Before you watch the E3 trailer for vampiric sneak 'em up Dark, remember that before vampires were adored by teenage girls struggling with awkward yearnings, the bloodsuckers were doted over by teenage girls struggling with awkward yearnings while wearing gobs of black eye liner. That's why it uses this song. So on with the show.
Kalypso Media, publisher of Tropico 4, has announced another strategy-sim game coming to PC this October. Titled Rise of Venice, this game has you go from humble trading to building a large fleet of merchant ships in Renaissance Europe. All the while, though, you'll have to deal with the political strife and competing merchants.
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.
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, the shiny 3D revamp of Jagged Alliance 2, is now slated for a February 2012 launch on PC. It was previously slated to launch this past October, but ended up delayed.
While the 4X genre (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) is no longer the powerhouse of PC gaming it once was, it's still ticking away merrily. The happy family is getting another member next year in the spaceborne Legends of Pegasus from fledgling studio Novacore, announced yesterday by publisher Kalypso.
Do you have the shrewd business sense, grand vision, and golden epaulettes to rule a tropical island nation as El Presidente? You can put your inner dictator to the test in the Tropico 4 PC demo released today, a 1.69GB download available here at Shacknews.
Just when you thought your booty safe, publisher Kalypso Media has announced a new installment in the Port Royale pirate 'em up series. Port Royale 3 is headed to PC and unspecified "next generation consoles" between April and June next year.
The series, created by Ascaron Entertainment, has been on hiatus since 2004's Port Royale 2. This time around, Kalypso's own Gaming Minds Studios is behind the ship's wheel.
Publisher Kalypso Media has announced that it'll be bringing "arcade flight game" Air Conflicts: Secret Wars to North America in August. The PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game is landing in Europe in May.
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars promises "furious air-to-air and air-to-ground combat" in two World Wars, seven campaigns, over 16 aircraft, 24 "real-world inspired" maps, and 49 missions. Read more »
To celebrate the launch of Realmforge's Dungeons today, publisher Kalypso Media has released a demo to offer a taste of the Dungeon Keeper-inspired PC strategy game. The 524MB installer can be found on your friendly neighbourhood FileShack.
The demo contains three single-player campaign levels plus a Survival Mode map, unlocked by triumphing over the forces of good in the three regular levels. Read more »
El Presidente will return next year with a few new tricks up his sleeve in a new entry in the island republic simulator series Tropico, publisher Kalypso Media announced today.
Helmed by Tropico 3 developer Haemimont Games, Tropico 4 will feature a new campaign of twenty missions across ten maps. Other shiny newness includes twenty buildings such as "Stock Exchange, Shopping mall, Aqua Park and a Mausoleum to El Presidente," six disasters including "volcanoes, droughts and tornadoes," a Council of Ministers and trading with other nations. Plus, ah, Facebook and Twitter integration. Read more »
Tactics fans looking for a spot of turn-based fantasy action can now download a 3.73 GB demo for Akella's Disciples III: Renaissance from their friendly local FileShack.
Disciples III involves cavorting around the land of Nevendaar gathering an army, building up a citadel, collecting resources, powering up heroes and crushing foes in turn-based tactical combat. A bit like the Heroes of Might and Magic and King's Bounty series. Read more »
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