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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">9^th October (London)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%"> - Award winning videogame publisher Slitherine revealed its 2009 line up and its expanded self-publishing capability at a partner’s conference this week. </span></p>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 14.1pt 0pt 0.75pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">The conference included presentations by Slitherine’s major licensors and partners for the development of videogames in the history genre: A&E Television Networks, with the HISTORY</span><span style="font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%">TM </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">and MILITARY HISTORY</span><span style="font-size: 6pt; line-height: 115%">TM </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">brands, Scholastic with Horrible Histories and development partner BBC . </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 14.1pt 0pt 0.75pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">Under the <strong>HISTORY™</strong> brand, Slitherine will be publishing <strong>HISTORY™ Great Battles of the Middle Ages</strong>, the sequel to chart hit, The History Channel® Great Battles of Rome, <strong>HISTORY™ Great Battles of the Middle Ages</strong> will release next spring on next generation platforms and another release, <strong>HISTORY™ Great Empires Pharaohs</strong> will launch on handheld devices this autumn.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 14.1pt 0pt 0.75pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">Under the <strong>MILITARY HISTORY™</strong> brand two titles will be released in the Commander series for handhelds: <strong>MILITARY HISTORY™ Commander Europe at War</strong> in February and <strong>MILITARY HISTORY™ Commander Napoleon at War</strong> to follow later in the year.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">The <strong>Horrible Histories™</strong> license will see a first product released in May, targeting for the first time a younger and more casual audience. <strong>Horrible Histories™ The Ruthless Romans</strong> will be releasing for consoles and PC alongside a new live-action TV series on BBC television.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">The first license agreement between Slitherine and the BBC, for the Battlefield Academy game, will be releasing for handheld platforms towards the end of next year. This ambitious project will see an innovative gameplay system merged with highly researched historical content to attract a wide and diverse audience.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%">“<em>We’ve been working on this project for well over a year now and our plan has always been to put together a line-up based on our core values with the intention of creating attractive, fun-to-play games based on historical content,</em>” said JD McNeil, Business Development Director of Slitherine. “<em>We are proud of what we have achieved so far, and this is only our first steps into the publishing arena. We are confident that with these quality products we can satisfy our players and find our space in this highly competitive arena. What we are certain of is that we have found an area of the market where we know we have the right skills to compete.</em>”</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 5.25pt 14.1pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: normal"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Slitherine will be disclosing more information on each of these titles over the coming months, including a major presentation by Marketing Director Marco Minoli at the Handheld Learning Conference in London, on the 13^th of October, where Slitherine are major Sponsors. Further information will be made available </span><span style="font-size: 10pt">at GC Lyon, starting on the November 5^th. </span></div>

Under the MILITARY HISTORY™ brand two titles will be released in the Commander series for handhelds: MILITARY HISTORY™ Commander Europe at War in February and MILITARY HISTORY™ Commander Napoleon at War to follow later in the year.

Dang it Ian, WHAT hand Held ?

I own a DS, bought it just to play Panzer Tactics. Yep buying a 150 dollar toy for one game was no barrier.

Now are the games coming out for the DS, or something else?

I'd buy a PSP to play Commander series on a hand held. Will I be needing a PSP?

More news very soon

Dang Ian, if you were a blonde woman I could have some very nasty descriptive terms for that

admin wrote:Under the MILITARY HISTORY™ brand two titles will be released in the Commander series for handhelds: MILITARY HISTORY™ Commander Europe at War in February and MILITARY HISTORY™ Commander Napoleon at War to follow later in the year.

Yes, I would very much like to hear more about these, and which handhelds. ASAP, Iain!

Please consider making these for the iPhone/iPod touch!

Wulf_der_Sturm wrote:Please consider making these for the iPhone/iPod touch!

i-stuff might be a dying market. Steve Jobs just retired, (and looks to be dead very soon), and Apple's stock took a huge hit. Which makes one wonder if next week a new competitor will crop up and steal the market away.

We are talking about, in Steve Jobs, the man who arguably created the personal computer in his garage, along with Mr Wisniewski. Steve Jobs was also the vision and the driving force behind the i-pod and i-phone.

Look how Apple bit the big one when Jobs left last time; they nearly died during his absence, and came roaring back as soon as he did return. Steve Jobs is Apple Computer.

Hm, I believe I know what you're trying to say, but it comes across extremely insensitive. As for Apple, I'm sure they'll be fine while Steve is on a leave of absence, or if he decides to retire completely.

Hmm he's just a man, even if he was the man that started it. Hey Gates is in a diminished function with MS too eh, and MS hasn't died (although some might not mind that).

One can't work forever let alone live forever.

I'd rather the game was made for a hand held 'game machine' instead of a spastic telephone concept if you want my view.

Triari, sorry bro, But I don't see what I said that was insensitive. I lauded the man to the skies, and indeed he deserves all the praise one can offer. Steve Jobs may not quite be in the same league with Leonardo da Vinci, but he's within spitting distance

But he's dying. And nobody else at Apple is anything but one more corporate stuffed shirt.

Apple computing has always been the vision of Steve Jobs. Every single one of the innovative products that ever came out of Apple had its origin in the mind of Steve Jobs.

And he has given us one last gift, a gift whose enormous value will not be immediately apparent to 99% of those who learn of it.

The iMusic store has announced that it will discontinue DRM on downloaded music. That's right, soon you will be able to buy an MP3 from the iMusic store and play it on any MP3 player you like. Even if you own a silly, unreliable turd-box like the Zune

Steve Jobs, in giving us this parting gift, may just possibly have sounded the death knell of DRM. And wouldn't that be the happiest day since the Berlin Wall came down?

possum wrote:Triari, sorry bro, But I don't see what I said that was insensitive. I lauded the man to the skies, and indeed he deserves all the praise one can offer. Steve Jobs may not quite be in the same league with Leonardo da Vinci, but he's within spitting distance

Perhaps, I overreacted possum, but there is a tone of indifference (or disconnect) to one's personal suffering. I suppose it's all how one reads it. I know I've been accused of harsh emails, when all I did was send a quick email explaining facts.