Yearly Archives: 2014

Blood Bowl Creators Tackling New Football Sim

Blood Bowl

The most iconic name in football sims, Front Page Sports Football, is warmed up and taking to the field September 25, and today Cyanide Studio offers a quick look at how to plan and execute your strategy for a game using Gameplan and Playbook.

Front Page Sports Football allows you to prepare for your next opponent in two ways; delving through a team or individual player’s stats, such as rushing and passing and much more; and by watching your opponents’ previous games in 2D or 3D to get inside their tactics.

Armed with this knowledge, you can customize your Gameplan with plays to hammer at your opponent’s weakness. On the field, your players will choose the appropriate play for the situation from the Gameplan, but the best coaches know how to adapt, changing the Gameplan on the fly to maximize an advantage or respond to a crisis.

Your Playbook is a handpicked collection of 80 offensive and 60 defensive strategies drawn from over 2,300 plays. But, a play is only as strong as the athletes on the field. Effectiveness hinges not only on a player’s position and stats, but also his previous experience with the play.

Each player has over 20 stats capable of influencing plays and the overall gameplan, including weight, agility, speed, morale, and even fame. Of course, proper training is critical, and it’s up to you whether you push for quick and short-lived gains for the next game, or focus on developing better overall players for the seasons to come.

Front Page Sports Football launches September 25, 2014 for PC. You can find more info and the newly released screenshots at:

http://www.frontpage-sportsfootball.com

Total War ROME II: Massive Free Update Out Now

Total War ROME II

Available to buy for new players and as a huge free update to existing fans, the Emperor Edition is out now.

Featuring significant improvements and reworks of existing game features, this definitive edition of ROME II also comes with a massive amount of free content; including the gigantic Imperator Augustus Campaign Pack, depicting the violent civil war that decided the first Emperor of Rome.

In addition, all ROME II owners will get a free Mac copy of the game via Steam Play.

For more details on this huge content drop, head to www.totalwar.com.

Shikihime Garden: 6-month milestone reached

Shikihime

Appirits, the Japanese game developer and publisher recently has marked 6-month running of their English browser-based card & simulation game Shikihime Garden via a big promotion as well as several updates for their players from September 16th to 23th.

During the aforesaid period, all available Power packages (a special in-game currency) will be x1.2 their values thus help players have more Power with the same cash as before. Besides, new players joining the game in the event week will be given special gifts to start their adventure. And even if new players manage to reach level 6, they will have more rewards later on!

In addition to such promotion, Appirits also introduced a brand new Shikihime race called Ultimate Extremely Rare. These Shikihime cards have stronger stats and growth rate along with unique skills. For this update, certain Shikihime cards can have their max level raised to 20 and unlock a third skill slot to use in battles.

Moreover, some new garden ornaments have been also added to enlarge players’ collection of decorations. With regular updates of new ornaments, Shikihime Garden is keeping its players satisfied with its simulation aspect apart from the main card-based gameplay.

Though Shikihime Garden focuses more on solo experience, Appirits does not forget players playing in guilds with the increase of guild member up to 32 members for lv.11 guilds. A new Underworld Boss is also released to challenge guild from lv.10 and higher. Plus, a new difficult dungeon is added to the world map to cause trouble to even Shikihime Garden’s veterans.

It is recommended that players should join Shikihime Garden especially in this week to celebrate the game’s 6-month milestone with a lot of new content and special gifts.

For more info, http://skgen.aprts-games.com.

Vampire Tribunals Reveals “The Hidden World of Vampires”

Vampire Tribunals

Clazz Games, a mobile video game publisher, and developer Raincrow Studios announced today the launch of Vampire Tribunals. Featuring mobile multi-player combat, Vampire Tribunals is a supernatural experience where vampire fantasies are no longer dreams, they are real.

Like “Google’s” popular “Ingress”, Vampire Tribunals is tailored to take advantage of the geo-location features of smart phones. But instead of monuments and portals, Vampire Tribunals reveals the real world to be filled with vampires and demons living among us. Stay in your neighborhood, zoom out to see the playing field or transport your vampire through the in-game Janus Mirror to attack enemy players all over the world. Players will bite their way through thousands of victims on their iPhone using in-phone navigation as they locate their next prey, with the goal of becoming the world’s most dominant blood-sucking vampire.

Vampire Tribunals is available today for free download on iOS devices. Visit the official site at www.vampiretribunals.com

Firefall: Elemental Destruction Update Available

Firefall

Red 5 Studios announces Update 1.1: Elemental Destruction for the open world MMO shooter, Firefall, introducing powerful new weapons and damage effects, five exciting dynamic encounters, and an excruciating Hardcore Mode for Kanaloa the Destroyer.  This extensive update follows recent additions to Firefall which greatly increased the number of dynamic events spawned around the world as well as significantly improved ARES job rewards.

Update 1.1: Elemental Destruction incorporates two never-before-seen weapons and devastating damage modifiers to the Accord armory.  The Plasma Flak Cannon, designed for Assault battleframes, fires a deadly blast that explodes upon impact or after a set amount of time, dealing area of effect (AOE) damage.  The Biotech class gets the virulent Bio Injector, a weapon that fires lethal needles which inflicts poison damage to enemies upon impact.  Moreover, the alternate fire of the Bio Injector is designed to apply heal over time to target allies.

In addition to the new artillery, this update also introduces six elemental weapon capabilities for both primary and secondary weapons designed to burn, poison, and shock the opposing forces in Firefall.  Energy based weapon modifiers including beam, laser beam, microplasma, and emissive microplasma, has also been added to shotguns, assault rifles, burst rifle, and sub-machine guns to make secondary armaments more lethal.  These destructive weaponry improvements more than double the number of weapon variations available in the game and will be useful in dealing with the challenges introduced in this update.

The Hardcore version of Kanaloa the Destroyer has been unleashed with a few twists to the legendary titan battle.  Seasoned veterans will have to form a highly skilled alliance in order to conquer this titan and reap the new epic loots.  Five additional dynamic events can also be found around the world of Firefall along with the all-new Chosen Offensive live event.  Chosen Offensive will be available on Sept. 21, Sept. 28, and Oct. 5 from 11:00am to 3:00pm PDT.  These hostile skirmishes are designed to terrorize players and keep them on their toes throughout their journey in New Eden.

For a complete list of new features and upgrades included in Update 1.1: Elemental Destruction visit www.firefall.com/elemental-destruction.