Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio, today announced that the highly-anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer® Online: Age of ReckoningTM (WAR), will ship tomorrow to retail stores across North America, Europe, and Oceania in preparation for launch on September 18th. WAR set a company record for the most retail pre-orders placed by consumers for a PC title in EA's 26 year history. Overall, the company has sold 1.5 million units of WAR to retailers.
Two is your lucky number at the Wii Shop Channel this week. You'll find a pair of totally different yet equally awesome sequels on offer: the second installment in the outrageous Strong Bad game series on WiiWare, and a memorable sequel from the classic Mega Man series on the Virtual Console. Two is also the total number of WiiWare titles debuting this week, including an eye-popping new puzzle game that's suitable for two players. And while it only takes one Wii console to access them, you'll need two hands to applaud this ever-growing selection of great games.
The second Strong Bad episode is now available on WiiWareTM and PC, making Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People the first episodic series to deliver regular, timely releases on a connected console. "Strong Badia the Free" comes one month after the series premiere, "Homestar Ruiner," which immediately jumped to the top of the North American WiiWare charts and remained at #1 on the Popular Titles list for four straight weeks.
Recently named Best Sports Game of E3 in the official "Game Critics Best of Show Awards", Madden NFL 09 celebrates the 20th anniversary of the best-selling franchise.
Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition allows SpongeBob fans to celebrate their creativity by drawing themselves into their very own video game. Using the unique drawing mechanic from the original Drawn to Life, players will draw the hero, power ups, costumes, and even their own Bikini Bottom home to interact with SpongeBob SquarePants' underwater universe like never before.
Her first entry is an open letter concerning the current status of the game's development: Jane Jensen explains, that the development has been delayed. She also confirms that the development process of Gray Matter goes on with high quality: "However, the new dev team, Wizarbox, is a very tight, experienced team. They're raising the quality bar on the project in a way that's exciting for me personally", she writes.
Leading computer game publisher Lighthouse Interactive and developers Discus Games and Graviteam announced today that Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942, their historical detailed tank simulation game, has a solid release date. This PC DVD-ROM game will be available online in the U.S. and Canada early November and will begin hitting stores shelves across European territories on November 7, 2008. Accompanying this press release is the official box shot featuring the famous T-34/76 mod. 1941 tank during a ferocious confrontation.
Featuring 22 thrilling combat missions, three battle modes, and thousands of options for ship customization, Dark Horizon is set to ship to North America on September 23rd and Europe on September 26th.
Ntreev USA, Inc. has released a brand new job for Grand Chase, the massively-multiplayer online action brawler developed by KOG. With the latest update, Arme, one of the five playable characters in Grand Chase, will be able to advance to the job of Warlock.
Reachin Technologies and Paradox Interactive announced today an agreement to embed HaptX in the recently released game Penumbra: Requiem, the sequel to Penumbra: Black Plague promising further enhancement to the chilling atmosphere and player interaction with everything that the gamer experiences on the screen.