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Daily Deal - King Arthur Collection, 75% OffDec 15, 2015 - AnnouncementToday's Deal: Save 75% on King Arthur Collection!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Thursday at 10AM Pacific Time Midweek Madness - King Arthur series, 40%-75% off!Mar 27, 2012 - AnnouncementDuring this week's Midweek Madness, take 40% off King Arthur II and 75% off the original King Arthur series! Additionally, you can grab the just updated King Arthur Collection to save even more on the series!* King Arthur II begins long after young Arthur pulled the enchanted sword out of the stone, united the war-torn land of Britannia, gathered the Knights of the Round Table and secured peace in Camelot aided by the might of the Holy Grail. Where legends normally end, King Arthur II begins on its own gruesome tale... *Offers ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific time. Paradox’s Fredrik Wester says gamers are confusing accessibility with dumbing-downJan 25, 2012 - PC GamerParadox Interactive’s CEO, Fredrik Wester, is an outspoken man. He’s one of the most honest company directors you’ll ever come across in the games industry, and he’s not afraid to lambast his own games - most of which are hardcore strategy titles like Hearts of Iron and King Arthur. The games are intricate and rewarding, but getting gamers into them can prove problematic. “Our games leave you high and dry in the first ten minutes,” Wester told us. The trick to making their games accessible is not to make the game itself simpler, but to hold the player's hand as they're gently introduced to the game world and its rules. “We don’t want to dumb down the experience. We want it to be challenging, but not a chore to learn.” Total War developers Creative Assembly are masters of introducing complex strategy elements to a more casual audience, and Wester is keen to note that their slickness hasn't gone unnoticed among people who played Paradox's RPG/RTS King Arthur: The Role Playing Wargame. “A lot of people would like to see Total War-like design decisions and maybe we should have chosen that path, done things that make it simpler for people who are used to the same gameplay style,” he said. “I’m not suggesting that it’s actually Fantasy: Total War, but it’s an obvious comparison.” Paradox have focused on making things more Total War-y for their upcoming RTS King Arthur II. "We’ve been working with a more in-depth tutorial in the second game," Wester said. "We will also have a pre-campaign to help people come into the game. A lot of people would like to see more Total War-like design decisions, like how to scroll with the mouse, things that are done in the Total War series." Wester's other touchstone in ease of access is World of Warcraft. "I think a lot of people are mixing accessibility with ‘dumbed-down’," Wester said. "If you take a game like World of Warcraft that’s an incredibly complex game at level 80 - but you don’t figure out that it’s complex because you learn as you play."Midweek Madness - King Arthur 75% off!Dec 6, 2011 - AnnouncementSave 75% on King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame during this week's Midweek Madness! Build the majestic Camelot, recruit fabled knights to your Round Table, and battle with legendary warriors and monsters in this turn-based RPG. Offer expires on Thursday, December 8th at 4PM Pacific Time. PC Gamer UK Christmas issue – Mists of PandariaNov 21, 2011 - PC Gamer For most people, Christmas is a day, but for us, it's a whole magazine. This year we're celebrating with Crimbo the Christmas Panda, who adorns our cover. What does Crimbo have for good boys and girls? Why it's an enormous twelve page feature on Blizzard's new games. From Mists of Pandaria to Heart of the Swarm, to Blizzard Dota, Christmas elf Rich McCormick has scooped all his Blizzcon news up into a big snowy wordball. Oh, and every reader gets a free copy of King Arthur - The Roleplaying Wargame. You can read it all in the latest issue of PC Gamer UK, which should be on shelves shortly and arriving with subscribers right now. It's also available online, digitally through Zinio and Apple Newsstand, and it should already be with subscribers now. Our second enormous feature this month is the Christmas gift guide, in which the PC Gamer staff dress up in their Christmas outfits and bring you the best novelties for your oversized stocking. There's graphics cards and gaming lights, touch screen gloves and a Minecraft pickaxe, Tim even dares taste the infamous Baconaise. He was rushed to hospital shortly afterwards. He will never eat bacon again. In our previews section this month, Chris Thursten tells the story of twenty hours as a straight laced Jedi Consular in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Meanwhile Rich saves the galaxy from the killer spaceship robots in Mass Effect 3's new multiplayer mode and Graham learns how to kill a man humanely in Introversion's darkly comic Prison Architect. You'll also find previews of King Arthur 2, The Secret World, Crusader Kings 2 and Ghost Recon Online. In reviews, Graham gives his definitive verdict on epic man shooter Battlefield 3, while Tom Senior discovers his inner pimp in Saints Row: The Third. Richard Cobbett straps on his spandex to check re-review the now free to play City of Heroes before quickly descending into villainy in Payday: The Heist. We also manage footballs in Football Manager 2012, defend dungeons in Dungeon Defenders and murder greenskins in Orcs Must Die! You'll also find verdicts on Might and Magic Heroes 6, Stronghold 3, Take on Helicopters, Renegade Ops, Deus Ex: The Missing Link, Serious Sam: The Random Encounter, Airline Tycoon 2, Train Simulator and Dead Rising: Off the Record. Finally, Steve Hogarty reviews The Sims 3: Pets. Elsewhere in the issue, Adam Oxford checks out the best gaming laptops, Dan Griliopoulos uncovers the secret history behind the making of Football Manager. We also take a look at the Witcher 2's 2.0 patch, and reminisce about Croft Manor in Tomb Raider 2. Want to know what the PC Gamer staff has been playing lately? Well it's a good job we have the Now Playing section then isn't it? In his last ever PC Gamer article, Craig Pearson builds himself and his girlfriend little place in the country in Minecraft before becoming one with the force. Graham shares the shame of how his addiction to Fifa 12 tore him from Supreme Commander's embrace, Richard Cobbett cries his ...Paradox Publisher Event - King Arthur DaySep 16, 2011 - AnnouncementNow through Sunday take advantage of great Daily Deals on Paradox titles or save huge on The Paradox Complete Collection, which contains over 90 games and DLC for one low price! Today's Daily Deal is King Arthur and the King Arthur Collection for 75% off! Additionally, King Arthur: Fallen Champions has just been released on Steam! This standalone expansion to the hit RPG introduces three unique heroes to command through an all new campaign. Daily Deal offer ends Saturday at 10AM Pacific Time. King Arthur 2 previewJul 17, 2011 - PC Gamer The witch queen of the Orkney Islands has given King Arthur a cursed wound that can never heal. Since Arthur shares a mystical connection with the land of Britannia, his pain is the nation’s pain, a bit like how we all feel sad whenever Prince Philip talks. In Arthur’s case, it blights the world to attack by really big monsters. The original King Arthur: The Roleplaying Wargame took us all by surprise, wowing Tim Stone to the tune of 86% with a mixture of roleplaying and wargaming. Just like King Arthur, you wandered the British isles, getting into text-driven Choose Your Own Adventures. Also just like Arthur, you gained XP to clamber through a skill tree, and then hopped into battles where you were able to control your troops from a floating position in the sky. Think something along the lines of Fantasyland: Total War. King Arthur II, confusingly, deals with the same King Arthur. The mechanics haven’t changed much, either – its closest relation is still Total War. There’s even a campaign map: a beautiful, expansive thing, picked out with intricate brushwork that gives it more character than Total War’s functional views. Wander around on the campaign map, and you’ll find quests. In any other strategy game, these would be basic battles, but the collision of RPG and RTS has turned them into little choose-your-own-adventure vignettes. The example the developer gave was familiar to any RPG player: Arthur rolls up, army in tow, to a village under demonic assault. Via text options, he can either choose to engage with the forces in the name of justice, engage with the forces in the name of getting paid by the surviving villagers, or sneak on by and leave the peons to their unearthly fate. But the game’s focus on text-heavy RPG quests doesn’t mean the giant, braintaxing battles of the first game are gone. They’re very much still the focus. In King Arthur II, those battles are now twice the size, with 3-4000 units able to take to the battlefield at once. You’ll order your little medieval men to fight against cephalopodic giants, fire-breathing dragons and mountain-sized beasts. Just like Arthur did. And they’ll keep coming. Arthur’s pain has torn a hole in Britannia and the monsters that spill forth need to be quenched at the source. Smaller monsters make up enemy units to counter your own archers, infantry and cavalry in the field, but the larger creatures are bosses. You need a huge force and repeat assaults to bring them down. In motion, these fights look beautiful. The game is as attractive as any Total War game short of Shogun 2, with the added bonus of mountain-sized beasts and spangly spell effects. But magic won’t rule the battlefield entirely: spellcasters take a while to work up their juju, and introducing a lance to their face will stop them from finishing their incantations. Send your fastest riders along a clear path, and there’s a good chance you’ll score an interruption. If you do take the brunt of the magical energy, you’d better hope y...King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame Update ReleasedJul 13, 2011 - Product UpdateUpdates to King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame * speed optimization; * fixed misspellings; * Trade Quest spawning fixed; * “Knights and Prophecies” Objective spawn requirements changed; * bug at “Enchanted Spring” Victory Location fixed; * "King Arthur – The Druids" now appears in the DLC tab of the game; * 5 additional autosave slots inserted (saves the game after any battle up to five battles); * general quest starting bug fixed; * fixed Ctrl+G issue; * Sir Damas’ invisible horse removed ; * unused “Subtitles” checkbox in the Options removed; * Spectre, Soul Hunters and Ghost warriors graphics bug fixed; * artifacts created by the “Artisans Workshop” in the Stronghold will always go to an active Knight; Paradox sales are 90% digital, “we don’t really need retailers any more” says CEOJul 6, 2011 - PC Gamer Recently, at E3, we got the chance to catch up with the CEO of Paradox Interactive, Fredrik Wester to discuss the company's recent success with Magicka, Mount and Blade and King Arthur. Wester revealed that 90% of Paradox' revenue is now made through digital distribution sales. He describes the company's lack of reliance on retail as "a release," saying that store chains have "not been good for the creative part of the industry." Wester told us that "this year we’re close to ninety percent of our revenue being digital. Retail sales are like a bonus for us now. We don’t really need retailers any more and that is a release because retailers have not been good for the industry. They’ve not been good for the creative part of the industry, for finding new cool games." "People complain to publishers that there are only sequels on the market, but that’s because retailers want to see sequels, because they can do their chart diagrams for how things sell and things like that. So one of the things preventing more creative gaming has been the retail challenge." "I can only say this now because we’re not depending on them, so it’s really relieving to be able to say that." Wester told us that Steam is Paradox' main partner, followed by Gamersgate. Paradox has recently had big success with Magicka, which as sold more than 600,000 copies since release, and is set to hit a million sales before the end of the year. The entire Paradox catalogue is currently enjoying a 90% as part of the Steam summer sale. You can grab the lot for $74.99 / £55.New Release – King Arthur Collection, 50% offMay 24, 2011 - Product ReleaseKing Arthur Collection is now on Steam and available at 50% off until May 31th at 10AM Pacific Time! Fulfill your destiny and claim your rightful place on the throne of Britannia. Send your heroes and their followers to battle legendary warriors and monsters, while saints and faerie folk test their mettle against wizards and evil knights. King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame Update ReleasedApr 19, 2011 - Product UpdateUpdates to King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame * Hero and unit skills can be gained in a more user friendly way (withdraw/cancel option); * Clear indication if attacking certain enemy rulers have an impact on one of the Objectives; * Autobattle balancing – losses are less significant if your army is stronger; the outcome of the previous battles will also influence the result. * Extended deploy zone of the defender is removed (AI controls less Victory Locations in the beginning of battles from now on); * Spell balance; * Weakened archers; * Random HP for individual soldiers (e.g. Curse of Shadow does not kill all soldiers simultaneously); * Weakened traits for the army of Samhain; * Moving cavalry gets extra defense against ranged attacks; * Information about the difficulty of the upcoming battles is available in the text based quests; * The timing of the various Objectives appearing on the Campaign Map is now more balanced; * The new Morality icon appearing in the text based quests indicates the choices that affect Morality ;* Diamond formation becomes more effective against trampling cavalry; * Diplomatic quests that affect the Morality of King Arthur will also change the Morality of the army leader hero. * “Torture” in the prison screen reveals all provinces that belong to the king of the tortured hero (even the ones covered by the fog of war); * Invasion of Christian armies in Chapter 4 delayed; * “Dispel” works on the spells granted by Victory Locations as well; * Magic resistance affects the Dragon’s Breath spell; * Other minor bug fixes; Weekend Deal - King Arthur at 85% OffFeb 3, 2011 - AnnouncementThis weekend only, save 85% on King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame! Build the majestic Camelot, recruit fabled knights to your Round Table, and battle with legendary warriors and monsters in this turn-based RPG. Offer expires on Monday, Feb. 7th at 10AM PST. Additionally, the latest expansion to King Arthur, The Druids, is now available on Steam! Midweek Madness! NeoCore Games - 66% OffJun 1, 2010 - AnnouncementEnjoy huge savings on all NeoCore titles during the Midweek Madness Sale! Titles include King Arthur: The Role Playing Wargame, Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come, King Arthur: Legendary Artifacts DLC and King Arthur: Knights and Vassals DLC. Or purchase them all at once with the NeoCore Complete Pack! Fulfill your destiny and claim your rightful place on the throne of Britannia.

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