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Friday, July 03, 2009

Monster Hunter London gathering hall artwork

monster hunter shop front artworkWork on the Gathering Hall has begun! In only a few days critically-acclaimed artists End of the Line will have transformed a space that was once used as an art gallery into a full-blown Monster Hunter art installation. Only a stone’s throw away from Tottenham Court Road tube station in central London the Gathering Hall will be the ultimate destination for Monster Hunters. Aiming to recreate the social gaming environment enjoyed by Monster Hunters in the east, people will be able to meet other players easily, download exclusive quests, learn how to play on dedicated tutorial nights and meet the developers when they visit the UK. The Gathering Hall will be open seven days a week and entrance will be free and exclusive to anyone with a PSP and copy of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Fight on Land, Sea or Air in Battlefield 1943 video game on July 9

battlefield 1943DICE, an Electronic Arts announce that Battlefield 1943 will be exclusively available July 8th on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and July 9th on the PlayStation Network. Battlefield 1943 is an all-new download-only action game that brings DICE’s first-class vehicular warfare to gamers for just $15, or 1200 MS Points.

Battlefield 1943 is a critically-acclaimed First-Person Shooter (FPS) multiplayer game that puts players in the middle of a dogfight on land, sea or in the skies. The game introduces two thrilling new modes that can be played across four classic Battlefield tropical WWII maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Coral Sea. These maps are inspired by the award winning Battlefield 1942 game, but have been redesigned and reengineered using the DICE destructible Frostbite engine which takes down walls, blockades and cover spots, leaving players with almost nowhere to hide. The game delivers endless hours of social online gameplay – an extraordinary value at just $15.

The Coral Sea map which is included in the game will be unlocked as part of a worldwide community challenge, where players will work together to reach 43M kills on both Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network. To help gamers reach that goal, up to 24 players can play together online in countless matches. They will have the freedom to compete by land, air and sea as either the US Marines or the Imperial Japanese Navy. Whether they choose to play the role of a rifleman crawling through the trenches, a steel-fisted tank commander, or a dog fighting ace pilot, gamers will have the power to rule the Battlefield.

“Battlefield 1943 is going to change consumer expectations of what a downloadable game can be. By offering Frostbite’s next generation destruction technology with a full Vehicle Warfare FPS multiplayer experience at a mere 560MB, Battlefield 1943 sets a new standard,” said Gordon Van Dyke, Producer on Battlefield 1943. “Our goal is to blow people away with a fully accessible, retail-calibre game for veteran Battlefield fans and shooter fans alike to enjoy for only $15.”

GameTap Runaway: Dream Of The Turtle & Rogue Trooper New Releases

video game girl in bikiniGameTap - Today we released the adventure game Runaway: Dream Of The Turtle, the sequel to last month’s release Runaway: A Road Adventure. Our free game of the week is the 2006 release Rogue Trooper a third-person-shooter based on the 2000AD comic of the same name.

New Release For Subscription Service, Available 07.02.09:
Runaway: Dream Of The Turtle- After their adventures in Runaway: A Road Adventure, Brian and Gina decide to take a relaxing vacation in Hawaii. But when taking a flight to tiny Mala Island, everything goes all wrong once again. Their elderly pilot dies on them, Gina has to parachute out of the plane, and Brian ends up crash landing in the jungle. Now Brian has to make his way to civilization, find Gina, and figure out how to get off the island in this madcap adventure game.
http://www.gametap.com/video-games/Runaway:-The-Dream-of-the-Turtle-20001151-0.html

Next Week’s Release: Hotel Giant 2

Free Game Of The Week, 07.02.09 – 07.08.09:
Rogue Trooper- In the far future, the war between the Norts and the Southers has poisoned the very earth with toxic biological and chemical weapons. Now humanity is forced to live in domed cities to escape Nu-Earth’s corrosive atmosphere. But the Southers have a new weapon in this war: the Genetic Infantry, gene-spliced soldiers immune to any poison - leaving them capable of fighting the Norts in any terrain.
http://www.gametap.com/video-games/Rogue-Trooper-20000329-0.html

Next Free Game Of The Week: Tomb Raider Anniversary

The complete list of free games can be found here: http://www.gametap.com/video-games/free-pack-games.html

Top Ten Most Played Games This Week:

1. Rise Of Nations
2. Titan Quest
3. Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Warlords
4. Freelancer
5. Sacred: Gold
6. Disciples II: Rise Of The Elves: Gold
7. Hitman: Blood Money
8. Puzzle Quest
9. Fable: The Lost Chapters
10. Heroes Of Might And Magic III: The Restoration Of Erathia

If you need any additional information or graphical assets feel free to contact me.

NFC East team and players ratings in madden NFL 10 season preview - with video

nfl 10 video gameThe summer is in full swing, and what better way to celebrate Independence Day than Madden NFL 10 team previews, featuring the NFC East. What teams will lead the pack? Which players are prepped for a breakout season? Will your team be a contender or pretender? See how your favorite team and players will fair – according to the Madden NFL 10 Season Preview.



We continue our look at each team’s overall rating and individual player ratings with a focus on the NFC East division. In addition to the player ratings, a wealth of team-specific assets will be made available, for both the Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, and Wii versions of Madden NFL 10.
Everything culminates on August 3rd, where Madden NFL 10 will predict the 2009 NFL division winners, season MVP, and more.

To view the overall team ratings for the Eagles, Giants, Redskins and Cowboys, as well as download the complete team roster ratings, visit the official Madden NFL 10 website below:

Madden NFL 10 Season Preview

Up next week: The AFC North

Madden NFL 10 will be available on the Xbox 360 video game system from Microsoft, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment systems, Nintendo Wii, PSP (PlayStation Portable) handheld entertainment system and is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB.

Exclusive Green day three track pack and Mayhem Festival Eight pack Rock Band download

the band green day download track pack for rock bandNew Green Day Tracks off 21st Century Breakdown Now Eligible for Best Performance in a Pepsi Rock Band Video at MTV Video Music Awards

Harmonix and MTV Games announce that three exclusive tracks from multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winners Green Day, as well as eight songs from artists performing at the premiere of the RockStar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, will be added to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content next week for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Playstation 3 computer entertainment system and Nintendo Wii system.

The Green Day tracks available next week are the first in an exclusive partnership between MTV Games’ Harmonix and Warner Music Group’s Green Day to bring the band’s songs to the Rock Band platform as downloadable content. These first songs, “21 Guns”, “Know Your Enemy” and “East Jesus Nowhere,” are from the band’s latest album, 21st Century Breakdown.

Selling nearly 50 million records worldwide, Green Day has won critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including three Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot and Record of the Year for their smash hit "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." Green Day recently released their eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, on Warner Music Group’s Reprise Records. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, as well as on the Rock, Active Rock and Alternative charts, fueled by the Alternative radio No. 1 single “Know Your Enemy.” 21st Century Breakdown, which Rolling Stone has called “a rock opera in which the rock always comes first,” is also a hit around the world, topping the charts in 24 countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan.

Eight songs from artists performing at the RockStar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, including Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Marilyn Manson and Slayer, will also be available for download next week in the Rock Band Music Store. The RockStar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival is a new summer touring metal and rock festival in the United States during July and August, assembled by Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman. Rock Band fans can also play tracks by RockStar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival performers Killswitch Engine and Bullet For My Valentine, previously released as downloadable content.

Tracks:
Green Day “21 Guns”
Green Day “East Jesus Nowhere”
Green Day “Know Your Enemy"
Behemoth “Conquer All”
Black Dahlia Murder “What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse”
Cannibal Corpse “Hammer Smashed Face”
God Forbid “Empire of the Gun”
Job for a Cowboy “Embedded"
Marilyn Manson “Disposable Teens”
Slayer “Black Magic”
Whitechapel “This Is Exile”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as part of the “Green Day Pack” or “Mayhem Pack” or as individual tracks for Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 systems.

Release Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009
(Wii and Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360)
Thursday, July 9, 2009
(PlayStation®Store)

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

Price: $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
$5.49 (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Green Day Pack”
$13.49 (1,080) Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Mayhem Pack”
$2.00 (200 Wii Points) per track

Locations: Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360
PlayStation Net
In-game Rock Band 2 Music Store (Wii Points must be purchased through
the Wii Shop Channel)

NeoGames now accepts Scandinavian Currencies in it's video games

Today, NeoGames opens its doors to the Scandinavian market as part of a program to maintain itself as a worldwide and specifically Scandinavian leader in Scratch Cards.
NeoGames Partners has now dedicated local currencies for the 3 major Scandinavian countries Sweden, Denmark and Norway, with dedicated websites and all games in Swedish and Danish.

This includes NeoGames’ original and market leading brands, Scratch2cash and hopa.com.

Currently, NeoGames accepts US Dollars, British Pound and the Euro. Now with the new additions of the Scandinavian currencies, players will have wider payment options available to them.

Targeted sites in these languages, local currencies and tailor-made marketing material will attracts new and existing players and increase affiliate conversion rates.

For more information, please email: Affiliates@NeoGamesPartners.com

Team6 Game Studios proudly presents their new website!

Please visit http://www.team6-games.com to have a look. The new website will provide visitors with a better overview of all our games and easy acces to media. We also like to take this opportunity to introduce our 5 new game titles for the Nintendo Wii!

Pacific Liberator

Pacific Liberator is an all-action helicopter game that places you in the middle of the pacific. You'll be conducting aerial warfare versus fast and trigger happy enemies. Your adversaries will range from simple foot-soldiers to heavily armed tanks and from fighterjets to incredible carriers!
You'll have to push your heli's to the limit if you want to stand a chance! During the action packed missions you will have to protect and destroy objectives. Beware when you open fire because everything you see can be blown up, including whole villages.

Features:

- 18 singleplayer missions
- Everything in sight is destructable
- Control your helicopter with Wii mote and Nunchuk

Link to the website with media: http://www.team6-games.com/games/Pacific-Liberator-54

Glacier2
Glacier 2 starts at the very top of the Alps: Are you ready to reach insane topspeeds by driving down the mountains of death? While it goes faster and faster downhill, watch out for dangerous cliffs, dodge falling rocks, go aim your rockets, heat up your machine guns and deploy mines to take out your opponents and finish first place!

Features:
- Over the top combat racing action!
- 18 Freezing cold levels full of traps, cliffs, mines, falling rocks, canyons and spectacular jumps!
- 7 tuned superrides, all equipped with various deadly weapons from rockets to machineguns, and from shotguns to mines!

Link to the website with media: http://www.team6-games.com/games/Glacier-2-50

Monster Trucks Mayhem
Enormous tires, incredible, massive engine power and the shocking excitement of Monster Trucks has made it to the Nintendo Wii system (and PC)!

Get ready to race and roar in some real crazy, monstreous outdoor and indoor tracks, meanwhile destroying whatever lies on your path and smashing your opponents from the road.

Breakeable objects and big jumps (airtime) result in more nitro boost for your seven terrorizing monstertrucks!
Monster Truck will contain seven of these detailed landscapes: Canadian junkyard, City Centre Chaos, Desert rocks, Death Mountain, Manhattan Rooftop, Stinky Sewers and the Dark Volcano

Link to the website with media: http://www.team6-games.com/games/Monstertrucks-Ultra-Mega-Extreme-51

Kyiv Chase
Select the side of either the police or the criminals, and shoot & race your way through 20 deadly racing missions.
Destroy all what lies in your path with rocketlaunchers, homing missiles, machine guns, gattling guns, mines, shotguns, cannons and more.

Link to the website with media: http://www.team6-games.com/games/Kyiv-Chase-52

Speed
Speed is all about, as the name suggests, speed!
At various racetracks around the world you will prove you're the absolute master of fast reflexes time after time in this ultra fast, arcade racer.
Can you handle the speed?

Link to the website with media: http://www.team6-games.com/games/Speed-53

Alawar Entertainment releases Magic Encyclopedia: Moon Light!

Alawar Entertainment, one of the world's leading publishers of casual games, today released "Magic Encyclopedia: Moon Light." The hidden object adventure game is a sequel to "Magic Encyclopedia: First Story", a popular release set in a world of fantasy and enchantment.

Players join Katrina and her brother as they travel across the world and through time to save their professor from the curse of the werewolf. The gameplay involves finding the hidden pieces of important items and reassembling the objects to solve challenging puzzles.

"Magic Encyclopedia: Moon Light" takes players on a captivating and unpredictable journey across four continents. The game features dazzling hand-drawn graphics, 32 challenging levels, 18 mini-games and over 1,500 objects to find.

Kirill Plotnikov, vice president of publishing at Alawar, says "Magic Encyclopedia: Moon Light" is a deeply satisfying game experience with extraordinary artwork. "We worked hard to create an exceptional visual experience for players. Our artists drew each location and object by hand, giving the game a warm and charming feel. After all, true creativity is always an act of magic."

With the release of "Magic Encyclopedia: Moon Light" also comes the announcement that Alawar has begun production on "Magic Encyclopedia 3." The third game in the continuing series is on target to be released in 2009.

• Read more about the PC version at http://www.alawar.com/game/magic-encyclopedia-moonlight/

Risen video game to be launched on October 2nd on PC and XBox 360!

risen video game release dateRisen will make its international debut on October 02, 2009. The new RPG from the inventors of Gothic, Piranha Bytes, has already entered the Beta phase and is now being honed to perfection. Risen will be available for PC and Xbox 360, the video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

"The release date for Risen enables us to introduce the game to the market in the best possible condition," says Daniel Oberlerchner, Brand Manager at Deep Silver. "We have been in the Beta phase here for several weeks, and now our focus lies on eliminating the remaining bugs."

The contents of Risen are already complete, and all dialogs have been recorded. A total of three quality assurance teams are working on the game – one directly at Piranha Bytes, one at Deep Silver, plus an additional external studio.

About Risen:
This epic role playing game is set in a medieval world on a volcanic Mediterranean island, The “Risen” story unfolds over four chapters and will offer multiple ways to develop the story by his own actions and decisions. An innovative and intuitive user control interface will support both casual and hardcore gamers. With full world streaming support, the player will have a seamless experience while playing in a fully simulated game world with authentic characters.

Risen will be released for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows® operating system. More information about Risen on http://risen.deepsilver.com

Aspyr Media's Treasure World video game now shipping for Nintendo DS!

Aspyr Media announced today that Treasure World has shipped to retailers across North America. The game, which encourages players to seek out Wi-Fi signals in order to unlock in-game treasures, is available on Nintendo DS for $29.99.

“With Treasure World, we’re offering players an entirely new level of interaction that crosses from the traditional game world into the real world,” said Ted Staloch, Executive Vice President, Aspyr Media. “With thousands of treasures to unlock and hundreds of player customization options, in addition to the real world treasure hunts, players are going to be able to spend months finding and doing everything the game has to offer.”

Treasure World is the world’s largest treasure hunt with hundreds of millions of treasure spots around the world. Players use the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to find Wi-Fi signals, DS and Wii™ systems and other wireless signals to collect treasures. Each of these signals delivers one of thousands of new treasure collectibles. A vast amount of treasures await to be found, ranging from traditional scenery such as flowers, statues and tiki torches, to iconic landmarks like the Statue of Liberty and Big Ben, to holiday themed items like jack-o-lanterns and snow men. In addition, players can unlock new attire for their character and offer limitless possibilities for customization, including Panda, Feline, Ninja and Anime costumes. And along the way, players accumulate in-game currency to purchase additional treasures.

They can then use their treasures to decorate their in-game world and create musical compositions. Each treasure even has its own sound associated with it such as a guitar, piano or trumpet. So when the treasure is placed on the ground players can create their very own music tracks. Players can then upload their DS save data to the official website, www.clubtreasureworld.com, and show off their treasures, world creations, character disguises and musical creations to other players around the world. The website even has a built in real world treasure map that allows users to place pins in order to show where they found their treasures.

Sign up to become a member of Club Treasure World and you'll be automatically entered to win your very own copy of the game and a Nintendo DSi system! Deadline to enter is July 31, 2009.

With over 2,600 unlockable treasures in the game, Treasure World offers players limitless potential for creation and exploration!

For more information about Treasure World, visit www.clubtreasureworld.com.