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Last fall, Australia-based Transmission Games ceased operations. The long running game development company had released two game just prior to its shut down including the WWII flying action game Heroes over Europe. Now a number of Transmission's former team members have gotten up, brushed themselves off and started all over again with a new development studio.

The new company is Trickstar Games and it has just launched their new web site. Unfortunately there's little info on what the new studio is working on although it does say it has "a number of exciting new games in production." With the PC as one of their platforms we hope that the company will be announcing some PC games in the near future.

It looks like things were much more dire over at Australian-based Transmission Games than previously thought. A few weeks ago the company layed off over 20 of its team members. Now a new report from Kotaku Australia reports that the entire company has shut down and put into administration.

Transmission Games, previously known as IRGurus, is best known here in the US for its WWII flying action games. It's latest such effort is Heroes Over Europe which had to deal with its original publishers bowing out before Ubisoft finally came in to publish the game. It was released just last month. The developer also made the sports game Ashes Cricket 2009 which was released last August via Codemasters overseas.

There's more bad news on the game developer front today as Australian based studio Transmission Games has reportedly laid off over 20 of its team members this week. Gamaustra reports that the entire team had over 130 members before the layoffs occured.

Transmission Games released two titles this year including the long-in-development WWII flying action game Heroes Over Europe that was published by Ubisoft last month. They also released the sports game Ashes Cricket 2009 last August to many parts of the world other than the US. There is no word on what future games the development team is working on nor if these new layoffs will affect their development schedule.

Ubisoft's upcoming WWII themed flying action game Heroes Over Europe now has a final release date for the PC version. While the console versions ship next week, PC owners will have to wait until September 22 to get their chance to pilot planes against the Nazis.

It will be the end of a long and turbulence filled flight for the game's development team Transmission Games. The game was originally going to be co-published by Red Mile Entertainment and Atari but Red Mile's shut down and Atari's pull out from publishing the game put Heroes Over Europe in a tailspin until Ubisoft took the stick and helped to fly the game in for a landing (hehe . . we kill ourselves).

It's a game that was in danger of being canceled but now a new publisher has flown in (hehe) to save the day. We are talking about Heroes Over Europe, the WWI action-flying game from developer Transmission Games. Today Ubisoft announced that they are the new publisher of the title and plan to release the game sometime in September.

The game's future was in doubt earlier this year when it was revealed that the developer had not received a payment from its co-publisher Red Mile Entertainment and as such pulled out of their agreement with Red Mile. Atari, the other co-publisher, also decided to terminate its agreement at the same time. Ubisoft' s new publishing deal announcement also came with nine new screenshots from the game that we have added to our gallery.

The WWII flying action game Heroes Over Europe has been planned as a 2009 release from Atari. However in a new filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, it appears there are some money snags that have popped up that will almost certainly affect its release.

In the filing made today, The title's co-publisher Red Mile Entertainment was sent a note from the game's developer Transmission Games (under its parent name IR Gurus) on Feb. 11. The note claimed that Red Mile had "failed to make a payment under such agreement in the amount of $281,000" to Transmission Games. As a result, the developer has terminated their agreement with Red Mile. Atari also sent Red Mile its own termination notice, saying it will no longer publish Heroes Over Europe.

Red Mile states it "disputes the grounds for termination" for Atari's side of things but that Atari's actions could affect Red Mile's operations. If they are unable to get more revenue or get a better line of credit within 30 days "the Company will likely cease operations." Red Mile is also the named publisher for a game based on Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels. However aside from a few press releases about the game since it was first announced nearly two years ago there have been no details, screenshots or a announced developer for the game.

Small game publisher Red Mile Entertainment got a huge coup when it announced some time ago that it had gotten the game rights to Sin City, the terrific crime comics from writer-artist Frank Miller. At the time the company's in-house dev studio Transmission Games was supposed to be handing the creative duties, using Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3.

Now comes word that Transmission Games is off the Sin City gig due to their work on their upcoming flying action title Heroes Over Europe. Gamespot reports that the Sin City game is now under development at an unnamed publisher but is still scheduled to be released sometime in late 2009.

A while back it was announced that Red Mile Entertainment was going to publisher Heroes Over Europe, the sequel to the previously released WWII flying action game Heroes Over The Pacific. Since then there's been little info on the game but this week publisher Atari announced that it would co-publish the title with Red Mile in Europe while also releasing the first screenshots from the game.

Developed once again by Transmission Games (formerly IR Gurus) the press release for Heroes Over Europe claims the sequel will have a brand new graphics engine and new gameplay modes, including multiplayer for up to 16 players. The press release also claims the game will have detailed reproductions of cities like London and Berlin. The title is due out in 2009 but there's no word yet on a US release date.