Codename: Panzers - Cold War

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Atari's RTS title Codename: Panzers - Cold War has been added to Steam and is now available for purchase and download.

WorthPlaying writes: Developed by InnoGlow, former Stormregion, Codename: Panzers series leaves the World War II stage to take the story into Cold War East-West conflicts fought on fictitious battlefields, with a special emphasis on deep story lines and rich battle effects.

WorthPlaying writes: Codename: Panzers series leaves the World War II stage to take the story into Cold War East-West conflicts fought on fictitious battlefields, with a special emphasis on deep story lines and rich battle effects. Check out the 930mb singleplayer demo...

It's time to reshape cold war history as Atari announces the upcoming launch of Codename Panzers: Cold War, the latest PC real-time strategy title in the acclaimed Codename Panzers series from developers StormRegion and InnoGlow. The tense period in history when a word out of place could lead to all-out war provides a chilling backdrop for the real-time strategic action of Codename Panzers: Cold War, scheduled for release worldwide in February 24th 2009 for Windows PC. Atari also released 3 new screenshots from the game.

Stormregion, the developer of Codename: Panzers ¿ Cold War, is particularily proud of the new game engine they've created for the game. So much so that the publisher of the upcoming RTS game, 10tacle Studios, has sent out a press release explaining a few things - the engine is named the Gepard3 Engine and the weather effects allow for the devs to add a number of fancy, gameplay altering effects to the game.

Microsoft may be trumpeting the dawn of DirectX 10 and its incredible impact on the PC gaming experience, but not every developer is ready to join the jamboree and adopt the new version of the API just yet. In fact, according to Codename Panzers developer Stormregion, there's actually still plenty to explore in DirectX 9. "We think that there are still several untapped opportunities in the previous versions of API so we are focusing on DirectX9 currently," Stormregion's lead designer

PC RTS series Codename Panzers is rolling back into action in Cold War, a brand new game set in the early 1950s and during the Cold War - no, really. First screenshots released provide a glimpse of the reworked Panzers graphics engine employed for this latest outing. Hit the Images tab above and see what you