Heroes Over Europe

Heroes Over Europe

• Developer: Transmission Games
• Publisher: Ubisoft
• Genre: Flight Action
• Release Date: September 22, 2009 (US)

About Heroes Over Europe

The sequel to the mighty World War II flight combat game Heroes of the Pacific, Heroes over Europe takes aspiring combat pilots into the bullet-ridden heart of major World War II European air battles in glorious, dogfight-friendly high definition. Heroes over Europe follows the Allied campaign from the attacks on London to the destruction of Berlin, with players under orders to strap themselves into the authentically rendered cockpits of the campaign’s iconic aircraft. Their mission: to survive the most intense dogfights ever seen in a flight combat game.

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP / Windows Vista (Only)
• Processor: Dual core 2.66 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon X2 3800+ or better (Intel Core 2 6400 or AMD Athlon X2 4400+ recommended)
• RAM: 1 GB for XP / 2 GB for Vista (4 GB recommended)
• Video Card: 256 MB DirectX 10.0 / 9.0c-compliant video card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (512 MB recommended)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-compliant sound card
• DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (included on disc), DirectX 10.0
• DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM
• Hard Drive Space: 9 GB
• Peripherals Supported: Windows-compliant mouse, keyboard, controller

Download Heroes Over Europe – Direct Links

Part 1 – 700 MB

Part 2 – 700 MB

Part 3 – 700 MB

Part 4 – 700 MB

Part 5 – 700 MB

Part 6 – 700 MB

Part 7 – 700 MB

Part 8 – 700 MB

Part 9 – 598 MB

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Multitouch RTS gaming

Back from holidays... and no new post on the blog in the mean time??? qudobup is getting lazy :p

So before we lose all our loyal readers (e.g. the blog authors themselves *chirp* *chirp*), here a quick update:

Zero-K, the Spring-Engine using RTS game, got a bunch uf new releases lately... all the way up to version 0.8.13.1 by the time of writing this. Try it out if you liked Total Annihilation back in the days :D

However, the main reason for me writing about this is the cool multi-touch (tablet) interface someone coded for the spring engine and showcased with Zero-K:

Zero-K multitouch

Still a bit rough around the edges as you can see... but this shows that RTS games might have a bright future on tablet-pcs!

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

• Developer: GRIN Red Storm Entertainment
• Publisher: Ubisoft
• Genre: Shooter
• Release Date: July 19, 2007 (US)

About Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 builds off of the events in the first game and places gamers in control of the U.S. military's elite fighting unit, the Ghosts. In the year 2014, the rising conflict between Mexican loyalists and insurgent rebel forces has thrown Mexico into full-scale civil war. Under the command of Captain Scott Mitchell, the Ghosts are called upon to face an imminent threat to the United States. The fate of two countries now lies in the hands of the Ghosts as they fend off an attack on U.S. soil. Equipped with the most cutting-edge weaponry and technology, the Ghosts must battle on both sides of the border to neutralize the escalating rebel threat.

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2 GHz
• Memory: 1 Gb
• Hard Drive: 5 Gb free
• Video Memory: 128 Mb
• Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6600 / ATI Radeon 9600
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• Network: 128 kbps Broadband connection for Multiplayer
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive

Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz
• Memory: 1 Gb
• Hard Drive: 5 Gb free
• Video Memory: 256 Mb
• Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon x1950
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• Network: 256 kbps Broadband connection for Multiplayer
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• DVD Rom Drive

Download Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 – Direct Links

Part 1 – 700 MB

Part 2 – 700 MB

Part 3 – 700 MB

Part 4 – 700 MB

Part 5 – 645 MB

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Grey's Anatomy: The Video Game

 

Grey's Anatomy: The Video Game

• Developer: Longtail Studios
• Publisher: Ubisoft
• Genre: Simulation
• Release Date: March 10, 2009 (US)

About Grey's Anatomy: The Video Game

The doctors of Seattle Grace Hospital deal with life-or-death consequences on a daily basis -- it's in one another that they find comfort, friendship and, at times, more than friendship. Together they're discovering that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey. In this all-new adventure based on the hit TV show, players interact with the well-known faces from the series as they move from critical medical operations to life-affirming romantic entanglements.

Download Grey's Anatomy: The Video Game – Direct Links

Part 1 – 700 MB

Part 2 – 700 MB

Part 3 – 700 MB

Part 4 – 700 MB

Part 5 – 700 MB

Part 6 – 168 MB

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A Garden of colorful projects

Found this nice abstract shooter over at LGDB a few days ago:

Garden of coloured lights gameplay

As you can see, a nice piece of bullet-hell... just the music isn't as catchy as the one from Aleste (*sneeks in old-school gaming reference*).

In totally unrelated news, the guys (and gals?) from the open-source MMORPG Planeshift have started a small PR project called "Free Game Alliance" to promote theirs and other high profile open-source games. You can read some comments from our forums about it here... but all the nagging aside, I sure hope something good comes out of this!
Oh and Planeshift itself seems to be coming along quite nicely also... hadn't checked their progress in ages...

Another project whose developers show some serious long term commitment, is AlienArena, which just got a major update to version 7.52 and is now also easily available via the Desura Linux beta ;) Check out the change-log here.

Double 0.7.4: Pingus and M.A.R.S.

No screenshot of Pingus 0.7.4

Version 0.7.4 of Pingus introduces an array of changes:

Content:

• New levelsets, "Desert" and "Factory Campaign" (27 new levels in total)
• This is the first use of the desert and factory graphics in official levels

Gameplay:

• Deadly fall height increased
• Digger/Miner/Basher paths cleanup

Features:

• Demo recordings/playback re-implemented (32bit/64bit not compatible)
• --usedir parameter added (useful for portable play)
• Unicode support added
• Option menu added

Usability:

• Window can be resized in-game
• Soundcard dependancy removed
• Man page added

Look:

• Level dimensions now suit 1920x1200 resolution
• Anti-aliasing added to bitmap fonts

Performance:

• Software rendering improved
• OpenGL rendering option added

Other:

• Editor enhancements
• Fixes

Good Old Colorful M.A.R.S. (0.7.4)

0.7.3 and then 0.7.4 of M.A.R.S. were relesed:

• New speacial
• New weapon
• Dutch, Mongolian and Norwegian languages added
• In-game speed settings

Ren'Py Visual Novels

So a while ago we were asked on our forums why we never featured any games done with the open-source Visual Novel engine Ren'Py... which I pretty much dismissed in my mind with "prfff... those are not games anyways" :D
But well... a small competition over at the very nice Linux Gaming News blog asking which game engine actually had the most Linux compatible (and often at least freeware) games released so far, got me thinking about this again as with literally hundreds of games available on-line, we shouldn't simply dismiss this genre outright, I guess.

Screen-shot from the Ren'Py game Katawa Shoujo

Luckily, I do watch Anime from time to time, so I wasn't completely "out of the loop" so to say and thought "if tentacle p*** didn't kill me, I am up for anything" (except for 4chan's /b/ :D ). And at least in Japan, Visual Novels are a pretty big thing, with "next-gen" console releases, high quality movie adaptions and millions of players/readers (as an rather good example "Stein's Gate" could be mentioned).

However Visual Novels do have a certain prejudice attached to them, that most are all about school-girl dating sims or worse e.g. so called "eroge" surprisingly often also meant for a female audience, including boy-boy scenes o_o
And after digging into the scene a bit, I have to admit those prejudices are somewhat correct *slowly wanders off and wonders why he even bothered*

Screen-shot from the FOSS Visual Novel @Camelia Girls

But, that doesn't mean there aren't some good/interesting ones (for example this one), and the Ren'Py engine allows for some pretty awesome interactive storytelling (also on your Android powered device)... so lets not judge a tool by some of its user.
Besides that... it is perfectly feasible for a one man (or woman) team to succeed in creating a great Visual Novel, which can't be said for most other game genres. So if you have an awesome story to tell, and writing a book isn't your thing... well maybe making a Visual Novel is (the programming involved is rather simple... no worries ;) ). Interested? Well head over to the LemmaSoft Visual Novel development forums and dive right into this rather strange sub-culture :p

ANNO 1404: Venice

ANNO 1404: Venice

• Developer: Related Designs
• Publisher: Ubisoft
• Genre: Strategy
• Release Date: February 25, 2010 (US)

About ANNO 1404: Venice

Discover a new pleasure in the Dawn of Discovery by taking advantages of a totally improved environment to be played: Venice. Go further in the world economic exploration throughout up to 300 new quests. Take control and take care of the brand new volcano islands. Challenge your friends by playing versus or co-op modes.

Anno 1404 Venice combine the signature gameplay mechanics of Anno 1404 and the richness of the Venetian culture. In addition, gamers will now be able to play Anno 1404 with their friends thanks to the new online multiplayer mode.

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
• Processor: Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
• RAM: 1 GB (XP) / 2 GB (Vista/7)
• Hard Disk Drive: 8 GB free disk space
• Graphics: 128 MB
• Sound Card: DirectX 9 compatible
• DirectX 9.0c
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• DVD-ROM

Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+
• RAM: 4 GB
• Hard Disk Drive: 8 GB free disk space
• Graphics: 512 MB
• Sound Card: DirectX 9 compatible sound card
• DirectX 9.0c
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• DVD-ROM

Download ANNO 1404: Venice – Direct Links

Part 1 – 700 MB

Part 2 – 113 MB

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Dawn of Discovery

Dawn of Discovery

• Developer: Related Designs
• Publisher: Ubisoft
• Genre: Strategy
• Release Date: June 23, 2009 (US)

About Dawn of Discovery

Dawn of Discovery takes place in the year 1404, when King George's land is suffering from severe droughts and brutal famine. Aware of his people's distress, the king calls on his two sons, William and Edward, to acquire new territories in order to produce enough goods to satisfy the needs of his empire's inhabitants. Whereas Edward suggests aggressive means to collect the precious resources, his brother William offers a peaceful solution, proposing to explore new and unsettled lands in the south of the kingdom. With his Father's blessing, William heads south to the mysterious Orient and returns with valuable new technologies such as the water pump that allows dry lands to be cultivated in order to produce enough food for the people. But there are still many unmet needs within the king's empire, and players are tasked with the mission of fulfilling those needs while both expanding and sustaining the vast society.

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP / Vista
• Processor: Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz
• RAM: 1 GB
• Hard Disk Drive: 6 GB free disk space
• Graphics: 128 MB card
• Sound Card: DirectX 9 compatible sound card
• DirectX 9.0c
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• DVD-ROM

Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP / Vista
• Processor: Intel Dual core processor
• RAM: 3 GB
• Hard Disk Drive: 6 GB free disk space
• Graphics: 512 MB card
• Sound Card: DirectX 10 Compatible
• DirectX: 10
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• DVD-ROM

Download Dawn of Discovery – Direct Links

Part 1 – 700 MB

Part 2 – 700 MB

Part 3 – 700 MB

Part 4 – 700 MB

Part 5 – 700 MB

Part 6 – 699 MB

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