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Blood Bowl to add new team for free via download

by John Callaham Oct 23rd 2009 @ 8:00PM

The Games Workshop based fantasy-themed sports-strategy game Blood Bowl has apparently become a big hit in retail store in Europe. So much so that the development team at Cyanide Studio has decided to add a new team to the game, the Dark Elves.

According to a note on the game's official web site the new team will be added into the main game as a free download sometime in November. The Dark Elves join the eight other teams in the game and will have their own star player, animation and even their own cheerleaders. In addition the full game will be re-released in Europe via download and in retail stores with the new Dark Elves team includes. Sadly, the US market is still digital download only with no retail release.

Gallery: Blood Bowl

Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, Sports, Strategy

World of Battles enters open beta

by John Callaham Jul 16th 2009 @ 4:00PM

Several months after the game was first announced, the fantasy MMO RTS title World of Battles is now ready to let everyone try out the game. Publisher Focus Home Interactive has announced that the open beta for the game is underway with players able to sign up at the World of Battles web site.

Developed by Cyanide Studio (the team behind the recently released Blood Bowl) the game features nine different factions. Players can recruit, train and customize their army's units and then put them to work in the real time strategy mode and even team up with other players in massive guild-based battles. You can download the open beta client for the game right here at Big Download.

Gallery: World of Battles

Filed under: MMO, RTS

Blood Bowl a big hit in Europe but no US retail release yet

by John Callaham Jul 7th 2009 @ 6:00PM

A few days ago we reported that the fantasy strategy-sports game Blood Bowl from developer Cyanide Studio was available via digital download for US owners. However the game has already been made available for sale in retail stores on Germany, France and Spain. According to publisher Focus Home Interactive the game has hit the number 4 spot in PC game sales in Germany while in France it secured the number 4 position in the all formats sales list.

Focus Home Interactive announced today that Blood Bowl will be making its UK retail debut sometime in September. However, there's still no word on when the game will be made available in US retail stores. Again, you can purchase and download the full game via the official Blood Bowl web site.

Gallery: Blood Bowl

Filed under: Sports, Strategy

Full Blood Bowl game released via digital download

by John Callaham Jun 26th 2009 @ 12:00PM

Games Workshop's combo of American football and fantasy strategy game Blood Bowl has been in development as a PC game for some time. Today the title, developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Focus Home Interactive, has been released as a digital download product for $49.99 at the game's official web site store.

As we have reported before, Blood Bowl is turn based strategy game where an American football-like game has been turned into a battlefield as orcs, dwarves and other fantasy creatures put on helmets, get their pads together and use spells, extra buffs and more to score. So far there's no word if a free demo of the game is planned.

[Via Blue's News]

Gallery: Blood Bowl

Filed under: Downloads, Sports, Strategy

Game rights to A Song of Ice and Fire novel series acquired by Cyanide

by John Callaham May 12th 2009 @ 4:00PM

France-based Cyanide Studio just announced a major licensing coup today. The developer, who is currently working on the fantasy sport-strategy game Blood Bowl, has revealed it has acquired the game rights to 'A Song of Ice and Fire', the best-selling fantasy novel series from author George R.R. Martin.

Little info has been revealed about the game adaptation other than Cyanide will be working directly with Martin on the project. The series consists of four novels (with a fifh due out this year). So far the novels have sold over 2,2 million copies in the US alone. The series has already been adapted into a board game and pen-and-paper roleplaying game and HBO is planning to develop the novels as a television series.

Filed under: Biz

New Blood Bowl web site launches; multiplayer beta sign-ups begin

by John Callaham Apr 9th 2009 @ 2:00PM

It's a game that hasn't gotten a ton of publicity yet but it looks like Blood Bowl is inching its way to completion. Today the game's offiicial web site got a major revamp with lots of info and media on the upcoming fantasy themed sports-strategy-RPG from developer Cyanide Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive.

The game is still scheduled for release later this spring and the new web site is now taking sign-ups for people who wish to participate in the game's upcoming multiplayer test. There's no word yet on when the test will begin nor what will be contained in the actual beta.

Gallery: Blood Bowl

Filed under: RPG, Sports, Strategy

Interview: Focus Home Interactive talks about Blood Bowl

by John Callaham Oct 17th 2008 @ 11:00AM

Forget those tame NFL football games. For the upcoming adaptation of Games Workshop's Blood Bowl table top game franchise, developer Cyanide Studio is making this fantasy sports game brutal. It's likely you haven't played a sports game where Orcs are on the field or magic can influence a match.

Cyanide's version of Blood Bowl is due out in the first quarter of 2009 and today Big Download has a chat with Axel Delafon, the International Product Manager for the game's publisher Focus Home Interactive. He gives us the skinny on what kind of game Blood Bowl is supposed to be, whether you can "cheat" in order to win, and more.

Gallery: Blood Bowl

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Filed under: Features, Interviews, Sports, Strategy

New Blood Bowl screenshots scare even the NFL

by John Callaham Aug 21st 2008 @ 2:00PM

The American pro football season is about to begin in a couple of weeks but the NFL has nothing on the Blood Bowl, the fantasy sports-strategy game based on the Games Workshop war game. Cyanide Studios is working on the PC game adaptation and for Games Convention they sent out some new screenshots showing off the athletes in action.

Blood Bowl is basically a turn based strategy game where an American football-like game has been turned into a battlefield with orcs, dwarves and other fantasy creatures put on helmets, get their pads together and use spells, extra buffs and more to get to the goal line. Cyanide plans to release the game in the first quarter of 2009.

Gallery: Blood Bowl

Filed under: Sports, Screenshots, Strategy

Download: Pro Cycling Manager 2008 v1.0.2.2 Patch

by Steven Wong Jul 31st 2008 @ 4:30PM

Download the Pro Cycling Manager 2008 v1.0.2.2 Patch

Pro Cycling Manager - Tour de France 2008 v1.0.2.2 Patch Notes:

* CORRECTION : protection against cheating in ladder mode on the GameCenter

The race only starts when all players have finished loading : pause in now possible.

If, at the end of the race, there is only one active player the race does not count towards the ranking. The host can no longer disconnect or wait until all other players have disconnected in order to race alone.

* CORRECTION : crash after on-line track races
* CORRECTION : evolution of fitness in career mode
* CORRECTION : certain default schedules contained errors
* CORRECTION : automatic creation of "exported_results" folder
* CORRECTION : various changes to game interface

* ADJUSTMENT : AI behaviour
* ADJUSTMENT : evolution of attributes
* ADJUSTMENT : update of database

* STAGE : cont_2hc_georgia_4.xml
* STAGE : cont_2hc_georgia_5.xml
* STAGE : cont_11_japancup.xml
* STAGE : cont_21_algarve_4.xml
* STAGE : cont_21_bessege_4.xml
* STAGE : cont_21_settimanainter_3.xml
* STAGE : cont_2hc_luxembourg_02.xml
* STAGE : cont_11_wallonie.xml
* STAGE : top_france_grandtour_stage_01.xml
* STAGE : top_italie_grandtour_stage_20.xml
* STAGE : top_liege.xml
* STAGE : top_milan_sanremo.xml
* STAGE : top_tirreno_stage_5.xml
* STAGE : top_tirreno_stage_6.xml

Filed under: Downloads, Patches, Simulation

Dungeon Party announced

by John Callaham May 22nd 2008 @ 12:30PM

Wow. Today seems to be the day to reveal new free-to-play MMO games. French developer Cyanide Studio just announced plans to release Dungeon Party, which they plan to release sometime this fall. Like KingIsle's just announced Wizard101, Dungeon Party has a cartoony art style but this game seems to be more of an action game and less of a social interaction title.

According to the press release, Dungeon Party will have players pick from six character classes and then battle in teams of five players against another team searching for treasure with a number of traps and monsters to deal with in each round. There's no word yet on how Cyanide plans to get revenue from the game. They did say they plan to have a beta test of the game sometime this summer before its official launch.

Download the Dungeon Party gameplay trailer at Big Download now.

[Via Blue's News]

Gallery: Dungeon Party