Paradox Interactive (Magicka, Crusader Kings II) and Radioactive Software (Urban Empires) have teamed up to release a Third-Person Shooter/RTS game entitled Gettysburg: Armored Warfare. This game takes place in an alternate American Civil War setting and has up to 64 players at a time fighting to conquer four maps across various game modes. The visual style is distinctive as the technology is advanced beyond what they were using in 1860s America. Dirigibles and heavy...
Launching later this spring, Napoleonic Wars is a multiplayer expansion pack, that will allow for engagements for up to 250 soldiers. It will also allow for the player to create up to 220 custom units from five different nations. Features of the new expansion: Accurate early 19th century weapons, uniforms and environments Massive multiplayer battles with up to 250 players 5 nations with more than 220 unique units to choose from A wide range of artillery pieces...
A little known developer named Seatribe (Haven and Hearth) are working together with publisher Paradox Interactive to bring yet another free-to-play MMO experience to our cramped hard drives. Entitled Salem, this one will focus on a crafting system based on the old alchemy myth and survival in the New World. This game is set to frustrate even the most seasoned and veteran MMO players. The beta is open now and interested parties can register for it here.
Arrowhead Games Studio (Magicka,) along with publisher Paradox Interactive, are currently working on a new game entitled The Showdown Effect. Taking influence from games such as SolDat, Megaman X, and Super Smash Bros., we can expect a 2.5D platform-based fighter with an 80’s action hero style, fighting other players in various arenas with an assortment of weaponry, and skinnable characters to add flair. With classic modes like Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and the new...
Take control of Nato or Russian forces in Paradox Interactive’s newest RTS for the PC, Naval War: Arctic Circle. Te story of course settles begins with the fight for the world’s resources and supplies. The game play comes as LAN or online play. The forces presented to you to take control of are United States, the Russian federation, the Nordic countries and NATO. With a battle raging in a map of 35 million square km! That’s insane. Some of the more...
The land is a place of magic and mystery. Mages are powerful and benevolent beings who are looked to, not only for direction and wisdom, but also to rule over the lands they survey. One by one, the Mages came to realise that there is only one solution to the world’s perpetual and perennial problems, one Warlock to rule them all. The bond was struck and the test of might began between all the most powerful wizards in the world, who would become the Warlock? Nothing less...
War of the Roses, a multiplayer action game published by leading strategists Paradox Interactive, is currently under development and slated to be released in the third quarter of this year. On the surface the game seems to be somewhat similar to Mount & Blade, though with notable exceptions: Your control of a knight, rather than a commander, being the first and formost difference between the two games; the greater focus on multiplay being a close runner-up. In fact...
The critically-acclaimed iPad sensation, Defenders of Ardania, has been out on the iPad for a while now and is garnering the attention of strategy gamers everywhere. It was instantly recognized as a quality Tower Defence game with a twist, you control only one faction on a field full of other towers. You send your troops across the perilous paths of traps laid by your enemies and set down damage-dealing towers of your own as one of several unique factions making up the...
The latest, and last, in the series of the “Seven Deadly Sins” Crusader Kings II trailers tackles the problem of piracy in medieval Europe.. Or something like that. Actually, it’s more like a plea not to download the game. I’m having trouble deciding whether or not the hamfisted moral here is intended to be serious. Not only that, the trailer isn’t as funny as the rest of them. Not the finale I was hoping for, Paradox! Take a look.. To...
“Man, this boss fight would be so much easier if my hero had just brought about a thousand heavily armed men with him.” We’ve all thought it. (Right? Alright, maybe just me then.) Chances are you’ve also longed for a way to make all those pesky archers over there just…die. Well, in King Arthur 2, you can! But that’s just scratching the surface. King Arthur 2 delivers deep gameplay in an extensive single player campaign set in Arthurian Britania. The plot...
