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Friday, October 23, 2009

R.U.S.E. video game gets multi touch support with windows 7

tank and soldier on top game chips over map of teraineUbisoft announces that its upcoming strategy game R.U.S.E. will be among the first games to fully exploit the new multitouch capabilities of Windows 7.

R.U.S.E., a one-of-a-kind real-time strategy game that allows players to bluff their enemies to lead their nation to victory, will incorporate the multitouch capabilities of Windows 7 to bring a new and exciting way of playing games to fans everywhere.

Ubisoft announce the first of the three episodes from the new Assassin’s Creed: Lineage short movies

Ezio Auditore da Firenze is a young Italian nobleUbisoft announce the first of the three episodes from the new Assassin's Creed: Lineage short movies will debut on YouTube. Beginning on October 27, 2009, YouTube will have the first episode of the short movies on its homepage in eight countries throughout the world for a period of 24 hours.

Dragonica gets a spooky makeover this Halloween

battle scene from the gameDragonica, the free arcade-style 3D side-scrolling MMORPG from the gPotato.eu games portal, is getting a spooky makeover as the gPotato team are proud to announce Halloween in Dragotaka.

Between October 22nd and November 5th, a simple automatic patch gives players logging into Dragonica a treat! For these two weeks, all the major towns including Odellia, Port of the Winds, Libra, Fungoid Village, Ellora Camp and Ash Mist Village have had a spooky Halloween makeover!

Matrix Games To Publish Armada 2526 a blend of turn-based and real-time strategy from a lead designer of the Total War series!

space craft swarm round mother shipMatrix Games and Ntronium Games are thrilled to announce that they have reached a publishing agreement for Armada 2526, a space-based blend of addictive turn-based strategy and intense real time space battles. Matrix Games is particularly excited to be working with founder and director of Ntronium Games, R.T. Smith. Mr. Smith has been creating strategy games for more than 20 years, including the original 4x space classic Armada 2525. Most recently he was the project director and lead designer for Medieval 2: Total War, having earlier served as designer and programmer on the previous Total War games.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Colin McRae Dirt 2 turbocharged by directX 11 shown at Windows 7 launch

colin mcrae dirt screenshot rally carGames for Windows Live edition of critically acclaimed racer gets ship date. See the Colin McRae: DiRT 2 DirectX 11 gameplay and tech videos now at www.dirt2game.com
Codemasters revealed the DirectX 11-powered Games for Windows Live edition of Colin McRae: DiRT 2 at Microsoft Corp.’s New York Windows 7 Launch Event. Codemasters also announced that the Games for Windows Live version of the highly-anticipated racer will be shipping on December 1st in North America and releasing on December 3rd through EPAC territories with a December 4th street date in the UK.

Players to celebrate Halloween in Runes of Magic Pumpkin Festival starts in Taborea

pumpkin coach in this halloween coachOn Halloween a tasty in-game pumpkin-based event will launch in Runes of Magic. On 27th October, every player of the online role play game will be able to experience the Taborean Pumpkin Festival.

Airline Tycoon II video game rights go to Kalypso

Airline Tycoon II logoKalypso Media are thrilled to announce the acquisition of the worldwide name and publishing rights for Airline Tycoon II from Spellbound Entertainment. Kalypso plan to release the long awaited sequel in the first quarter of 2011 with the development being managed by their own studio; Realmforge.

Shattered Horizon - minimum requirements revealed for DirectX 10 shooter

spacemen working on spacecraft in this screen shotGame will be fully compatible with Windows 7

Futuremark Games Studio today confirmed that Shattered Horizon, their upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter for the PC, will be fully compatible with Windows 7. The studio also revealed the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for their DirectX 10 only game.

Box shot for the highly anticipated Dracula Trilogy

dracula trilogy black box with red and silver writingIn anticipation of the release of the Dracula Trilogy, part of the Iceberg Interactive Adventure Classics range.

Iceberg would like to present you with the box shot for this strikingly beautiful adventure collection for the PC.

The First 1,000 Players To Register An Account At www.MytheonGame.com Are Guaranteed a Spot In the Upcoming Closed Beta

large monsterGlobal online game publisher, True Games Interactive www.Truegames.com announced today, along with its partner Petroglyph, that it has launched the all-new website for its upcoming online multiplayer action-role-playing game, Mytheon.
Players can now visit www.MytheonGame.com to explore the new and exclusive content and the first 1,000 eligible players to register for an account will be guaranteed a spot in the upcoming closed beta test scheduled to begin later this fall.