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.

Fort Zombie now available

The Zombie Apocalypse begins anew in publisher Paradox Entertainment’s and developer Kerberos Productions’ action-strategy-RPG, Fort Zombie. In Forte Zombie you are a survivor of a zombie outbreak in a small town. You’re goal is pretty simple: Find a place to hideout, fight from and stay alive. But staying alive means finding supplies, training other survivors that may want to join you and kill any zombies that might get a little too rambunctious. Zombies can be precocious little fellows sometimes.

Players will really need to assemble a party from the survivors you can find. You’ll also have to step outside your comfort zone to get supplies like weapons and ammo (and food), to help with the survival effort. Military and emergency vehicles, the best sources for hardware and vital ammunition are also a must find to survive.

Fort Zombie is available for purchase through all major digital distribution channels for the hauntingly low suggested retail price of $9.99 and €9.99.

Smugglers IV - Doomsday demo released

Matrix Games and Niels Bauer Games have released a playable demo for Smugglers IV - Doomsday. The demo promises an in-depth look at the “fun and challenging” turn-based space-trading game. In addition, a new batch of screenshots are also available for viewing to mark the release of the demo. The demo is available from the Matrix Games downloads page and website including Worth Downloading, Patches-Scrolls, and Gamer’s Hell.

For more information, visit the Matrix Games website at Matrix Games.

Fort Zombie dated for Halloween

Kerberos Studios and publish Paradox Interactive announced today that their action-RPG title, Fort Zombie, will be released on Halloween through various digital distribution platforms. In the game you play as a survivor of a Zombie apocalypse who must find shelter, create a makeshift fortress from an abandoned structure and stay alive. You’ll have to scrounge for supplies and weapons, recruit other survivors and wait out this pox on humanity.. or die trying.

Fort Zombie will be available on October 30, for purchase exclusively through all major digital distribution channels for the low suggested retail price of $9.99 and €9.99. For more information, visit www.fortzombie.com. You can get a taste of what this game is all about by visiting youtube.com.

Order of War extras released

Square Enix and Wargaming.net have released a batch of free downloadable content for Order of War today to apparently celebrate one month of being available to consumers. Okay. If you find this action-focused World War II strategy game enjoyable then you might want to check out the new stuff for it. It includes formerly exclusive bonuses that were available only through special pre-order offers. With this update, all players will have identical content, regardless of where they purchased the game. much to the chagrin of early adopters who thought they were special for buying the game early.

The free downloadable content update includes heavy bomber squadrons (German Arado and Allied B-24 Marauder heavy bomber), infantry mortar launchers the addition of heavy artillery strikes added to the air support menu and a survival mission mode where you fend off waves of attacking enemies for as long as possible.

Those that already own the game simply need to launch it and let the auto-update feature do its job.

The Warriors come out to play-yay on Facebook

The Warriors cult classic film is now a game app on Facebook, based on a fast and loose interpretation of the 1970’s cult classic film of the same name from Paramount. The film deals with the New York gang, The Warriors, trying to get home after being accused of killing an influential gang leader. Hijinx involving baseball bats and broken bottles ensue.

The app, located at apps.facebook.com/warriorsstreetbrawl, lets you choose one of the gangs from the film and start brawling your friends - if you score enough victories you’ll move up in rank, but if you lose, you have to retire to clear your name. Users can vote on the battles and see who gets crowned the true overlord of New York.

Good luck.

cdv Software titles coming to Matrix Games

cdv Software Entertainment and Matrix Games have signed a publishing deal to bring multiple cdv Software Entertainment titles to the Matrix Games community. Matrix Games is best known for publishing niche strategy and war game titles as well as the occasional role-playing and strategy game. Most of its offerings are usually from independent developers.

Particulars, like which games Matrix Games will carry on its site, were not revealed at press time, and a quick visit to the site reveals even less. Stay tuned.