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If you wanted to combine a fantasy RPG with a casino slots game, you might end up with something like Battle Slots. The game was just announced today by publisher Phantom EFX who has released quite a few standard casino slots PC games along with the 2009 first person shooter Darkest of Days.

While the game is a map-based fantasy RPG with quests and monsters, the developers have replaced the die roll with a "magic" slot machine. There's no gambling in this game; the slot machine design generates things like gold, magic and attack points and more. The game's release date has not yet been announced.

Phantom EFX's recent game Darkest of Days didn't exactly tear up the sales charts when it was released last fall but the first person shooter's storyline of agents going back and forth in time to correct issues was at least least interesting. Now comes word that the game is in the first stages of being adapted into a feature film.

The movie version is being scripted by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg who are best known for writing the classic 1996 action flick The Rock. Well known movie producer Joe Roth is producing the movie which is currently being shopped around to film studios.

With the Darkest of Days Level Editor, players can create their own custom maps and scenarios. For more information about the tools and how to use them, please visit the official forums. You might also want to pick up the 'Instant Action' patch, which allows players to revisit any completed level in the game. The playable demo can be downloaded here.

Download Darkest of Days Level Editor (56 MB)
Download Darkest of Days v1.05 Patch (181 MB)
Download Darkest of Days Demo (784 MB)
Check out all Darkest of Days downloads

The Darkest of Days Instant Action patch (v1.05) unlocks the ability to travel back to your favorite missions after completing the story campaign. Wield weapons from any era and experience different gameplay styles by trying out various weapon upgrade modes. Patch also includes all fixes from the previous patch. The playable demo can be downloaded here.

Download Darkest of Days v1.05 Patch (181 MB)
Download Darkest of Days Demo (784 MB)
Check out all Darkest of Days downloads

This week in PC games Eidos releases their family friendly acton game (delayed from last week) while Phantom EFX releases their first hardcore game.

Mini Ninjas: Can Io Interactive, who previously made the Hitman games and Kane and Lynch, make a more family friendly game? We are about to find out as publisher Eidos releases this title where players control cute and cuddly looking ninjas who are trying to defeat an evil samurai. Hilarity ensues.

The updated demo for Darkest of Days fixes a major bug where the game would crash while loading levels. In Darkest of Days, players visit some of the world's biggest conflicts to change the course of history. The demo includes Custer's infamous last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn and also to the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War. System requirements are shown after the jump. The full game is expected to release in September.

"In Darkest of Days, you take on the role of Alexander Morris, an unlucky foot soldier who gets transferred to General Custer's regiment days before the Battle of Little Bighorn. Moments before his inevitable demise, a futuristic time agent warps in to save Morris and transports him to the future where he is told that time travel is now a reality. However, an unknown faction is attempting to re-write history for their own benefit. Your job is to stop them, and you'll fight your way through eras spanning thousands of years to do it."

Download Darkest of Days Demo (784 MB)
Check out all Darkest of Days downloads

This is the playable demo for the time traveling action game, Darkest of Days, where players visit some of the world's biggest conflicts to change the course of history. In the demo, players will be brought to Custer's infamous last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn and also to the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War. System requirements are shown after the jump. The full game is expected to release in September.

"In Darkest of Days, you take on the role of Alexander Morris, an unlucky foot soldier who gets transferred to General Custer's regiment days before the Battle of Little Bighorn. Moments before his inevitable demise, a futuristic time agent warps in to save Morris and transports him to the future where he is told that time travel is now a reality. However, an unknown faction is attempting to re-write history for their own benefit. Your job is to stop them, and you'll fight your way through eras spanning thousands of years to do it."

Download Darkest of Days Demo (741 MB)
Check out all Darkest of Days downloads

If you have been wondering what it's like to time travel to Custer's Last Stand or the Battle of Antietam, you will be abke to experience what it was like in both 19th century miliary battles tomorrow. Phantom EFX has announced that the playable demo for their long-in-development first person shooter Darkest of Days is due for release tomorrow.

The demo will feature about one hour of gameplay from the final version, set to ship to stores on September 8. We've been told that the full version will have about 18-20 hours of gameplay as your character shoots people in about five different time lines. Naturally we will have the demo for you guys to grab when it's available.

Phantom EFX is about to move from making popular PC casino games to a hardcore first person shooter. Today the publisher announced that their long-in-development title Darkest of Days will be officially released on September 8.

Just a quick reminder for those of you coming into class late; the game, developed by 8monkey Labs (and using their own in-house graphics engine), has you in the role of Alexander Morris, a soldier in the US Army during the massacre at Little Big Horn. However you find your life is save by some sort of time agent. From there you are thrust into several different time periods to battle others who see to distrupt the time line.

The folks at PhantomEFX are an interesting group. The PC game publisher has become successful by releasing a series of casual casino-style games. But just over a year ago they announced they were getting into the hard core gaming business with Darkest of Days, a time-travel based first person shooter from their own development studio 8Monkey Labs.

There hasn't been much info on the game since it's original announcement but today PhantomEFX announced that the Darkest of Days web site has relaunched. The new site has a little more info about the game along with some new screenshots and media and the first entry in the game's official blog site from PhantomEFX CEO Aaron Schurman. He talks about how he started developing the game's storyline and gameplay which will involve the player going to five different time periods (so far the Civil War, ancient Pompeii and World War I are the only ones that have been revealed) and participating in epic battles. It's a highly ambitious title and we hope that these newcomers to the genre can pull it off. Unfortunately we still don't have a solid release date for the game.