Steel Armor - Blaze Of War

Steel Armor - Blaze Of War - 1DVD

It is an authentic and dynamic tank simulator. Player is to successfullyaccomplish battles in 4 historical operations on 60 square km. of battlearea, manage Soviet, Iran, Iraq and Angola sides of the conflict.Steel Armor: Blaze of War? gives player an opportunity to drive battletanks as driver and engineer, to organize tank attacks as gun layer andmanage the crew. To win the battle one has to own quick reactions,intelligence, good memory, knowledge of technical features of battlemachines, ability to coordinate actions of the whole tank crew andability to find optimal tactics in complex situations.

Features:
Dynamic campaigns with historical missions;
Large-scale tactical battles with real tanks, APCs, artillery,aviation and infantry. Destructible environment. Interactive landscape:ability to dig craters and trenches in real-time.
Realisticengineering: all the physics depend on the features of battle machines,ballistics, damage of steel modeling, work of the gun sights andobservation devices, work of machine crews, tank battle squads andcontrols.
After-battle statistics that let player evaluate results of attacks and see received damages with vectors of missile hits.
Campaigns processor and mode-building utilities that allow modifyingmain elements of the game, add new machines, units, elements ofinterface and arms.
Encyclopedia of battle technics that gives one detailed review of characteristics and comparison of all the technics needed.

Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Memory: 512 Mb
Hard Drive: 2 Gb free
Video Memory: 128 Mb
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6600 / ATI Radeon X1300
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

X3 Albion Prelude

X3 Albion Prelude - 2DVD

Description: Bridging the gap between the old and the new universe of the X game series, X³: Albion Prelude shows a universe in flux, and prepares players for things to come. The old X Universe is passing; a new X Universe is about to be created! The X universe is undergoing a period of massive change. What started as a conflict of interest between the Earth and the races of the X Universe has now escalated into a full scale war. Play a part in a war scenario bigger than anything the X Universe has ever seen before!

Corporations Compete for Control of the Future With the war as a backdrop, corporations are vying for power and are driving the X Universe in a new direction. A technological breakthrough will soon allow massive accelerators, forming highways in space and allowing the economy to expand on an unprecedented scale. Highways, a key feature of X Rebirth, are not yet ready, but you can see them being built and participate in the power struggles around the construction of much larger self sustaining economies.

Features:
A new plot throws you into the power struggle between corporations at a
time of war
New Stock Exchange feature allows advanced investment strategies
Improved graphics quality setting for high end machines
Improved UI introducing charts to visualize economic developments
Support for head tracking
Note: X3: Albion Prelude will not be compatible with save-games from
X3: Terran Conflict

System Requirements

Minimum:
OS: Windows XP (SP-2), Vista SP1
Processor: Pentium® IV or AMD® equivalent at 2.0 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB 3D DirectX 9 Compatible video card (not onboard) with Pixel Shader 1.1 support
Hard Drive: 10GB of free space
Sound: Soundcard (Surround Sound support recommended)

Recommended:
OS: Windows XP (SP-2), Vista SP1
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo or AMD® equivalent at 2.0 GHz
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB 3D DirectX 9 Compatible video card (not onboard) with Pixel Shader 3.0 support
Hard Drive: 10GB of free space

Wings of Prey Collectors Edition

Wings of Prey Collectors Edition - 3DVD

Genre: Flight Action 

Publisher: YuPlay

Developer: Gaijin Entertainment  


Wings of Prey is based around the large-scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II.  Players can participate in some of the war’s most famous battles piloting fighters, battle planes and bombers across a range of thrilling missions. There are six theatres of war to engage in -- The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Ardennes, Berlin, Sicily and Korsun' representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe.
Wings of Prey also boasts an all new damage effects engine as well as advanced environmental visuals
enriching the game play. Wings of Prey features hundreds of airplanes taking part in air battles. The unique environmental engine also produces highly detailed, realistic landscapes that allow players
to see breathtaking ground support actions.

Minimum Requirements
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3200MHz
RAM: 1024 Mb
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 256 Mb or ATI Radeon X1650 256 Mb
HDD: 10 Gb free disk space
OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP3, DirectX 9.0c.
Soundcard, DirectX compatible
Internet connection: 56 kb/s
Keyboard, mouse

Recommended Requirements
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2400 MHz
RAM: 2048 Mb
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 512 Mb or ATI Radeon 4850 512 Mb.
HDD: 10 Gb free disk space
OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 with DirectX 9.0c / Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 / Microsoft Windows 7
Sound card: DirectX compatible with support 5.1
Internet connection: 512 Kb/s
Keyboard, mouse, joystick

Dead Mountaineers Hotel

Dead Mountaineers Hotel - 1DVD

Based on the original story by famous Russian sci-fiction writers Strugatsky Brothers, Inspector Glebsky’s Puzzle is a 3D-person quest with point-and-click interface. The game sets itself in a “living world” - the characters have their own activities in the game world and they won’t stand still waiting for player to come even if they have some business with him. Boris Strugatsky (the last surviving brother of the writing duo) collaborated on the game’s development.

Features
* 5 different endings controlled by the player’s actions, decisions and behavior
* An engrossing storyline set in a gorgeous game environment; from snow capped mountains to the incredibly detailed rooms of the secluded hotel
* Robust 3D real-time game engine allows for truly non-linear gameplay
* Explore a game world populated with dynamic lighting and shadows, and special effects (changes in weather, day and night gameplay sequences)
* 15 unique and lifelike characters, each with their own personalities, stories and agendas.

System Requirements
* Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7
* Processor: Pentium IV 2.7 GHz
* Memory: 1024 MB RAM
* Hard disk space: 2.3 GB
* Video: 256 MB DirectX 9-certified 3D video card (GeForce 6600 or higher)
* Sound: DirectX 9-certified sound card
* DirectX®: 9.0

Dead Block v1.0

Dead Block v1.0 - 1DVD

Are you good enough to survive a Zombie Armageddon? Don't panic! Use your brain first and if necessary your sledgehammer. Dead Block is a 3rd person zombie themed arcade game with a unique mix of action, humour and strategy. Set in the US during the idyllic 1950s, Dead Block takes players to a simpler time when a gallon of gas cost a few pennies, the "golden age" of cinema was in full swing, and that new (and apparently insanely evil) craze called rock n' roll swept the nation—and caused an apocalyptic musical plague to turn the deceased into the walking dead!

In the ‘50s Rock’n’Roll music was spawned straight from hell and was so evil that it turned dead people into Zombies! Three survivors - Jack Foster, a construction worker, Foxy Jones, a traffic warden, and Mike Bacon, a perpetually hungry boy scout - have formed an unlikely alliance to protect themselves from the invading undead. Hiding from the Zombies in abandoned buildings, they build blockades, set traps and – as a last resort – use weapons to fight.

• A humoristic gameplay mix of killing zombies and tactical defense.
• Kill zombies in unusual and entertaining ways: install unique traps, employ devious tactics and fight the intruders with smart bombs and melee weapons.
• Tactical defense gameplay: defend from zombies by building blockades, gathering resources and switching between all 3 characters.

System requirements:
• Windows XP/Vista/7
• DirectX 9c
• 1.7 GHz
• 1 GB RAM

Happy Holidays from Chic Pixel!

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all! Thank you so much for reading my ramblings and giving me a reason to post this horribly cute card that I've been hanging onto for years.

I probably won't be posting anything for a day or two, but I would love to hear how you all are going to spend your time off! What games will you be playing, and what are you hoping might be waiting for you  under the Christmas tree tomorrow morning?

I know for a fact that I've got Mario Kart 7 waiting for me, and I'm itching to play! As soon as I get it going I'm going to make an official Chic Pixel community, so I hope some of you can play with me!

I've got a huuuuge backlog I would love to get started in on, but I'm at the point where I have so many games I'd like to play that I literally feel stuck and don't know where to start! Since I just got the Wii, I'd like to dig in to Skyward Sword... But honestly, some comments I've been hearing about the 5 hour tutorial and frustrating motion controls have given me slight cold feet. Surprisingly, I've been playing a lot of Just Dance 2, which came free with my Wii. Er... Yeah.

All I want for Christmas is for you to buy my manga

Hello hello! I'm writing from my snazzy new apartment while sitting in my snazzy new sofa... Everything is so snazzy! We were finally able to put up our holiday decorations (including a mini fake IKEA tree), so I'm finally able to get in a festive mood.

That aside, I'd like to take the opportunity to announce my very first published manga translation! Tweeting Love Birds is a boys' love manga about a guy who loves baseball... It was a bit of a pain to translate, considering I don't know baseball terminology in English, let alone Japanese, but it was still a blast to do! And the story isn't so centered around the sport that people who aren't interested in it (like me) can't enjoy it. It's quite funny! I'm not nearly so eloquent, so here's the summary my awesome editor whipped up:

"Ohtaka is pissed! University baseball is not what he expected, and it’s all because of Tweetie, the odd little person who blithely chirps and constantly circles in his tall shadow. Everything Tweetie does only deepens Ohtaka’s scowl. His irritation skyrockets when Tweetie demands Ohtaka stay in the baseball club for his sake and steals Ohtaka’s first kiss!

When two people from Tweetie’s past are thrown in Ohtaka’s face, his agitation suddenly turns territorial--and he’s not sure why...

Will Ohtaka figure out this unfamiliar game that plays for keeps? Get ready for a fast pitch of romantic comedy and surprising love in Tweeting Love Birds!"

If you're at all interested, you can check out a sample of the Kindle version over at Amazon. Even if you don't have a Kindle, I believe you can download the Kindle reader and read it right on your PC/Mac! And if you're so inclined, I would love love love it if you could support me and my group (Twitter @BLBangBang). If you're more of a Nook kind of person, it's available for that over here!

Of course if you do decide to purchase said manga, please let me know what you think! And tell me that you bought it so I can shower you with lots of love. If you're at all on the fence about starting a new series, don't worry, the story ends at volume 2. After my current project I'll be jumping right in to volume 2, so you should expect to see that out in the next couple of months!

In other news, one of my very favorite craft bloggers, an Aussie lady currently living in Japan known as Hello Sandwich, is in a gift wrap challenge over at the Martha Stewart blog! Wow! If you could be so kind and head over here to vote for her, that'd be great! She really deserves to win; she has such great style sense and her projects are both simple and a lot of fun. Thanks! Be sure to check out her blog if you're into crafty things, too! 

FlatOut 3 Chaos And Destruction

FlatOut 3 Chaos And Destruction - 3DVD

FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction - the next part in a series of arcade racing FlatOut, where you will find even more adrenaline, degradability, insane racing tracks, a lot of different cars, as well as a wide variety of game modes. In addition to FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction, new competition: Night races and off-road racing, and in 8 multiplayer modes will be able to fight up to 16 players.

Features
Physics Engine capable of delivering over 20,000 fully destructible objects
on every track
47 vehicles with everything from muscle cars, monster trucks, tanks,
bulldozers and more
9 game modes plus challenge mode that incorporates all game modes into one
62 track race
10 racing environments with 62 different race tracks
3 stunt mode environments with 12 stunt tracks
9 Destruction Derby Battle environments
All new Monster Truck, Nightshift, Off Road, and Speed modes
8 multiplayer modes with support for up to 16 players
Force Feedback support for racing wheels
Larger Destruction Derbies with 24 players
Complete Chaos in Off-Road Mode
Complete Destruction in All new Monster Truck Mode
Head to Head in nightmarish, thunderous, rainy, fog weather in
Night Shift Mode

Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Windows  XP
Processor: Intel  2 GHz dual core CPU
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8600 + / AMD Radeon HD X2600 +
Hard Disk Space: 16 GB available hard drive space
Memory (RAM): 2 GB RAM
DirectX: DirectX  9.0c
Sound Card: DirectX  compatible Onboard Soundcard

Ski Region Simulator 2012

Ski Region Simulator 2012 - 1DVD

Show your technical and managerial skills in this high-quality simulation bythe developers of the Farming Simulator? (about 1.000.000 units soldinternationally since October 2010), GIANTS, and manage, maintain andexpand your own mountains and villages in the Ski Region Simulator2012? to bring your ski resort to success.

Starting with a singlelift and a short trail, the player has to attract guests by tending hisresorts and keeping the visitors excited. The 4 kmA? large ski regioncan be explored by foot, ski and snowboard. Furthermore, a largeautomotive fleet containing well-known vehicles like snow cats and snowcannons can be discovered and operated. Prepare the slopes with highlydetailed snowcats, build up ski-lifts with the appropriate equipment andtake care of your fleet by buying the right machines. To entertain theinhabitants of the resort, the player can serve delicious meals in theupgradeable Alpine huts and deliver cool aprA?s-ski entertainment. If theplayer manages the resort wisely, more and more visitors will make hisski empire grow!

As expected by a typical GIANTS game, SkiRegion Simulator 2012, is characterized by high quality graphics andrealistic technical details. The game offers a broad and varied gameplay as well as never-ending entertainment.
This simulation is an absolute must for all fans of winter sports and technical simulations.

Features:

* Prepare and create new trails with diverse vehicles and machines
* Free, open-world-scenario with day/night cycle and dynamic weather that can be discovered by foot, ski and snowboard
* Expanding vehicle fleet with new and more efficient vehiclesvariety of snow-related industrial tools designed to act as extensionsof the vehicles available
* Detailed management system enablesplayers to build and expand their ski resort environment by creating newtrails and installing lifts
* Varied scripted and unforeseen events will keep the player entertained
* Partnership with Pistenbully
* Play online with your friends in the multiplayer-mode
* Expand the game with own or downloaded mods