Today we released two new videos for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, both showing off a few of the many combat arts (special abilities) for the High Elf character.

Check both out here.

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Today telecom provider Telia Sonera has announced that they will be providing data/communications infrastructure services to power CITIES XL. More info is here

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Garfield, the forever-fat cat, is headed to retail in a new game that’s likely to make family-gamers happy. Garfield: Lasagna World Tour for the PlayStation 2 (you better believe that console ain’t dead yet) has headed to stores. Read the full release here -

http://calico-media.com/pressrelease.php?id=28

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Fans of Blood Bowl can now check out the first video for the game, coming from Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive for PC, Xbox 360, PSP and DS. Mind you, this video is just for the PC and 360 versions, but oh my, is it awesome.

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It’s that time again, time for a new blog post from the Sacred 2 team! Today, one of the game’s sound engineers discusses how 5.1 Dolby Audio is used in the game, and how it is “true” 5.1, versus simulated 5.1 (which many other games use).

http://blogs.ign.com/AscaronEntertainment/2008/06/18/93277/

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It’s time for new screenshots from Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. Check out the new batch over at TeamXbox

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GameTrailers’ exclusive launch is over (and a great launch it was) for the CITIES XL video, and so now we have links for anyone who’d like to grab and host a copy. Here’s a quick snippet from the media alert -

Download the new CITIES XL™ trailer (multiple formats)
http://www.calico-media.com/montecristo/citiesxl/video/

Streaming links
Gametrailers- http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34815.html
Gamevideos - http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19285
Youtube - http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cksld7nojzI

Previously released screenshots:
http://www.calico-media.com/montecristo/citiesxl/CitiesXL.zip

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The first video for CITIES XL is up at GameTrailers today. Have a look to get an overview of the game’s concepts and online play.

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GameZone has published an extensive interview with some of the team working on Cities XL, the next-generation city-builder from Monte Cristo.

Read more…

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Continuing to keep their fans updated on all things Sacred 2, Ascaron has published a new blog post about level design in the game. In the post, available here, a member of the team talks about how he places objects in the game world to make everything seem like a living, breathing world.

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