GamesRadar - Darkest of Days

Level Editor and Gameplay Updated for Darkest of Days (News)

6 Nov 2009

Phantom EFX and independent game development studio 8monkey Labs have announced the availability of a series of updates to their recently launched first-person shooter, Darkest of Days. PC users of Darkest of Days are now able to use 8monkey's own level editing software, Habitat, to create their own levels in which to wreak havoc.

Darkest of Days (Review)

16 Sep 2009

How would the Civil War have been different if you’d been there with a modern machine gun? I’ll tell you: It’d have been much more awesome. In Darkest of Days, you play as a 19th-century American soldier plucked out of his own time moments before becoming a casualty at General Custer’s Last Stand. ...

Darkest of Days (Screenshots)

16 Sep 2009

Weekly Recap Sept. 12th: Aion Interview, New Dreamcast Game, Forza 3 Blowout (News)

13 Sep 2009

Blend Games writes:

"The week ending on September 12th was huge when it came to gaming media and news… more-so media than news, though. We have a fairly big offering of Media Blowouts this week, ranging from Left 4 Dead 2, Shank, the time-traveling FPS Darkest of Days and Forza Motorsport 3. Speaking of Forza new demo info was released now that the game has gone gold and that only spells good news for racing fans. Did I also happen to mention we have an exclusive interview with the Aion design team? Yeah well that's in here, too. Probably the most shocking news of the week, however, came in the form of RedSpot announcing that they have a new Dreamcast game on the way. You'll have to see the game to believe it. These stories and more in the Blend Games Weekly Recap."

"Darkest of Days" Launches on PC and Xbox 360 (News)

8 Sep 2009

Phantom EFX and independent game development studio 8monkey Labs announced today that their highly anticipated historically-based first person shooter, "Darkest of Days", launches today for both Windows-based PC and the Xbox 360.

Darkest of Days Demo Surpasses 100,000 Downloads in a Week (News)

19 Aug 2009

In the words of Phantom EFX's CEO Aaron Schurman, "Let me tell you, there is nothing like going back to Ancient Rome and mowing fools down with an assault rifle."

Darkest of Days: Screenshots, demo and benchmarks of the Physx shooter (News)

13 Aug 2009

PCGH has benchmarks of the Darkest of Days demo. According to their results the additional GPU accelerated Physx effects are most challenging for the hardware. A Core 2 Quad with 2.7 GHz and a Geforce GTX 280 doesn't even reach a single frame per second if the Physx effects are calculated on the CPU and not the GPU.

Darkest of Days PC Demo Available NOW (News)

11 Aug 2009

WorthPlaying writes: "Phantom EFX's Darkest of Days, using 8Monkey Labs' proprietary Marmoset game engine, is a story-rich, first-person shooter presenting an intriguing story of time-travel to some of the darkest periods in the history of mankind. Check out the 740mb demo to try out a game that mixes Roman gladiators with machine guns, civil war era with heavily armored special agents ..."

8monkey Labs releasing Darkest of Days PC Demo tomorrow (News)

10 Aug 2009

8monkey Labs confirmed today that a PC demo of Darkest of Days, a historically-based first person shooter, will be released tomorrow on 11th August, 2009.

"Custer's infamous last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn, and the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history... these are just a few of humanity's darkest days, and you can dive into both of these in the Darkest of Days demo," said Aaron Schurman, Chief Executive Officer at Phantom EFX. "This hour-long demo lets players experience unrivaled carnage and to experience what it's like to use futuristic weapons in period settings and see what happens when you alter history while fighting against hundreds of enemies during some of man's greatest struggles in History!"

Darkest of Days - Weapons (Video)

30 Jul 2009

Though the graphics aren't the best and it borrows much from CoD4, the inventive use of time travel makes this a pretty good single-player FPS.

Darkest of Days - New Video Details Weapons (News)

28 Jul 2009

Earlier this month we told you about the new time travelling first person shooter from 8monkey Labs called Darkest of Days and in this new video we take a look at just some of the weapons that will be available to our time traveling hero Alexander Morris.

Darkest of Days will release on September 9th for Xbox 360 and PC and allow gamers to travel back in time and change the course of history through helping to save key influential figures - as the video shows you can take your M16 with you as well… lovely!

Darkest of Days - A Time Travelling FPS (News)

16 Jul 2009

First person shooters are an extremely popular genre and not a day goes by without hearing of the next one that will grace our consoles in the coming months but sometimes one creeps up on you and you wonder how you manage to avoid hearing about it. In this case its an FPS from Phantom EFX and independent game development studio 8monkey Labs titled Darkest of Days and the game utilises their own proprietary game engine aptly called Marmoset which has been in development for 3 years. Marmoset will allow 8monkey labs to support large numbers of active characters on screen, in game levels that are up to 4 square miles in size all densely populated with trees, bushes and weeds and an AI that is able to drive behaviors for hundreds of characters simultaneously whilst maintaining fantastic detail for one-on-one encounters with the player.

As for the story of Darkest Days well it is set at the end of The Battle for Little Big Horn and players will take on the role of the main character Alexander Morris a foot soldier of General Custer. Everything is going well but just as the battle takes a turn for the worse a futuristic time agent warps in to save Morris and transports him to the future where he is told that time travel is now a reality.

"Darkest of Days" Gets Official Launch Date for 360 and PC (News)

15 Jul 2009

Phantom EFX and independent game development studio 8monkey Labs announced Wednesday morning that their highly anticipated historically-based first person shooter, "Darkest of Days", is set to launch on September 8, 2009 for both Windows-based PC and the Xbox 360.

Darkest of Days - Trailer (Video)

6 May 2008

Though the graphics aren't the best and it borrows much from CoD4, the inventive use of time travel makes this a pretty good single-player FPS.

Darkest of Days Website Relaunched and Redesigned (News)

2 May 2008

Darkest of Days is an upcoming first-person shooter where the player will go through time to eight different events in human history. The idea is that the player is supposed to save certain key figures that, had they lived, would have changed humanity for the better thus altering our present. Set for a third quarter release this year on the PC platform. Phantom EFX/8monkey Labs just relaunched the game website today with a new, more user-friendly design.

Darkest of Days - first impressions (Preview)

12 Jul 2007

"It's been an awful long time since a story driven shooter came out," said Aaron Schurman, CEO of Phantom EFX and creator of Darkest of Days. But it's also been a long time since we've seen a fun story about time travel. In Darkest of Days you'll find yourself at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before you're scalped and left for dead with Custer, a portal appears and a stranger tells you that you weren't meant to die here before he kicks the bucket himself. After entering the portal, you'll ...