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You’ve got to check out this sick trailer – the very first look at Platinum Life: Web Edition coming to Facebook in a matter of weeks! PLWE is the first hip hop social lifestyle game to hit Facebook and has some huge hip hop celebrity names behind it that we’re gearing up to announce soon.
Download the trailer here:https://rcpt.yousendit.com/814599754/23b5185c7ae90deef7c9c1b496f6db5e
PLWE allows you to customize your avatar, build your entourage, then meet and interact with today’s real-life celebrity hip hop heavyweights. Beef up your brand while you battle your way from being an unsigned underground artist to a superstar celebrity livin’ large.
ZENO CLASH: ULTIMATE EDITION FOR XBOX LIVE ARCADE FOR XBOX 360 SHOWS OFF ITS NEW MOVES IN “NEW ATTACKS” GAMEPLAY VIDEO
ALSO: developer ACE Team discusses Zeno Clash, Ultimate Edition improvements
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA — FEBRUARY 4, 2010 — Atlus U.S.A., Inc. today unveiled one of many additions and improvements in the upcoming first-person melee action adventure Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition™, the enhanced version of one of 2009’s most critically-acclaimed independent releases, coming to Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft on March 30, 2010. The “New Attacks” video [LINK] highlights the lengths to which developer ACE Team has gone to build and improve upon their award-winning game, showing off an assortment of bone-crushing new combat moves.
“Initially, ACE Team had offered to demonstrate the new moves in Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition in person for the Atlus staff,” chuckled a grimacing Aram Jabbari, Manager of Public Relations and Sales for Atlus. “We all thought they were kidding when they talked about cool-sounding moves like the ‘headbutt’ and ’spin kick.’ After a week in the hospital, I’m happy to say that fans can expect to find those and equally punishing new attacks in Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition, and that the moves deliver the same satisfyingly visceral feel as all the other injury-inducing first-person melee combat Zeno Clash has to offer. In other good news, the doctor says the swelling on my head will go away in about a month or so.”
Six-on-six soccer action coming to PC this March with SFC Soccer: Football Fever from Blitz 1UP and Stir Fry Games
5 February 2010 LEAMINGTON SPA, UK Blitz Arcade (a division of Blitz Games Studios) signs SFG Soccer: Football Fever to its Blitz 1UP label. Due for worldwide release on PC in March 2010, SFG Soccer: Football Fever brings fast-paced footwork to the PC.
A new and improved update of the popular Xbox LIVE Indie Games title SFG Soccer, SFG Soccer: Football Fever has been developed by Stir Fry Games with the help of Blitz 1UP.
SFG Soccer: Football Fever is a six-on-six soccer game, with ‘pick up and play’ controls and deep RPG-style player progression. There’s even a full league system, which you can play
co-op or solo while leading your team to battle it out in the 1st Division Championship Game. The new PC version will also boast customizable teams and leagues, so you can challenge your friends to become the reigning champions. Use bicycle kicks, headers, one-touch passes, slide-tackles and instant replays, it’s all here, with a host of special features:
- Fast, addictive, arcade-style game play
- Easy to learn controls
- RPG-style team improvement and levelling systems
- Deep multi-season Career Mode, featuring 64 teams from around the world.
“This is a tremendous opportunity,” says Andy Kwiatkowski, owner of Stir Fry Games. “Working with a well-established company such as Blitz Games Studios is a big step in increasing both the quality and the profile of our games.”
“The Xbox LIVE Indie Games release of SFG Soccer was a great success, receiving fantastic reviews and great support from the community,” says Chris Swan, Blitz Arcade’s Business Development Director. “We are really looking forward to working with Stir Fry Games to bring an even more polished and playable version of the game to PC portals through Blitz 1UP.”
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JANUARY 28, 2010 LEAMINGTON SPA, UK Fluttabyes, a beautiful butterfly-themed downloadable PC title is out now on Boonty, GamersGate, Gamestreamer and Impulse.
Developed by indie studio Red Chain Games and signed to Blitz Arcade’s Blitz 1UP label, Fluttabyes is a fun, quirky take on a Match 3 game. Easy to pick up and play, yet deeply addictive, the aim of Fluttabyes is to help the butterflies fly away by matching four or more of the same colour. The game is gorgeous and cute, with sunny countryside summer settings in a unique and colourful art style.
You can create lines of four, five, six or seven butterflies, a 4×4, L shapes and cross shapes up to 7×7. And the bigger the match, the bigger the bonus! Create 7×7 matches to unlock special ladybird bonuses. You can also create combos by lining up matches that complete after other butterflies have flown away, to amass huge bonuses.
Different modes also vary the game play. With Endless mode, you can play for as long as you like without pressure. In Survival mode, a dandelion clock counts down and if it reaches zero, it’s game over. But you can slow it down by helping the butterflies to fly away.
Chris Swan, Business Development Director for Blitz Arcade, says: “We’re delighted to have partnered with Red Chain on Fluttabyes. The fantastic presentation and unique twist on established gameplay make for a thoroughly compelling experience.”
Adds Dean Baker, MD, Red Chain Games: “We’re delighted to partner with Blitz 1UP. From their early days, the Oliver Twins have designed and developed games we loved, while enjoying huge critical and commercial success. We’re privileged to be able to tap into that experience to make our game as good as it can be. Partnering with Blitz has given our game a huge opportunity to reach the widest audience possible.”
What do you get when you mix four guys, a ton of videogames, and a ten foot purple panda bear? You get something reminiscing this new episode of "Those Gaming Guys"! In this episode, we discuss Bayonetta, Mass Effect, Street Fighter 4, along with a ton of others. It’s also that time of the month again, with NPDs making their graceful return along with a ton of news ranging from Mass Effect 2 DLC to more news on the Metal Gear Solid movie. So jump into your Mako all-terrain vehicle, turn up the sound system, and blast the latest episode of "Those Gaming Guys"!
The Rock Band Network Beta Program Opens for Music Artists, Publishers and Record Labels to Author and Submit Songs
Rock Band Enthusiasts Encouraged to Join XNA Creators Club Online at the Now-Open Creators.RockBand.com to Test New Music Tracks and Participate in Peer Review Program
CAMBRIDGE, MA and NEW YORK, NY – Jan. 20, 2010 – Harmonix Music Systems and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced that the Rock Band Network beta program is now open to the public,giving emerging and established artists the tools needed to start authoring and submitting their music into Rock Band. The Rock Band Network, announced in July,is aground-breaking initiative that gives musicians, publishers and record labels the ability to author their original recordings into gameplay files to promote and sell their music as playable Rock Band tracks through the soon-to-launch Rock Band Network Music Store (RBN Store).
“We are excited to democratize the Rock Band platform and expand the music discovery experience to the greater music community with the Rock Band Network,” said Alex Rigopulos, CEO and co-founder of Harmonix. “We believe this will be great for fans, music lovers, bands and the music industry as a whole.”
“The Rock Band Network opens the Rock Band universe to musicians at any stage of their career, empowering them to release the songs they choose, on their timetable, via our proven music distribution platform,” said Paul DeGooyer, Senior Vice President of Electronic Games and Music for MTV Networks Music Group. “It is a high-value business proposition that features powerful promotional impact for artists and songwriters, while at the same time adding real sales to their bottom lines.”
Artists who submit songs for the Rock Band Network Music Store will be able to choose from multiple pricing tiers for individual tracks and receive a royalty of 30 percent of the retail selling price (excluding tax) for every track purchased through the RBN Store. Before they are approved to be sold, songs are submitted to http://Creators.RockBand.com. The author submits the song to one of two areas: Playtest, where the community delivers feedback on a work in progress track, or Peer Review, where a revised song goes when it is considered a final draft and ready to be posted for sale. Once in Peer Review, songs are tested for playability and checked to check for violations of XNA Creators Club Online community standards (vulgarity, adult content, legal concerns, etc.). Peer Reviewers have the unique opportunity to play Rock Band NetworkRock Band 2 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, can join the Playtest and Peer Review processes by purchasing an XNA Creators Club Online Premium membership through http://creators.xna.com/membership. content for free, well in advance of a track’s commercial release. These fans can help shape the track’s final form, rating how fun and challenging the authoring is, and helping flag issues to make the song the best it can be. Anyone who owns
Once tracks are approved, they will be transferred to the Rock Band Network Store, an in-game music marketplace where the millions of Rock Band fans will be able to both hear and play samples of songs before they purchase. Songs will debut exclusively on Xbox 360 for 30 days. A selection of standout tracks will then be made available on the PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and the Wii™ home videogame console from Nintendo.
How to get started:
· Wondering How to Submit a Song? http://creators.rockband.com/docs/Website Scroll down to “Adding a song to the pipeline.”
· Want to Become a Peer Reviewer? http://creators.rockband.com/docs/Playtest_Process
The Rock Band Network Store will open to consumers in the near future to be announced at a later date. With more than 1,000 tracks available to date in the standard Rock Band platform, the Rock Band Network Music Store will exponentially increase the number of available songs, further securing MTV Games and Harmonix’s position as the leading provider of downloadable content for music-based video games.
To check out the Rock Band Network in action, featuring Jonathan Coulton, please visit here: http://www.rockband.com/zine/rbn-panels-3-comm/.
Blitz 1UP and Remode announce Mole Control release for PC
20 JANUARY 2010 LEAMINGTON SPA, UK Blitz 1UP announces the release of cute puzzler Mole Control for PC.
Mole Control, created and developed by Remode, combines unique mechanics and a charming style to bring the logic-based favourite Minesweeper into the 21st Century. Pilot a crazy buggy through a mind-bending adventure to unlock the mystery behind the runaway moles or enjoy a frantic time attack challenge in the village Mole Control competition. Either way your aim is to rid one town of its exploding moles!
Use Supermole power-ups through six zones and over 35 randomly populated, totally
re-playable levels to enhance this brain-teasing experience.
There are a whole host of features to help you along your way:
- Uncover numbers with your buggy and use to find and dig up exploding moles… but be careful not to drive over them!
· Play through Adventure Mode to save the village and unlock the frantic Time Attack levels in order to win the village’s annual Mole Control competition
· Random puzzle generation for ultimate replay value in over 35 levels
· Unlockable background story to find the mystery behind the runaway moles.
“We’re thrilled to have helped bring such a great remake of a classic game to the market.” says Blitz 1UP Producer Neil Holmes. “The combination of mad scientist, exploding moles and unique game play twists make Mole Control a fantastic puzzle adventure for people of all ages.”
check out molecontrolgame.com
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Play Outspark Games and Help the Victims of Haiti
Outspark To Donate Proceeds from In-Game Sales of “Help Haiti” Bundles to Yele Haiti Charity
San Francisco, Calif. – January 18, 2010 – Outspark, the premier North American publisher for free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, is giving players a chance to help the victims of the devastating Haiti earthquake.
Through the end of January, Outspark will donate 100% of its proceeds from the sales of its in-game “Help Haiti” bundles to Yele Haiti, a relief organization founded by Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean, whose mission is to provide humanitarian aid and assistance to Haiti. The “Help Haiti” bundles are available for purchase in four of Outspark’s online games:Fiesta, Secret of the Solstice, Wind Slayer and Project Powder. “Help Haiti” in-game bundles are available for $5 each and are located in each game’s online store until January 31, 2010.
For more information about the “Help Haiti” program at Outspark, visithttp://www.outspark.com
Play Dragonica™ Online for a Chance to Win More Than $2,500 in Gift Card Prizes
Agoura Hills, CA – January 18, 2010 – THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) and THQ*ICE LLC, the recently launched joint venture between THQ and ICE Entertainment focusing on free-to-play online games, today announced the start of the Dragonica™ Online Water Series Game Card Sweepstakes giving players a chance to win a $2,500 Best Buy gift card and limited edition Dragonica Online Water Series Game Cards loaded with ICE Cash.
To enter simply register for a free THQ*ICE Passport account, download the official game client and log into Dragonica Online. Existing players will be automatically entered when they log in to the game during the month of January.
Sweepstakes Prizes Include:
· Grand Prize (1 awarded): $2,500 Best Buy gift card
· First Prize (5 awarded): $25 limited edition Dragonica Online Water Series Game Card
· Second Prize (10 awarded): $10 limited edition Dragonica Online Water Series Game Card
The Dragonica Online Water Series Game Card Sweepstakes runs through January 31, 2010. THQ*ICE will randomly select 16 lucky winners including one grand prize winner, five first prize winners and ten second prize winners. For the official list of rules, please visit: http://passport.thqice.com/ui_web/official_rules.html. Read more »
iSamJackson Available Now for the Apple® iPhone™ and iPod® touch
The App Store Gets the Timeless Wit of the King of Cool, Samuel L. Jackson
Austin, Texas – January 11, 2009 – Heatwave Interactive, a game development studio and online publisher creating innovative cross-media properties, announced today that its new entertainment app iSamJackson is available now for Apple® iPhone™ and iPod® touch. Now users can absolutely, positively be the coolest cats in the room with access to original quotes, humorous adages, and insightful advice recorded by the one-and-only Samuel L. Jackson.
As the definitive entertainment app for the iPhone and iPod touch, iSamJackson features the class and wit from the king of cool himself, providing endless entertainment for every situation.
iSamJackson features include:
Customizable Soundboard: Inject original and authentic Samuel L. Jackson quotes into conversation with quips that suit any occasion
Personality Scanner: With the scan of a thumb print, Samuel L. Jackson lets users know just what he thinks of them
Ask Sam: Solve the great dilemmas of life by asking any question and receiving instantaneous wisdom and advice from Samuel L. Jackson
17+ Explicit Version: Censor-free version for those who want to experience the full range of class and wit from the one-and-only Samuel L. Jackson
Clean Version: Expletive-free version for those who don’t want to upset their bosses too badly when they let Samuel L. Jackson’s comments flow during a staff meeting
In addition, Heatwave plans to release new content for iSamJackson including the MMO pack (available now) and the Pick-Up Lines Pack.
iSamJackson is available through the App Store for $2.99. Click here for a direct link. To learn more about the application, please visit: www.isamjackson.com. For more information about Heatwave Interactive, please visitwww.heatwave.com "> www.heatwave.com.
