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In recent forum postings Overhaul Games has revealed a new screenshot and a new sample of portrait art from the upcoming Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. Scheduled for release in September, BGEE is an updated version of Bioware's fantasy role playing game set in the Forgotten Realms. The game will feature an enhanced version of the Infinity Engine, the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion pack, new adventures, and new party members.

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition will include the following enhancements:

• New Adventure: The Black Pits
  
• New Character: Dorn Il-Khan
  
• New Character: Neera the Wild Mage
  
• New Character: Rasaad yn Bashir
  
• A new collection of player character voice sets
  
• Native support for high resolution widescreen displays
  
• Over 400 improvements to the original game
  
• Improved multiplayer support, with connectivity between all platforms

The Black Pits is one of the enhancements that make up Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition that allows you to create a full party and battle through fifteen hellish battles in a desperate bid to escape. Difficult challenges, unique battles, and a bizarre cast of characters await you within the Underdark!

• A stand-alone adventure set deep within the Underdark
  
• Fifteen levels of arena-style combat challenges
  
• Full control and customization of up to six party members
  
• Over 6 hours of additional gameplay

The Black Pits are your new home... enjoy your stay while you can!

Dorn Il-Khan is a half-orc Blackguard whose otherworldly patron grants him terrible powers in the form of his black sword and unholy spells. Add him to your Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and inflict evil to the last corpse.

Dorn adds the following Enhancments to Baldur's Gate:

• The Blackguard Dorn II-Khan, a new NPC to join your party
  
• Up to four hours of additional gameplay
  
• The Blackguard kit to create your own champion of evil

Betrayed by his former companions, the half-orc Dorn Il-Khan lusts for revenge and glory in equal measure.

Neera the Wild Mage is a half-elf wild mage slowly coming to terms with her enormous magical potential. Add her to your Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition experience and ignite your wild side.

Neera adds the following Enhancements to Baldur's Gate:

• The Wild Mage Neera, a new NPC to join your party
  
• An engaging romantic adventure
  
• Up to four hours of additional gameplay
  
• New area: a secluded hideaway northeast of Durlag's Tower

This half-elf wild mage finds both delight and terror in her capricious magic while fleeing both her past mistakes and the merciless Red Wizards of Thay.

Rasaad yn Bashir is a Calishite Monk demonstrating his monastic arts to the people of Nashkel. His quest ultimately leads into the highest reaches of the Cloud Peaks, where he must face an unexpected nemesis. Add him to your Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition experience to unleash the Monk's extraordinary power.

Rasaad adds the following Enhancements to Baldur's Gate:

• The Monk Rasaad yn Bashir, a new NPC to join your party
  
• A new playable adventure
  
• New area: the Cloud Peaks

Rasaad's adventure through the never seen before Cloud Peaks adds up to four hours of additional gameplay.

Enhanced Interface
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition features an updated and improved interface that has native support for high resolution and widescreen displays. The iPad and Android Tablet versions both contain platform specific interface enhancements.

Improved Multiplayer
Online multiplayer has been upgraded to include matchmaking functionality, and games can be played across multiple platforms. Adventurers on iPad, Mac, PC and Android Tablets can all play Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition together.

Core Game Improvements
The Enhanced Edition of Baldur's Gate has been given an extensive overhaul. The original source code has been cleaned up and improved, sped up, and now has support for modern platforms. Over 400 issues from the original game have been found and fixed.

Baldur's Gate 2 Features
All of the additions and improvements from Baldur's Gate 2: The Shadows of Amn have been brought to Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. Now you can use class kits, new subraces and classes that were previously unavailable.

New Cinematics
All of the Baldur's Gate cinematics have been replaced with beautifully hand painted animated cinematics, directed by Nat Jones.

Ongoing Support
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition will continue to receive improvements after release, along with continued support for the vibrant mod community that has helped it remain so popular for so long.

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Forever Entertainment's Frederic: Resurrection of Music is now available for download and purchase from the Mac Game Store. The magical musical game puts players in the role of Frederic Chopin in a humorous journey. Frederic: Resurrection of Music featues 9 remixes of classical hits, 9 locations from around the world, and an hour of animated comics.

Step into Frederic Chopin's shoes, and go on a magical journey! You wake up feeling a little dizzy. That's strange – you quietly whisper to yourself - last thing I remember was being very ill. It does not matter now; you feel much better. You slowly stand up and go towards the open door. High clouds sparkle in the last rays of the setting sun. A truly magnificent show. You glimpse down and notice a row of graves, and another one behind. You look around, graves span around you. Yes, sherlock, you are at the cemetery. What the hell happened? As you try to collect your thoughts, three mysterious women appear from the thin air... Accompany Chopin in his amazing journey full of humorous events. Battle your opponents in musical duels. Laugh till your stomach hurts with an hour of animated comics. Play through nine catchy arrangements of Chopin's greatest classics. Practice your skills until perfection.

Features:

• 9 fantastic remixes of classical hits
  
• 9 locations from around the world
  
• An hour of animated comics
  
• Megatons of humour
  
• Epic battles

Requirements:

• OS: 10.6 or later
  
• Processor: 2.0 GHz Intel or higher
  
• Memory: 2 GB RAM or higher
  
• Hard Disc Space: 200 MB space free
  
• Video Card: 512 MB Nvidia or ATI graphics card

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Radar Chaos Hawaii Edition, a simulation from Big Fat Simulations, is now available for purchase at Mac Game Store. The realistic radar-based air traffic control simulation puts players in charge of airspace over the Hawaiian islands and challenges them to keep the skies safe.

Radar Chaos Hawaii Edition is now available. The Original Radar Chaos was designed with the new player in mind, and included starter levels. The Hawaii edition is more of a 'simulation' than a 'game'. The location, maps, routes and procedures are based on a real location. For years, users have asked that we base our games on real-world locations. We have not done so until now. Hawaii is the ideal location for a radar simulation, as it offers the gameplay scenarios that we are trying to achieve.

Radar Chaos: Hawaii Edition has six levels, each guaranteed to keep you very busy. There are two "high level" sectors and four terminal sectors. The terminal sectors focus on airports such as Honolulu, Maui, Hilo and Kona. The high level sectors are vastly different, where your job to sequence arriving oceanic traffic into 'streams' for the receiving terminal sectors.

Features:

• Six awesome levels
  
• Real pilot voices
  
• Conflict prediction and detection
  
• Flight data board
  
• Advanced conflict management tools
  
• A full suite of tutorial videos

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The EB Games Expo 2012, Australia’s largest gaming convention, is just over a month away. While it will be swamped with the latest consoles rather then the platform we prefer, there are a few notable games that are worth mentioning. Recently, the retail outlet released the range of games that will be playable to attendees of the fan event. One of these is the highly anticipated Epic Mickey 2. The follow up to the success on the Nintendo Wii console is making it’s way to many other platforms including the Mac.

Other franchises such as Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed, Borderlands and LEGO, which have received Mac ports recently and in the past, are also being showcased in the form of sequels on various other platforms. Even though no Mac versions have yet been announced the information revealed will serve as a little taste of what might be to come.

If you feel as though this might be something of interest to you, and you are in Sydney, Australia between October 5th and 7th, there are still tickets available for general admission. At the Expo all these games will be playable for fans. In addition, the event will feature a number of presentations by the developers and even cosplay competitions if you choose to compete. This is the second time retail giant EB Games has hosted such a large event for its fans.

EB Games Expo 2012

Kotaku and Blizzplanet have revealed some new information about the units in Blizzard Entertainment's upcoming Heart of the Swarm expansion for Starcraft II. Koktaku showcased new units in a video, while Blizzplanet offered screenshots and unit descriptions.

From Blizzplanet:

Heart of the Swarm adds two new Zerg units: The Viper and the Swarm Host.

The Viper looks like a giant dragonfly. It requires a Spawning Pool, an Infestation Pit and eventually a Hive. It has some fun utility abilities:

Consume allows it to consume 200 life of a friendly building over 20 sec to convert into 50 energy. That’s a nice battery recharger.

The Abduct ability costs 75 energy and let’s the Viper pull a friendly or enemy unit to the Viper’s location. Basically, a harpoon-like tongue that pulls long-range units into your Hydralisks or melee/anti-air units’ range. It could also remove your own units from sure death if you use it strategically. Let’s say an expensive Ultralisk goes in to do damage, and you pull it out of harm’s way before it gets killed so that it regenerates back home for later use.

Blinding Cloud creates a cloud for 10 sec that reduces attack range of biological and mechanical units under it to melee range. It has strategic use against enemy Marines, Marauders, Hydralisks, Roaches, Siege Tanks, High Templars and other range-attack units.

Kotaku: Heart Of The Swarm Unit Video

Blizzplanet: Heart Of The Swarm Unit Preview

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