- Economic RTS from Soren Johnson’s Mohawk Games offers a different kind of warfare -

Plymouth, MI – February 12, 2015 – Players are now able to begin colonizing Mars in Offworld Trading Company, the economic RTS from Mohawk Games, as the title is now available on Steam Early Access for a limited-time discount of $35.99. The title also remains discounted directly through publisher Stardock at http://offworldgame.com/store.

The Early Access version of Offworld Trading Company allows players to compete head to head or in free-for-all matches over the Internet, explore the dynamic single-player campaign that responds to your choices and the outcomes of the scenarios, and skirmish against the advanced AI that is already more than capable of wiping the floor with unsuspecting players.

Offworld Trading Company is a new direction for real-time strategy, where money is both your deadliest weapon and toughest defense. After the Earth is tapped out and the asteroids claimed by faceless megacorporations, the stark Martian surface is the final frontier on which dreamers and entrepreneurs can make something of themselves by staking their claim to the red planet’s abundant resources and building an economic engine capable of out-producing the competition.

The real-time, player-driven market is the foundation of the game, allowing players to buy and sell resources, materials, and even the food and water their colonists need to survive. Only by buying low and selling high – and perhaps engaging in a little more overt market manipulation with hacker arrays, black-market pirate raids, and more – can players build up enough capital to gain access to the incredibly lucrative offworld markets that bring in the cash they need to buy out their rivals and claim the Martian economy for themselves.

Tune in to http://www.twitch.tv/mohawkgames every Thursday at noon Pacific (3pm Eastern) to see the latest on Offworld Trading Company development.

For more on Offworld Trading Company, please visit http://offworldgame.com and check out the Mohawk Games blog at http://mohawkgames.com.

For more on Stardock, go to http://www.stardock.com.

Submitted by: E. Thomas

Apple, Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco Games, Google, Microsoft Studios, Nintendo, Ubisoft Entertainment Among Others to Attend

San Francisco, CA, USA – February 10, 2015 – Once again, San Francisco will be the center of attention for the gaming industry when Game Connection 2015 takes place during the week of the Game Developers Conference March 2nd through March 5th, 2015.

More than a 1,000 confirmed attendees will be present at City View at METREON, across the street from the Moscone Center.  Game Connection 2015’s unique meeting service provides the opportunity to demo and check out new products and services from big-name companies such as Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony and get first-hand insight on emerging trends, upcoming developments and exciting innovations – all in intimate one-on-one settings.

Game Connection 2015 enables to meet some of the largest companies in the industry, including Apple, Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco Games, Big Fish Games, Bigpoint Inc., Chillingo, DeNA, Double Fine Productions, GAMEVIL, Google, Koch Media, Microsoft Studios, Nintendo, Paradox Interactive, Rovio Entertainment, Sega Networks, Sony Mobile Communications, Tencent, and Ubisoft Entertainment.

Registered attendees are already making great use of the meeting application, the unique tool offered by Game Connection to streamline the scheduling process. Since the meeting app opened in late January, 2,000 meeting invitations had been sent within the first few days, with many more to come.

With less than one month until the event, exhibitor spaces are nearly sold out, the number of registered buyers has already surpassed the total number of the previous year, and more industry professionals are signing up each day. Interested exhibitors should contact sales@game-connection.com immediately to secure the few available spaces left.

Game Connection 2015 is the place where members from all aspects of the industry come together, from development, publishing, and funding, to production, middleware, marketing, and distribution and where big players sit side by side with indie developers and the future stars of tomorrow.
The show also hosts the Game Connection Development Awards (formerly “Game Connection Selected Projects”), which recognizes and promotes independent game projects at any stage of development. Out of up to 50 entries in each of the ten categories, a judging committee of industry veterans will chose one winner each. Previous winners include Loading Human from Untold Games, White Night from OSome Studio, Contrast from Compulsion Games, Badland from Frogmind, and Limbo from PlayDead and Izle from Area Effect. Limbo from PlayDead and Izle from Area Effect. The Award Ceremony will take place on Tuesday March 3rd at 10:00 AM.

The 4-day conference also provides plenty of opportunities to socialize, with three cocktail receptions:

Monday March 2nd - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM sponsored by TeamSpeak

Tuesday March 3rd - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM sponsored by MediaMonk

Wednesday March 4th - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM sponsored by Brazilian Game Developers

For more information on Game Connection America, please visit:
http://www.game-connection.com/

About Game Connection:
Game Connection is an international conference that gives video game industry professionals the opportunity to interact, network, and promote their products, services and expertise. Since 2001, key players from the games industry have gathered in Europe and in the US —to meet, do business together, connect with new industry professionals and socialize in a lively environment where business gets done. This business-focused setting is largely enabled by the Game Connection Meeting Application, a unique match-making tool allowing attendees to schedule meetings in advance of the event – thereby effectively optimizing time spent onsite. In 2011, Game Connection launched a program of conferences, workshops, and Master Classes. As part of this program, experts in arts, game design, programming, production, communication and marketing present the latest innovation for consoles, handheld, browser games, social media, digital and mobile stores. Next event: Game Connection America, March 2 – 5, 2015 at City View at METREON, San Francisco, USA. For more information, visit www.game-connection.com

Submitted by: E. Thomas

• YOU DON’T KNOW JACK 2015: Jackbox’s legendary pop culture trivia game, revamped with current, updated questions.
• Fibbage XL: A brain-bending bluffing game that pits players against each other to find out who can tell the most convincing lie.
• Drawful: A zany, absurdist drawing game accessible to even the most talentless of artists.
• Word Spud: A low-pressure, open-ended, optionally racy word game that lets players compete to complete half-written words and phrases.
• Lie Swatter: A trivia game that asks players to identify which facts are true and which are false – and can accommodate even the most boisterous of parties, with capacity to cater to over 100 players.

Get Ready for a Delightfully Violent Platforming Romp

Twain Harte, California – February 9, 2015 – From the mind of UK-based indie developer Lawrie Games Ltd., comes a story of redemption… dated technology… and platform puzzles solved with guns. Coming to Steam on February 23, Trash TV will delight gamers with the stylish combination of action, puzzle solving, and platforming gameplay.

“It’s both a bit scary and exciting that the launch of Trash TV will be coming soon,” said Lawrence Russell, founder and sole developer at Lawrie Games, Ltd. “I hope gamers will appreciate the retro stylings that harken back to those days of watching TV on old tube televisions. And combining these visuals to some pretty hardcore gameplay elements like rocket jumping will make for weirdly unique gameplay experience.”

Cast away into a recycling center, Trash TV players take on the role of an outdated tube television animated to life with a singular goal – to find the original remote control and become fully functional again. Get ready to navigate through the perilous pathways of the recycling factory, avoid machines set out to flatten and pulverize your humble little TV into scrap parts, and pick up various weapons of wicked destruction to use against haywire machines as well as solving puzzles through explosive solutions.

Trash TV will be available on PC and Mac via Steam for $6.99 on February 23. For more information regarding Trash TV, follow Reverb Games on Twitter, visit the Reverb Games Facebook page, and watch Reverb Games’ Twitch channel.

Submitted by: E. Thomas