Game News July 2008

[ADMIN]

Tank Universal is rolling!

Along with some great reviews coming through;
http://www.gamefocus.ca/?nav=reviewCard&fid=7963

Dialogue Design has signed an agreement with Meridian4 for the global digital distribution rights to the game.
http://meridian4.com/

Check out the press release here;
http://meridian4.com/games/TankUniversal/press.html

We are very pleased to be working with Meridian4 and fans can expect a major announcement to be made soon regarding the game's global availability! Check back soon for details!

Unfortunately, it does mean that both the demo download and on-site purchase link for Tank Universal have been temporarily suspended so that a number of marketing ducks can be brought into line.

If you are looking to purchase or sample the demo, hang-tight as the game (and game demo) will be available again shortly.

Thanks
Madjack

[Proteus123]

Hola!

Congratulations on your new deal! I hope it works out fine and that your sales goes up. Not to mention more people get to try this fine little game.
By the way: How did the sales change after your big upgrade?
I've been reading some of the reviews and they seem very positive...

I've been busy getting a job (finally! ) investing money in a brand new iMac 24 inch (what a BEAST that is :-O ) and such. So I've been somewhat quiet. Also, since I'm nowdays uses (mostly) MacOsX Leopard when i tinkering with computers, my windows games get less time.
But with the new iMac and BootCamp this is going to change. I know have a dual booting Mac and a fully native windows environement so welcome back you old rascals

By the way..any chance of getting support of bigger resolutions?

Since I'm now re-installing all the windows games the turn came to "Tank Universal". And it works just fine. I've yet to playtest it (and I have downloaded the 1.22 patch today) but I'm confident it will function fine.
So consider this a runtime confirmation of your game on a mac hardware platform (2.8 GHz intel core2duo cpu, 4 gb mem, 750 gb HD, nVidia GF8800GS) running windows XP pro under BootCamp.

//Peter S
Sweden

[ADMIN]

Peter

Good to hear from you!

Regards sales, after signing with Meridian4, the publicity side of things were put off in favour of getting the game ready for Steam and other portals, so there's been a few reviews; http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/tankuniversal
but the game's been pretty low profile.

Now that the portals are about to come on line, Meridian4's been sending out review copies - so expect to see more about Tank Universal in the coming weeks.

investing money in a brand new iMac 24 inch (what a BEAST that is :-O )

Heh - I upgraded to widescreen recently as well - just so I could test widescreen functionality. Once you've gone widescreen, there's no way you want to go back to 4:3. Having said that, you also need a good graphics card/cpu to run widescreen well (in 3d games at least). My own 3GHZ PC, 8600GT chugs abit at 1680x1050 when playing Mass Effect for example. May be time to upgrade in preparation for Total War:Empire I think! And I wonder a bit about the integrated graphics rubbish that gets sold with a widescreen monitor. How many recent 3d games run ok at widescreen res (under integrated graphics)?

Regards running TU under emulation, that's very interesting - thanks for that test. Is Bootcamp a common app? Is it something most apple gamers would also have installed?

Regards, higher resolutions - this is a version issue - send me an email to discuss.

[Proteus123]

Hi,
I simply love my macs. Lovely computers that is. Their only shortcoming is gaming.
Do not get me wrong, there are good indy games and a few big titles on mac too, but not as many as windows.
So BootCamp is a much needed thing.
But one thing this is NOT is emulated. Boot camp is a way to fool the windows install program to think it has the computer all to it self, when it does not. All the rest is native however. That is why it is so important to use BC when having a powerful mac. At least if you like computer games.
And yes, all mac owners with big enough harddrive, knowhow and enjoyment of computer games (wheras mostly on the windows platform) use BootCamp. You get a dual boot Mac. Both nativly on the same hardware but on different harddrive partitions.
Actually it is part of Mac OSX Leopard and all you need is a windows install CD and you are set to go.

I have yet to try UT via vmWare Fusion though. When I do I'll tell you how it went

Regarding wide screen:
The screen on the new iMac is ..wow..I have no word for it
I have my old 19" beside the mac and it is like night and day. Like Volvo and Ferrari. Both cars but entire different ball games.
The reason of going mac was avoidance of Windows Vista. Besides the Mac had something that drew me. Not since my Amiga days have I experienced such joy in using a computer. I do not like the frase but: Awsome!

Regards running TU under emulation, that's very interesting - thanks for that test. Is Bootcamp a common app? Is it something most apple gamers would also have installed?

[Proteus123]

Nice!
I saw the news on Steam about UT
The price is right and anybody not buying this
is missing a real chance here.
I hope the orders turn in big numbers. 3 digits
at the minimum the first month or so

[ADMIN]

Peter

3 digits? I think we're there on pre-orders already.
Looking forwards to launch day.

Madjack

[Proteus123]

Even better! Good for you!

3 digits? I think we're there on pre-orders already.
Looking forwards to launch day.