Freeverse

NEW YORK -- JUNE 30, 2006 -- Freeverse today announced that the historical war game, Legion Arena, is now available for Mac as an electronic download. The boxed version will be available in stores in a few weeks.

(movie link: http://freeverse.com/legionarena/legionarena_mov.php)

Legion Arena was designed to maximize fun and minimize micro-management. The player can jump right in and start training legions to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies. With a shallow learning-curve and deep strategy and tactics, Legion Arena is the ideal game for novice or experienced wargamers.

Legion Arena is a Role Playing Strategy game on a massive scale. Take control of a small band of warriors and train them to be the mightiest army in the world!

Buy equipment and choose from over 100 skills, personalize the appearance of your squads, earn experience and denari for your victories, Legion Arena takes the best elements of Role-Playing games and puts it in the context of an epic strategic struggle.

Play as either the Romans or the Gauls in over 100 scenarios and with over 20 unique units including Praetorians, Elephants, and Naked Fanatics. That's right, Naked Fanatics -- from France!

Ian Lynch Smith, President of Freeverse has said, "Legion Arena is an addictive strategy game with the best elements of RPG. I love leveling-up, picking new skills and gear and even choosing the the color of their armor... and then getting right back to the battle! Slitherine Software did an amazing job developing this game and we're proud to bring it to the Mac."

Legion Arena is Universal, running natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
System requirements include: MacOS X v10.3.9 or later. 1Ghz G4/G5/Intel or better, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB HD space, 32 MB VRAM. (Rage 128 not supported).

About Freeverse:
Freeverse strives to develop and publish seamless software, with a particular concentration on the Mac OS. Our titles have received numerous awards including four Apple Design Awards, two MacWorld "Best of Show" awards and a Macworld Magazine "Game Hall of Fame." Our original characters have appeared in TimeDigital, Wired, and Animation World magazines, as well as television commercials for Blockbuster Video.Headquartered in New York City, Freeverse draws upon the talents of artists, programmers and sound designers from around the globe.

About Slitherine Software:
Created on July 4, 2000 Slitherine Software UK Ltd. is an independent UK developer that has worked on games such as "T-Tex," "Desert Strike," "Red Alert," "Dune," "Dune Emperor," "Deus Ex," and "Urban Chaos" on platforms ranging from the Amiga, Lynx, SNES, PSX, GBC, and Dreamcast systems to the PC. Having recently launched the "Slitherine Strategies" brand, the company remains dedicated to bringing highly playable and approachable strategy games to the mass market. Slitherine Software is uniquely qualified to deliver exciting, quality games due to their vast experience in the industry and with the wider gaming community. Two of their founding members are also world champions in tabletop wargaming, giving them incomparable insight into the workings of strategy games. 

For more information, screenshots, etc contact:

Colin at Freeverse.com

Homepage: http://www.freeverse.com/legionarena

NEW YORK -- JUNE 14, 2006 -- Freeverse today announced the immediate availability of WingNuts 2: Raina's Revenge. Join the WingNuts team aboard their flying aircraft carrier as they battle Baron Von Schtopwatch, the mysterious "Raina" and a robotic air force of planes and dirigibles from throughout history.

WingNuts 2 is a showcase for the graphics power of the Mac. Utilizing spectacular OpenGL particles and CoreImage time dilation effects, the game provides over 30 levels of aerial excitement. Upgrade your plane with more powerful weapons and capture wild power-ups like "Super Mecha-Mode" and "Escort Wing" to defeat the Baron's terrifying robotic bosses.

The long-awaited sequel to "WingNuts: Temporal Naviagator" (5-Mice/Game Hall of Fame, Macworld 2002), WingNuts 2 takes all of the action and wacky humor of the original and adds a compelling new story, gorgeous graphics, and tons of gameplay enhancements to achieve a whole new level of excitement.

Ian Lynch Smith, President of Freeverse, has said: "This is the biggest game to be written specifically for the Mac in years. Targeting just the Mac means no performance compromises (and lower system requirements)-- and we can design in cool OS X specific technologies like CoreImage and iSight integration." Mr. Smith went on to say, "We've worked really hard on this game and think it looks spectacular, especially on new MacBooks."

WingNuts 2 is a Universal application so it will run natively on all new Intel Macs. System requirements include 800 MHz G4 or better, 32 MB of Vram, 512 MB of Ram, and 950 MB of hard drive space.

A Demo is available at:
http://www.freeverse.com/wn2/

Web Movie is available at:
http://freeverse.com/wn2/wn2_mov.php

Screenshots:
http://freeverse.com/wn2/img/wn2_ss2_big.jpg
http://freeverse.com/wn2/img/wn2_ss4_big.jpg

The full game is available today as an electronic download and will be available in July on MAC-DVD. WingNuts 2: Raina's Revenge, is priced at only $29.95.

About Freeverse:

Freeverse strives to develop and publish seamless software, with a particular concentration on the Mac OS. Our titles have received numerous awards including multiple Apple Design Awards, two MacWorld "Best of Show" awards and a Macworld magazine "Game Hall of Fame." Our original characters have appeared in TimeDigital, Wired, and Animation World magazines, as well as television commercials for Blockbuster Video. Headquartered in New York City, Freeverse draws upon the talents of artists, programmers and sound designers from around the globe.

Contact:
Colin Smith
Colin@freeverse.com

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