DEFCON Everybody Dies

DEFCON Everybody Dies

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Apple Games Features Civ IV: Warlords

Civilization IV: Warlords is the subject of Apple Games' latest feature article. The first expansion for the popular turn based strategy game offers more scenarios, more playable civilizations, and the new warlord units. The article reviews the expansion and offers a rundown of the new civilizations, civics, and buildings.Just when you think youve mastered all the ins and outs of Sid Meiers Civilization IV, along comes the Warlords expansion pack to throw a wrench or two in your carefully-laid-out strategies. Six new empires Carthage, the Celts, Korea, the Ottomans, the Vikings, and the Zulu lead a stack of content that includes new leaders for four of the 18 civilizations that come with the game, as well as new buildings, units, Wonders, and three new leader traits. Each of the 24 civilizations in the game also now has a unique building, in addition to a unique unit.

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Aspyr ships Civ IV: Warlords expansion pack

Aspyr Media on Tuesday announced the release of Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords, an expansion pack for the popular turn-based strategy game released for the Mac earlier this year.

The first expansion pack for Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Warlords delivers eight new scenarios and a new "Warlord" unit based on some of history's greatest military leaders.

There's lots more, too: New civilizations, new leaders, new units and new "wonders" that help your civilization strive for world domination are all included. More unique buildings have been added, along with many items not available in the core game. Features have been expanded and tweaks have been made to the core gameplay.

Rated E10 (for everyone 10 and older) by the ESRB, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords costs $29.99.

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Defcon nuclear war game coming via Ambrosia

Ambrosia Software and Introversion Software are once again teaming up to bring Mac gamers a new title called Defcon. The Mac conversion of the game has reached its alpha development milestone, according to Ambrosia.

Inspired by the 1983 motion picture WarGames, Defcon is an online, competitive multiplayer strategy game that focuses on global thermonuclear war. You're a general deep within a secure underground bunker, and you're tasked with destroying the enemy's civilian population while disabling their ability to retaliate.

Ambrosia has started a progress log to track the game's development, and has also posted some preliminary screenshots. You can find out more about Defcon from its official Web site, aptly named Everybody-dies.com.

Introversion and Ambrosia have previously worked together on Macintosh conversions of Darwinia, a strategy game based in a virtual world, and Uplink, a game that makes you a hacker.

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Video game of the week

A new video game called Defcon: Everybody Dies takes the horrifying absurdity of the Cold War and turns it into an unforgettably entertaining experience.

This portrayal of nuclear war is the latest game from the Brits at Introversion Software.

It's a chilling, engrossing real-time multiplayer strategy game with a grim goal: It's not about who wins, it's about who loses the least.

You play as a military commander tucked in the depths of a top-secret lair where large screens display the position of bombers, enemy fighters and nuclear targets with unsympathetic precision.

Defcon shows a map of the world as a game board. Bold, glowing lines of red, blue, white and green computer graphics display missile silos, submarine convoys, fighter squadrons and the like.

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Discuss: Atomic Podcast: World of Warcraft The Burning Crusade ...

I can see the public relations side to it. Some comments I laughed at for the sheer I'm-reading-this-from-a-script-and-you-can-tell-I-didn't-write-it aspect of it. If he thinks that oceanic players believe him when he says they have a great network, he's got another thing coming to him (especially since a fair portion of the atomic wow playerbase play on blackrock, which is somewhat akin to the 7th level of hell).

But some nice info, If any of you atomic staff members are reading this, you should have asked more stuff about the grid computing aspects of wow I reckon. That would have really thrown him for a loop :) More ATOMIC questions and less marketing spin imo.

About the Atomic article Atomic Podcast: World of Warcraft The Burning Crusade interview http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?SCID=27&CIID=67666 We recently travelled to Blizzard's HQ and interviewed World of Warcraft developer Jeff Kaplan about The Burning Crusade.