With Tropico 4 developer Haemimont's gangster strategy game Omerta - City of Gangsters arriving on PC next week, publisher Kalypso has released a demo offering a taste of mobster life. Omerta is more action-oriented than Tropico, with turn-based tactical combat, so grab the 793MB download here at Shacknews and see how it shapes up.
Prohibition was a dark time in American history. With booze outlawed, pinstriped-suited criminals engaged in bootlegging, racketeering, and other illicit activities. Kalypso Media and Haemimont Games, the team behind the Tropico series, are taking a piece of this action with their city-building sim, Omerta - City of Gangsters.
Candygun Games, the studio behind last year's zombie tower defense game Dead Block has announced its next project: a four-player game called Dollar Dash. The game has you take on the part of bank-robbers competing to hit the loot vault before your fellow thieves.
The well-regarded console shoot-em-up Sine Mora is making the trek to PC on November 9, Kalypso Media announced. The PC version will include 1080p visuals and 60 FPS, which may make the bullet hell nature of the action a little easier to handle.
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action succeeded in remaking and revamping the tactical series, by most accounts, and a standalone expansion pack's on the way with the first properly new Jagged Alliance story in a decade. Publisher Kalypso media today narrowed down the previous summer release window for Jagged Alliance: Crossfire down to September, so it could just sneak into the sunny season or slip into forbidding fall.
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action is getting its first standalone add-on, titled "Jagged Alliance: Crossfire." The expansion adds a new original story and a pretty lengthy campaign, and it's slated to come out sometime this summer.
The dreams of every hardcore Jagged Alliance fan have come true, with the launch of new Jagged Alliance: Back in Action downloadable content based upon the tie-in novel 'Shades of Red.' For people who merely enjoy the turn-based tactics game, hey, more JA!
We're going to guess that RealmForge's new game, DARK, isn't going to be the most uplifting title. The developers of Dungeons are trying their hand at a new genre, moving away from strategy into third-person stealth-action.
Players assume the role of a vampire trying to uncover the secrets of the GeoForge Corporation. You'll hunt targets in a futuristic cityscape utilizing vampire-enhanced stealth skills.
"War never changes," is what the post-apocalyptic Fallout series touts as its sort of top-line motto. However, bitComposer, the developer behind the relatively recent Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, has taken a tact to the contrary, aiming to improve and update a number of the systems and gameplay pioneered in the original games, while staying true to the things that made previous entries such long-term hits among fans. The game delivers a strategic and protracted battle over the tropical region of Arulco that can be incredibly engaging in many ways--at least until the frustration caused by shortcomings of the AI and the new pause-and-play battle system start to stand out like snipers in neon ghillie suits.
After dabbling in dictatorship with Tropico 3 and 4, Haemimont Games is branching out to a new form of ruthless ruling, mixing it up with the Cosa Nostra in Omerta - City of Gangsters. The mafia sim will mix real-time mob empire management with turn-based tactical combat in what publisher Kalypso calls a "historically accurate representation" of 1920s New Jersey's glamorous Atlantic City.
The Tropico 4 "Modern Times" expansion will hit on April 3 for $19.99 (1200 MSP). True to its name, the expansion takes into account all the modern conveniences that could help or hurt a modern dictator. You'll have to deal with factors like the Internet, terrorists, and space exploration as you oppress your subjects.
There's been a lot of hemming and hawing over Jagged Alliance: Back in Action from fans of the original turn-based tactical series, over changes like its once-absent fog of war (since added back in) and real-time-y combat. Now you can see for yourself how bitComposer's remake of Jagged Alliance 2 has panned out, thanks to a 354MB demo released today.
The most successful dictators know to move with the times, and Tropico 4's El Presidente is no exception. The Modern Times expansion for Haemimont's sim will drag your island republic out of the Cold War, into the present day and beyond, with a new campaign, buildings, and more. Why, you can even restrict your citizens' Internet access!
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Old warriors never retire, they simply wait for someone to revamp their video game a few years later. The hard-working mercs of Jagged Alliance: Back in Action will return to our screens on February 14, publisher Kalypso Media has announced.
Developer Flying Wild Hog's dark cyberpunk shooter Hard Reset is headed to retail in the U.K. next year, in a version that includes a number of extras and improvements. Kalypso Media will publish the Hard Reset: Extended Edition exclusively for Windows PC in March of 2012.
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