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Matrix Games announces that Advanced Tactics: World War II is now available. Now gamers can experience the addicting gameplay and powerful randomization features found in Advanced Tactics: World War II, which gives them total freedom to try any tactic or strategy to crush the enemy and includes infinite replayability.

Advanced Tactics is a turn-based strategy system that gives gamers the chance to wage almost any battle in any time period. The first module in this series is Advanced Tactics: World War II, which allows gamers to hop into a Panzer and storm across Europe. Complete with a streamlined interface and an addicting style of gameplay, Advanced Tactics offers a unique and infinitely replayable experience for any strategy fan. Depending on the scenario, you can decide what your towns should produce, which HQs receive reinforcements, how your chain of command is formed, what sort of troop and equipment mix you put in each unit, if you use air, land, or sea strategies or maybe even call in the paratroopers ¨C the possibilities are endless. Almost any type of strategy or tactic can be used effectively in Advanced Tactics.

To round out Advanced Tactics’ features, it also includes a very powerful scenario editor that allows gamers to recreate their favorite historical scenarios or simple fabricate their own fictional conflicts. World War 2 buffs will enjoy Advanced Tactics’ numerous historical scenarios from the period like: Gothic Line, Afrika Korps, the Russian Front, Endsieg and two huge human vs. human full-theater scenarios on the Eastern Front and the Pacific War. There are also fictional scenarios ranging from a Second American Civil War and a Kursk-like battle to perfectly balanced scenarios designed for PBEM match play. Furthermore, for players with only the time to play and not create their own scenarios there is a powerful and easy-to-use random scenario generator that will keep gameplay fresh with minimum user input to create new missions and campaigns beyond those that come with the package.

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American Civil War, the historical strategy game from AGEOD and Ascaron Entertainment, is now on sale in the UK. Ride into battle at the head of the Union or Confederate armies during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Players are military and political leaders trying to lead the troops of their nations to victory, in the midst of some of the toughest operations during those five years of wild campaigning throughout a divided nation.

Game developer Philippe Thibaut, a recognized designer in the Grand Strategy field, has a proven track record in the genre with such titles as Great Invasions, Birth of America, War Wound, Europa Universalis and Pax Romana in his portfolio. Graphical art in American Civil War is based on historical models and paintings by the famous Birth Of America team Robin Pirez and Sandra Duval, and a dedicated and enthusiastic group of historical experts of the Civil War era have assisted in the development of the game.

American Civil War Features:
• Powerful game engine and military AI based on the success of ‘Birth of America’;
• The game is played in alternating phases of troop orders followed by simultaneous execution (known as WEGO system);
• Easy to play, hard to master. Play a scenario over a few hours, or a full Grand Campaign following in the footsteps of General Grant and General Lee;
• Varied selection of scenarios and campaigns;
• The largest Civil War map ever created, with unequalled beauty and levels of detail;
• 2 playable armies, dozens of troop types, hundreds of events, and over 300 historical leaders with unique abilities;
• Organize divisions, armies and corps, manage supply and morale, use sea, river and rail moves, and put the best leaders in command (if politics allows);
• Fight to reconcile the nation (USA) or ensure independence (CSA): with political and military victories;
• AGEOD’s recognized dedication to historical accuracy, realism, and graphically appealing games.

written by BTGold.com \\ tags: American Civil War, Available

The game that keeps on giving, Dominions 3: The Awakening, gives some more§ð A new patch bringing the retail game up to version 3.10 is available for immediate download. Featuring hordes of new content, along with the standard slaying of bugs, there’s something to excite everyone.

The following are highlights of the version 3.10 patch.

Brand spanking new content with that lemony fresh scent:
- New nations. EA Fomoria and LA Phythium. Deformed seafaring giants and a serpent cult.
- New heroes. Agartha, Sauromatia, Eriu, Jomon, Lanka, and Marverni all receive fresh meat.
- Iron Pigs (Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches at black masses – oh, sorry, that’s War Pigs) gives Marverni Iron Boars.
- New events, new icons, and new horrors.
- Independent undead apes. Grrroowwwlll, need more baaaanannnaaaasss…

Illwinter kills bugs dead. Such as:
- Mac could crash when shift selecting units. Fixed.
- Numerous mod commands that did not work fixed.
- Horticulturist no longer harvests his crops with firebrand.
- Leadership fixes for magic units and undead units.
- Seer King enabled.

And the rest of the story:
- 1920×1200 screen resolution now supported.
- Rain moddable.
- Golem cult statues got darkvision.
- Several units have cost changes.
- Animal and vegetable names.

To view the complete list of changes and download the patch, please visit this page.

written by BTGold.com \\ tags: Available, New Dominions 3

Shrapnel Games announces that Chronic Reality’s Scallywag: In the Lair of the Medusa is now available for purchase as a download. Available for Windows, the game can be acquired directly from the Shrapnel Games e-store, the Gamers Front.

Scallywag: In the Lair of the Medusa is a sprawling single-player action RPG in the Rogue tradition; randomly created levels populated with fresh bad guys and booty with each new play. Playing as Rapius, the reluctant hero intent on saving his valley and its supply of ShrOOm ale, gamers will experience eight different worlds (Dirt Caves, Insect Nest, Tagloth Dungeons, Ice World, Fungus Gardens, Magma Caverns, Necropolis, and Lost City), each with ten levels for a total of eighty levels of dungeon descending action. In these worlds players will deal with environmental challenges (and no, not things like making sure the aluminum cans are separated from the plastic bottles), fiendish monsters, and powerful boss creatures. And then there’s the dark.

Everyone knows you always play a non-human in RPGs to get all the cool racial bonuses, but not Rapius. Unable to see in the dark Rapius has been forced to bring along a lantern to light his way. Players can control how brightly the lantern burns, which affects both the rate of oil burning and how well Rapius can be spotted by the lurkers below. Turn it low and it’s possible to sneak your way through the dark, or fire that sucker up to engage your foes from a distance. Just remember to keep an eye out for flasks of oil otherwise it’s lights out.

Scallywag: In the Lair of the Medusa offers massive replayability. There are four different levels of difficulty to choose from, and the randomly generated content ensures that players have plenty to discover with each new session. Items can be collected and combined, and there are over twenty different status effects Rapius can be hit with, many of which can be quite positive.

Even if players have beaten the game at every difficulty level a dozen times over, and they think they’ve ingested every form of mushroom and smoked every bit of fungus, there is still giving in to your RAGe! RAGe (Random Adventure Game engine) allows anyone to mod Scallywag: In the Lair of the Medusa with basic software tools most users will probably have on their desktop already. No programming skills needed, just your imagination!

Using RAGe items can be altered, added, or deleted. Monsters can be weakened or toughened up, given new powers, or created from scratch. Want to add in new sound effects or music? You can do so within seconds. Tweak how the maps are made. Want them smaller? Larger? Control the rarity of items. Make the adventure you want to play. Pull out your best dungeoncrawl module from your favorite pen and paper RPG and turn it into a game! Or go into a completely different direction from fantasy and turn Scallywag: In the Lair of the Medusa into a Roaring Twenties mob adventure! All it takes is some time and creativity.

Besides the ease of modding the basic game with no programming skills, those that do possess the mad C++ skills can create plug-ins that change the core experience itself, opening up numerous gameplay possibilities.

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Soldak Entertainment has announced the availability of a new updated Depths of Peril demo for Windows PCs. Depths of Peril is a single player action role-playing game with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests. At the same time, you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city. Barbarians choose their leaders by fighting to the death!

As a faction leader, you must deal with rival factions through diplomacy, trade, and in time, war. Between battles and raids against other barbarian factions, you build the most powerful faction possible, to withstand your enemies. Building the power of a faction involves exploring a fantasy world, slaying dangerous monsters, solving quests for the city, avoiding deadly traps, and plundering loot to share within your faction.

But in this world, actions actually have consequences, so take care. Annoying the powerful and aggressive Legion of Fear faction will cause them to declare war and destroy you. Ignored orc uprisings in the Black Forest might lead to attacks on the town or even more trouble. Protect ally covenants that are being raided, because friends are hard to come by.

The demo has all 4 classes available to play up to level 7 and contains the first “act” of the game. This up to date version of the demo has all of the fixes and improvements from the full release. The demo is still under 70MB.

The updated Depths of Peril demo is available from the following
mirrors:
- Gamershell
- WorthPlaying
- File Front
- GameSpot
- FanGaming
- GameZone
- StrategyInformer
- ComputerGames.ro
- FileShack
- 3D Downloads.

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