Stargate Worlds PC video game - Beta Key Giveaway

Stargate Worlds Beta Key Giveaway

Eligible mmolecule members and Stargate Worlds Commands can win one of 200 closed beta keys for Stargate Worlds

Stargate Worlds Beta Key Giveaway for mmolecule members and Stargate Worlds Commands. mmolecule will conduct a random drawing to award 200 closed beta keys for Stargate Worlds, one of the most anticipated MMOs to be released in 2009.



Anyone who becomes a member of the mmolecule Community and registers for the drawing by September 20th will be eligible to win. Additionally, members of Stargate Worlds Commands that host an active website on the mmolecule Guild Services Open Beta as of September 20th will have a second chance to win. Only one key will be awarded per person. Winners will be privately notified on September 25th.

“Like millions of fans around the world, we’re very anxious to dive into Stargate Worlds,” said Andrew Muchmore, COO and co-founder of mmolecule. “This is a great opportunity for mmolecule members to get into the game. We look forward to offering more tools, services, and contests involving Stargate Worlds in the very near future.”

Complete contest details are available at http://www.mmolecule.com.

Cronous - new patch update on August 28

Boss Monsters to drop more precious Items starting with new patch update on August 28, 2008

Lizard Interactive will release a new patch for Cronous, the immensely popular free–to-play action MMORGP game. The new patch will spawn Boss Monsters with higher quality loot at the Tower of Despair which was added as part of an expansion to Cronous in earlier this month.

Floors at the Tower Of Despair will have level restrictions and Boss Monsters on each floor will drop weapons and armor needed at higher levels. For example, floors 11 to 20 will be restricted for players with levels between 11 and 20. Items dropped by Boss Monsters on floors 11 to 20 will be for players with levels between 21 and 30. This is a more logical progression and gives players much more incentive to clear the floors of Boss Monsters.

The ‘Blood Of Matariel’ event, from August 28 to September 11, will also start with the new patch release. During the event, Boss Monster Matariel who hangs out in Evil Cunabula will drop blood every time you defeat it. Matariel’s Blood is a very rare material need to make fine magical Voodoo armor and Matariel jewelry.

Hockey Allstar Shootout is coming to WiiWare

Big Blue Bubble is proud to announce that they’re bringing Canada’s game to WiiWare!

Hockey Allstar Shootout will be the first of its kind on the WiiWare platform and is destined to become an instant fan favourite amongst sports enthusiasts and casual gamers alike.

Use the Wii Remote as your stick and take the shot as you compete in 3 exciting hockey skills competitions. Whether you’re competing solo or challenging your friends, Hockey Allstar Shootout will put your hockey skills to the test.

Shoot the lights out in Sharp Shooter, by breaking all 4 targets as quick as you can. Think you have a booming slap shot? Prove it in the Power Shot hardest shot challenge. And last but not least, it’s just you versus the best goalies in the world in the Head to Head 5 puck shootout!

With over 30 high profile games in its portfolio, Big Blue Bubble Inc. is one of Canada’s leading video game developers. Each of company’s three divisions (Mobile, Console and Casual) is dedicated to making the best possible games by combining innovative designers with top-caliber artists and experienced programmers. By maintaining a strong focus on the development of technology and showcasing it through award-winning games, Big Blue Bubble will continue to lead the way in becoming a cornerstone of the casual gaming world.

For more information on Big Blue Bubble and its ongoing projects, please visit www.bigbluebubble.com

Dark Horizon video game - Fact Sheet

Dark Horizon - Fact Sheet

Disaster has taken its harsh grip and the universe is slowly dying.
Systems cease to exist and there seems to be no way of stopping the threat.

But a rumour is slowly spreading through the galaxy of a weapon against this menace.

The space action game Dark Horizon takes place in a breathtaking atmospheric universe with an epic storyline about the fight for survival.
In this world you can choose play as the mysterious race “Guardians”, among others, through 22 missions of space combats to save the humanity from the all-destroying hazard, the Mirk. Use the help of your allies: other Guardians will fight side by side with you, and biomechanical race bios will assist you with their high-tech devices and weapons.


You cannot only modify your ships and weapons. Throughout your challenging space missions you can gather resources that can be used to create your own equipment and weapons between the missions.
The new modes also allow you to decide between moving invisible through enemy lines, which results in weaker attacks or you can choose a stronger attack mode that weakens your shields.

Features

• Allows full customization of your spaceship. You can change your ship on a detailed level and alter hull, shields system, reactor, armour, weapons, missiles etc.

• Gather resources and disassemble unused parts of your ship and use them to create your own weapons for supreme destructive power and improve your ship to create the ultimate space vessel

• Fight in team with other pilots trough fierce battles, give orders and use tactics to take out your enemies (please note – no multiplayer!)

• Choose between two different modes that will change your fighter’s performance according to your own demands: ‘shadow’ mode to stealth through enemy lines (yet it prevents using full power of your weapons) and ‘corter‘ mode that will level up the power of you guns at a cost of energy-usage that weakens your shields.

• Game legth\time 6 parts in 22 missions (1-2 objectives each) and extensive

Fuel video game -Fact Sheet

Fuel - Fact Sheet

From the publishers of Colin McRae - DiRT and Race Driver: GRID comes a revolution in multi-terrain racing and featuring the biggest racing environment ever created. Born of Asobo Studios’ cutting-edge proprietary engine that has benefited from over four years of development, FUEL will present players with an astonishing no-boundaries playfield that’s over 5,000 square miles (14,000+ km²) in size. With environmental detail inspired by America’s most incredible landscapes, , FUEL will be the ultimate competitive go-anywhere racing experience.



FUEL will have players competing across wildly different terrain from deep snow to open wilderness and arid river-beds, and executing spectacular death-defying stunts as they race and explore this epic world on an unprecedented scale. FUEL is in development at Asobo Studios in Bordeaux, France, for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Games For Windows and due to release in 2009.

• No boundaries racing: FUEL is a groundbreaking racing game without boundaries – on and off-road, two and four-wheeled vehicles race a massively diverse environment inspired by the most challenging real areas of the American wilderness. Experience exhilarating races in a huge range of vehicles, explore over 5,000 square miles of wildly different terrain from deep snow to arid river-beds, battle the elements and pull off spectacular stunts in epic world on an unprecedented scale.

• Vrooom with a view: In FUEL if you can see it you can drive to it. With a jaw-dropping draw distance of 40KM, there’s never been a world so large to explore or so many striking vistas to discover. The entire game world is available for players to explore in free-roam and provides a challenging, compelling environment for FUEL’s stunning race events.

• Dramatic, dynamic extreme weather: Set in an environmentally damaged fictional future, the game world is further brought to life with real-time extreme weather that includes blizzards, lashing rainstorms, lightening strikes, sandstorms and tornados that transform the terrain and affect vehicle performance creating a unique race experience.

• Choose your own route, win in your own style: With a huge range of vehicles, player choice lies at the heart of FUEL’s action-packed races as players speed across huge swathes of diverse terrain, carving out on-the-fly routes to take the chequered flag. Roadsters reach extraordinary speeds on the asphalt, monster trucks steam-roller through forests and dirt-bikes scramble down mountainsides as gamers take on dangerous short-cuts, death-defying jumps and clatter through spectacular cross-over points in a beautifully realised wilderness.

• 5,000+ square miles inspired by wilderness: FUEL’s world is created from the most compelling, diverse and striking areas of the North American wilderness, from the Utah badlands, to Yellowstone Park and Arizona. Recognisable landmarks, including Death Valley and Mount Rushmore, are modelled from satellite data and rendered beautiful by the game engine. The effects of accelerated global warming – from sandstorms, blizzards and brush fires to tsunamis and tornadoes – create uniquely unpredictable and spectacular races.

• Online multiplayer: The online and offline worlds become one with a fully-integrated multiplayer featuring hundreds of preset challenges and countless locations where friends or strangers can meet to show off their skills and their customised rides or set out to explore the world together.

Title: Fuel Format: PS3, Xbox 360, PC
Publisher: Codemasters Developer Asobo Studios
Genre: Racing (Multi-terrain) Releasing: 2009

Word Burst Free online spelling game play now

Cerebral Vortex Games Inc., a St. Catharines, Ontario-based developer of casual videogames, is excited to announce the release of their web-based game Word Burst.

The fast-paced word game is now playable exclusively through TELETOON.COM, completely free of charge.

In Word Burst, players are presented with a grid full of random letters while a timer ticks down. Players spell words by rapidly clicking on letters. Creating a word and making it "burst" will award you points and more time-the longer the word, the better! Gamers with the biggest vocabulary will find themselves at the top of TELETOON's highscore table!

Gamers can find the game here

"With over 130,000 words, Word Burst has a bigger vocabulary than your English teacher," said Keith Makse, President of Cerebral Vortex Games. "Everything from 'Aardvark' to 'Zymurgy.'"

Word Burst is currently available to play on TELETOON.COM in both French and English editions.

Damnation video game - Fact Sheet

Damnation - Fact Sheet

Changing the landscape of shooters forever with a revolutionary blend of movement and combat in all three dimensions, Damnation is a non-stop test of reflexes, decision-making and action. Taking the shooter vertical, Damnation features massive streaming landscapes that set the stage for post-industrial battles between humanity and an unstoppable corporation in the wastelands known as Damnation. With the freedom to go anywhere and kill anyone to reach a goal, players create their own routes using vehicles, acrobatics and climbing to get around the huge maps.



In Damnation, players take control of Captain Hamilton Rourke, a member of the guerrilla resistance force known as the Peacekeepers. A veteran of the Great War, Rourke has his own personal agenda in avenging the death of his fiancé.

KEY FEATURES:

Huge Scale - With vast, streaming environments, Damnation’s levels are truly organic 3D spaces that cover miles of horizontal distance and thousands of vertical feet. Players choose from multiple paths and tactics in gigantic landscapes that unfold in all three dimensions. Using exhilarating combinations of swift, flowing movement and combat, players will be faced with frenetic all-action attacks that can come from any direction.



Player Choice and Freedom - It could take up to three hours in real-time travel to get from one end to the other and another three hours to climb to the top. But with acrobatics and vehicles, players are able to get their own routes, as they look at the massive map ahead, above and below them.

“Spirit Vision” - Players can activate the hero’s “Spirit Vision” power to see through walls and anticipate the enemy’s movements.

Daredevil Stunts – Players perform stunning moves at the limits of human ability to jump between ledges, swing on ropes and chains, and traverse vertical surfaces. Zip, slide, vault, shinny, swing and jump through the environment with intelligent AI attacking from all sides, above and below.

Multiplayer – Play through the entire singleplayer campaign in co-op or take it to the next level online with multiplayer. Experience action and tactics in vertical environments with fully enabled “Spirit Vision.”

DEVELOPER: Blue Omega
RELEASE DATE: Winter 2008
PLATFORM: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC
SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE: Pending
RATING: Pending

NHL 09 Demo on PlayStation Network - on Xbox Live in September

Lace Up Your Skates and Be A Pro!

Need your hockey fix? Experience the critically acclaimed EA SPORTS NHL franchise in a whole new way with the NHL 09 demo that is now available on the PlayStation Network- Xbox LIVE demo to follow in early September. Re-live the excitement of last season’s Stanley Cup Final between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings by stepping into the skates of a top NHL star in the new Be A Pro mode. With a dynamic new camera that puts the focus on your player, Be A Pro is a whole new way to play the greatest game on ice.



The new Be A Pro career mode will put you in the skates of an up and coming superstar. Start in the AHL and work your way up to the NHL, with the ultimate goal of becoming an NHL legend. The new Performance Tracker will rate your play in over 60 categories so you will know exactly what parts of your game you need to improve. NHL 09 will also introduce the evolution of online team play - the EA SPORTS Hockley League. Take your created player online and join a team with friends, or scout for players. Featuring 6 vs. 6 online play and the ability to level up your player - you can become the first great name in videogame hockey.

Building off seven ‘Sports Game of the Year Awards’ last year, NHL 09 provides gamers with an answer to the offensive innovation of years past with the introduction of Defensive Skill Stick. Players can now use an improved poke check, sweep their stick 360 degrees to block passing lanes, or lift an opponent’s stick when playing defense. Take a proven formula, sprinkle on some innovation, throw in a whole new way to play and see for yourself why every EA SPORTS gamer will love NHL 09.

NHL 09 ships to retailers on September 9 on Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system.

For more information, please visit www.easports.com/NHL09

PlayStation 3 and Xbox new gadgets annouced

Sony and Microsoft show new game gadgets at Leipzig games convention.

New gadgets and add-ons for both Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox consoles were announced.



A new Microsoft Side Winder X6 keyboard has a removable, programmable keypad.

The keypad can be attached to both left and right side of the keyboard, for both right and left handed players.

At $80 it’s not cheap - it is expect to be available in stores in September.



Sony are planning a wireless keypad to allow gamers to input text directly into their PlayStation 3.

The wireless keypad snaps onto the top of a SixAxis or DualShock 3 controller and plugs into the mini-USB port.

It has a touchpad mode for mouse input, plus Bluetooth to allow pairing with phones and other devices.

No prices have been announced but it is expected to become available in November. The Xbox already have a keypad available.

Microsoft are to offer a new 'Limited Edition' Xbox 360 controller with an better directional pad in Europe Latin America and Asia.

It is identical to the look of the standard controller, only it's green. The d-pad offers instant control for eight ways – previous this was limited to four.

ART OF MURDER - Hunt for the Puppeteer video game - Fact Sheet

ART OF MURDER - Hunt for the Puppeteer - Fact Sheet

Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer was made by City Interactive S.A.. The game is a continuation of a popular and well received Art of Murder: FBI Confidential. AoM: Hunt for the Puppeteer is a classical point & click adventure game. Like in every detective game the player is required to think logically and to link facts quickly. The player will once again assist Nicole Bonnet, an FBI agent, who has to deal with a different dark case.

OVERVIEW OF THE PLOT

The United States are stricken by a series of mysterious, brutal murders. A seemingly similar death is discovered across the ocean in Paris, France. The killer seems to have a special trademark - the body is always accompanied by a mysterious doll dressed in 17th c. clothing. Nicole Bonnet, a young but experienced FBI agent, conducts the investigation. Left to her own devices, she will face new difficulties and undertake a journey through two continents – from France and Spain to the exotic Cuba. The investigation may lead her to surprising discoveries – a series of events from centuries ago.

The player conducts an investigation that demands courage, sacrifice and logical thinking. His objective is to discover what is the link between the seemingly random victims, what are the motives of the calculated killer and, most importantly, to stop him before he strikes again.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GAME

• Intriguing plot with unexpected twists.
• Highly-detailed locations created by the best of graphic designers.
• Complex, three-dimensional characters.
• An immersive dark mood created by a skilful combination of plot, graphics, music written specially for the game and realistic sound effects.
• Journey through the dark corners of New Orleans, alleys and backstreets of Paris and Marseille, the Spanish Pyrenees and hot Havana.

Product: Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer
Developer: City Interactive S.A.
Publisher: City Interactive S.A.
Format: PC
Game type: adventure/point&click
Age group: 16-45, men and women
Availability: Q1 2009