King’s Bounty: Armored Princess released

1C Company has released King’s Bounty: Armored Princess. Developed by Katauri Interactive, Armored Princess is the sequel to King’s Bounty: The Legend which is a spiritual successor to King’s Bounty - which spawned the popular Heroes of Might and Magic series. Players take on the role of Princess Amelie as she travels the world of Teana in search of a renowned knight from the first game, Bill Gilbert.

This strategy game with RPG leanings promises new creatures, huge bosses and a new race, the Lizardmen. Players will have many new options to resist these new enemies including new skills and abilities, as well as a flying steed - a dragon companion to the princess that will do its best to protect her. The game also promises a new story-line, a whole new continent to explore, medals, the aformentioned pet Dragon which becomes more powerful as the player does, the new Lizardmen race, fast travel between opened continents, hirelings, the return of the classic system of contracts and headhunting, improved role playing elements including more abilities and the chance to achieve level 50 or higher, new spells, unique bosses (Driller, Gremlin, Archdemon Baal and many others) an improved game engine, and much more.

Armored Princess is available for download on Steam, GamersGate, Direct2Drive, Stardock/Impulse and from 1cpublishing.com for $39.99.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey available for PSP Go

505 Games and 1C Company have released the flight combat game IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey on Sony’s new PSP Go (digital download) for $29.99. The PSP Portal version allows players to take on IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey with 30 missions across six major WWII battlefields using over 30 aircraft.

Based around large-scale aerial combat over the ground-based military operations of World War II, players participate in the most famous confrontations of the era piloting fighters, battle planes or heavy bombers across a range of missions in IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey. There are six theatres of war in which to engage - The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Berlin, Sicily, the Battle of the Bulge and Korsun - representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey is rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB, and is published by 505 Games in collaboration with 1C Company.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey demo downloaded 1 million times

505 Games and 1C Company are pretty delighted with the number of times that the demo their World War II themed air combat game, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, has been downloaded. According to internal numbers, has been downloaded over 1 million times on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. A pretty impressive and suprising number considering that it is an air combat action simulation type game.

“One million demo downloads clearly showcases undeniable interest in IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey among gamers,” said Adam Kline, president of 505 Games U.S. “With the amount of attention paid to every detail of this title, from environments based on a hybrid of period maps and satellite data to our powerful tangible damage effects engine to audio recorded from vintage aircraft, we’re thrilled that so many players are eager to play this year’s most authentic World War II flight combat game.”

The full game will be released in North America on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 for Xbox 360 and PS3, and on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 on Nintendo DS and the PSP.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey demo now on PlayStation Network

505 Games U.S. and 1C Company have released a demo for their upcoming flight combat simulation game, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey on PlayStation Network. The single-player demo gives players a taste of two of the game’s scenarios: The Battle of Britain and The Battle of the Bulge.

The demo managed to garner a respectable 625,000 downloads on Xbox Live and 505 Games hopes for a similar number on PlayStation Network.

In Battle of Britain: Red Skies Over Dover, players are given the role of a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot commanding the Mk. II Spitfire with B wing armament (two canons, four machine guns). What starts off as a routine clean up mission on a few stray He-111 German bombers soon develops into an all-out battle in which the RAF face their finest hour.

In Battle of the Bulge: Tiger Hunt, the US Air Force P-51D Mustang is the weapon of choice, as players are tasked with taking out Germans ripping through the Ardennes. Defending FW-190 fighters will also have to be dispatched to help overcome the Tigers as US forces aim to stem the German advance and defend the front line. The mission will allow players to try rocket attacks on ground targets as well as sample the snow-capped vistas of the Belgian landscape in December.

505 Games and 1C Company, will release IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey in North America on September 15, 2009 for Xbox 360, PS3, DS and PSP platforms. For all of the latest information, visit the official Web site at www.il2game.com.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Multiplayer details revealed

505 Games and 1C Company have revealed more information on the multiplayer modes available in the upcoming World War II flight combat title, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey. The game boasts more than 50 single-player missions, but details on the multiplayer portion of the game have been kept under cover.. until now.

Details on the modes featured in the game after the break.

Read the rest of this entry »

Death to Spies: Moment of Truth available online, in stores August 18

Aspyr Media and 1C Company have released Death to Spies: Moment of Truth in North America via digital download. The game can be downloaded from Aspyr’s Gameagent.com site and other popular digital distribution platforms. Death to Spies: Moment of Truth will be available DRM-free at North American retail outlets on August 18.

Death to Spies: Moment of Truth is the sequel to the stealth action title Death to Spies, which once again follows Semion Strogov, a captain in the 4th department of the Soviet counterintelligence service called SMERSH. SMERSH, a Russian acronym that means “Death to Spies,” was the name of a set of Soviet military counterintelligence departments that were formed during World War II. Strogov is back from his previous missions and must now participate in a series of even more complex and military operations.

The game is rated M for Mature by the ESRB. For more information check out the game’s official product page.

Death to Spies: Moment of Truth demo released

Aspyr Media and 1C Company have released the demo for Death to Spies: Moment of Truth, the sequel to the popular stealth-action title Death to Spies. The game’s main character is Semion Strogov, Captain of the 4th department of the Soviet counterintelligence service called SMERSH. SMERSH literally means in Russian Death to Spies, which was the name for a set of counterintelligence departments in the Soviet Army formed during World War II.

Strogov is back from his previous missions and must now participate in a series of even more complicated military operations under the code name Death to Spies: Moment of Truth.
The demo features a single level from the game called “Polish Surprise.” In this level the player infiltrates a Nazi castle to destroy a weapons cache and intercept a radio transmission of top-secret intelligence.

The demo is available at Aspyr.com (Direct Link). Death to Spies: Moment of Truth is scheduled for release later this summer.