• About Arrowhead Game Studios

  Based out of Skellefteå, Sweden, Arrowhead Game Studios is an award winning game development company focusing on making games that are intuitive and innovative for creative gamers. The company philosophy is based on these simple guiding principles – entertainment, innovation and quality. Magicka, the action/adventure game developed by the company has won the title “Game of the Year” at the Swedish Game Awards 2008, Sweden’s largest game development competition. For more information, visit www.arrowheadgs.com

• About Paradox Interactive

  Since 1999, Paradox Interactive has been a leading global developer and publisher of PC-based strategy games. World-renowned for its strategy catalog, the company holds a particularly strong presence in the United States and Europe. Its steadily-growing portfolio includes originally developed titles such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Victoria and the Hearts of Iron franchises, as well as publishing titles such as the Mount&Blade series, The Kings’ Crusade, Majesty 2, Cities in Motion and Magicka. Paradox made an explosive entry onto consoles during 2010 with the release of Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West. For more information, please visitwww.paradoxplaza.com and followwww.facebook.com/ParadoxInteractive andwww.twitter.com/pdxinteractive

“History is a great setting for any game as it adds familiarity and an understanding of the motivations behind the opposing forces,” said Tom Söderlund, Project Lead for Paradox Connect. “Throw in tanks from 200 years in the future as well as other modern weapons and you have a really interesting twist on history. That’s what we’re bringing with Gettysburg: Armored Warfare when it launches later this year.”

About Gettysburg: Armored Warfare
Gettysburg: Armored Warfare is a free-to-play online game that merges RTS and FPS gameplay. With technology brought from 2060 to try and change the course of U.S. history, players will enter an alternate reality of the war as they fight for the North or South in 32 vs. 32 skirmishes. The game features persistent statistics which will showcase the best players in the game and offer modification and customization of player avatars.

Main Features:
* Free-to-Play
* 64 Players per server
* 4 maps ( 9km x 9km in size )
* Over 1,000 controllable units on the battlefield at once
* Play as Union or Confederate
* 10 Unit types
* Modifications & upgrades for units
* Persistent Point/XP system and Stat Tracking
* Upgradable avatars ( Using points/XP )
* 3 Unit game modes ( Only 1860s, Only hybrid 2060s, and All types )
* Paradox achievements

For more info:
Website: http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/gettysburg-armored-warfare
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ArmoredWarfare
Forum: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?591-Gettysburg-Armored-Warfare

About Paradox Connect
Paradox Connect is the umbrella brand for all Paradox Interactive’s online activities and aims to give every Paradox player a stronger online identity. Building on their large community, Paradox Connect will include Paradox Achievements, integrate social media, downloadable content in various formats and more. Paradox will also start publishing online games as part of the Paradox Connect initiative.

About Paradox Interactive
Since 1999, Paradox Interactive has been a leading global developer and publisher of PC-based strategy games. World-renowned for its strategy catalog, the company holds a particularly strong presence in the United States and Europe. Its steadily-growing portfolio includes originally developed titles such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Victoria and the Hearts of Iron franchises, as well as publishing titles such as the Mount&Blade series, The Kings’ Crusade, Majesty 2, Cities in Motion and Magicka. Paradox made an explosive entry onto consoles during 2010 with the release of Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West. For more information, please visitwww.paradoxplaza.com and follow www.facebook.com/ParadoxInteractive and www.twitter.com/pdxinteractive

In CardMon Hero, players will assemble a powerful deck of summoning cards to call upon mercenaries to aid the player in battle. Summoning cards may be found in the field or crafted with materials, each with a unique set of abilities customized to maximize the Hero’s strengths. Heroes can specialize in melee, magic or conjuration depending on their fighting style, while mercenaries come in three flavors – the Tank with high HP and defense attributes, the Assaulter capable of dealing high damage, and Support which can heal allies and confuse enemies. Nearly all monsters you defeat in the game may be summoned as a mercenary, and knowing which mercenaries to summon and when is the key to battle in the Hero’s quest to driving back the evil that has taken over the world of Aria.

Game features include:
• Persistent and open 3D world: Adventure through a massive and beautiful world filled with quests, creatures and enemies just waiting to be discovered.
• Quests without the grind: Complete quests by adventuring through numerous zones and maps that don’t require players to grind. Level up through quests that Heroes can overcome on their own or challenging quests that will offer greater rewards with the cooperation of your friends.
• Extensive Hunting Mode: Join a party or band the guild to face strong monsters that yield unique rewards and rare items, scaling up in difficulty as you gain Mission Points.
• Unique battle strategy: Experience familiar game mechanics popular to MMOs while strategically creating, recruiting and customizing mercenaries to summon and aid you in battle.
• Endless Mercenaries: Discover new summoning cards, craft new mercenaries out of materials, upgrade mercenaries by combining cards with unique skill sets, and even recruit monsters that you encounter in Aria.
• Full customization: Create a Hero unique to your personality with selection of gender, faces, clothes, armor, weapons and shoes. Mix and match summoning cards to build out an army of mercenaries that complement your battling style and strategy.

Based on the popular Korean free-to-play MMORPG Camon Battle, the game has been localized for the North American audience and re-titled asCardMon Hero. Signups for the Closed Beta are now being accepted and aspiring Heroes are encouraged to register at:http://cardmon.redbanaus.net/

For more information about CardMon Hero please visit:http://cardmon.t3fun.com/

Interact with CardMon Hero on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Cardmonheroglobal and Twitter at www.twitter.com/CardMonGlobal.

CardMon Hero Backstory
The evil forces of Zerdantis, god of darkness, have been released onto the peaceful world of Aria after being sealed for many years. Izen and Liberto, two heirs to the throne of Superta, protector of Aria, compete to destroy the dark spirits, secretly summoned by Liberto in a desperate attempt to repel and gain the support of Superta’s congress and citizens that favored Izen. As Liberto obtains the Ark Sign that once awakened the devil, Great Oracle Yui summoned heroes from other dimensions to battle Liberto and the demons. The year is 2016. Players on CardMon Hero are experiencing a glitch in their system. But this is no glitch. This is Yui, asking YOU to join forces with your guild and save Aria!

About Redbana

Formed in April 2008, Redbana Corporation is the North American publishing arm of Korea’s leading videogame developer and publisher, T3 Entertainment. With the considerable support of its parent company, Redbana ultimately aims to take a place among the elite interactive entertainment studios in the North American market by offering the most high-quality and entertaining online games in the world that appeal to a wide audience of consumers. The company has released Audition Online, a rhythm-based online dance game with more than 300 million registered players worldwide, and is currently working on CardMon Hero, a popular Korean card-summoning MMORPG debuting soon, and Mythos, a fast-paced hack-and-slash MMORPG. For more information about Redbana, please visit www.redbana.com.

The vast reduction in the size of the slim client was made possible by compressing some of the detail in the graphical textures and sound files. Aside from these two differences, the game and features in the slim client are identical to those of the full client. Additionally, the slim client of Runes of Magic requires fewer system resources, offering gamers improved system performance.

Both the slim client and the full client including the current update Patch 3.0.5 are available for download at the official website: http://us.runesofmagic.com/us/content.php?show=download

Runes of Magic – A world full of magic and adventure
Runes of Magic has redefined the standard for free-to-play MMORPGs with its wide range of features. The online role-play game is based on an exciting, multi-layered story, driven by more than 2,800 quests set in the atmospheric fantasy world of Taborea which spreads over two continents. Players choose one of eight classes which they can combine with a secondary class. Each class combination has individually assigned elite skills. Runes of Magic offers two races to choose between, the elves and the humans, which can be customized using the wide selection of available physical characteristics. A large range of furniture and other functional items lets players furnish and customise their own virtual homes. In guilds, groups of players can construct their own guild castles which may then be expanded with additional buildings and powerful siege engines allowing them to go head-to-head in absorbing guild wars. Thanks to comprehensive crafting and ranking systems, gripping player vs. player features such as arenas and open battlefields, flexible and extensive customization of the user interface, a selection of demanding dungeons and many other features ‘Runes of Magic’ has something for everyone. So far Runes of Magic has attracted over 4 million registered users making it one of the most popular and successful free-to-play MMORPGs on the market.

Runes of Magic Features
• Dual class system with eight classes and unique elite skills
• Individual furnishing of player housing and guild castles
• Gripping player-versus-player duels in arenas and on the battlefield
• Guilds can set themselves against each other in formidable guild wars
• In-depth story experienced through above 2,800 quests laced with epic quest-lines
• Easy travel using portals and a wide range of mounts
• Challenging boss-combat in dangerous and extensive dungeons with up to 36 players
• Dual difficulty levels in the most challenging dungeons
• Entertaining mini-games for single players and guilds alike
• Dynamic crafting and customization of items
• Versatile role play elements including a marriage system
• Regular comprehensive free updates with new game content

About Runewaker Entertainment Ltd.
Runewaker Entertainment was founded in August of 2004, with headquarters located in Taichung, Taiwan. The founding members were all very experienced in the field and decided to come together to pursue their dream. Currently Runewaker employs over 100 highly skilled programmers, designers and artists and is constantly expanding. Runewaker specializes in making massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG). The company has built their own engine from scratch which rivals some of the best available on the market. Runewaker is constantly producing more content for Runes of Magic. Internet: www.runewaker.com

Frogster – We take you to a new world!
The Berlin based Frogster Interactive Pictures AG, listed on the stock exchange, has focused on the growth sector of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) at an early stage already. The company licenses, markets and operates its virtual worlds for millions of players in Europe, Asia and North America. In Europe its subsidiary Frogster Online Gaming GmbH is taking care of the operating business of the Frogster group. Founded in 2006 and based in Seoul, the Korean joint venture Frogster Asia Co. Ltd. markets and operates virtual worlds in Asia. Frogster America Inc., based in San Francisco, was founded in January of 2009 and markets and operates MMO games in North America. At their offices in Berlin, Seoul and San Francisco, the Frogster group employs more than 200 staff members in the fields of game development, licensing, IT, web design and web development, product management, marketing, PR, web publishing, community management, customer support, hosting, sales, billing and finance/administration. In the year 2008, Frogster won the “Landmark in the Land of Ideas”, a competition under the patronage of the German President. Additional information is available at: www.frogster.de

In commemoration of the haunting holiday, “Halloween Boxes” will also be dropped by fallen combatants this week on the battlefields of the Land of Chaos. Players who come across these gift boxes will have a chance to obtain “Weapon Tokens” that can be traded in for powerful weapons and useful items. The AP shop will also have all costumes discounted 20% to ensure players have the opportunity to really dress for the occasion.

Additionally, this week’s update includes a small patch to the LOCO chat system which expands language support across all chat channels. Players speaking English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish should all now be able to easily communicate with friends and foes alike.

To see if you have what it takes to triumph in the Land of Chaos, download LOCO athttp://loco.en.alaplaya.net/download

For more information about LOCO – Land of Chaos Online, head to http://www.loco.alaplaya.net

About LOCO – Land of Chaos Online

Developed by Danal Entertainment, Land of Chaos Online is a truly next-gen multiplayer online game that features high-end graphics, a roster of 30 playable characters with unique skills and personalities, and hectic online combat. LOCO’s unique combination of RTS, Action, and RPG elements is guaranteed to give players around the world a gaming experience unlike anything they’ve ever seen.

About burda:ic & alaplaya

burda:ic GmbH is a leading free-to-play PC online games publisher headquartered in Munich, Germany. burda:ic markets and distributes massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) such as Avalon Heroes,S4League, and Florensia. Its innovative alaplaya Gaming platform has continued to grow rapidly since its launch in summer 2007, with an anticipated 10 million registered users by end of 2010. More information about burda:ic is available at www.burda-ic.com.

Audition Online

What’s new:
• New Songs: 11 new songs, including “Fireflies” by Owl City & “When Love Takes Over” (featuring Kelly Rowland) by David Guetta
• 100 new items added to the Fashion Mall: Clothes, new faces and Halloween costumes
• Background Music (BGM) selector: Create and listen to your own playlist whenever you’re not competing on the dance floor
• My Album feature: Create your own set list of favorite songs for quick and easy access whenever you DJ a game room
• User Catalog: Quickly reserve or buy outfits you see on other players without having to look around in the Fashion Mall
• Halloween Event: The GMs will be running a Halloween themed event over the weekends (Oct. 29-31 and Nov. 5-7)
• Convenience Chat Commands: Chat commands that put more information at your fingertips, such as player rank or couple’s info.

In addition to the exciting game updates, dancers are encouraged to check out the Audition Spotlight app on Facebook, which allows you to show off your hottest moves, connect with other players, and compare avatar profiles with your Facebook friends. Please visit:http://apps.facebook.com/audition-spotlight/

For more information on the update and to play Audition Online, please visit: http://audition.redbana.com/

About Audition Online

Audition is an online rhythm and dancing game that allows players to compete and cooperate with players from around all over the world. The objective of the game is to dance your way to virtual stardom by syncing avatar’s moves with the beat of today’s hottest pop music, using nothing but your senses, a key board and some quick reflexes. Players enjoy a variety of single and multiplayer modes, and in-game clothing and accessories can be bought to customize player avatars.

About Redbana

Formed in April 2008, Redbana Corporation is the North American publishing arm of Korea’s leading videogame developer and publisher, T3 Entertainment. With the considerable support of its parent company, Redbana ultimately aims to take a place among the elite interactive entertainment studios in the North American market by offering the most high quality and entertaining online games in the world that appeal to a wide audience of consumers. The company has released Audition Online, a rhythm-based online dance game with more than 300 million registered players worldwide, and is currently working on CardMon Hero, a popular Korean card-summoning MMORPG debuting soon, and Mythos, a fast-paced hack-and-slash MMORPG. For more information about Redbana, please visitwww.redbana.com.

The most exciting new addition, Premium Quest Tickets, will allow players to experience a completely unique quest that promises a big return in Skill Points as a reward. This quest can be repeated as many times as players like, providing a fantastic opportunity to efficiently build up characters of every level and specialization.

Option Level Enhancement Scrolls, meanwhile, will give players the opportunity to power up their favorite weapons by up to 3 additional levels for a set period of time. There’s no better way to ensure maximum damage against enemies than with extra power, after all. Finally, Tomb of Pharaoh 1 Free Entrance Tickets will allow adventurers to explore the depths of the Tomb of the Pharaoh as many times as they like without worrying about daily visit limitations.

For more information about these epic additions to the Silkroad Online Item Mall, please visit http://www.joymax.com/silkroad.

About Silkroad Online

Silkroad Online is a massively multiplayer online RPG that puts the player deep into historical fantasy, joining the Chinese and European civilizations along the Silk Road trade route. Traveling across Jangan, from China to Constantinople, players can make their fortunes as merchants, prey on the rich as thieves, or be protection-for-hire as hunters. The most recent expansion, Legend V Plus: Battle Arena, provides players with a new PvP arena battle system where they can duel adversaries for Arena coins and Experience as they compete for ultimate domination!

About Joymax

Since its establishment in April, 1997, Joymax has been developing and publishing quality games for the emerging game industry of the 21st century. Based in Seoul, Korea, the company has published numerous titles for the PC platform, and its first MMORPG, Silkroad Online, has grown to offer service in 200 countries since its 2004 launch. Joymax is to become a global entertainment company providing multimedia content. For more information, please visit www.joymax.co.kr/eng/.

“We’ve added 3,400 games and over 45 million mobile gamers to OpenFeint in just over a year – so it’s clear to us that people love to play OpenFeint-enabled games on their mobile devices,” said Jason Citron, CEO of Aurora Feint. “Mobile games are an integral part of any viable mobile platform, and this investment from Intel Capital will help us expand our cross platform efforts to help bring great gaming content, discovery and community to every mobile device. We’re thrilled to have Intel Inside.”

“Over the past few years, interest in mobile gaming has exploded, creating a huge market opportunity to deliver these games to the one billion plus mobile device users worldwide,” said Mike Buckley, managing director of Intel Capital. “OpenFeint’s momentum and established user base have positioned OpenFeint as the mobile social gaming platform preferred by developers and publishers. With this investment, Intel Capital is investing in a robust ecosystem of gaming content that we hope to help Aurora Feint scale globally.”

Aurora Feint expanded OpenFeint cross platform to Android last month, launching hit titles like Fruit Ninja, MiniSquadron and Flick Kick Field Goal to the top of the paid charts. In partnership with leading wireless carriers, OpenFeint helped drive the discovery of these great games on Android.

“OpenFeint is a cross platform social gaming network that helps players find, buy and play great games they love regardless of the mobile OS that’s on their phones,” said Peter Relan, Chairman of Aurora Feint. “With the backing of Intel Capital, we will build a truly global network of gamers that will accelerate the social discovery of games and help game developers unlock the true revenue potential of their games.”

OpenFeint’s cross platform social gaming network recently surpassed 40 million gamers and experienced a sharp increase in momentum following its expansion to Android. OpenFeint’s leading set of online gaming services and cross promotional tools are available to game developers by implementing the company’s free, open source SDK, available for download at openfeint.com/developers.

About Aurora Feint, Inc:
Aurora Feint makes OpenFeint, the largest mobile social gaming ecosystem for iOS and Android with over 45 million registered users and a presence in over 3,400 games. Aurora Feint is backed by DeNA Inc, Intel Capital, and The9. For more information about OpenFeint and its leading mobile social gaming technology, visit http://www.openfeint.com.

About Intel Capital
Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing and cleantech. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$9.5 billion in over 1,050 companies in 47 countries. In that timeframe, 175 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 241 were acquired or participated in a merger. In 2009, Intel Capital invested US$327 million in 107 investments with approximately 50 percent of funds invested outside the U.S. andCanada. For more information on Intel Capital and its differentiated
advantages, visit http://www.intelcapital.com.

“Halloween unleashes the role-play gamer in all of us, and that is why it is our favorite holiday,” said Chris Lee, CEO of Ntreev USA. “The interactive Halloween events we are hosting for Pangya players will give us the chance to enjoy our fans’ creativity and give away some great prizes!”

Players can visit the official forums to participate in a Halloween Design Contest and a Halloween Costume Contest. For the Design Contest, players are encouraged to create both a top and bottom for a spooky Halloween costume using the Self Design feature. The second costume contest will give players the chance to show off a picture of the Halloween costume they plan to wear this year for prizes. To participate, players submit a picture of themselves in their costume while holding a piece of paper with their in-game name written on it. Both contests can be entered by submitting screenshots or pictures on the appropriate forum thread. Submissions can be made Oct. 20 up until Oct. 31.

To keep the pumpkin rolling, Ntreev is also hosting an in-game Halloween Hunt. Candy boxes have been hidden throughout the island and can be collected and returned to Cadie’s Cauldron for Halloween Boxes chock-full of special items. Ntreev will also be rewarding players with Skull and Pumpkin Comets for logging on to Pangya during the Halloween season. The Halloween Hunt and log-in events are Oct. 20 through Nov. 3.

For more information about Ntreev, please visit: www.ntreev.net.

About Ntreev USA Inc.

Located in Southern California and established in the fall of 2006, Ntreev USA Inc. is a sister company of Ntreev Soft, specializing in online game development and publishing. Ntreev USA currently publishes the anime MMORPG Trickster Online: A New Discovery, online action brawler Grand Chase and the online casual golf game, Pangya.

Story Line:

The story line for Shadow Town is actually pretty good.  You are a treasure hunter who is out with your girl looking for new finds.  Suddenly, you are knocked off the boat and you wake up washed ashore somewhere.  Your girl is gone, your boat is smashed and you are looking for clues to find out where you are and where your loved one is.  You can tell that other people are here and you’re trying to find out what’s going on.  As you search, you find a town lost in the fog on the island.  There are newspapers from the turn of the century and a little bit after (around 1915) and even find pictures of you and your sister when you were younger.  You have to solve different puzzles, mysteries, and search for clues throughout the different areas of the game so that you can survive and get yourself and your girlfriend off the island.

As far as the story line goes, so far what I have seen is very impressive.  I haven’t played anything else like it to date, which is very hard to find as I play a lot a games.  You won’t find anything else out there like it and the mystery of the story line only adds to the game play overall.

Game Play:

As far as hidden object games go, this is yet another excellent one from Alawar.  The hidden object areas are excellently put together, with some objects being so hard to find that I had to use a hint here and there.  The other areas of the game play will have to checking your journal to find out which way to go in a foggy forest, which zodiac signs match up to open hidden doors, searching for keys and odd snake-like objects to complete a huge door puzzle, and so much more.  There is no end to the different areas that you have to play through in Shadow Town.  It seems that Alawar is getting more and more involved when it comes to creating some truly unique hidden object games that are downright excellent.

Personally, this game is challenging in several ways and I love it.  It’s spooky, it’s fun, it’s challenging, and the story line ties all of the game play in together.

Overall Impression:

If you’re looking for a super spooky mystery to solve this Halloween season, let me recommend Twisted Lands: Shadow Town.  Of course, any time of the year this is an excellent casual game from Alawar that you should check out, so make