The teaser website Avalon Heroes is online. Here players can find the intro video of the upcoming RTS hit as well as a first information about the game, wallpapers, screenshots and further trailers. Probably the most interesting for future players: the first view on the hero characters from the game. There, fighters from both sides, Oriens and Aenia, can be found and their respective special abilities can be viewed in short gamezplay videos.
About alaplaya The free multiplayer games portal offers high-quality games such as Audition, Fantasy Tennis-Season 2, S4 League, or Florensia. More titles, such as LOCO and Avalon Heroes, are being prepared for release. More than 3 million users are already playing alaplaya games.
The portal is provided in eight languages; the games are available all over Europe, including Turkey. Some can also be played in Russia, as well as North and South America, at www.alaplaya.net .
alaplaya offers numerous community features such as user search, blogs, chat & forums, and a special avatar system. All games can be obtained and played for free. Only valuable virtual goods for customizing avatars in the game, and some special items, are purchased and paid for in the shop. Users sign on at alaplaya only once for a central login to all games.
Deep Silver invites fans of the adventure genre to visit a virtual cinema: The website http://lost-horizon.deepsilver.com offers its visitors a first look at the new PC game "Lost Horizon" by Animation Arts.
The lights are dimmed, the audience falls silent, the curtain is raised... and an approximately ninety-second trailer of "Lost Horizon" is played. At the conclusion of the show, stills of some of the many different locations provide further glimpses of the game.
"Lost Horizon" is the third title created by Animation Arts, the developer of the award-winning Secret Files series. Featuring a classic 1930s setting, fascinating locations such as Hong Kong, Tibet and Morocco, as well as an eventful search for one of mankind's greatest secrets, "Lost Horizon" is sure to hold adventure gamers spellbound.
The story: 1936: Former British soldier and luckless smuggler Fenton Paddock is asked to search for a lost expedition in Tibet. Once there, he encounters a band of Nazis searching for occult weapons to further their plans of conquest, and learns that they are following a trail to one of mankind's greatest mysteries in the Himalayas - the legendary Shambala.
About the product Platform: PC Genre: Point & Click Adventure Developer: Animation Arts Publisher: Deep Silver Release: 2010
The web site features twelve languages plus a host of new Scribblenauts content including videos, wallpaper, icons, email signatures, ring tones and a screen saver. A widget is also due to arrive very soon!
Visit the Scribblenauts website here...
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 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
Free-to-play online first-person-shooter, Combat Arms Europe has surpassed 800,000 registered users since its open beta in December 2008.
Combat Arms Europe was commercially launched in February 2009 with the in-game cash shop “Black Market” that allows players to purchase gears and items for real cash to further customize their characters, while the game is free to download at http://combatarms.nexoneu.com.
With more than 800,000 registered players and an average con-current-user (CCU) number of 12,000, Combat Arms Europe takes part in becoming one of the fastest growing and most successful free-to-play FPS titles in Europe.
“We are thrilled by the figures and results that we see with Combat Arms Europe” said Sung Jin Kim, Director of NEXON Europe. “We receive great feedbacks from our players who love the great mix of fast-paced FPS and socialization features within the game. We are dedicated to providing an interactive and exciting gaming experience to all players at every level, and look forward to bringing far more new action through the updates we have in queue, and, consequently, to continuing with Combat Arms Europe’s great success.”
Combat Arms is a fast-paced, multiplayer shooter, designed for non-stop action on the grounds of various battlefields where players are recruited to get engaged with their enemies in multiple game modes. While integrating the traditional attributes of the FPS genre, Combat Arms advances further by evolving striking features such as character customization as well as weapon modification system, enabling the players to adjust their weapons with attachments such as scopes, silencers and extended magazines.
Moreover, the extensive community features within the game actively support the clan system, where players can easily recruit, manage, and communicate with their clan members.
For further information or to sign up for the game, please visit the official website at http://combatarms.nexoneu.com.
Monte Cristo Games and Namco Bandai Games are thrilled to be able to reveal the limited edition and standard editions for Cities XL, their innovative next generation city-simulation game. The Limited Edition includes 16 bonus items in a special pack and will only be available from key UK retailers.
The Cities XL Standard Edition box will include the installation DVD for the game, two instruction manuals, a 7-day trial code for the online Planet Offer and a trial offer on a second DVD so that one of your friends can discover the game.
On top of that, the Limited Edition box will include the following additional content:
• Five additional maps for solo mode, • Five exclusive landmark buildings, (Berlin’s Victory Column, Kiev’s St. Vladimir’s Cathedral, New York’s 40 Wall Street, Paris’ Opera Garnier, San Francisco’s Grand Hotel), • One exclusive city hall: Los Angeles’ City Hall, • Two permanent blueprints: the Mayan pyramid of Chichen Itza and London’s Big Ben. These blueprints will be available from the start and can be built as many times as you wish. • A bonus in-game t-shirt to make your avatar even more unique, • an honorific medal to display proudly on your personal profile page on CitiesXL.com, • Three postcards • A 41x34cm poster
You will soon be able to pre-order the Limited Edition in the UK; there will be more information in the following days.
About CITIES XL
CITIES XL enables gamers to develop cities on realistic 3D maps, which feature a variety of environments from mountain ranges to beaches and islands. The cities you will build are based on American, Asian and European-influenced architectural styles. You must create the right combinations of job opportunities, social services, leisure activities, and special events within your cities in order to keep your citizens occupied and happy. Whether you’re planning and building a new zoo, public park, residential neighbourhood or transit system, there's always a fresh and exciting challenge for would-be city managers and mayors in CITIES XL.
Eidos, Warner Bros and NVIDIA Corporation announce the Games for Windows LIVE release of forthcoming DC Comics-licensed video game, Batman: Arkham Asylum, will feature NVIDIA PhysX technology, which allows for the creation of incredibly realistic worlds full of interactive materials and objects.
As a result, PC gamers will get to experience intense realism and fully immerse themselves in Batman’s journey into Gotham City’s asylum for the criminally insane.
Hardware accelerated by supported NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, PhysX technology provides an even deeper level of engagement for players of Batman: Arkham Asylum by utilizing the processing power of the NVIDIA GPU to render stunning in-game physics objects in the environment that not only add to the overall look of the game, but create an immersive and believable world.
With PhysX technology enabled, players can explore darkened corridors packed with volumetric fog which reacts to Batman’s movement and cobwebs which tear with his passing. Combat becomes a maelstrom of motion as office papers are thrown into the air alongside soda cans and litter as Batman lands each punch upon The Joker’s henchmen. Throughout the game, the decaying gothic architecture is realized to an incredible detail with wall tiles chipping and breaking, stone pillars crumbling upon impact, and particles from breaking glass and debris shattering and falling down around Batman’s feet.
“Supporting NVIDIA PhysX technology has allowed us to add that little bit extra to the PC version of the game,” said Sefton Hill, Game Director at Rocksteady Studios. “As Batman interacts with the world, the aging asylum creates a more immersive, believable world which really draws the player in.”
Batman: Arkham Asylum exposes players to a unique, dark and atmospheric adventure that takes them to the depths of Arkham Asylum – Gotham City’s psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. Gamers will move in the shadows, instigate fear amongst their enemies and confront The Joker and Gotham City’s most notorious villains who have taken over the asylum. Using a wide range of Batman’s gadgets and abilities, players will become the Invisible Predator and attempt to foil The Joker’s demented scheme.
The NVIDIA PhysX development platform consists of a robust physics engine, API, and middleware designed to give developers and animators unprecedented creative control over the look of their final in-game interactivity by allowing them to author and preview physics in real time. To take advantage of PhysX technology in Batman: Arkham Asylum, players must have a compatible NVIDIA GPU and a copy of the Games for Windows LIVE version of the game, which will be available beginning September 15th, 2009, in North America, and September 18th, 2009, in Europe and Australia.
Batman: Arkham Asylum will also be available for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system from August 25th, 2009, in North America and August 28th, 2009, in Europe and Australia.
Frontier revealed LostWinds - Winter of the Melodias, the follow-up to last year’s best selling, award-winning WiiWare launch title LostWinds. This all-new game is packed with intuitive new gameplay mechanics and feels as fresh and compelling as the original.
The power of the wind is once again in the palm of your hand as you wield your Nintendo Wii Remote to use the elemental powers of Enril the Wind Spirit to protect and guide the young boy Toku - power his jumps and glides, suspend and smash new enemies, and explore all-new expanses of the stunningly presented, magical land of Mistralis as you experience Toku and Enril’s new adventure to save Toku’s mother, lift an ancient Curse and thwart the evil Balasar.
Players are able to instantly transform Mistralis between Summer and Winter, harnessing the brilliance of nature: frozen Winter ponds and waterfalls become deep, teeming Summer pools and chambers in which to dive and unlock secrets, enemies can be frozen or doused, and the very air itself used to form snowballs or moisture-laden clouds. Other amazing new abilities include the cyclone, which can be used to transport Toku, smash powerful enemies and even drill through the rocks of the Mistralis’ diverse, richly interactive Chilling Peaks and Melodia City areas.
“LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias will delight both new and returning players.” said David Braben, Chairman and Founder of Frontier “Every aspect has been extended and polished, and the major new gameplay elements dovetail perfectly to give a fantastically rich, fun, innovative experience.”
With production values to match the very best Nintendo Wii system disc titles, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias will be available to download directly to the living rooms of millions of families in Europe and The Americas exclusively via Nintendo’s WiiWare service.
Nordic Games Publishing AB today confirmed that CentreSoft is to act as the publisher’s distribution partner for We Sing in the UK.
We Sing features both Solo and Party games, including a simultaneous four-player mode. We Sing has been developed exclusively for the Nintendo Wii and will be released on October 30th 2009.
“CentreSoft is in tune with everything that Nordic Games is striving to achieve.” Commented Nordic Games’ Sales & Marketing Director, Nik Blower. “They were perfect hosts for our Dance Party and Racer games and I’m sure they’ll hit all the right notes with We Sing.”
“CentreSoft and Nordic games will certainly make beautiful music together.” Said Margaret Pearson, CentreSoft’s Commercial Director. “We Sing has already caught the imagination of gamers everywhere and I’m sure that Nordic Games will succeed in making it top of the pops!”
We Sing features 30 chart topping original songs and videos from artists, including:
UB40 – Red Red Wine Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry On Their Own Charles And Eddie – Would I Lie To You? Sugababes - Girls OneRepublic Ft Timbaland - Apologize
Ubisoft announced a partnership with PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of broadly appealing video games, to distribute Amazing Adventures: The Forgotten Ruins for Nintendo DS. The game will be available on September 10, 2009 in all EMEA territories.
Amazing Adventures: The Forgotten Ruins was inspired by the original 'hidden object' PC game series, but features entirely new storylines, locations, gameplay modes and challenges. "With Amazing Adventures: The Forgotten Ruins™, we're delivering brand new adventures that have tremendously wide appeal to a rapidly expanding audience of casual players." said John Parkes, EMEA marketing director at Ubisoft.
Today’s announcement marks the first PopCap Games release for Nintendo DS in Europe. Mark Cochrane, EMEA Business Development Director at PopCap: "PopCap is delighted to work with Ubisoft to bring Amazing Adventures to the Nintendo DS platform. The Amazing Adventures franchise has been very successful online, boasting more than 15 million downloads since its 2007 introduction, and we are confident it will translate well for the adaptation on Nintendo DS.”
Developed in partnership with Black Lantern Studios, Amazing Adventures: The Forgotten Ruins™ transports players to an archeological dig, where they discover clues and follow an all-new character-filled storyline, chronicled in a player journal that will lead them to a long-lost Mayan ruin. Rich in content and entertainment value, the game features 20 missions and 18 locations. Eleven of the missions are unique to the Nintendo DS where players are challenged to find over 90 hidden objects per scene. They will also earn awards for accomplishing goals within the game and can unlock additional gameplay modes by locating bonus items such as Jade Masks and Mayan Glyphs.
Amazing Adventures: The Forgotten Ruins also includes five mini-games, including the new Mah-Jongg and popular Memory Match. The game features unique stylus-based controls, a separate instructions page for easy reference and three individual profiles, so you can pass the game around to family members.
The teaser website Avalon Heroes is online. Here players can find the intro video of the upcoming RTS hit as well as a first information about the game, wallpapers, screenshots and further trailers. Probably the most interesting for future players: the first view on the hero characters from the game. There, fighters from both sides, Oriens and Aenia, can be found and their respective special abilities can be viewed in short gamezplay videos.
