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Monday, November 22, 2010 Shipping Announcements

by Rainier on Nov. 22, 2010 @ 1:27 a.m. PST

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:


We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time (Wii)

Rabbids are bwaaack and this time they have an infallible plan to travel back in time and invade history!

When they stumble into a history museum and discover time travel through their Time Washing Machine, you can bet that human history is about to become a major mess. Plunge into the past and revisit the greatest moments of history like the discovery of fire, the broken nose of the Sphinx or the first step on the moon. Uncover how Rabbids wreaked havoc in our past and decide if the course of history needs to be changed.

Get together with friends and family and get ready to mess up with time travel in a brand new party-game experience where crazy competition is pushed to the limits. Discover 7 main game types - from flying to platforming – for more fun, more depth and more replay value. Team up and play in over 25 new hilarious and competitive mini-games with up to 4 players simultaneously.

Customize and unlock your bunnies with 30+ historical costumes, from Cowboys to Egyptians to Pirates!

Join the Rabbids community online and compete with your friends and share your scores and trophies. Spread the bwaaahtitude around the world!

Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time is now Available at North American retailers for $39.99.

World Supremacy (PC)

It is the beginning of the end. Crushed beneath government issue boots the white dove of peace spasms its last movements in a pool of crimson. Across the land jet engines spool up, shells are chambered in turrets, and the target coordinates for nuclear missiles are programmed. War has come to the world and when all the radioactive dust settles there will only be room for one superpower. Welcome to World Supremacy, the latest game from Malfador Machinations, developer of the acclaimed Space Empires series!

World Supremacy is a turn based game of global conquest. Light in the rules department, heavy in the strategy area, World Supremacy is a beer and pretzels wargame whose roots can be traced back to such games as Axis and Allies, Supremacy, and Empire Deluxe. Set in the contemporary era players command infantry, armor, helicopters, jets, submarines, nuke and neutron bombs, in an all out battle to control the world. No diplomacy, only destruction.

Gameplay is easy. Your territories and cities provide you with income. With this income new military units can be built. These units, consisting of a choice between thirteen land unit types, eight air units, and seven sea units (and all these have three levels of improvement) can then be ordered to go forth and conquer, either enemy territories or neutral territories. If there are enemy units in these territories a fast playing tactical battle is played for control. Repeat until you have conquered the world or you, yourself, have been conquered.

There is research and development present, although in keeping with the beer and pretzels style of the game the tech trees don't drill down to the "You've created a new hex nut!" level. Special weapons such as nuclear missiles and neutron bombs add another layer of strategy. Nukes can destroy cities, thereby reducing a nation's economic flow. Neutron bombs leave the land alone but decimate troops.

World Supremacy, being a Malfador Machinations game, of course fully supports the use of mods. Certain game elements are hard coded, but such things as creating new maps will be easy enough to do. Speaking of maps, each session creates a new random map, making each game of World Supremacy a new experience.

We hear there's this crazy new trend out there called multiplayer gaming. For those of you looking to nuke your buddies you'll be happy to know that World Supremacy supports up to eight players. Multiplayer can be done via hotseat play or TCP/IP online play.

World Supremacy is available for Windows XP, Vista, and 7 as a download for only $29.95.

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