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Feral Interactive today revealed a July 3rd release date for the historical strategy game Napoleon: Total War - Gold Edition. Developed by Creative Assembly and published by SEGA for Windows, the game is the latest Mac installment of the Total War series to be launched by Feral Interactive and follows Empire: Total War - Gold Edition.

"The Napoleonic wars are an inspired setting for a Total War game," said David Stephen, Managing Director of Feral Interactive. "The historical narrative and the introduction of attrition brings additional elements of realism to a fantastic series."

Napoleon: Total War - Gold Edition is a sophisticated combination of real-time battle tactics and turn-based political strategy that immerses players in a meticulous re-creation of the Napoleonic Wars that wracked Europe in the early 19th century.

The game gives players the choice to either command Napoleon's Grande Armée and attempt to surpass the achievements of the Little Corporal himself, or else to lead one of the Four Great Powers: Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia allied against him. In "Napoleon's Campaigns" and the "Campaigns of the Coalition", players must combine political cunning with military endeavor in order to lead their nation to victory across the campaign maps of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

In addition to the campaign modes, Napoleon: Total War - Gold Edition features "Napoleon's Battles", where players can fight famous battles such as Austerlitz, Trafalgar and Waterloo in the same conditions faced by Napoleon.

The Mac version of Napoleon: Total War - Gold Edition comprises the base game and all the game updates, improvements and downloadable content, including The Peninsula Campaign, which sees Napoleon battle for control of the Iberian Peninsula against the allied forces of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal. It also includes three unit packs, the Imperial Eagle Pack, the Coalition Battle Pack and the Heroes of the Napoleonic Wars Pack.

The game will include several LAN and online multiplayer modes, the latter supported by Apple’s Game Center technology when the game is purchased from the Mac App Store.

Minimum Requirements (provisional and subject to change before release):

• 2 GHZ Processor
  
• Mac OS X 10.7.5
  • Mac OS X 10.8.3 is required for Game Center support
    (available to Mac App Store customers only)
• 4 GB RAM
  
• 22 GB HD Space
  
• 256 MB Graphics Card
  
• Multi-Button Mouse
  
• The game does not support the following graphics cards:
  • ATI X1xxx series
    
  • ATI HD2xxx series
    
  • Intel GMA series
    
  • NVIDIA 7xxx series
    
  • NVIDIA 8xxx series
• The following graphics cards require 8GB of system RAM:
  • Intel HD3000
    
  • NVIDIA 9400
    
  • Intel HD4000
    
  • NVIDIA 320M

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Coffee Infused Studios has announced the upcoming release of Inferos: A Thief’s Tale. The single player survival horror game will arrive for Mac and Windows PCs in June. Inferos will feature random level generation, Victorian Gothic art, and a dangerous environment to survive.

Inferos: A Thief’s Tale is a unique, atmospheric and immersive survival horror game.  The atmosphere is dark and intense with a soundtrack just as foreboding.  Creep around the arcane subterranean tomb in search of ghosts, exorcise them and collect their valuable souls.  Be wary of the harsh environment, set out to constantly challenge the player.   

Features:

• Random level generation, ensuring no two levels will ever be the same
  
• Victorian Gothic art style
  
• Complete immersion, the only UI is the players hands
  
• Dangerous environment, deadly enemies and suspicious characters

Inferos: A Thief's Tale

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Sunside has announced plans for an August release of episodic horror title, Abducted. Based on a concept originally unveiled by Contraband Entertainment over ten years ago, this all new game will feature new graphics and a redesigned modern engine. In the game players will take the role of a person abducted by aliens and taken thousands of light years from home.

Introduction

Abducted is a game in which you play an ordinary person thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Abducted by aliens and taken thousands of light years from home, you have one ultimate goal: Escape. But you have so many unanswered questions… How did you get here? What is this place? Who took you and why?

Abducted is an action-adventure mystery horror game with a focus on a deep storyline, immersive gameplay as well as a mixture of classic adventure game and RPG-lite mechanics. While all these elements may seem familiar, they are combined with intense visceral combat, horrific death, and environmental puzzles, making Abducted a truly unique experience.

Gameplay & Mechanics Overview

• The Arm
  One of the most interesting and mysterious things you will do is interact with an alien computer embedded in your arm, which we simply call “The Arm.” Why and how the computer got there is a critical element of the story.

  The Arm computer is your primary source of guidance and information. In truth, it’s your only friend and ally in an otherwise baffling and inhospitable world. You interact with your Arm computer by having conversations with it. We have developed a directed free-form conversation system that allows for near endless discussions. In Abducted the flow of conversation is player-driven and not predetermined. This is very different from games such as Mass Effect or Star Wars Knights Of the Old Republic where conversions are fixed in their structure.

  What does this mean for you as the player? It means that you can discover things through conversation in a very dynamic way. You may uncover information about your environment that gives you interesting backstory, unlocks a new ability or upgrade, or even saves your life. However, you are never forced to use The Arm. You can have deep hour long conversations with it or you can ignore it entirely.

• Manipulate
  In Abducted the environment can be “manipulated” (moved) by the player. Manipulating objects is a mysterious power that The Arm gives to the player.
  Using your Manipulate ability to fling a hostile Tentacle

  Some objects in the environment are deadly unless they are bent or moved by the player to keep them at a safe distance or otherwise restrain them from moving. Others may not obey your commands permanently so you must be wary of objects that may snap back with deadly consequences.

  Manipulate is also upgradable, making it more powerful and affecting more objects or holding objects in place longer. If the player’s Manipulate skill is not high enough he/she may have to find other ways of solving a puzzle.

• Shield
  Your only physical defense (and if used creatively, possibly even an “offense”) is the Shield, an electrically charged air-tight bubble that forms around your character that can protect against most physical threats.

  Unfortunately, your Shield is necessarily air-tight and will kill you if you leave it on for too long. Over time, you may find ways of upgrading your Shield, gaining the ability to overcharge it and possibly electrocuting enemies that get too close.

• Pulse
  Your Arm can fire a bolt of energy that will obliterate anything in its path. It is a scary and often unwieldy weapon that if left charging too long has the potential to explode, killing you and anything unlucky enough to be in the vicinity.

  Upgrading your Pulse ability will let you use it more often and will unlock alternate modes of operation.

• Exploration
  In Abducted exploration is a mechanic in and of itself. The player has to combine critical thinking and his/her other abilities to successfully explore and travel through the environment without being injured or killed in the process.

  Sometimes exploration and progression involves run-and-gun intense action where you must use your Shield and Pulse abilities to blast your way through flesh-eating bugs as big as your head. Death in Abducted doesn’t just happen from being eaten. It can also come from falling or being crushed or in other unforeseen ways.

Uncompromising Art

We may be indie, but we don’t intend on looking like it. Sunside uses advanced 3D techniques that are typically employed in modern AAA games, but we do this more rapidly and with lower cost than big studios. One example of this is the heroine Eve.

For this particular work we use the scanning services at SurfaceMimic. This helps us make characters and environments that are more detailed and realistic.

This is not industrial factory work. There is a lot of artistry that goes into scanning a real person and bringing them to life in a game. The actor provides a basis and professional artists take it to the next level.

True Cinematic Gameplay

The camera in Abducted is controlled by a cinematic “director” AI system. This is not a typical over-the-shoulder third person view. Environments and levels are built with tracks similar to a movie set, with conditions that control how and where the camera will change and how it will respond as the player moves. This is designed with a high degree of control, giving the game a very cinematic and visceral feel. We use the camera to affect the mood and emotion of the scene and of the player.

Music and Sound FX

Music and sound effects are extremely important to our environment and horror theme. We have partnered with Voodoo Highway Music to produce all our music and sound for Abducted, and they have already created a large volume of amazing content for us. Music and sound effect queues are used to great effect throughout the game.

Custom Built for Each Platform

Abducted is being developed using our in-house multiplatform engine, Radiance™. On the PC we have high resolution textures, per-pixel dynamic lighting, shadows, and volumetric fog. We are able to bring these same effects to mobile targets using a number of systems we have designed that allow us to scale our assets across multiple platforms. These techniques are similar to systems in large commercial engines like Unreal™ and Unity™.

The user interface is designed exclusively for each platform. This means full mouse and keyboard support on PC (including user-assignable keys), touchscreens on mobile, and gamepads for consoles.

Each platform has its own perks and unique advantages. For example:

• The Mac and PC version will also include higher resolution textures and FX, Steam achievements and bonus materials like the soundtrack.
  
• For iOS and the Mac App Store we will support cross platform Game Center and achievements between Mac and iOS gamers.
  
• We will be on modern Android devices including the OUYA console.
  
• Radiance™ gives us the capability of taking Abducted to Xbox and Playstation.

Minimum PC System Requirements:

• Windows Vista, Mac OSX 10.7, Ubuntu 12.04
  
• Intel Core i3
  
• NVidia GeForfce 600 Series and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
  
• 1 GB of RAM

Check out the links below for more information and a cinematic trailer.

Abducted Trailer

Abducted

Camel 101 has announced Black Talons, a new real time tactics game set in a sci-fi universe. The game will feature a mercenary commander trying to prevail in a ravaged star system, and is set in the world of its real time strategy title, Gemini Wars. Camel 101 has also released a new website and teaser trailer to showcase some of the game's elements.

Key features

• Persistent and customizable squads.
  
• Deep campaign mode. The actions of the player directly affect the balance of power on the system. There is one main objective to achieve, but there's much more to do.
  
• Customizable Battlecruiser. The Battlecruiser serves as the base of operations, and can be customized with weapons or infrastructures that will boost the squad numbers, teleport soldiers or even bombard the battlefield.
  
• Faction relations. There are a number of neutral minor factions in the game. These factions will have missions available for contract work. When the player completes missions for a certain faction, the relations will improve with that faction. On the other hand, completing missions against a faction will lower the relations with it. Having good relations allows the player to train or buy units unique to that faction. Having bad relations will make that faction randomly attack the player during missions.
  
• Upgradeable and unique (per class) skill tree for all units
  
• 5 worlds with different environments and weather conditions that directly affect the battle: rain, fog, snow, ionstorms and more insane stuff.
  
• Different unit classes with specialized roles: Recon, Tactical, Assault, Support, Engineer. Each class can carry a different set of weapons and has its own abilities. Powerful mechs can enter the battlefield with salvaged or bought equipment and weapons.

About us

Camel 101 is an independent and self funded game development studio, focused on creating fun and entertaining games. We have a solid background in engine and game development. Our team comes from Camel Entertainment, where we gained experience making games for PC and consoles. Our titles are available in most online and retail channels, and range from casual puzzle games to war strategy simulations.

Black Talon Trailer

Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons

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