Conquest! Medieval Realms strategic game PC video game

Conquest! Medieval Realms is now available for purchase from Matrix Games for a download price of just $19.99.

David Heath, Director of Operations at Matrix Games, said “Conquest! has just the right mix of wargaming flare and brain teasing challenge. Everyone from armchair general veterans to puzzle fans will enjoy the easy-to-learn hard-to-master gameplay found in Conquest!”

Conquest! Medieval Realms is a turn-based game that combines the pure strategic gameplay of Chess and the key principles of military strategy in a historical setting. The objective is to conquer up to 7 opposing AI or human players by defeating their armies and capturing their lands.

To gain supremacy, players will need to unite their spread out lands, build a roaring economy, and raise powerful armies to divide and conquer their enemies. Boost your income via markets and mines, upgrade your armies with stables and archery fields, or amass a large force, but sound strategy and careful thought will help you more than brute force.

Rows of castles and towers can help to stave off attacks while flanking maneuvers around mountains and terrain can surround and destroy foes. Tactics and long term strategy are essential to success as each battle will play out differently across an endless random map generator. For players looking to create their own tactical teasers, an easy-to-use map editor is also available for the creation of custom scenarios and campaigns.

Conquest! is a simple game to learn, but you will need strategy, tactics and cunning.

Play as the English or the French in the Hundred Years War, or fight the Wars of the Roses.

Play games with up to 8 human players across a LAN or the internet.

Easy to learn but hard to master, Conquest! is good mental exercise.

Try your skill against 5 levels of AI in the campaign or skirmish modes.

Randomly generated maps give you billions of potential battlefields to fight on.

Use the included editors to create your own maps and campaigns

Get more information on Conquest! Medieval Realms from its official product page.

Turret Wars arcade action game for iPhone and iPod Touch video game released

Turret Wars, an arcade style pseudo strategy game for the iPhone and iPod touch.

In Turret Wars, the player must find and destroy all the enemy Turrets while all the time defending his own from increasing enemy attack. Collect health and weapon power-ups along the way to survive in this 3D battle zone.

“Destroy or be destroyed” has never been truer. The game also offers the gamer the comprehensive global ranks system with a global high-score ladder to compete against players around the world. Further it incorporates the popular new twitter support feature, meaning by entering your twitter account details Turret Wars can be able to tweet your playing achievements for your followers to see!

"I am very excited to have finally brought on one of my most successfully desktop games to the iPhone, and the results and feedback have been outstanding" says Seon Rozenblum from Sector3 Games.

Turret Wars is available now for $1.99 from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.

East India Company Privateer video game expansion and trailer at GamesCom

Paradox announce the new expansion for the hit naval strategy title East India Company. East India Company: Privateer introduces players to a dark and mysterious world with allegiances only to fortune and a thirst for destruction.

For a preview of what players can expect from playing as a privateer, Paradox Interactive has released an ominous trailer, exposing the havoc and chaos the character introduces to the world of East India Company.



When playing Privateer, you can hire two distinct type of commanders for your fleets: merchant captains and privateers. You’ll be contracted by the crown or other powers for different missions, ranging from smuggling and escorting friendly fleets to locating, capturing or sinking important ships from enemy nations. Also included in East India Company: Privateer is a brand new multiplayer scenario entitled ”Breakthrough.” In Breakthrough, one team will attempt to escort their flagship to safety while the other team tries to destroy the enemy ship.

East India Company: Privateer Features:

Two new campaigns in which you play the game as a privateer of your chosen nation.

New missions, including locating and either sinking or capturing enemy ships, blockading enemy ports and escorting friendly fleets.

New commander skills to fit the life of a privateer, such as "False Colors", which allows the player to get close to the victim without them perceiving a threat, and "Critical Hit", which gives the player a chance to hit an enemy ship’s magazine, causing the enemy ship to explode.

EA and Claire’s Team Up to Promote CHARM GIRLS CLUB Video Games for Girls

The Play Label of Electronic Arts announce a promotion with retail store chain, Claire’s, to cross-promote EA’s upcoming series of video games for girls: CHARM GIRLS CLUB. Claire’s branding will be featured in CHARM GIRLS CLUB My Fashion Mall, one of the four games in the EA series which will be released this October, and on the CHARM GIRLS CLUB Web site as part of the outreach to attract the game’s target consumer: tween girls, ages 8-12, many of whom shop Claire’s stores for fashion accessories, jewelry, cosmetics and more.

“We're delighted to partner with Claire's,” said Steve Seabolt, Vice President of Global Brand Development for EA. “The company is smart, global, forward-thinking, and have their fingers on the pulse of the tween girl audience. It's a relationship we believe will benefit Claire’s customers, who we hope will also become fans of CHARM GIRLS CLUB.”

In CHARM GIRLS CLUB My Fashion Mall, players help manage a mall and take it from drab to fab tackling wacky mall mishaps along the way. In the virtual mall, players will not only find a Claire’s storefront and mentions throughout the game, they will participate in mini-game challenges at the store and add Claire’s-branded charms to their virtual jewelry box. The title is one of three CHARM GIRLS CLUB games available for the Nintendo DS, a popular gaming system among tween girls. EA will also promote Claire’s on the CHARM GIRLS CLUB Web site at www.charmgirlsclub.com.

As part of the promotion, girls will be able to play the CHARM GIRLS CLUB “Accessorize It” mini-game on the Claire’s Web site www.claires.com in the Fun & Games section. The mini-game will give visitors insight into the kind of fun, fashionable and interactive gaming experiences they can expect from EA’s CHARM GIRLS CLUB titles. Claire’s will also promote the CHARM GIRLS CLUB games by featuring the brand on its global Web sites.

CHARM GIRLS CLUB is a new, original series of games for tween girls that are all about fun, friendship and collecting charms. In the games, girls are immersed into the exciting world of the Charm Girls where they will complete challenges that are fresh, fun and relevant to their world, collecting sparkly virtual charms along the way. EA will release four CHARM GIRLS CLUB titles in October including CHARM GIRLS CLUB Pajama Party for the Nintendo Wii, and three titles for the Nintendo DS: CHARM GIRLS CLUB My Fashion Mall, CHARM GIRLS CLUB My Perfect Prom and CHARM GIRLS CLUB My Fashion Show.

All about OGame Free to play now...

OGame is a game of intergalactic conquest.

You start out with just one undeveloped world and turn that into a mighty empire able to defend your hard earned colonies.

Create an economic and military infrastructure to support your quest for the next greatest technological achievements.

Wage war against other empires as you struggle with other players to gain the materials.

Negotiate with other emperors and create an alliance or trade for much needed resources.

Build an armada to enforce your will throughout the universe.

Hoard your resources behind an impregnable wall of planetary defences.

Whatever you wish to do, OGame can let you do it.

Will you terrorize the area around you? Or will you strike fear into the hearts of those who attack the helpless?

Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS PlayStation 3 slim and PC video game

Arthur and the revenge of Maltazard is a Party Game directly inspired by the second movie of the trilogy Arthur and the Minimoys. Team-up with Arthur and his friends in this unique cooperative party game where mutual aid is the key to win.

Key Features

* 30 crazy mini games to rediscover the best moments of the movie
* Play and laugh all together in a friendly 4 player-adventure based on mutual cooperation where everyone counts!
* Chose your avatar among your favorite Minimoys

Specific Platforms Features

* Participate to mini-games specifically designed for the Wii Balance board.
* The first party-game up to 4-players and totally playable with the sixaxis on PS3!
* Build your own Pinpin village in this exclusive mode only available on DS. Collect plans and Koolomasai money all along the solo adventure, then build your very own village and share your discoveries with your friends.

Product Specifications:

Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Phoenix Interactive
Ship Date: November 2009
Platform: Nintendo Wii / Nintendo DS / PS3 / PC
Category: Party Game
Rating: PEGI 3+ expected

Your Shape Nintendo Wii video game makes other fitness solutions obsolete

Your Shape is a new type of fitness game that makes other fitness solutions obsolete:
Your Shape’s groundbreaking camera tracking technology will completely change your fitness experience, providing you with an unprecedented level of motivation and efficiency.

The game starts with a scan of your body: for the first time ever, you appear on screen and receive a full body diagnosis. Based on your specific diagnosis, the game is able to recommend the program best suited to your body shape and fitness level, to which you can also add your own priorities and preferences.

Finally as an exercise program only works if you do it right, Your Shape’s unique Body Tracking Technology follows your every move in real time, so that each minute invested is effective in helping you obtain your ideal body shape.

Key Features

Unique camera tracking technology:

* Unique diagnosis:

- A scan of your body
- A detailed analysis of your overall body shape and your fitness level
- A customised training program, to which you can add your personal priorities

* Unique tracking of your movements:

- Real time feedback on quality of execution of your movements
- Precise assessment of the efficiency of your workout

* Playful and stimulating mindset that keeps you motivated as you are guided through each movement by a coach:

- Coach next to you, giving you the motivational pep talks to keep you on track
- Fun signs and feedbacks, encouraging you to go beyond your limits.

Shape Selector: your coach will suggest you to work out one specific part of your body. You can choose among the fitness programs that the game offers based on your personal fitness goal.

Physical Challenge: check your fitness level by performing a specific evaluation on a regular basis.

Workout calendar: choose the length of your program and establish how often you plan to workout.

Training sessions with almost 500 unique exercises featuring Yoga, Cardio fitness, Strength Training, Flexibility, and Weight Loss Routine.

Tutorials: if the Body Tracking Technology detects that you don’t perform well, you can ask the coach to demonstrate you how the move should be performed correctly.

Charting progress: see your day-by-day progression displayed graphically as you work out.

Workout equipment: compatible with your own equipment, which you can incorporate into your workouts.

Music: choose your own music from a large variety of music styles like Latin, new age / chill out, techno, pop rock and so on, except for the yoga exercises that require a lower heart rate.

Full Name Your Shape
Platform Nintendo Wii
Genre Sport-Fitness/Games For Everyone
Target Women, 25 – 45’s, Nintendo Wii owners who are conscious that their body shape could be improved but:
- Don’t have much time for regular fitness practice
- Lack motivation (painful, boring, crowded fitness classes…)
Rating 3+ and E for Everyone
Languages
Release date EFIGS + NL + SCAN
December 2009

Scribblenauts Nintendo DS 200 level video game - Fact sheet

Scribblenauts is a completely original game play experience that anyone can play, offering fun for all ages with two styles of game play and more than 200 levels.

In Scribblenauts, players use the Nintendo DS touch-screen to help their character Maxwell acquire the Starite in each level by solving a series of puzzles armed with their stylus, notepad and imagination.

Players jot down the word for any object that comes to mind in order to reach the goal. Every object behaves as it would in the real world, and players can combine countless objects to create completely new scenarios. Every level has more than one written object to use as a solution, opening up the game to endless replay.

In Scribblenauts, players advance through ten worlds, each with eleven puzzle and eleven action levels for a total of 220 challenges to complete. Each level has a “par” for the number of objects suggested to finish the level. Beating a level with under par, earns “Ollars”, the in-game currency, which players can use to purchase new levels and music.

PRODUCT FEATURES:
• Create Your Own Interactive Experience: Objects you write down in the game are only limited by your imagination

• Everyone Can Play: Pick-up-and-play fun for everyone

• Touch-screen Controls: Easy to pick up and play on Nintendo DS. If you can tap, you can play!

• Unlimited Replay Value: Use less objects to increase your score, or experiment with different objects for endless replay value. Write anything; solve everything!

• Playground Mode: Play the entire game in a sandbox style right on the title screen.

• Create and Share Levels Online: Share levels you create with the Level Editor via Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection.

• Innovative New Title from Leading Developer: 5TH Cell, the creator of the Drawn to Life franchise and Lock's Quest, has experience creating high-quality, innovative Nintendo DS games.

PLATFORMS: Nintendo DS
RELEASE DATE: October 2009
PUBLISHER: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
DEVELOPER: 5TH Cell
PEGI RATING: 12+
USK RATING: 6
GENRE: Emergent Puzzle/Action

Handjoy announces fresh summer video game Jumboo for iPhone and iPod Touch!

Handjoy, small creative agency based in Prague, is announcing its first iPhone / iPod Touch game called Jumboo. The game is ready to debute on Apple App Store within few weeks.

Jumboo is fresh summer arcade game for both casual and hardcore players. The main character of this game is big gorilla. You can control gorilla's moves by simple slides of you finger and by tapping the screen you perform jumps.

Your goal in this game is simple – you have to jump as high as possible - you can do short jumps, long jumps and chain them to juicy combos. Jumboo is easy to learn but hard to master game all players have been waiting for.

The game features:

• Fast paced gameplay
• Stunning animations and graphics
• Progressive difficulty
• Online leaderboard
• One big gorilla!

The game is in the final phase of the development process and its debute on Apple App Store will be at the beginning of September 2009.

HandyGames and 'Tattoo Mania' rock your iPhone soon with this unique game

The leading German mobile games publisher HandyGames presents Tattoo Mania, one of the most unique iPhone game concepts of this summer, which will also attract fans of trendy body decoration.

Take off your leather jacket and tattoo tough biker chicks and hard-as-nails chopper riders! Decorate beautiful backs and strong arms with incredible ink paintings! The faster and precise you are, the more satisfied they’ll be and the more hard cash they will pay! But be aware that even those who are appear to be tough on the outside can be big wussies, so pay attention to their pain threshold! Too much pain could ruin your reputation and lead to an empty cash register! Keep cool, prove your dexterity and become a master in the art of tattooing!

"A unique atmosphere, fast-paced game play and the heavy rock sound will inspire iPhone gamers worldwide." says Markus Kassulke, CEO of HandyGames. "At release we will offer an international online high score to identify the best tattoo masters in the world. Updates with new tattoos, more rock sound and a tattoo editor are already planned."

Tattoo Mania will be available soon on your iPhone and iPod Touch.