[Saty]

The convention is taking place right now in NYC. PC Gamer is supposed to be covering it live, but i guess the site is hammered because it isn't working for me:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/01/20/pa...ering-it-live/

There are also Tweeter updates : http://twitter.com/search?q=%23pdxconvention

Mount and Blade: With Fire & Sword

Due out sometime in the first quarter of 2011, With Fire & Sword will add new elements to the game franchise such as firearms (muskets and pistols) and the new Captain multiplayer mode which will let up to 16 players control a squad of soldiers. Look for seven new multiplayer maps, new castle siege features and multiple endings for the game's single player mode in this new game.

http://news.bigdownload.com/2011/01/...nno/#continued

Hearts of Iron 3: For The Motherland.

Edit: Got the PC Gamer page up:

There are 15 new PC games being covered today that include: Magicka, Cities in Motion, Defenders of Ardania, Pride of Nations, Supreme Ruler Cold War, Sword of the Stars 2: Lords of Winter, King Arthur 2, Magna Mundi, Navar War: Arctic Circle, Crusader Kings 2, Pirates of the Black Cover, Hearts of Iron, Dreamlords Resurrection, Salem, and Gettysburg. Of those, Gettysburg, Pirates of the Black Cove, and Salem are brand new announcements

[ConfusingJazz]

Have they talked about fixing the Victoria 2 Post Load Game Economy crashing bug?

[Dick Laurent]

mount & blade trailer is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGINp5NNQoQ

pride of nations preview http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/01/20/pr...tions-preview/


a lot of new fun stuff.

salem mmo by paradox, hearts of iron card game, gettysburg armored warfare :D paradox are on fire

Have they talked about fixing the Victoria 2 Post Load Game Economy crashing bug?

haha. unless someone ask them directly about patches for victoria 2 this is all about new and upcoming releases. no new victoria 2 expansion announced here.

[Saty]

Fredrik West, the company CEO, is up front talking through the history of the company, and the things people have said to me over the years. In 2001, people said hardcore was dying, but Europa Universalis 2 sold 250,000 copies. In 2003, he was told that the PC was dying, but since then the company’s revenue is up 1000%.

Other important stuff from Frederick Wester’s (CEO) quick opening talk: Paradox’s 2010 Gross Revenue +45% from previous year / profit up 300% year-over-year. Quoted Gamestop executive that said in 2008 that digital distribution was 10 years away, compared it to a quote from a European patent office that they were going to close because “everything has been invented.” Oh, and 70% of Paradox’s revenue is digital. Wow.

Salem: Free-to-play MMORPG. “light-hearted gothic setting with a charming and cute art-style.” 2011.

Gettysburg: Armored Warfare : Free-to-play RTS\FPS hybrid. Alternate universe.

Hearts of Iron III : For The Motherland :

goal with the expansion: a deeper political system, coups, axis vs. allies vs. comintern (who’s that?). They also want you to be able to play through a game in a single evening.

Basically, the PC Gamer article has all the information about all the games so check it out.

[Dick Laurent]

the pc gamer separate news posts are slightly better written than the real time or what that was blog crap. who is comintern indeed. lol.

oh wait. sword of the stars 2 is a homeworld inspired rts. lol.

[Ceebs]

Pirates of the Black Cover = RTS pirate game. Interest piqued.

Salem sounds neat. A very different take on the F2P MMO.

[FatalT]

Pirates of the Black Cover = RTS pirate game. Interest piqued. Salem sounds neat. A very different take on the F2P MMO.

Does it have a cover system for units?

[zoku88]

Have they talked about fixing the Victoria 2 Post Load Game Economy crashing bug?

Hmm? What bug? I don't remember crashing after loading after the 1.2 patch.

[ConfusingJazz]

Hmm? What bug? I don't remember crashing after loading after the 1.2 patch.

It doesn't quite save all economic factors in the file, so after a load, the economy crashes like a rock.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...ing-my-economy

[Bossman]

That Captains mode sounds fantastic. Just what I have always wanted.

[speedpop]

Nice.

Is Magna Mundi somehow related to the EU3 mod? I haven't kept up with it and I really should invest more time in going through the Paradox forums.

[Dick Laurent]

Nice. Is Magna Mundi somehow related to the EU3 mod? I haven't kept up with it and I really should invest more time in going through the Paradox forums.

yeah, it's a full game version of the mod.

[speedpop]

Holy shit @ Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword trailer!

[Kuran]

That Mount&Blade trailer almost bests that Duke Nukem trailer for literally showing nothing... this series deserves better trailermanship.

[speedpop]

Haha yeah it's the most pathetic trailer I have ever seen. What made them choose to show absolutely nothing?

[Dick Laurent]

noclip wheeeeeeeeeeeeee

[speedpop]

It'll be interesting to see how big their plans will be for Paradox Connect.

[Dick Laurent]

http://www.taleworlds.com/main.aspx?...x?type=3&end=1

two more videos here http://www.snowball.ru/oim/?page=video

[zoku88]

It doesn't quite save all economic factors in the file, so after a load, the economy crashes like a rock. http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...ing-my-economy

Huh, never noticed that.

Does that only happen for liberal democracies? Or is it just noticeable more in that system? I'm usually either socialist, state capitalist or communist, so maybe that's what my economy doesn't crash that much, even though the resources were set to 0 or something.

Bad bug

[Sir Fragula]

No EU:Rome expansion... :(

goal with the expansion: a deeper political system, coups, axis vs. allies vs. comintern (who’s that?). They also want you to be able to play through a game in a single evening.

What the? How the fuck can someone NOT know what Comintern is? I mean even if you hadn't heared of the term before, it's obvious from the context!

[Dick Laurent]

No EU:Rome expansion... :(

yeah, surprised the expansion wasn't eurome aswell. it was the second highest game on the poll last year. hopefully the other expansion team is on rome, but just not ready to announce yet.

[speedpop]

http://www.taleworlds.com/main.aspx?...x?type=3&end=1 two more videos here http://www.snowball.ru/oim/?page=video

That's a little better. Partner woke up and showed her the videos. She's excited as heck.

[BigSicily]

Hearts of Iron III : For The Motherland : goal with the expansion: a deeper political system, coups, axis vs. allies vs. comintern (who’s that?). They also want you to be able to play through a game in a single evening

Awesome, coups would be fantastic! Some AI tweaks would be welcome too.

No EU:Rome expansion... :(

Same feelings, even though the populists started getting on my nerve.

[Sickboy007]

I <3 Paradox.

To think that M&B was originally created and developed solely by a guy and his wife...

[shintoki]

M&B F&S, Definitely will pick up. My 2nd favorite title of the year.

In general, I'll at least be trying out half of what they announce today. With 2, for sure buys. It's also wonderful to see them raking in the cash <3

[Polk]

Mount & Blade: With fire and sword looks like port of Poland specific version of the game released by CD Projekt: Mount & Blade: Ogniem i Mieczem

[Max]

Salem sounds really interesting. Yet nonsensical.

[ToxicAdam]

Salem has really peaked my interest. I've been waiting for a legitimate MMO with perma-death forever.

[Dick Laurent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ftb-cj2WIs

short interview video with salem dev guy

Mount & Blade: With fire and sword looks like port of Poland specific version of the game released by CD Projekt: Mount & Blade: Ogniem i Mieczem

yeah, it's the same. out in CIS aswell since december, http://games.1c.ru/mountnblade4/

[ixix]

Salem: Free-to-play MMORPG. “light-hearted gothic setting with a charming and cute art-style.” 2011.

I find this description, paired with this title and the fact that it apparently is all about the permadeath, to be inordinately delightful.

[Corto]

Salem sounds that it will be an MMO for me. The permadeath thing can bring great tension to the world.

M&B and Hearts of Iron expansions (and maybe the card game) will be mine. Gettysburg and Magicka are on my radar. <3 Paradox.

[Kuran]

http://www.taleworlds.com/main.aspx?...x?type=3&end=1 two more videos here http://www.snowball.ru/oim/?page=video

Cool, they found the bloom button.

[Dick Laurent]

more videos

magicka launch trailer http://www.gametrailers.com/video/la...magicka/709595
crusader kings 2 overview http://www.gametrailers.com/video/de...r-kings/709566
crusader kings 2 trailer http://www.gametrailers.com/video/de...r-kings/709584
defenders of ardania overview http://www.gametrailers.com/video/fi...ders-of/709589
defenders of ardania teaser trailer http://www.gametrailers.com/video/de...ders-of/709587
cities in motion tram trailer http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tr...ties-in/709580

[edit:keyboard failure]

[tiff]

Haha yeah it's the most pathetic trailer I have ever seen. What made them choose to show absolutely nothing?

I'm pretty psyched just knowing that one of the storylines is about the 30 Years' War.

[Bending_Unit_22]

For the last 10 years I would be excited about this, but I'm still waiting for the last couple of PI games I bought to be made into working games that improve on their predecessors. Being able to play HoI3 in an evening like I used to with HoI2 certainly sounds good at least.

What the? How the fuck can someone NOT know what Comintern is? I mean even if you hadn't heared of the term before, it's obvious from the context!

I'd like to think so but then there was a thread recently that basically involved not knowing what Comintern was.