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In June 2010, developer Cyanide Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive announced plans to release the fantasy strategy game A Game of Thrones Genesis. The game is based on author George R.R. Martin's A Song Of Fire And Ice fantasy novel series.

Today the publisher has released the first two screenshots from the game showing off the visuals that gamers can expect in the game adaptation of Martin's novels. The full game has a single player campaign that will feature options for military, economic , diplomacy and even "dirty tricks" to fight with the Houses in the Kingdom of Westeros. The game is due out sometime this summer.

This manual patch for Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition includes a number of gameplay and performance fixes. A list of changes can be found after the jump.

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Blood Bowl Legendary Edition is set for its downloadable release next week and today the folks at developer Cyanide Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive have revealed the 11th and final new team that will be added to this revamped version of the fantasy-themed sports game. The High Elf team are supposedly very good at Blood Bowl's passing and receiving game but they are also don't have a lot in the power department.

Just a reminder: owners of the first Blood Bowl can get a 30 percent discount when purchasing the new Legendary Edition of the game with its 11 new teams, a story mode and more. It's due for release on October 28.

With just a couple of weeks to go before Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition is released, developer Cyanide Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive have revealed yet another team for the expanded fantasy-themed sports game. The vampire team is not only strong and fast on the field but can hypnotize their opponents. They also can attack spectators for their blood. Ouch.

In related news, the official multiplayer servers for the original Blood Bowl game will be undergoing maintainence from October 19-26 to prepare them for the launch of all the new content in the Legendary Edition when it goes live on October 28. As we have reported before owners of the first Blood Bowl game can get a 30 percent discount when they purchase the Legendary Edition. People who pre-order the Legendary Edition by October 20 may get a chance to get the full game before its official release "in order to participate in the last server tests."

So we know what you are thinking right now: "What in the wide, wide world of sports is a Nurgle?" Well in the universe of Blood Bowl Legendary Edition this latest team in the fantasy-themed sports title actually worship at the feet of Nurgle, "the Chaos God of pestilence and decay." In addition to physical activities, the Nurgle team can also generate a disease called Nurgle's Rot to take out their opponents in the stadium.

In related news, the release date for the game from developer Cyanide Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive has changed. Originally set for release on October 28, the game is now planned for release sometime in November.

The team roster for the upcoming Blood Bowl Legendary Edition just revealed yet another franchise. The game from developer Cyanide Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive will bring us the Necromatic team when it's released later this year. This team of the undead are no slow moving zombies. According to the publisher the members of the team include Flesh Golems and Werewolves which can take out an opposing team's armor with their claws.

As we reported earlier this month, owners of the first Blood Bowl game will be able to purchase the Legendary Edition, with lots more teams and the new Story mode, for 30 percent off its normal $40 price.

When Blood Bowl Legendary Edition was first announced earlier this year we wondered if publisher Focus Home Interactive would give owners of the original Blood Bowl game a bit of a price break. The new version of the fantasy-themed sports-strategy game contains all of the content of the original title plus all new content (more teams and stadiums, new story mode and more).

As it turns out, that's exactly what's going to happen. The game's official web site has revealed that owners of the first Blood Bowl game (either the Standard or Dark Elves edition) will be able to put in their player key in a special store web site in October. That will entitle them to a 30 percent discount for the Legendary Edition of the game which should cost about $40 normally. That means previous players can get the new version for about $28. The game will be available via digital download around October 28.

[Via Rock Paper Shotgun]

PC gamers still don't have a Madden-style football game (although QuickHit is close to launching its NFL-approved browser-based title) but at least we are still getting Blood Bowl Legendary Edition sometime before the end of the year. Today publisher Focus Home Interactive announced that the latest new team that will be added in the fantasy-themed sports game is the Khemri.

What are the Khemri? They are basically undead skeletons that are both powerful and very fragile that can naturally regenerate as undead creatures tend to do. We still have a few more teams that are yet to be officially revealed, although we do know from our recent interview about the game that we can expect a vampire team at some point.

2009's release of Blood Bowl finally brought Games Workshop's unique mix of sport game and fantasy strategy title to the PC. The game from developer Cyanide Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive achieved a cult following and sales were good enough to get the development team to work on Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition. This new version of the game, out later this fall, will add 11 new teams to the game, a new story mode and more additions and improvements.

Big Download got a chance to ask questions to the Cyanide Studio team and got answers from the game's production director Antoine Villepreux and its lead programmer Pierre Marie Charavel. If you check out their answers you may find that some of the previously unnamed games in the new Blood Bowl have been revealed in our interview.

Over a year ago developer Cyanide Studio announced that it has secured the game rights to the fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire from author George R.R. Martin. Today Cyanide and publisher Focus Home Interactive have announced the first game based on the license, a strategy title called A Game Of Thrones: Genesis.

Details are scarce at this point but the official press release states that the game will allow players to be a part of the battles between families of the books' Kingdom of Westeros. In addition to military might players will also have ways to defeat their foes via economic or diplomatic means. As the press release states players will be able to " ... peacefully or forcefully annex surrounding territories, besiege enemy castles, send spies to infiltrate behind enemy lines, assassinate trouble-making officers or capture them to ask for a ransom" and more. No release date for the game was announced.

The book series will be getting lots of attention in spring 2011. That's when HBO is scheduled to launch a TV series based on A Song of Ice and Fire called Game of Thrones.