Worthplaying.com writes: Set in WW2, Velvet Assassin is a 3rd person shooter combining intense battles with guerrilla missions, featuring extensive stealth elements and challenging puzzles. Rumored over the past few days, now confirmed by lead game programmer Claus Praefcke, German based Replay Studios is shutting down.
This week Activision brought five more games and Warfare, FUEL, Tropico Reloaded plus a few other games were released. Also some DLC was made available for RailWorks and Killing Floor.
This weekend only, pick up Egosoft's X3: Terran Conflict for 50% off, Velvet Assassin for 50% off, and Men of War for 75% off.
Ve3tro writes: Nexway is happy to announce the availability of SouthPeak's brand new PC game Velvet Assassin for download across Europe. The game is available from http://velvetassassin.com. More than just a game launch, Nexway has joined forces with SouthPeak for the digital distribution of SouthPeak's full catalogue of video games across France, UK, Spain, Germany and Italy, alongside the development of their corporate e-store, as well as their event websites. Velvet Assassin is SouthPeak's first game to benefit from this partnership.
The digital version of SouthPeak's stealth action game Velvet Assassin is now available on Steam for purchase and download.
SouthPeak Games announced today that Velvet Assassin, their stealth-action WWII title has departed on its final mission to retail shelves in North America. Released for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC, Velvet Assassin chronicles the life and times of Violette Summer, a British secret agent behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany. Sneaking through the shadows, armed only with a knife and firearms procured on-site, Violette faces some of the most heart-stopping missions the world never knew.
411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Persona, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier, and Velvet Assassin.
SouthPeak has announced that their WWII stealth game Velvet Assassin has gone gold. They've also released the finalized US/UK release dates.
World War II stealth action Title has gone gold. TGS: Ready to Take on Nazi Germany Stealth Style?
Aussie ratings board clarifies its position on drug use in Velvet Assassin; says historical and medical context justifies in-game use of morphine. The Australian Classification Board caused yet another stir down under last week, with Kotaku first reporting that upcoming stealth actioner Velvet Assassin had been given an MA15+ rating, the highest rating available for a game in Australia. The decision would ordinarily be unremarkable, except for the fact that Velvet Assassin contains morphine as a type of in-game power-up. Last year, Fallout 3 was initially refused classification down under because it showed positive effects from in-game drug use--specifically, morphine.
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