Star Trek: D-A-C coming to Mac in Dec.

Paramount Digital Entertainment and TransGaming have teamed up to bring Mac users Star Trek: D-A-C via TransGaming’s GameTreeOnline.com digital distribution platform in North America. Star Trek: D-A-C is a top-down space shooter where up to twelve players can compete in intergalactic battles between Starfleet and the Romulan Empire. Star Trek: D-A-C supports online multiplayer, online co-op and single player gameplay across four different game types - Survival, Team Deathmatch, Conquest and Assault - in addition to a single player campaign.

Star Trek: D-A-C for Mac will be available for download in December through GameTreeOnline.com. The game is already available via Steam, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and via other digital distribution platforms.

Star Trek D-A-C now on PlayStation Network, Steam

Paramount Digital Entertainment, Bad Robot Interactive, CBS and Naked Sky Entertainment have released the newly-updated Star Trek: D-A-C via PlayStation Network and Windows PC through Valve’s Steam. The updated content for Star Trek: D-A-C will soon also be available via Xbox LIVE Arcade, with players that previously purchased the game receiving all the additional content for free.

Launching in conjunction with the Blu-ray Disc and DVD release of the Star Trek movie from Paramount Pictures on November 17, Star Trek: D-A-C is a top-down space shooter where up to twelve players can compete in battles between the Starfleet and the Romulan Empire. Since its maiden voyage on Xbox LIVE Arcade in May, Star Trek: D-A-C has been expanded with two additional ship classes, a single player game mode, several new pick-ups, a new map for Assault Mode, enhanced gameplay features and more.

Star Trek: D-A-C features NVIDIA 3D Vision compatibility, allowing PC players with that special hardware to engage in stereoscopic 3D enhanced battles. Nifty. Planets, ships, space stations, meteors and asteroids allegedly jump off the screen in 3D. Players with an NVIDIA GeForce GPU in their PC can experience NVIDIA PhysX effects including blazing explosions and reactive debris.

Other features include online multiplayer, online co-op, single player gameplay, four different game types (Survival, Team Deathmatch, Conquest and Assault), five ship types for both the Romulans and the Federation, music and signature sounds taken directly from the Star Trek film and lots of other nifty little features.

Star Trek: D-A-C can now be downloaded for $9.99 from Steam, from the PlayStation Network for $9.99 and will soon be available as a download from
Xbox Live Arcade for 800 Microsoft Points.

Pet Sematary game hits iPhone, iPod Touch

Gah! I don’t want to be buried in a pet cemetary! Paramount Digital Entertainment has released Pet Sematary for the iPhone and iPod touch, a top-down, tap-to-kill arcade game inspired by the classic horror film based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. In Pet Sematary, a grief-stricken father buries his son in an ancient animal burial ground, where it is said everything laid to rest there will come back to life. But the burial ground is for animals only and humans buried there that come back tend to be insane and violent. Players in Pet Sematary take on the role of a lone hero, perched on the rooftops to stay safe and shoot down undead animals by tapping them one to four times as they race across the screen to feast on innocent townspeople.

Taking advantage of the touch screen, players will eliminate zombie children, dogs, cats and birds by tapping them one to four times as they dart down the streets. Players will also need to pay close attention to friend or foe, as health is diminished if innocents are accidentally killed or when an undead creature escapes or eats a townsperson.

Pet Sematary also includes built-in social networking features that allow players to post their high scores directly to their Facebook pages. Pet Sematary for iPhone and iPod touch is now available at the Apple App Store for $0.99. To purchase the game, visit itunes.

The Warriors: Street Brawl now available

Paramount Digital Entertainment’s The Warriors: Street Brawl is now available for download on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Just in time to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the cult-classic film, The Warriors, the XBLA game lets players become a Warrior and brawl their way through gang-infested New York City trying to make it all the way back to Coney Island. In conjunction with the game release, Paramount Digital Entertainment has also launched The Warriors: Street Brawl Facebook app which allows users to challenge their friends and compete to determine who is the true Overlord of New York.

True to the storyline of the movie, The Warriors: Street Brawl begins at the gang summit in Van Cortland Park, where Cyrus, leader of all the gangs is assassinated. The players’ gang, The Warriors, are wrongfully accused of the murder, forcing the gang to attempt to leave Manhattan. On their way back to Coney Island, players will encounter hordes of rival gangs out to get revenge. Players take on the role of one of the iconic Warriors including Swan, Cochise, Vermin and Rembrandt, as they fight to uphold the gang’s reputation.

As gamers battle their way through the city, they will be able to build their entourage of Warriors by unlocking new playable characters including Mercy and Ajax. To overcome their enemies as they battle through each gameplay mission and mode, gamers can draw on an arsenal of weapons such as knives, bats, crowbars, 2×4’s and Molotov cocktails. This ultimately will lead to the epic beach showdown against Luther, the devious leader of The Rogues.

The Warriors; Street Brawl is now available to download on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 for 800 Microsoft Points. The new Facebook app can be found here.

Grease game announced, old people excited

A nightmare is forming and it involves John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. 505 Games today has secured the global publishing rights for a video game based on the original high school musical drama, Grease. Working in collaboration with Paramount Digital Entertainment, 505 Games will oversee and publish a Grease video game for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. May God have mercy on our souls.

The Grease video game will allow players to sing and dance alongside Danny, Sandy, The Pink Ladies and the T-Birds - and let some old people relive the nightmare of Summer Lovin’. The game will take full advantage of the Nintendo Wii’s motion-sensing controls and microphone, and the DS’s touch screen to create gameplay geared towards casual players and families. I bet the kids can’t wait.

A family night filled with such horror hasn’t been experienced since the last Dancing with the Stars video game. Grease will be released on Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS and co-published by 505 Games and Paramount Digital Entertainment. A release date is to be determined. This announcement could be worse: It could come packaged with Grease 2! Ahhh!

The Godfather II Gold

The Godfather II has gone gold will be available on April 7th in North America and April 10th in Europe for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. As one would expect, players are put into the all powerful role of “Don” of the Corleone family, after Michael Corleone comes under investigation by a Senate Committee on Organized Crime. The family calls upon you to reestablish its operation in New York and eventually expand into new territories including Miami and Cuba, by any means necessary.

As a Don in a 1960’s organized crime world players will be tossed into the action, while micromanaging all of the family’s activities, territories and money. Players invest in their family, manage their business, and reach out to corrupt officials - all of which is done through the Don’s View system which allows you to get a strategic overview of everything you control.

The Godfather II is rated M for Mature by the ESRB and 18+ for PEGI. Players who pre-order The Godfather II at participating retailers worldwide will receive an exclusive crew member, named Tommy Cipolla, to hire into their family. Find out more at godfather2.ea.

John Kavanagh Joins Paramount Digital Entertainment

Viacom’s Paramount Digital Entertainment has appointed John Kavanagh as Senior Vice President, Videogames. He’ll report directly to PDE’s President Thomas Lesinski. In this new position, Kavanagh will oversee all aspects of Paramount Digital Entertainment’s videogame group which includes the development and licensing of videogames based on the studio’s various properties.

Prior to taking this new post, Kavanagh worked at Kuju America where he established the US division of the European independent videogame developer and publisher. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Product Development and Publisher of Eidos Interactive. Kavanagh’s credits include
Hitman, Deus Ex, Timesplitters, Formula One, Gangsters and Thief. Kavanagh also ran the US studios Crystal Dynamics and Ion Storm. Kavanagh also founded Bright Things PLC, a UK-based toy and electronics manufacturer. Other career highlights included a programming gig at Atari.

Paramount Digital Entertainment is a division of Paramount Pictures Corporation, a wholly owned division of Viacom, which owns CBS Interactive (Gamespot), MTV (and by default the MTV Multiplayer blog), Nickelodeon, and scores of other television and video game divisions like MTV Games (who own Harmonix - the makers of Rock Band).