Master of Orion Collector’s Edition Now Available

Purchase of Collector’s Edition unlocks Early Access and exclusive content

February 26, 2016 — Master of Orion is another step closer to launch as WG Labs announces the availability of the Collector’s Edition offering Early Access to all who purchase. As of today, explorers can “Conquer the Stars” with six playable races, battle against friends in multiplayer or AI opponents and test their mettle in real-time Tactical Battles.

Early Access puts players first in line to experience all of Master of Orion’s iconic 4X gameplay and more. Six diverse races—Mrrshan, Psilon, Bulrathi, Alkari, Human, Sakkra—will be the first races to battle for supremacy of the galaxy, with more to arrive in the near future. There are many paths to victory for explorers in their quest for Orion, such as “Diplomatic”, “Conquest” and “Excellence”, and more on the horizon.

Multiplayer is a big part of the Early Access package. Explorers can lay down the gauntlet to friends across the world and challenge them to a campaign or embark on their own road to galactic conquest against AI races. Real-time Tactical Battles add a new, immersive dynamic to Master of Orion, letting players take their own, custom-designed fleets to war, where they must use every trick and tactic at their disposal to claim victory.

The launch of the Master of Orion grants players the three original Master of Orion titles. Upon the game’s final release later in 2016, a detailed digital art book, soundtrack by original Master of Orion composer, retro pixel ships, and an exclusive race for Collector’s Edition holders: the Terran Khanate become available. To discover more about the Master of Orion Collector’s Edition and start conquering the stars, visit the official Steam and Gog.com portals:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/298050/

http://www.gog.com/game/master_of_orion

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About Master of Orion

Master of Orion is a modern rebirth of the critically acclaimed sci-fi strategy game. The forerunner of the influential “4X” style, Master of Orion builds on the iconic eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate, gameplay that the original game pioneered. This reimagined title stays true to its legacy, delivering on the promise of deep strategy, hard fought battles, diplomacy, and exploration—all with a healthy dash of humour.

Players can expect a fresh perspective on the original 10 races, each offering different styles of play. Within thousands of ever-changing galaxies, hundreds of unique technologies, and dozens of ships waiting to be tested, no two games will ever be the same.

Official website:

• http://masteroforion.asia

About WG Labs

WG Labs is an organizational unit within Wargaming that acts as a breeding ground for new ideas and solutions. We believe that people and companies with great ideas should be given an opportunity to shine and those with talent should be nurtured.

WG Labs is aimed at testing and implementing innovative projects created within Wargaming or shared with us. It will generate, evaluate, and launch in-house products that go beyond the company’s paradigm, as well as support external development teams in game’s creation and publishing.

Here we experiment with new game mechanics, platforms, services, business models, and create new products at the company’s studios in cooperation with 3^rd party developers.

Wargaming will work with 3^rd party studios worldwide, publishing games across a number of platforms. We believe that good ideas become great when working together and are open for collaboration.

To learn more about WG Labs and also submit your project, please visit:

• www.wglabs.com

AMANITA DESIGN’S SAMOROST 3 COMING TO WINDOWS PC AND MAC ON MARCH 24

Machinarium and Botanicula Studio Returns to Its Roots for a New Point-and-Click Exploration Adventure Game

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Feb. 26, 2016 – Amanita Design, the independent minds behind award-winning games like Machinarium and Botanicula, have announced that their latest title, Samorost 3, is expected to launch on Windows PC and Mac systems on March 24. Samorost 3 is a point-and-click exploration adventure game that loosely continues the stories established in Samorost (2003) and Samorost 2 (2005), both cult hits of early indie gaming.

“Samorost 3 is by far our biggest, most ambitious project to date,” said Samorost creator and Amanita Design founder Jakub Dvorský. “Our goal was to create something playful yet dense, blending the challenging logic puzzles of Machinarium with the more relaxed gameplay and tone of Botanicula. We think it offers something that both longtime fans of the series and newcomers will be able to enjoy.”

As Samorost 3 begins, a little space gnome finds a strange magical flute that falls from the sky. He uses the instrument’s powers to travel to the cosmos in search of its origins, scouring the alien landscapes of five planets and four moons to solve clever mysteries along the way. Each of Samorost 3’s organically inspired biomes presents a uniquely colorful world full of hidden surprises and achievements for keen players to discover.

Samorost 3’s surreal art style and character designs sell a universe that is at once astonishingly otherworldly and oddly familiar, brought to life with highly detailed graphics and animations. Beyond instilling an intensely atmospheric energy, the game’s abstract yet expressive sound design, accompanied by an original soundtrack from Tomáš “Floex” Dvorák, often plays a crucial role in delivering subtle environmental clues for players to piece together.

Samorost 3 is expected to arrive on PC and Mac on March 24 for $19.99 through Steam, GOG.com, Humble Store, the Mac App Store, and its official website: www.samorost3.net. Samorost 3 Cosmic Edition – containing the full game, a digital art book and its original soundtrack – will be available for $24.99. The core game is expected to come to iOS and Android smartphones and tablets later this year.

About Amanita Design

Amanita Design is a small, independent game development studio based in the Czech Republic. It was established in 2003 when Jakub Dvorský completed his thesis project at the Academy of Arts in Prague by creating a free online flash game called Samorost. In 2005, animator Václav Blín joined the studio and Samorost 2 was created. Since then, our team has expanded further to include several excellent collaborators – musicians Floex and Dva, programmers David Oliva, Peter Stehlík and Jan Werner, painter Adolf Lachman, sound effects expert Tomáš Dvorák and animator Jaromír Plachý. Besides making computer games, the studio has also created music videos, websites, animated works, and illustrations, and has done production design, as well.

For more information, visit www.amanita-design.net, and follow the studio on Facebook and Twitter.

February 17th, 2016–MangaGamer Announces Partnership for Heart of Crown for PC!

Today we would like to congratulate our partners at Japanime Games and Culture Select for successfully reaching their funding goal for the Heart of Crown PC Game!

Heart of Crown is an exciting deck-building card game with high-quality artwork by FlipFlops, the creators of the manga, Everyday Tales of a Cat God, and the artists for Etrian Odyssey II: The girl of six flowers, where you and other players compete to push your princess’s claim to throne and see her crowned as the new ruler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQbX8_v3Bs

The PC version will feature all of the expansions currently being offered on Japanime Games’ Kickstarter, and offers three different modes of gameplay: online ranked play, campaign play, and free play!

In ranked play, players of the PC version can compete against each other in online multiplayer matches that reproduce the physical card-game one-to-one, with added ranking lists so you can strive to be the top player! Free play will offer the same multiplayer experience, only in unranked matches. Then, using the points earned in ranked or free play, players can proceed through campaign mode, unlocking story missions, new cards, and furthering your princess’s claim to throne!

While Japanime Games will be focusing on the localization of the physical game, we at MangaGamer are sponsoring the PC game’s localization by Culture Select! We’ll be working closely with Culture Select to ensure the best quality release when it hits our storefront.

The PC version has just gone up on Steam Greenlight, so go give it your vote if you want to see this great game on Steam in addition to MangaGamer!

ABOUT JAPANIMEGAMES

Japanime Games is dedicated to bringing you the finest games from Japan and beyond! It’s our goal to import and translate the best games from Asia to bring those great games to a wider audience. Our games feature some of the finest art that can be found along with engaging gameplay and quality components. We are committed to great customer service and have hundreds of thousands of happy customers.

ABOUT CULTURE SELECT

Culture Select is a Delaware, USA based company that aims to connect the creative work of authors in limited local markets with an international audience. We strive to give smaller markets and the worldwide audience a chance to reach independent developers, free of language barriers and other restrictions.

ABOUT MANGAGAMER.COM
MangaGamer.com is the world’s first legal download site for English translated Visual Novels. Since its launch in July 2008, it has offered services where fans can download and enjoy popular Visual Novels such as minori’s ef -a fairy tale of two and OVERDRIVE’s Dengeki Stryker right from their home. Don’t forget to visit us on Facebook and Twitter!

NEW GAMEPLAY VIDEO: GET YOUR FIRST LOOK INTO THE WORLD OF THE DESCENDANT

Gaming Corps, a Swedish game studio composed of industry veterans, is giving a tantalizing look into the story and gameplay of their upcoming episodic post-apocalyptic thriller, The Descendant. With the first episode arriving on March 24, this new in-game video for The Descendant showcases key gameplay and character-driven moments from the first episode. The Descendant is a five-part episodic adventure game series where every choice the player makes can influence the fate of mankind. Download the latest trailer and read on for more info.

View the video HERE: https://youtu.be/KXJI6Vpc7c8

The Descendant combines investigative gameplay, challenging puzzles, and difficult choices with branching dialogue

Set in the near future, climate change has wrecked the planet, and a man-made extinction event has rendered Earth unsustainable for human life.

In order to survive this catastrophic collapse, a coalition formed from the world’s governments invite people to carry out aptitude tests, resulting in only a few thousand ‘descendants of humanity’ hand-picked to survive the apocalypse, cryogenically suspended in underground bunkers known as Arks until the world recovers from the impending nuclear holocaust. When news breaks of what the coalition intend to achieve, people flock to the government’s tests with demand for sanctuary far outweighing the spaces available. Only a few are selected — those with certain undisclosed traits. Why were they chosen? What genetic qualities was the government looking for in these individuals to reseed the planet?

While the descendants sleep through the apocalypse, teams of janitors aren’t quite so lucky – their life underground spent ensuring that each of the Arks, scattered across the world, are carefully maintained so that one day, their precious cargo may wake from its slumber to repopulate the Earth, and build the new world envisioned by the coalition. Centuries pass. Earth becomes habitable again. The descendants are awakened and begin climbing out of storage — except one, Ark-01.

Players awake to explore the dangerous Ark-01 facility, both in the past, immediately after the outbreak of the ecological disaster, and in the present time of the world, seeking any survivors while unraveling a mysterious conspiracy in the process. What do the descendants do next? How do they restart, and “Was humanity worth saving?”

Written by experienced games writer Giles Armstrong (a member of both BAFTA and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, whose credits include Velocity 2X, Here Be Monsters, and the Buzz! series) The Descendant features two intertwining narratives. In the past you’ll play as Mia, an Ark janitor tasked with keeping the precious descendants housed inside Ark-01 alive, while in the present you’ll play as Donnie, one of the investigators trying to rescue any survivors who may still be trapped within the facility.

The first of five episodes of The Descendant will be available on Steam starting March 24. An “Exclusive Season 1 Bundle” is available now from the game’s official website until 48 hours before the first episode releases. This pre-launch bundle includes all five episodes of the game (with episodes 2 -5 to be released over the course of 2016), grants players 48-hours early access to each episode, and features a full game Soundtrack, a Digital Poster and a Digital Art Book.

For more information on The Descendant, visit the official website, ‘Like’ the game on Facebook​, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

NEW POKÉMON GAMES ANNOUNCED VIA POKÉMON DIRECT

Newest Generation of Pokémon Core Series Games coming to Nintendo 3DS Late 2016