Christmas Cellphone versions of Super Boom Boom and Skipping Stone IQ created

GAMEVIL brings the joy of the holiday seasons with these special editions of its games

GAMEVIL USA, the LA-based mobile games publisher, announced the holiday editions of the popular Super Boom Boom and Skipping Stone IQ. Both games will include characters dressed up in holiday wear and special background settings, such as falling snow, that go with the holiday season.

“We wanted to give a little holiday treat to everyone,” said Stephanie Huang, Marketing Manager at GAMEVIL USA. “Fans of Super Boom Boom and Skipping Stone IQ will surely enjoy the holiday editions of these games.”

Developer update for Condemned 2: Bloodshot for Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft X360

Senior Producer Dave Hasle, Monolith Productions

I work with a Primary Lead Artist, Matthew Allen, who is pretty much a hardcore fire-fighter for anything content-related. An issue pops up – technical, pipeline, aesthetic, whatever – Matt will jump on it and put it out quickly and efficiently. As a Producer, I don’t close out games at Monolith unless I’ve got Matt Allen helping keep it all under control and fitting in memory.

Elf Online Leveling Competition

To celebrate the upcoming Elf Online Open beta. Happymmo will held a leveling competition.

Players are expected to jump into the game and experience the fun and excitement that Elf Online brings. Want to see who has the best pet and who is most skillful in battle, just be tested by leveling up competition

FIELD OF GLORY Video Game website launch

Slitherine Strategies and Osprey Publishing are proud to announce that they have launched a brand new internet site dedicated to the highly anticipated wargaming rules Field of Glory.

Field of Glory is a new historical miniature wargaming rules system for anyone interested in recreating battles of the ancient and medieval period on their tabletop.

The Chronicles of Spellborn video game - Slywood: Story of Design

Slywood - the Background

Slywood is a dark place amidst the lush and green lands, which compromise most of upper Ringfell. Ringfell in the old times was a coastal area. What is now called lower Ringfell (one of the three areas) was then a bottom of an ocean, which now is long dried up.

ijji.com's MMO Christmas video games Events - Join the fun

Come on, its lovely weather for a game and MMO together with you.

NHN USA’s ijji.com gets into the season and celebrates the holidays with special events and prizes for each of their MMO arcade titles including GunZ with their Santa Suit Quests, Soldier Front with their “Letters from the Front” event, Gunbound with “Spelling Reindeer”, Luminary: Rise of the GoonZu holiday themes and Drift City Shop Sales Event.

Check out the ijji.com events festivities and visit: http://www.ijji.com/

GunZ

Dress in holiday style in a Santa suit, by playing Quest Modes in the GunZ Christmas Event. There are five parts to the Santa suit. If you complete a quest, you receive one of the five parts. Try and collect the whole set. To add to the holiday season, the popular Snow Town map is back, for a limited time only! Save on paper and send out your holiday greetings with the GunZ Season’s Greetings holiday e-card. GunZ is also celebrating its One Year Anniversary on ijji.com with a month long “Master of GunZ” event. Check out all the festivities taking place for the “Master of GunZ” and Christmas events by visiting: http://event.ijji.com/gunz/masters/home.nhn

Soldier Front

The holidays can get quite lonely out on the front lines. With “Letter from the Front” referral event, write a letter to your friends and encourage them to join the game. If five of your friends reach the rank of Sergeant First Class, you’ll gain 10,000 SP. You’ll also be entered into a drawing for a chance to win an 8GB iPod Touch! Recruits inspired by a friend’s letter and have reached this rank are automatically entered too. The ten best recruitment letters will be tallied on ijji.com and an additional contest in which the top three letters with the most votes will receive a prize of a $100 AMC movie gift card. Get festive out in the battlefield with Christmas costume items which will only be available during the Christmas season. Let’s go soldier, click on http://event.ijji.com/sf/xmas/event.nhn and start writing!

Gunbound

Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun with a Gunbound Christmas. Visit Santa’s Avatar Webshop during the event period (Dec 19 – Jan 9, 2008) and you’ll be awarded a door prize. Numerous items will be made available and on sale at the Avatar Shop including Santa costumes and holiday themed and extremely rare avatar items. In “Spelling Reindeer”, every time you play during this event period, you may get a chance to get a letter which can be used to spell out a phrase. Complete the phrase and win a special prize. Bonus GP and Gold and other events are available too. For more event information please visit: http://event.ijji.com/gunbound/xmas/home.nhn.

Luminary: Rise of the GoonZu

It’s a Winter Wonderland in Luminary, where holiday cheer can be found throughout the land. Christmas caroling will be heard in the background music, and some of the monsters in Luminary will don Santa Hats. Instead of attacking they will drop holiday items. The holidays have an effect on the Luminary economy as Christmas Cakes and Santa Hats can be manufactured and sold. Santa Outfit and Bag can be purchased at the Item Shop. Even Santa’s workshop can be viewed. Be on the look out for Rudolph too. Hurry and visit http://forums.ijji.com/showthread.php?p=1141300 before it’s too late.

Drift City

Deck your car out with more than boughs of holly. The Drift City Christmas and New Years Sales Event offers rebates for all Drift Shop G Coin Items! Don’t miss out on this great chance to customize your ride. G coin in-game item rebates during the period of Dec 19 to Jan 9, 2008. 30% Rebate on 7 Day Items / 40% Rebate on 30 Day Items / and 50% Rebate on 90 Day Items. Race over and visit: http://event.ijji.com/drift/extreme.nhn.

Chronic Logic announces Gish video game v1.51 plus support for Apple OSX with demo download

A new Gish update has been released which includes a universal binary version for OSX along with several other fixes and improvements for Windows, OSX and Linux. If you have already purchased Gish you can look up your registration information and download the new version here:
http://www.chroniclogic.com/gish/gishlookup.htm

Check out the list of changes along with update instructions for the full version here:
http://www.chroniclogic.com/gishpatch.htm

Or Try the new demo here:
http://www.chroniclogic.com/gish_download.htm

About Gish:
Gish isn't your average hero, in fact he's not your average anything... see Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend Brea goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open man hole and pulls Brea into the ground below. Following Brea's calls for help Gish suddenly finds himself in the subterranean sewers of Dross, a long forgotten city filled with twisting corridors, evil traps and some of the most demented creatures imaginable.

With his gelatinous structure as his only means of defense Gish must follow the echoing cries of his damsel in distress deep into the earth below. What freakish creatures dwell in this subterranean land? Who is Brea's captor? And just how far down does the rabbit hole go?

Life isn't easy when you're a 12 pound ball of tar...

More information on Gish:
http://www.chroniclogic.com/gish.htm


Get the full version:
http://www.chroniclogic.com/gishorder.htm

HIGH STAKES ON THE VEGAS STRIPT POKER EDITION UPS THE ANTE WITH NEW FREE CONTENT ON THE PLAYSTATION Network

WHAT: High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition is adding five new poker games as a holiday stocking stuffer to all players. Players can now extend their skills and trump the competition in Omaha, Pineapple, Crazy Pineapple, 5 Card Draw and 7 Card Stud on PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system for no additional charge.

FEATURES: High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition now features:

• Ten different styles of poker that can be played as limit, pot limit or no-limit poker
• Multiplayer for up to six people: players can play Open table games or Sit-n-Go tournament style
• Online leader boards
• Turbo Mode to power through the tournament circuit to advance a player’s career
• In-depth hand statistics including percentages of hands played and won, flops seen, checks, calls, bets and more
• Audio chat available with compatible headsets
• High definition up to 1080p

WHEN: High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition is currently available for digital download on the PLAYSTATION Network for $9.99 plus any applicable taxes. The five new styles of play are scheduled to be available Thursday, December 20th as a free supplement with purchase of the base game. Players who have previously purchased the game can visit the PLAYSTATION Network to download the new styles of play.



For more information on High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition log onto www.station.com.

Verizon Wireless Customers can Rock Out With the Guitar Hero III Cellphone Game

Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company with the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network, Hands-On Mobile, Inc., the world's leading developer of connected games and applications, and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the exclusive availability of the Guitar Hero III mobile game to Verizon Wireless customers.

Guitar Hero III Mobile allows rockers to jam anytime, anywhere to the same stunning graphics, high-quality audio and addictive gameplay that fans of the wildly popular console series have come to expect. Featuring four authentic guitars and three venues, the game challenges players to hit number keys in sync with colored notes that appear on a scrolling fret board.

Guitar Hero III for mobile offers 15 tracks from the Guitar Hero® console series, including "Suck My Kiss" (by Red Hot Chili Peppers) and "Rock You Like A Hurricane" (as made famous by The Scorpions), and offers Verizon Wireless customers the opportunity to expand their repertoire with new song packs that become available each month.

Verizon Wireless customers can purchase Guitar Hero III Mobile in the Get Fun & Games shopping aisle in the Get It Now® virtual store. It is available for $4.49 monthly access or $11.99 for unlimited use purchase. Verizon Wireless customers can get Guitar Hero III Mobile on an array of popular Get It Now-capable phones, including the MOTORIZR™ Z6tv, Chocolate™ by LG and the Verizon Wireless Gleam™ by Samsung. Download charges for Get It Now applications vary and airtime or megabyte charges may apply when browsing, downloading and using certain applications. Customers need a Get It Now- enabled handset and Verizon Wireless digital service to access the Get It Now virtual store.

For more information about Guitar Hero III Mobile please visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

Epic Releases First User-Created Content for Unreal Tournament 3 on PS3!

Epic's Mark Rein sends word that they have released the first user-created content for the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3.

Epic Games is proud to take the first bold step in a new era! Today we're releasing the very first user-created content for Unreal Tournament 3 on PlayStation 3.

We're starting with a user-created map called DM-Shrine created by Thomas Browett, who goes by the name Setheran on the official UT3 forums. Thomas is a 23 year old graphic designer from Nottingham, England. He's been playing Unreal since the very first Unreal Tournament and he says he's enjoyed every game in the series. He made a few maps for the original Unreal Tournament but hadn't done anything since this one. He finds the third generation Unreal Editor to be very friendly and feature rich.

DM-Shrine is is a great little map that's perfect those close-quarters, 2-6 player, matches that keep your adrenaline pumping from beginning to end. A lot of our DM maps in UT3 are designed for larger player counts so this provides a great contrast and a chance to play in a more intimate setting. I've always loved these types of maps and I hope you folks do as well!

Here is how to install UT3 mods on your PlayStation 3.

1. Unzip the file to the root directory of any memory card that is readable by your PlayStation 3. It is already in the proper directory structure but, just in case, the path and filename need to be: ps3\savedata\blus30086-modimport\userdata.jam

2. Boot up Unreal Tournament 3 on your PS3

3. Go to the "Community" menu

4. Choose "My Content"

5. Press the [SQUARE] button to "Import Mod"

6. Follow the directions on the screen to import it from your memory card.

Once imported you'll be able to see the map in your list of Deathmatch maps. You'll be able to host the map and join servers that are hosting the map. All UT3 mods install this same way. If this were a mutator it would show up in the mutator list. If it were a gametype it would show up in gametype lists, etc.

This is just the first little taste of modding on Unreal Tournament 3 for PS3.

Epic didn't make this map. Thomas did and he already released it for PC users of UT3. We didn't do any editing or changes to it. All we did was bring it into the editor and "cook" it into the proper format for the PlayStation 3 and tested it to make sure it ran properly and was good fun. We're waiting on some paperwork from Sony that will allow us to release an editor update so mod creators can do this cook process for themselves. We expect to have that very soon.

Tomorrow we're planning to release some more user-created content: a mutator, a couple more maps, and a new game type!

We have some really cool things of our own in the works (for both PC and PS3 versions of UT3) here at Epic but those are still in development so they're a little further down the road.

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Source: Planet Unreal at GameSpy