Company of Heroes Online coming to South Korea

THQ has signed a deal with Windysoft Co., Ltd to publish Company of Heroes Online, an online-only version of THQ’s popular 3D real-time strategy PC game Company of Heroes, for the South Korean market. Under the terms of the deal, Windysoft will act as the exclusive service provider of Company of Heroes Online in South Korea, managing everything from distribution to customer service and community management. THQ will work closely with Windysoft to provide ongoing technical support and live content for the game.

“We selected Windysoft to operate THQ’s Company of Heroes online game in South Korea because of their strong expertise and success in online PC Publishing as well as their passion to deliver an exceptional gaming experience to the Korean gamer,” said Martin Good, Senior Vice President, THQ Asia Pacific and Global Online Publishing. “We look forward to working very closely with them to achieve great success.”

New map and vehicles deployed to War Rock

GamersFirst has launched a new map and several new vehicles to its free-to-play online action game, War Rock. Part of a brand new update, War Rock now features the brand new Skill Pointer map and 3 new vehicles. Along with this new update there will be a 25 percent experience boost for the weekend. Skill Pointer is a new Conquest Mode map that focuses heavily on vehicle combat. Players on Skill Pointer will have ten seconds of invulnerability to load into a vehicle before fighting to control the Neutral base and protect home base.

Skill pointer features three tanks - the M109, the new Japan 90 (J90) and M1A2. The J90 is a Type 90 uses modular ceramic and steel composite armor, while the J90 offers a mounted 120 mm smoothbore cannon, and the M1A2 comes equipped with a 7.62 mm machine gun and a 120 mm M256 smoothbore cannon. Both the J90 and the M1A12 tanks will only be available on the Skill Pointer map.

More details on the new map and tanks can be found at warrock.net.

TV hunter Steve West helps The Hunter

Emote Games has teamed up with professional hunter and TV celebrity Steve West to to bring expert community commentary to its free to play online hunting game, The Hunter. Steve West is the host of the popular Outdoor Channel television show Steve’s Outdoor Adventures.

He will be joining The Hunter team to offer a weekly blog about both real and in-game hunting, plus regular forum threads and email contact for avid fans of both Steve and the game. Steve’s Outdoor Adventure Group will allow its members to play, compete, connect and share information in a dedicated group environment.

The Hunter combines hunting action, ranging from tracking, spotting and harvesting a variety of animals, while also blending in a social space where players can post information about themselves, receive awards, compete against each other and see scores..

Learn more at www.thehunter.com.

Channeling Microprose: Wild Bill and Thriller New Media

“Wild” Bill Stealey, co-founder of Microprose (a company he helped build alongside legendary Sid Meier), wants you to know that he’s still going strong and has some lofty plans with a brand new company called Thriller New Media. The company, a division of Thriller Publishing (which was announced at GDC last year), will operate in the spirit of Microprose - before the Hunt Valley, Maryland company’s brand and identity as one of the best simulation and strategy game developers in the world was co-opted by the 1993 Spectrum Holobyte buy-out.

 The idea for the company came about while laying the groundwork for Thriller Publishing over the last year - a company that wants to bring espionage themed action games to various platforms including PC, Mac, mobile devices and consoles; Stealey and friends found that a significant opportunity existed in the online multiplayer and MMOG space that it could capitalize on in a very short space of time – hence the need for a second company.

The Austin Texas-based company’s focus is exclusively on online, first-person, military themed espionage action games based on science fiction and military stories from best-selling authors (who those authors are we do not know, but we expect to hear more about them later in the year). The other important part of the equation is a social networking platform to tie all of Thriller New Media’s content together and to provide users with a place to talk, keep score, and share stories.

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