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As discussed on USENET recently, Blasts of the Xtreme are hoping to release a new soccer managment game at the Guildford show in October this year. The game is likely to be called Xtreme Soccer 2008 and will probably be available for £5.00 under the BOTX Budget Range of games.

More information on this game as it happens.

Bill Kotsias of Fantasia FAN has spoken out on comp.sys.acorn.games about their latest game! A name has not been mentioned at the moment but this is what he said:

"Our game is a quite original concept, it is the 3D version of a very popular action-puzzle game with lots of new stuff that would not be possible in the 2D version.

We are collaborating with a software house to release the game on both RISC OS and Windows platforms."

A website is currently not available but hopefully will be soon, and the price will be in the low-to-medium range. A double-format CD might also be on the cards and should be available for gamers to buy for their ARM6 or better Acorn sometime in the Autumn!

A version of the unreleased commercial BBC micro adventure, Dominion has been made available for free to run on RISC OS by its author, Andrew Weston. You can download the RISC OS version from here.

Jeffrey Lee has released build 882 of his far-from-complete GTA-style game engine, Death Dawn, and it can be downloaded (source is also available) from his website.

Vince Hudd of Softrock Software has developed a brand new RISC OS text adventure using Trellis, this game will be released as freeware at the Wakefield show and will be on a computer for all to play at Wakefield 2007 which will take place tommorow.

Another text adventure will be released soon as freeware from the Acorn Arcade / IconBar download page, just watch this space for more information.

Van Peebles, the author of the AcornGamez YouTube videos has updated two new videos featuring Simon the Sorceror.

Blasts of the Xtreme have announced Sword Clash, an adventure game for RISC OS set in Wales in the 13th century. 

Sword Clash features its own in game music, plus extensive use of high resolution graphics. 

Sword Clash, unlike a lot of interactive fiction games, doesn't require you to type on the keyboard at all! All options are displayed in front of you and are only a mouse click away, so the game is ideal for all ages. 

Sword Clash does not require you to sit at the computer for several hours and is ideal for those coffee-break moments. There's a simple, easy to use save game option so you don't have to lose your position in the game. 

Sword Clash is the first in the BOTX Budget Range of games, and only costs five pounds (six pounds for postal orders).  

Order your copy by emailing cheatwarrior@gamebox.net - paypal or cheque are accepted. 

Sword Clash is suitable for all RISC OS 3 and 4 systems with 8MB or more RAM, and is supplied on CD in a full size plastic case (it can also be installed onto your hard disk).  A StrongARM Risc PC with 2MB VRAM, and 11.5MB free hard disk space, is recommended to get the most out of Sword Clash.  

http://www.blastsofthextreme.com/ 

The AcornGamez editors also run Blasts of the Xtreme. 

Wocki from Wocki's Acorn Emulation site has released Ibix the Viking to download free of charge!

Ibix the Viking, the budget arcade adventure from Minevera is now available to download as a free disc image from here. As usual, the Arc-GB project is also updated.

A kind AcornGamez reader has uploaded several videos of great RISC OS games onto the video sharing website YouTube. The author of these videos will make an MPEG version of these videos available in the near future.

These videos were made to advertise RISC OS games on YouTube and try to encourage people to take an interest. The current videos available to watch are below.

More are on their way, just watch this space! You can also find the videos on YouTube by searching for "AcornGamez"

Hamsters:

Mad Professor Mariarti:

Cataclysm:

Small:

Chocks Away:

Pandora's Box:

Stunt Racer 2000:

The newly released variant of RISC OS Select (Select 4 release 2) is said to include a version of !Meteors that supports hardware acceleration!  We here at AcornGamez don't have access to this version of Select, but it's speculated that the hardware acceleration might be for ViewFinder equipped computers.  The release is not compatible with modern RISC OS computers like the Iyonix, Omega, or A9home, however Drobe Launchpad have also shown the new version of Meteors running on the A9home - it seems that some of the included software will work even if the operating system itself doesn't.

!Meteors was the highly addictive desktop game released as part of the RiscPC bundle, resembling the crazier, more psychedelic and much noisier Spheres of Chaos in some aspects of gameplay. It was authored by Neil Raine, who also wrote Hopper and Planetoids, and tragically died in a hang-gliding accident in Spain last year.

It's great to see another old but popular RISC OS game get an update and maybe a new lease of life on older hardware.