of challenges for kids of all ages. This fun and healthy pastime will exercise childrens' math and logic skills without them being aware of it, and the many hours of enjoyment it offers makes it a perfect gift for the holidays.

Picross 4 Kids is available now as an e-book, and as a printed comic book. (www.wiipicross.com/picross4kids)

More information and demo pages from the e-book can be found here: (http://www.wiipicross.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=614)

If you haven't visited www.wiipicross.com since its launch then you don't know it at all!

Since July 2007, this family friendly, global picross puzzle site for Wii and PC has greatly expanded with:

- Nearly 2000 puzzles in the Puzzle Bank, manually tested and fixed for solvability

- A player voting system ranking all of the puzzles by quality

- A Puzzle Search screen that lets you explore the huge variety of puzzles by their popularity and thematic tags or keywords

- Weekly Top Designer rankings

- Random Play, letting you set preferences and then enjoy a stream of puzzle content

- RSS feed for Puzzle of the Day

- Greater screen space, optimized for widescreen Wii use and a better PC experience

- New grid features: interactive clues that fade as you satisfy them, and row and column highlights

- The ability to print out any puzzle, with instructions and example puzzles, to share and play on paper

- Improved Design screen features

- And festive Advent Calendar puzzles running up until December 25th

All of this on top of the already solid platform of tutorials, feature puzzles, community forums, and designing and sharing of user puzzles with players from all over the world.

KartRider free-to-download, free-to-play online multiplayer racing game

Nexon America Inc. is lighting up KartRider’s Arctic Rim with Christmas ornaments and decorations this holiday season. With tracks from Arctic Rim reverberating Christmas spirit, KartRider is also presenting holiday events, music and prizes to supplement the festivities. Already surpassing enormous expectations, KartRider, the free-to-download, free-to-play online multiplayer racing game, is anticipating an influx of new and returning users during the holidays. More information can be found at http://kart.nexon.net.

More specifically, Shark’s Fin, Penguin Town, and Ice Cave, the three tracks that currently comprise the Arctic Rim courses in KartRider, received a Christmas makeover that includes candy cane poles, penguins clad in Santa gear, and jingly bells amongst the numerous decorations. There will also be Christmas carol background music. Much like the neighbors on your block who are fiercely prideful of their annual Christmas light decorations, Nexon America is going all-out in an effort to bring holiday spirit to the rapidly growing number of KartRider users.

In addition to the decorations, KartRider is rolling out bigger events and prizes in the spirit of the season. KartRider’s Holiday Marathon, an endurance race for serious kart enthusiasts, boasts rewards such as laptop computers and Ipods, among other must-have holiday gifts. KartRider’s Myspace users are getting involved with the Holiday Wish List event, which prompts users to leave comments on the KartRider Myspace page stating which item from the Item Shop they’d like to receive for Christmas and why; winners will be selected to receive their holiday wish based their comments provided.

Also being released this month is the Holiday Plate and Holiday Baton items. The plate will be available in the Item Shop while the baton will be awarded to users who complete a certain amount of races in a quest. The Holiday Plate and Holiday Baton allow users to show their spirit through two different venues and promises to light up the karts of millions of users.

With all the decorations, events, and gifts, it’s shaping up to be a very merry Christmas for KartRider users. KartRider fans can check on http://kart.nexon.net for more news and updates regarding open beta and official launch. Nexon plans a pedal to the metal onslaught of promotions, contests, and events in coordination with KartRider’s launch schedule to “drive” this title to success!

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Russian games giant PC games commitment

05 Games today announced plans to significantly bolster its PC portfolio by signing a new deal with Russian games giant, 1C Company, to exclusively publish its PC games and launch its new label under the 1C Company brand across Europe. The agreement grants 505 Games European co-publishing rights in conjunction with 1C’s Western European team, 1C Publishing. 1C’s current range of titles falls under this new deal, as well as new games currently in development. The new label aims to reinvigorate the PC market with exciting, high technology titles being developed in Eastern Europe.

Working with the 1C Europe team, 505 Games will launch, promote and build the 1C brand across Europe. 505 Games will manage the marketing, PR, sales and distribution across the 1C Company range, including eagerly anticipated titles including Cyrostasis, NecroVisioN, and Death Track in the first cycle of launches. Over a dozen titles are scheduled for release in 2008.

“We are incredibly excited to be working with 1C Company to bring the fantastic range of top quality titles to a PC-hungry European market,” commented Ian Howe, Managing Director of 505 Games. “1C’s PC portfolio further enhances our release schedule for 2008 and offers the PC gamer something new and stimulating.”

“We are delighted to be working so closely with 505. Not only does our range complement its portfolio perfectly, but its team’s long term experience, creative drive and personality matches ours and fits the way we like to operate to a tee,” said Darryl Still, 1C’s International Marketing Director.

“Having worked closely with the key 505 Games people in the past, we confidently look forward to a long term and successful partnership that will have a real impact on the industry,” added Peter King, Managing Director at 1C UK.

The first PC titles from 505 Games and 1C Company are scheduled for a Q1 2008 release. For more information please go to www.1cpublishing.com

Burnout Paradise video game demo on Sony PlayStation Store and Microsoft Xbox LIVE.

Welcome to Paradise! EA today released a fully explorable slice of the award-winning racing game, Burnout Paradise.

Available now at the PLAYSTATION STORE and XBOX LIVE MARKETPLACE, the downloadable demo will allow players to experience a piece of Paradise City before the game hits retail stores in the UK on January 25, 2008.

Discover jumps, billboards and smashable targets all over Motor City, Big Surf Beach and Ocean View in search of the fastest Burnout Route in the Hunter Cavalry car. Also, attempt your shot at a race and check out the all-new Stunt Run mode. If you’re online, invite up to three friends into your game and connect with them instantly using the EasyDrive online system. Once online, players can work cooperatively to complete three FreeBurn challenges or simply smash each other up and grab their Burnout Mugshots with the PLAYSTATION Eye and Xbox LIVE Vision cameras.



The development team at Criterion pushes the boundaries to make each Burnout game stands on its own – reinventing the franchise with every iteration. The Paradise experience is all about freedom and exploration. The game has been designed to embrace speed, freedom, social online play and spectacular crashing, but now with all new modes, a completely open world and events at every intersection.

So make action your middle name and take to the streets of Paradise City.