The Dark Wheel

Battlestar Galactica Online reaches 2 Million players

jameson — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:46:09 +0000

Since its official launch 3 months ago Bigpoints Battlestar Galactica Online now has over 2 million registered users playing the online MMOG. Battlestar Galactica Online is a browser based delivered game which allows effective cross platform MMOG high-quality, 3D graphics with intense gameplay and is of course free to play. Bigpoints is the market leader in browser based MMOG and Battlestar Galactica Online MMOG based of the popular Syfy series Battlestar Galactica is currently attracting over 20,000 news players everyday.

Some the launch of Battlestar Galactica Online a number of new features have been introduced from new Colonial and Cylon ships, a Merit system that enables the purchase of high-value items like nuclear missiles, and the ability for players to take control of their faction’s capital ships, the Battlestar Pegasus or Cylon Basestar.

“With BSGO continuing to achieve new benchmarks, and receive such a strong positive response from the fans, we’re excited to take its development to the next level,” said Rob Ollett, managing director, Bigpoint International. “At just three-months in we’re at a point now where we can shift the majority of our attention to adding new content and addressing the community’s wish list.”

Battlerstar Galactica Online Screenshot

Also included but only available to those successful enough to gather enough Merits during the game ( you can collect these by helping to destroy enemy outposts) are two new ships the Gungnir joins the Colonial fleet and the Nidhogg joins the Cylon. Both ships are available to two forms basic unlocked by in game currency and the advanced models by merits which you earn during the game.

Battlerstar Galactica Online Screenshot

Both ship names follow the Norse mythology theme, which has been used to name the existing line ships. Gungnir is Odin’s spear, and Nidhogg is the main dragon in Norse mythology, which gnaws on the roots of the World Tree. In addition to ongoing game balancing, performance optimization, and general polish,

Look out for more new content and features which are to be added by Bigpoint in future updates.

Bigpoint game site and registration: http://battlestar-galactica.bigpoint.com/

Family Farm for Mac and PC Coming Soon

jameson — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:30:21 +0000

Iceberg Interactive are releasing Family Farm on the 27th May 2011 and will be available for Mac and PC platforms. Family Farm is a combination of Farmville for Facebook and the ever popular SIMS genre which puts you in control characters on your 19th century farm that have different skills and needs. You now have to grow your virtual family, upgrade your house and acquire more land.

Family Farm requires hands on management of your family, farm workers, land, crops, and livestock in real time, don’t worry there’s tutorials to help you in the way. Family Farm offers a whole new way to create your own virtual farming world and should offer hours of gameplay and longevity.

Watch this space for a full game review shorty but in the meatime enjoy the video below. There are more details here and to pre-order click here.

Farm to your heart’s desire on your own 19th century farmstead
Enjoy the farm life in up to 10 stories that span a lifetime
Create your own farm family and customize their talents, skills and needs; welcome new babies and hire external workers!
Groom and raise a variety of cute farm animals: choose from horses and cows to sheep and chickens
Grow and harvest the fruit, crops and vegetable on your patches and fields in harvest season; but make sure the work gets done before the weather turns foul!
Decorate your farm with flowerbeds and pretty ornaments in your own style and patterns
Make home and cook delicious meals to keep your family and workers happy and improve their farming – regular or with special effects on their attributes
Includes tutorial, statistics, achievements and trophies
Upgradable house and expandable farm

Minimum Specification

OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows® Vista™ or Windows® 7™, CPU: 1.6 GHz Pentium® 4 / AthlonT XP 2000+, RAM: 512 MB RAM (1 GB Recommended for Windows® Vista and 7™), Video: 128 MB DirectX® 9 / OpenGL 2.0 Compatible Pixel & Vertex Shader 2.0 required, Hard Disk Space: 1GB, Other: Mouse, Keyboard

Basilisk Games Anniversary Giveaway!

jameson — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:15:04 +0000

Today May 12 is the first anniversary of the release of Eschalon: Book II and to celebrate Basilisk Games are giving away free stuff! There will be Game T-shirts and to enter your need to do the following. “Like” their Facebook page and follow then on Twitter. and if you also retweet there “Anniversary Giveaway” tweet and are one o their winners, they’ll either upgrade your T-shirt to a sweatshirt, or throw in a coffee mug with your T-shirt! If you already follow Basilisk Games on both Facebook and Twitter, then there is nothing more for you to do- you are already entered, and the bonus mentioned above still applies to you!

Basilisk Games Logo

Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale – screenshots

jameson — Sat, 07 May 2011 22:33:15 +0000

The Dungeon and Dragons franchise continues ‘Dungeon and Dragons Daggerdale’ and will be thier first digital download release for the franchise on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®Network, and Windows PC. Dungeon and Dragons Daggerdale is scheduled for download release at Atari.com in Spring 2011.

Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale is and RPG game that allows solo and co-op for up to four players. It boasts pick up and play combat that has a wide variety of weapons to defeat your enemies on the way. White exploring the stunning level of Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale you will be tasked to restore order to Nentir Vale and you do this by unlocking secrets of the Mines of Tethyamar, defeating the evil within the treacherous Tower of the Void, leading to the final confrontation with Rezlus himself.

Visit the official website

Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale - screenshots

WAKFU for Mac: MMORPG Open Beta for everyone

jameson — Sun, 01 May 2011 08:43:58 +0000

Ankama’s up and coming release of WAKFU online role playing games (MMORPG) is available for beta testing. To take part in the beta testing you will need to create an Ankama account and is available to everyone to take part in. Once you’ve joined up you can immerse yourself in the devastated World of Twelve.

From now on, you can:

Play the first 6 character classes: Iop, Cra, Eniripsa, Sadida, Ecaflip and Enutrof

Start your journey on Incarnam: there, you will learn everything you need to know about managing the ecosystem (after you have met with Wolfram) and fighting, after setting foot in the Kanojedo.
Freely explore the continent of Astrub, the City of Mercenaries, to make up your mind about the present forces.
Choose your Nation: Will you pledge allegiance to the glutton Amakna or to the proud Bonta ?
Start a political career, with the brand new system in place. It’s up to you to become a Guard, a Soldier or even Governor.
Conquer islands: Push back the borders of your Nation by conquering new territories.
Influence the ecosystem as you wish. Hundreds of animals and vegetal species are at your mercy.
Mint your own Kamas and spend’em in nice furnitures for your Haven bag !
And many other things… but we’re not telling you anything else: you’ll have to find that out in game !

Try the 16 professions offered, all of which are already ingame: Trapper, Poster, Master of Weapons or Baker… everything is possible!

The game will be regularly updated with new characters, exclusive locations and never seen before challenges.

The Open beta is a very important step in the development of a video game : the WAKFU team expects you to report even more bugs (we love that, please do) !

To download the game click here

Games overview
WAKFU is a MMORPG that places you in the online world Twelve 1,000 years after the Dofus Era. You play online with 1000′s of other people creating your own destiny from a tradesman, artisan, fighter, militiaman, magician, politician or just a simple citizen. Be aware as you progress you will be required to use you skill in tactical combat in turn-based battles to defeat your enemies and shadiest creatures

It’s up to you how you play, take a passive role and the watch the world change. If you prefer join friends and create your own rules. Choose a side that best suits your ideology Amakna, Bonta or Brakmar and proudly explore Twelve wearing your nation’s colours! The environment is forever fluid defending against enemy attacks, conquering new territories or the struggle to become governor of your entire nation!

The game also reflects our modern way of life balancing Earths ecosystem has the same challenges in Twelve. There is a live ecosystem here that you will need and there for a purpose. Exploit the landscape at your own peril as the fauna and flora will form a real live ecosystem and your are free to protect or exploit the natural resources, or even destroy them
to the point of total extinction!

Nintendo Wii 2 to be revealed at E3 June 2012

jameson — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:28:41 +0000

The Wii 2 will be unveiled at the giant E3 event in June 7th – 9th, 2012 confirmed Nintendo and is the successor to the popular Wii. Nintendo are planing to show a playable version of the new console, the Wii 2 at the E3 Los Angeles event and will have to make some impact to make anywhere near the 86m units sold since 2006 of the Nintendo Wii.

More information when available.

Eve Online Captain’s Quarters: Tutorials and Missions

jameson — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:06:15 +0000

Eve Online are putting together a set of tutorials and missions for the Captain’s Quarters as part of the iteration of Incarna. CPP are after looking for feedback on the new Captain’s Quarters as you will able to walk around as part of the space station environment. While the Captain’s Quarters are only a work-in-progress, it does have access to Planetary Interaction, Corporation management/recruitment, Character re-customization and Ship fitting.CPP Eve Online are looking for feeback in the following areas if you can help…

The look, feel, and general impressions on the Captain’s Quarters as a replacement for the current hangar-view
The usability, accuracy, flow, and completeness of the new Crash-Course
The usability and completeness of the new in-station tutorials

If you would like to take part the visit CCP Chiliad’s latest blog for more information.

Eve Online Captain's Quarters

LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues for Mac

jameson — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:06:36 +0000

Archeology was never the same after Indiana Jones hit the big screen, and with the arrival of LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues is about to do it again. Our blocky LEGO friends are releasing LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues for Mac on April 28th and includes a treasure trove of features, characters, locations and vehicles. You’ll be able to play the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with all new chapters from the original classic movies too.

Apart from the appealing LEGO movement there are lots of new characters, planes, boats and trains with the added extra, snakes, I hate snakes. To find out more information on LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues for Mac the visit the official mini site at LEGO Indy 2 mini-site

LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues!

BLIZZCON 2011 October 21st and 22nd

jameson — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:57:54 +0000

This years BlizzCon event will be on the 21st and 22nd of October 2011 at the Anaheim Convention Center, tickets go on sale for 2 days only Saturday, May 21 and Thursday, May 26, so be ready. The BlizzCon gaming event tickets are available to buy from the official BlizzCon website (www.blizzcon.com) priced at $175 USD each and will be available for purchase from Saturday, May 21 at 7 p.m. Paris time and Thursday, May 26 at 4 a.m. Paris time. The BlizzCon gaming event is also being broadcast as a multichannel Internet stream and also via Pay-per-View on DIRECTV in the United States so gamers around world can also enjoy BlizzCon for only $39.99, check the official website for details. Limited streaming coverage of the BlizzCon opening ceremony and certain BlizzCon tournaments will be available via the Internet for free.

Some initial activities including discussions, panels, game play, new games, tournaments and contests with lots more news to follow.

If you are going to the event or have been the please tell us what you thought.

Star Wars Empire at War for Mac

jameson — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:35:28 +0000

Star Wars: Empire at War for Mac puts the power to command an entire war for the Star Wars galaxy in the hands of players is now available for download Aspyr. Star Wars: Empire at War for Mac is scalable with accessible gameplay and let you play the game how you want to. It’s set before Episode IV: A New Hope as players wage war on the ground, space and witness the rise of the Rebel Alliance.

Star Wars: Empire at War for Mac has been built by Petroglyph a Las Vegas-based developer who created a new game engine. The planets Yavin IV, Tatooine and Dagobah are all rendered with ever-before-seen environments taken directly from the Star Wars films and expanded universe novels . You choose to join either the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire, building and setting up tactical forces to unleash upon the enemy in real-time 3D. Memorable Star Wars hero characters can be brought into the action to help turn the tide of the battle as players build, manage and upgrade their space and ground-based units, vehicles, troops and base structures.

Star Wars Empire At War for Mac Screenshot