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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Zu Online - New Items Introduction

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The Zu Online team http://zu.igg.com from IGG is happy to announce the release of some new items in the Zu Item Mall, including Training Helper-7 Days, Refining Helper-7 Days, Training Helper-30 Days, and Refining Helper-30 Days for all players.

Here's a brief introduction to these items:

Ⅰ. Reward One (30 Days) Introduction
Players can right-click the Helper to claim their rewards after they purchase it from the Item Mall. They can use only one Helper each day and they must claim their rewards each day.

Item Introduction: The Helper will not disappear after being used and it takes 5 second to cool down. It will exist for 29 days in your bag and each slot can only hold one Helper.)

Right click the Training Helper-30 Days each time to obtain following items: Thunder Casket Package*1, Rain Item Package*1, Wind Item Package*1 and 20,000 Bone.

Right click the Refining Helper-30 Days each time to obtain following items: Lightning Casket Package*1, Cloud Item Package*1, Fog Item Package*1 and 20,000 Bone.
Ⅱ. Reward Two (7 Days) Introduction
Players can right-click the Helper to claim their rewards after they purchase it from the Item Mall. They can use only one Helper per day and they must claim their rewards each day.

Item Introduction: The Helper will not disappear after being used and it takes 5 second to cool down. It will exist for 6 days in your bag and each slot can only hold one Helper.)

Right click the Training Helper-7 Days each time to obtain following items: Thunder Casket Package*1, Rain Item Package*1, Wind Item Package*1 and 20,000 Bone.

Right click the Refining Helper-7 Days each time to obtain following items: Lightning Casket Package*1, Cloud Item Package*1, Fog Item Package*1 and 20,000 Bone.

Lonpos Puzzle game on Nintendo Wii

lonpos puzzle on wiiLooking for a puzzle game that anyone can play, but still offers plenty to master? Look no further than LONPOS, with its straightforward premise and large variety of puzzles to solve.

Each puzzle revolves around a rectangular playing field of 55 spaces.

Using a set of 12 pieces, the goal is to place every piece into the playing field, filling it completely. The higher the level, the more pieces you'll need to fit correctly into the playing field.

Challenge yourself with two single-player modes or bring a friend to compete against or cooperate with.

When you think your skills are worthy, use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to check out how you compare with other LONPOS players or download additional puzzles and backgrounds.

(Router and broadband access required for online play. For more info, go to www.nintendo.com.)

Format: WiiWare
Launch Date: 02/02/09
ESRB: E (Everyone)
Wii Points: 800
Game Type: Puzzle, Board Game
Control Type: Wii Remote
Players: 1-4
Publisher: Nintendo
Unique Features: Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, Add-on Content

Play Colosseum - Win an Xbox 360 Elite!

win an xbox 360Shortfuse Games hosts a Colosseum contest, offering a brand new Xbox 360 Elite as first prize.

On February 2, the Colosseum Boss Challenge opens for entry.

Without breaking a sweat you can be the lucky winner of a slick black Xbox 360 Elite, brand new! The challenge is simple.

All you have to do is to capture yourself beating a boss of your choice on video. Shortfuse Games community manager Johan Hermerén explains what the contest is all about:

"Don't bother finishing off the boss as fast as you can; we'll premiere style and finesse. We recommend you to customize yourself a cool character and perform some nice combos and specials to defeat the boss!"

Colosseum is available on Xbox LIVE Community Games for Xbox 360. The contest opens on February 2 and closes for entries on March 15, 2009. Read more about how to win the Xbox 360 Elite at www.shortfuse.se or www.colosseum-game.com.

Monday, February 02, 2009

Video game 'virtual' gold broker sells for $10 million


MyMMOShop.com, a site specializing in the acquisition and sale of virtual goods and currency in the online gaming realm, has been sold for $10 million to private firm My MMO Inc., reports Kotaku.

For those unaware, sites like MyMMOShop.com are brokers for the sale of virtual goods. In general they use cheap (often foreign) labor to accumulate large sums of gold and items in online games (such as the above-pictured Age of Conan) that is then sold for a huge profit to impatient gamers.

Hunter Crowell, media relations agent for My MMO Inc., says his company purchased the site in reaction to the tumultuous economic climate. Virtual goods, he says, are one of the few investment vectors that have not become wildly devalued as part of the massive market fluctuations of the past few months.

As Kotaku points out, the real question here is how much of the $10 million will see its way into the hands of those doing the actual gold farming. As the enterprise is inherently a gray market, I wonder what, if any, incentive exists for the higher ups at these firms to not simply pocket all the cash in the continued exploitation of the grunts in their employ.
Source: Kotaku

Snowboard Riot Combines Snowboarding and Combat into One Exciting WiiWare Experience

Snowboard RiotHudson Entertainment, announced that Snowboard Riot, a snowboarding experience unlike any other snowboarding game players have ever encountered, is now available for WiiWare.

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Snowboarding will reach new heights when players take to the slopes with action-packed racing utilizing weapons such as homing bullets and invisibility!

Gamers have several control options to carve their way to a dominating victory, via the Wii Remote and Nunchuk or the Wii Balance Board. Just like a real snowboard, players can lean left and right on the Wii Balance Board, providing a realistic snowboard experience. Boarders can also choose from four characters to bomb the slopes with, and can customize their look with Oakley apparel and goggles to improve their performance.

Snowboard Riot
Snowboard Riot
Snowboard RiotAfter practicing with a friend in 2-player local multiplayer, gamers can use the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to compete with up to 4 snowboarders online as they race and blow away the competition. Weapons such as mines and turbo are available to give players an edge fighting it out on the mountain.
“Snowboard Riot packs a huge punch of adrenaline-filled content for players,” said Sabine Duvall, Vice President of Product Development at Hudson Entertainment. “In this tiny WiiWare download, you have online and offline multiplayer, Wii Balance Board support, character customization, and more. We’re giving gamers a very robust experience in Snowboard Riot.”

Snowboard Riot
Snowboard RiotSnowboard Riot is rated E for Everyone by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).

Free Championship Manager 01/02 video game if you register on the website!

Free Championship ManagerChampionship Manager Launches “A New World Of Football” Online
Designed to offer the ultimate one-stop-shop for football data, stats, news, editorial and networking the newly launched www.championshipmanager.co.uk is the comprehensive portal for all football fans.

To celebrate the fantastic new website, Championship Manager is giving away the classic ‘01/02 edition of the game to every visitor that registers on the website before February 28th 2009.

Free Championship Manager
Roy Meredith of Championship Manager said: “If you love your stats, news, trivia and discussions, you will not find a more comprehensive football website anywhere.

“Championship Manager is a game for all fans of football who want to delve deeply into the sport and our website is an extension of that and much more. The insights from members of the Football Council will be fascinating and the analysis you can draw from the site’s data makes the website a genuine homeland for all fans of the beautiful game.”

New features of the website include:
1. A unique Football Council – a group of people from all areas of the football world who will write regular articles about life in the real world of professional football. The CM Football Council is: Manchester United and Celtic legend and Youth Academy Manager Brian McClair; former West Ham United assistant manager Mervyn Day; former Premiership and World Cup referee Graham Poll; Ajax midfielder Howard Nedd; Dagenham & Redbridge striker Mark Nowekji; and Daily Mail journalist Mark Alford. In addition to their insights into the ‘behind-the-scenes’ activities in the world of football, the Football Council are also providing their expertise and unique experience into the design of the Championship Manager game, ensuring it retains it’s authenticity and provides fans with a firmly realistic experience of managing a football club

2. On-going real team and player data from across the leading UK and European leagues, building as they happen for every match throughout the season. Determine the truth behind the performance!

3. Create your own avatar, take part in matchday predictions or challenge “Cappo” in “Cappo’s Quiz”. Users will also have the opportunity to comment on Football Council blogs, share their football experiences and opinions across the network and meet new supporters of their teams.

4. Championship Manager forums for gamers to discuss new games, demos and patches together with genuine fans forums for discussion about real life football

5. Regular football news stories, features and blogs, updated on a daily basis and written by football journalists from the UK and abroad
Championship Manager has been the leading brand in football management simulations since 1992 and the new site will herald a new direction for the most established name in football gaming. The new website features a bold and striking new design, with new logos and graphics, signalling the game’s return to the fundamentals that have firmly established it within the hearts and minds of football audiences for nearly 20 years.

The website is live now at www.championshipmanager.co.uk and with many more changes still to come it will continue to be the innovative home of football and Champ Man news.

Shellshock 2 Brings Fear To The New Year

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Survival horror sequel to ship in February

Eidos Interactive, creator of some of the world’s leading videogame properties, today announced that its Vietnam survival horror shooter, Shellshock 2: Blood Trails, will ship to retail in Europe on February 13th, 2009.

Sequel to the 2004 hit title, Shellshock: Nam ’67, Blood Trails pits players against a war unlike any they have seen before. Taking the first-person war game and turning it on its head, players will experience a conflict where fear takes on a whole new meaning.

At the height of the Vietnam War, a covert ops cargo plane carrying a top-secret consignment known only as ‘Whiteknight’ is lost over the deepest, uncharted jungles. Special Ops soldiers are immediately dispatched to the scene to retrieve the top secret shipment and one-by-one they disappear without a trace… until one month later, one of them suddenly walks out of the jungle.

Crazed and deranged, something in the jungle had ripped out his humanity, poisoning his soul. Something in the darkness had driven him mad….and followed him out.

“Shellshock 2: Blood Trails™ takes players to a Vietnam War unlike any they will have experienced before. This is a war where your enemy doesn’t just want you dead… it wants to rip you to pieces,” said Lee Singleton, General Manager of Eidos Games Studios. “As the infected turn one-by-one, your instinct to fight becomes an instinct for flight, to leave the real horror of this war far behind.”

Shellshock 2: Blood Trails will be released on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Games for Windows

Microsoft Simulator X add –on Grumman F6F Hellcat

Grumman F6F HellcatMamba Games Ltd, a new dynamic multi-platform video games publisher today releases the first exclusive screenshots of the Microsoft Simulator X add –on GRUMMAN F6F HELLCAT, part of the 6 add-ons Mamba will be releasing over the next 24 months.

Jason Codd , Co-Founder and Commercial Director of Mamba Games quoted “ The quality of the work Real Flight Simulations has done is absolutely stunning, I am a big Microsoft Simulator X player and this add on is right up there with the best I have played. The visuals of the actual aircraft are as close to the real thing as you can get and I am positive the end users will be as happy as we are with it”

With a release date set for the 27th March 2009 Microsoft X players will get the chance to fly this stunning aircraft in all its glory!

Grumman F6F Hellcat
Grumman F6F Hellcat
Grumman F6F Hellcat
Grumman F6F Hellcat
HISTORY OF THE GRUMMAN F6F HELLCAT

The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a carrier-based fighter aircraft developed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat in United States Navy service. Although the F6F bore a family resemblance to the Wildcat, it was a completely new design powered by a 2,000 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800. Some tagged it as the "Wildcat's big brother" [1]. The Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair were the primary USN fighters during the second half of World War II.

The Hellcat proved to be the most successful aircraft in naval history, destroying 5,171 aircraft[2] while in service with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps (5,163 in the Pacific and eight more during the invasion of Southern France), plus 52 with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during World War II.[3] Postwar, the Hellcat aircraft was systematically phased out of front line service, but finally retired as late as 1954 as a night-fighter in composite squadrons.

FEATURES WITHIN THE GAME
• Models x2 F6F-3 and F6F-5.
• 3D Gauges.
• Authentic sound set.
• Weapons include: Guns, Rockets and Bombs.
• Droppable and Functional droptank.
• Parked Animations (Gunbays and Chocks)
• Operational Wing Folding Mechanism.
• Arrest hook for Carrier landings.
• Highly detailed Pilot.
• Light Bloom on Glass and shiny materials.
• Running and Landing Lights.
• Exhaust smoke from engine startup.
• Engine Flames.
• VC Night Lighting
• Full Bump mapping and Specular highlights.
• Self-Shadowing.
• High Resolution Textures Throughout
• Canopy close / open animation.
• PDF Manual
• 12 Paintschemes.
• Realistic engine startup and shut down procedure.
• An expansion pack is planned, details to be released shortly.
Mamba Games will be announcing the next batch of projects in the forthcoming weeks and will be discussing distribution possibilities with a variety of companies.

Pat Benatar, The Pretenders and Thin Lizzy tracks added to Rock Band Music store

rock bandHarmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of seven new tracks to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content including a 3-pack from Irishhard rock band Thin Lizzy as well as songs from Nikko, Pat Benatar and The Pretenders.

The Thin Lizzy 3-pack features live recordings of “Boys are Back in Town,” “Jailbreak” and “Cowboy Song.” The 3-pack will become the first Thin Lizzy tracks to join the Rock Band music library, and are taken from Still Dangerous: Live At The Tower Theater Philadelphia 1977. This newly discovered live album, featuring the quintessential Lizzy lineup—Phil Lynott, lead vocals/bass; Scott Gorham, guitar; Brian Robertson, guitar; Brian Downey, drums—showcases the band at the height of its prodigious powers and will be released on Vh1 Classic Records on March 3, 2009.
Rock sensation Pat Benatar has her Rock Band debut with the popular single “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” This week’s lineup also includes “Precious” from British rock band The Pretenders, as well as “Break My Heart” and “Don’t Tell Me” from Nikko as featured in the movie Spectacular! The Pretenters’ songs “Brass in Pocket” and “Blue Christmas” were added as downloadable content last year.
Release Date: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 (Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360)
Thursday, February 05, 2009 (PlayStation Store)

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change **

Tracks:
Pat Benatar “Hit Me with Your Best Shot”
The Pretenders “Precious”
Thin Lizzy “Boys are Back in Town (live)”
Thin Lizzy “Cowboy Song (live)”
Thin Lizzy “Jailbreak (live)”
Nikko “Break My Heart”
Nikko “Don’t Tell Me”
(All tracks are original master recordings)

Price: $ 1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
$ 5.49 (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for Thin Lizzy 3 Pack
$ .99 (80 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per Nikko tracks only

Locations: Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360
PlayStation Network

NOMBZ - Night of a Million Billion Zombies ONLINE Public Beta UPDATE!

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PowerUp announces a major update to the NOMBZ: Night of a Million Billion Zombies ONLINE public beta release!

The update includes numerous bug fixes, performance optimizations, and feature refinements, much of which is in response to player feedback received during the first two weeks of our public beta.

The update also adds several new levels to the single player and multiplayer game modes, as well as two new environments!

NOMBZ ONLINE continues to evolve in response to player feedback, as PowerUp pursues its goal of making NOMBZ ONLINE the best free 3D browser-based zombie game on the web!

PowerUp invites you to drop by http://www.nombzonline.com to check out the improvements, and share your feedback and suggestions in the NOMBZ ONLINE forums located at http://www.nombzonline.com/forums.

We hope you enjoy the zombie apocalypse!