Keep an eye out for the patch to hit the streets shortly, but in the meantime, Chris Rubyor has put together a sneak peak at what'll be inside. This is a big one, folks!


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TRUE GAMES INTERACTIVE PARTNERS WITH RENOWNED DEVELOPER PETROGLYPH

The Two Companies Working on a Global Free-to-Play, Micro-Transaction Based Online Game

Orange County, Calif. -- April 15, 2008 - True Games Interactive (www.truegamesineractive.com), a new global online game publisher announced today that it is partnering with award-winning game developer Petroglyph. The two companies are working together on an upcoming Free-to-Play micro-transaction based online game for the Personal Computer. True Games will operate the Western version and collaborate with foreign publishers for global publishing opportunities.

You can read all about it here...
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Hark, hark, the demo is live, on Live!



What does this bad boy include? Glad you asked!

Controller Tutorial - Learn the new 360 control scheme as Novus prepares to leave their homeworld for Earth. Will the Founder remember to pack his shaving kit? You'll have to play to find out!

Multiplayer Conquer the World - Battle it out with other players over Live for control of Turkestan and Kamchatka. Not since those Risk games in 1993 has Kamchatka been so heavily contested!

Single Player Skirmish - Tired of the online beatdown, but still feeling that burning desire to lay claim to Kamchatka? Take on the AI in single player mode. Then, when you're done, do the same in Turkestan!


Two playable factions!

600 megabytes or so!

Go get it!


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This week, we're on the couch, with the tv, and the stereo, and the honey wheat braided pretzels because man those things are good.

It's time for another Thursday Throwdown, and this time we're taking it to the 360. Here's your chance to game with the developers and see how well we handle a controller.


Tonight!
5:00 PM PST (midnight, GMT)

Universe at War 360
CUSTOM matches


Euryidium (Sr Designer) and I will be both joining and hosting games, and I wouldn't be surprised to see others from the dev team around as well. Jump on and say hi!

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Today, German community admin, moderator, and renown modder Raziel Kanos becomes old.



Join us in wishing him a happy birthday. Happy 30th, Chris!
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The recently relaunched Petrolution.net has just put up an interview with Ross Simpson, an upstanding member of the Petroglyph code team and current maintainer of the developer toolset.

Question 9: It seems Petroglyph really is making an effort to support
the modding community this time round. Do you know why this is?

We were pleasantly surprised by the plethora and variety of mods that
have been released for SW:EaW. So why not capitalize on it?

UaW is a very modifiable game. UaW was designed from the start in such a
way that our designers and artists could rapid prototype new units and
game mechanics to see which ideas worked and which didn't. So it really
isn't a stretch for us to want to take that power and hand it to the end
user as well.

Check out the full interview.
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Last week I was invited to be a guest on the GWJ Conference Call, a weekly podcast hosted by the fine folks at gamerswithjobs.com. We recorded over the weekend, and the episode is now available for download.



Listen in and hear us talk about Universe at War, cross-platform gaming, and all sorts of other wonderful things!
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UaW 360 has been shipped to retailers evidently.


Full article
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In light of this week's release, I present to you, dear reader who hasn't opened the fansite kit and already seen the following, the Xbox 360 control scheme.


Click the image for an embiggened version.
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More Universe at War 360 previews are rolling in! This time, Gamespot's On the Spot takes a look at the game:



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