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Press Briefing in Varese

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:00 am
by admin
<div style="text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">Slitherine and Matrix Games Kick Off European Press Event</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:
normal;">Luminaries of the European strategy and wargaming industry meet, greet, and game!</span></i></strong></div>
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<div style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">Varese</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">, Italy, April 5<sup>th</sup>, 2011</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif""> – Slitherine (<a href="http://www.slitherine.com/">www.slitherine.com</a>) and Matrix Games (<a title="http://www.matrixgames.com/" href="http://www.matrixgames.com/"><span style="color:purple">www.matrixgames.com</span></a>) are proud to announce that they have launched their European Press Event in Varese, Italy. Sporting some of the best and brightest developers and some prominent members of the wargaming press, the European Press Event gives both ends of the industry a chance to meet, discuss games, and enjoy a few exciting new announcements from the Slitherine/Matrix camp. A few of the new announcements headline at the press event are:</span></div>
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<div style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">We are launching an ambitious project to bring Matrix Games shop front to an entire new audience around the world by translating and localizing the site in the most spoken languages. The first on the list are Spanish, Italian and German, but stay tuned for more!</span></div>
<div style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">We are <b>extending our acclaimed PBEM system to more games</b> and more developers. Now more and more of our products will enjoy the same seamless PBEM matchmaking, player ranking, and tournament functions as games like the <i>Field of Glory</i> series, <i>Battlefield</i><i> Academy</i>and<i> Gary Grigsby’s War in the East</i>. Now any developer working with Slitherine and Matrix Games will have access to these amazing extra features to include in their games.</span></div>
<div style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">We are aggressively moving into new gaming platforms, especially the smart phone and tablet portions of the market, including iPad and Android. <a href="http://www.slitherine.com/games/thcgbotma">HISTORY™ Great Battles Medieval</a> and <a href="http://www.slitherine.com/games/heae_eg ... ">HISTORY™ Egypt: Engineering an Empire</a> are just two of the popular games we’re bringing to your mobile device! </span></div>
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<div style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">The list of developers and press attending this several day event is long and filled with notable names. Developers in attendance with hot upcoming titles include:</span></div>
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<div style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">Wastelands Interactive - </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.slitherine.com/games/time_of_fury">Time of Fury</a></span></div>
<div style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">VR Designs</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif""> – <a href="http://www.matrixgames.com/products/405 ... ">Advanced Tactics: Gold</a> </span></div>
<div style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">Zeal </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">– Team Assault (Details coming soon!)</span></div>
<div style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">The Lordz Games Studio</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif""> – <a href="http://www.slitherine.com/games/ctgw_pc">Commander The Great War</a> / <a href="http://www.slitherine.com/games/panzer_corps_pc">Panzer Corps</a></span></div>
<div style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">         </span></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">Hexwar</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif""> – The <a href="http://www.slitherine.com/games/fog_pc">Field of Glory</a> Franchise</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;Arial","sans-serif"">JD McNeil, Chairman of Slitherine Ltd., said, “We work closely with some of the best development teams from around the world in bringing their titles to our huge audience of wargamers. We believe that they thoroughly deserve this opportunity to present their games to the European Press Corps in this truly fantastic location. They are the people that matter to us and we are delighted to give them this chance to take centre stage over the next few days. Thus our European Press Event is born!”</span></div>
<div style="text-autospace:none"> <span style=" font-size: 13px; ">For more information about any game mentioned above, head over to either the <a href="http://www.slitherine.com/">Slitherine</a> or <a href="http://www.matrixgames.com/">Matrix Games</a> websites.</span></div>

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:10 am
by junk2drive

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:25 am
by Surtur
I wish I could be there :P

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:37 am
by anguille
Sounds good.

Too bad that Ntronium had to create it's own pbem for Armada 2526. It's a good system but maybe it would have been easier to use the one you have here and improve other aspects of the game instead. Is your system linked to a server?

Cheers