Showing posts with label Catalyst Games Labs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catalyst Games Labs. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Catalyst Games Labs Press Release - Valiant Universe RPG & Cosmic Patrol PDF/Print Preorders Available

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

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VALIANT UNIVERSE RPG DIGITAL INITIATIVE
For the last two months we’ve been releasing the Valiant Universe RPG Quick-Start Rules (in conjunction with Free Comic Book Day and Free RPG Day), as well as numerous quick-start supplemental PDFs for additional Valiant action. If you’ve not had a chance yet to check out these free PDFs, now’s a great time!  

VALIANT UNIVERSE RPG (Standard Edition)
No matter the powers, no matter the choices, the price in body and mind may be more than you’re willing to pay. And your choices will lead to heroics…or to villainy. How will you be remembered?

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - July Street Dates

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

Shadowrun: Run & GunThe following products have a Street Date of JULY 16TH, 2014:



Run & Gun ($49.99)

Guns and ammo cost nuyen. Mastering martial arts takes time. And learning how to use explosives without blowing yourself up takes patience and a steady hand. These weapons and more are out there, waiting for you. You have the chance to use them to become deadlier, faster, more dangerous than the next guy—and more dangerous than you were yesterday. You’ll have to pay the price to get what you want, but this is the Sixth World. Don’t you always?

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Win Advanced Copy of Crossfire at Origins!


From the Catalyst Game Labs Website


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The highly anticipated Shadowrun: Crossfire deck-building game is slated for release in late summer and is only weeks away from loading onto a ship to head to our shores. But for those attending the Origins Game Fair, you can win an advanced copy for free!

Monday, June 2, 2014

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Introductory Box Set Reprint & Lance Packs

From the Catalyst Labs Website

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The improved reprint of the BattleTech Introductory Box Set hit US shores in February and promptly sold out of the warehouse in a matter of days! And the reception of the improved miniatures and over-all quality of the box has been lauded from retailers to fans alike as the best Introductory box set in BattleTech’s 30-year history.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Catalyst Announces Valiant RPG Digitial Initiative


From the Catalyst Game Labs Website


In concert with award-winning comic book publisher Valiant Entertainment, Catalyst Game Labs is proud to announce the Valiant Universe RPG Digital Initiative—an all-new, digital-first gaming rollout presenting a red-hot array of select characters and scenarios from the upcoming Valiant Universe RPG before Valiant’s first long-awaited tabletop game goes live on July 5th!
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With several releases set to debut during the lead-up to Free RPG Day on June 21st 2014, the initiative begins today with the release of Valiant Universe RPG Quick-Start Rules: Unity—recreating the first landmark confrontation between X-O Manowar and Valiant’s premier superteam Unity and available now at www.catalygamelabs.com/valiant and DriveThruRPG.com.

Then, on May 17th, relive the staggering events of Valiant’s best-selling crossover event, Harbinger Wars, with the Valiant Universe RPG QSR Supplemental: Harbinger Wars (Bloodshot). Grab the rules from the Unity QSR and just plug in these characters and Events for more fun and action!

Monday, April 21, 2014

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Award Nominations and Awards

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

2014 ORIGINS AWARDS NOMINATIONS

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Catalyst Game Labs is honored to announce that our following books and games have been nominated for a 2014 Origins Awards:

Best Roleplaying Game: Shadowrun, Fifth Edition
Best Game Accessory: Shadowrun Gamemaster Screen
Best Miniature Figure Rules: BattleTech: Alpha Strike
Best Game Related Publication: Fire For Effect

Congratulations to all of the nominations!

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - New & Improved BattleTech Box Set Reprint Available Now!

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

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     Strap yourself into the ultimate suit of armor: the BattleMech. Thirty feet tall and weighing up to a hundred tons, this humanoid engine of destruction is a walking arsenal with enough firepower to level a city block. The BattleTech game system takes you into the world of the 31st Century, where war has become a way of life. You are a MechWarrior. You are in command of the most powerful machine on the battlefield, and hold the fate of empires in your hand!
    The BattleTech Anniversary Introductory Box Set thrusts you onto the battlefields of the 31st century.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - VALIANT & CATALYST Partner for Comic Book-Based Tabletop Games

From the Catalyst Labs Website
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Valiant Entertainment is proud to announce that it has partnered with Catalyst Game Labs to produce role-playing and tabletop games featuring Valiant’s award-winning library of comic book superheroes. The partnership will lead off in mid-2014 with the release of the Valiant Universe RPG—Valiant’s first-ever role-playing game, designed for the Cue System (the Origins and ENnie awards-nominated system first published in Catalyst’s 1950s Rockets/Rayguns/Robots RPG, Cosmic Patrol). Subsequent releases, spotlighting a wide array of Valiant properties, will follow in 2015 and beyond.

    The edge between superhero and villain has never been sharper. In the Valiant Universe RPG, players will immerse themselves in a dark and gritty world where every mission and every battle has deadly consequences. Whether playing X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Shadowman or even the all-powerful Toyo Harada—or any of dozens of characters—Valiant’s most fearless heroes will unite for the first time in a roleplaying game, allowing you to join their stories and create new ones! Whether you’re a longtime fan or brand new to the Valiant Universe, this is the only source you’ll need to bring Valiant’s leading characters to life in a fantastic superheroes setting!

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Catalyst Game Labs - Alpha Strike Data Files Releasing for Army Builder

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

Catalyst Game Labs is pleased to announce that free BattleTech: Alpha Strike data files will be released for Lone Wolf Development’s Army Builder in the near future, available to all licensed Army Builder users for free!

“Next year BattleTech turns 30! And while we’re still publishing supporting books for this seminal game—including reprinting the BattleTech Introductory Box Set, which is currently at the printer—there are times when players simply don’t have the time to invest in a whole evening of game play,” said Randall N. Bills, Managing Developer for Catalyst Game Labs. “BattleTech: Alpha Strike was published specifically to allow for an alternative in game play that can turn an evenings gaming into an hour or less. So far the reception has been fantastic, and we’re extremely excited to provide another great tool in support of Alpha Strike with the release of these files for Lone Wolf Development’s brilliant Army Builder software.”

Downloaded by over 60,000 miniatures gamers and with data files available for dozens of game systems, Army Builder is the software of choice for tabletop miniatures players. With its “point-and-click” simplicity, Army Builder eliminates many mistakes, allows for the building of rosters in minutes, and even verifies rosters as legal for a given game system.

The Alpha Strike data files for Army Builder are being compiled by Jim Williamson, a veteran data file author who is transcribing details from the Master Unit List; the massive, online repository of the literally thousands of units that populate BattleTech‘s universe, presented in a way to help players find what they’re looking for, including complete Alpha Strike stat cards on every unit page! Since the source data is coming from www.masterunitlist.info, the data files, when released, will be free!

“We’re very happy to be help Jim Williamson bring his work on the Alpha Strike data files to BattleTech players” said Rob Bowes, President of Lone Wolf Development. “When he showed us all the work he’d done bringing in the information from the masterunitlist.info site, we were excited because this is exactly why we created Army Builder—to help gamers have more fun in less time. We’re always excited to see data files being created for new games, and especially so with fan favorites like BattleTech!”

Look to www.catalystgamelabs.com and www.wolflair.com in the future for more details!

About Catalyst Game Labs
Catalyst Game Labs is dedicated to producing high quality games and fiction that mesh sophisticated game mechanics with dynamic universes-all presented in a form that allows beginning players and long-time veterans to easily jump into our games and fiction readers to enjoy our stories even if they don’t know the games.

Catalyst Game Labs is an imprint of InMediaRes Productions, LLC, which specializes in electronic publishing of professional fiction. This allows Catalyst to participate in a synergy that melds printed gaming material and fiction with all the benefits of electronic interfaces and online communities, creating a whole-package experience for any type of player or reader. Find Catalyst Game Labs online at www.catalystgamelabs.com.

About Lone Wolf Development
Lone Wolf Development specializes in creating innovative digital tools for the tabletop gaming industry, allowing players to streamline game preparation, eliminate errors, and spend more time playing the games they love. With Realm Works, the company has created an entirely new vehicle for RPG publishers to distribute their material to fans. With an ever-growing suite of tools, including the award-winning Army Builder® and Hero Lab® products, Lone Wolf’s digital tools are the industry standard and are in regular use by tens of thousands of gamers, from miniatures games to role-playing games. Find out more about Lone Wolf Development at www.wolflair.com.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Additional December Street Dates

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

The following products have a Street Date of DECEMBER 18TH, 2013:

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Shadowrun Gamemaster Screen ($19.99)
Every shadowrunner knows the value of good information. The right fact, the perfect piece of data, can be the difference between success and failure on a run, between life and death. And in the right hands, information can be more than valuable—it can be powerful.

The Shadowrun Gamemaster Screen provides a collection of useful tables from Shadowrun, Fifth Edition for ease of reference in game play. With range tables, action lists, combat modifiers, social modifiers, and more, this is a critical game aid to make your Shadowrun games faster and more fun. And to provide that all-important secrecy so that the players don’t know what you’re up to.
This screen is for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

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Total Warfare
Total Warfare ($39.99)
It is the 31st century, a time of endless wars that rage across human-occupied space. As star empires clash, these epic wars are won and lost by BattleMechs, 30-foot-tall humanoid metal titans bristling with lasers, autocannons and dozens of other lethal weapons; enough firepower to level entire city blocks. Your elite force of MechWarriors drives these juggernauts into battle, proudly holding your faction’s flag high, intent on expanding the power and glory of your realm. At their beck and call are the support units of armored vehicles, power armored infantry, aerospace fighters and more, wielded by a MechWarrior’s skillful command to aid him in ultimate victory. Will they become legends, or forgotten casualties? Only your skill and luck will determine their fate!

The product of more than twenty years of gaming experience, Total Warfare presents the rules of the BattleTech game system as never before. For the first time, all the rules for various units that have a direct impact on the deadly battlefields of the thirty-first century appear in a unified rules set: from BattleMechs to ProtoMechs, Combat Vehicles to Support Vehicles, infantry to aerospace fighters and DropShips. Interwoven and meticulously updated, Total Warfare provides the most detailed and comprehensive rules set published to date for BattleTech—the perfect companion for standard tournament play.

Total Warfare is the single-source rulebook for people who play BattleTech. It is not intended to teach new players the game, but rather to serve as a reference work for people who know the game, while introducing more technologies and expansive rules than appear in the basic box set. The introductory game in the BattleTech line is the BattleTech Introductory Box Set. New players should pick up that product before diving into this one. Construction rules for the various units presented in Total Warfare can be found in TechManual.

Note: This reprint (a corrected Fourth Printing) is now available again.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Lone Wolf To Release Shadowrun, Fifth Edition Data Package for Hero Lab

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

Catalyst Game Labs is pleased to announce that Lone Wolf Development will release Shadowrun, Fifth Edition data package files for Hero Lab in the first quarter of 2014.

“We’ve gotten off to a fantastic start with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition,” said Randall N. Bills, Managing Developer of Catalyst Game Labs. “We’re starting to get out a series of Runner Resources—such as the Shadowrun Gamemaster Screen and Gear and Spell decks—in support of Shadowrun 5 to make the game easier to use than ever. But for digital space nothing beats Hero Lab and its ability to easily customize and upgrade your character during game play…we can’t wait for this brilliant support to be available. “

Released almost a decade ago, the ENnie award-winning Hero Lab includes an easy-to-use, intuitive interface atop a versatile database engine. Data packages for more than a dozen different role-playing games from a wide range of publishers are already available. Users can add their own custom content to existing games or even create data files for entirely new game systems. The combination of powerful, user-friendly software and the diverse RPGs it supports make Hero Lab one of the most successful character management tools ever released.

“We’re thrilled to be adding support for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition to Hero Lab” said Rob Bowes, President of Lone Wolf Development. “We’re very happy to continue our relationship with Catalyst and bring the newest edition of Shadowrun to the world of digital tools. As one of our most popular game systems, we’re proud to give new and experienced Shadowrun players and GMs a way to quickly and accurately create characters for use in their games.”

About Catalyst Game Labs
Catalyst Game Labs is dedicated to producing high quality games and fiction that mesh sophisticated game mechanics with dynamic universes-all presented in a form that allows beginning players and long-time veterans to easily jump into our games and fiction readers to enjoy our stories even if they don’t know the games.

Catalyst Game Labs is an imprint of InMediaRes Productions, LLC, which specializes in electronic publishing of professional fiction. This allows Catalyst to participate in a synergy that melds printed gaming material and fiction with all the benefits of electronic interfaces and online communities, creating a whole-package experience for any type of player or reader. Find Catalyst Game Labs online at www.catalystgamelabs.com.

About Lone Wolf Development
Lone Wolf Development specializes in creating innovative digital tools for the tabletop gaming industry, allowing players to streamline game preparation, eliminate errors, and spend more time playing the games they love. With Realm Works, the company has created an entirely new vehicle for RPG publishers to distribute their material to fans. With an ever-growing suite of tools, including the award-winning Army Builder® and Hero Lab® products, Lone Wolf’s digital tools are the industry standard and are in regular use by tens of thousands of gamers, from miniatures games to role-playing games. Find out more about Lone Wolf Development at www.wolflair.com.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - November and December Street Dates

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

The following products have a Street Date of NOVEMBER 20TH, 2013:
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Splintered State ($19.99)

Federal Agent Seth Dietrich has a secret. Actually, multiple secrets. One of them made him go underground, hiding from the people desperate to learn just how much he knows. And the other is keeping him from surfacing, because he’s found he can’t even trust himself.

If Dietrich were in his right mind, he’d cover his tracks like a pro, and no one would find him. Especially not shadowrunners getting their feel for life on the streets. But he’s not in his right mind, which means a group of shadowrunners finds themselves in possession of some very valuable information—information the highest powers in Seattle want for themselves. What started as a simple job turns into a scramble for their lives, a scramble that could become profitable if the runners play their cards right.

Splintered State is an introductory adventure for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition. Whether you have played previous Shadowrun editions or are new to the setting, this adventure helps players and gamemasters learn the new rules while wrapping themselves in the intrigue, excitement, and danger of running in Seattle.
Shadowrun, Fifth Edition Core Rulebook
Shadowrun, Fifth Edition ($59.99)

There are cracks in the world. They’re slender, dark, and often cold, but they are the only things that keep you hidden. Keep you alive. They are the shadows of the world, and they are where you live.
You are a shadowrunner, thriving in the margins, doing the jobs no one else can. You have no office, no permanent home, no background to check. You are whatever you make yourself. Will you seek justice? Sow seeds of chaos? Sell out to the highest bidder? It’s up to you, but this much is certain—if you do nothing, the streets will eat you alive.

You can survive—even flourish—as long as you do what it takes. Sacrifice part of your soul for bleeding-edge gear. Push the limits of your will learning new and dangerous magic. Wire yourself into the Matrix, making your mind one with screaming streams of data. It’ll cost you something—everything does—but you can make it worth the price.

Shadowrun, Fifth Edition is the newest version of one of the most popular and successful role-playing worlds of all time—a fusion of man, magic and machine in a dystopian near-future. With rules for character creation, magic, combat, Matrix hacking, rigging, and more, you have everything you need to face the challenges of the Sixth World.

NOTE: Shadowrun, Fifth Edition is once again available.

The following product has a Street Date of DECEMBER 18TH, 2013:
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It is the year 3145. Only thirteen years have passed since Gray Monday—the day that most of humanity’s interstellar communications grid suddenly and mysteriously collapsed. Plunged into darkness and fearing the worst, the leaders and armies of the Inner Sphere scrambled to act, some fearing the approach of invaders, others seeking to exploit the chaos. Now, armies are on the march, war has erupted on every front, and the Republic of the Sphere—once a sign of mankind’s hope for a brighter future—has retreated behind its fortress walls to prepare for the inevitable.

Field Manual: 3145 updates the military and political state of the Inner Sphere as it stands in the year 3145. This report includes a brief history and overview of recent developments in the BattleTech universe, as well as current TO&Es for the major ’Mech forces and mercenary commands employed by the realms and Clans of the Dark Age Inner Sphere. Special era-specific rules are also included, enabling players to create characters and forces for use in campaigns set in and after this critical point in BattleTech history.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Catalyst To Publish Games Based on Cartoon Hangover Animated Series

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

Call For HelpCatalyst Game Labs and Frederator Studios are pleased to announce they’ve entered into a licensing agreement for Catalyst Game Labs to publish collectable card games based upon Cartoon Hangover’s Bravest Warriors and Bee and PuppyCat.
    A new journey for Pendleton Ward’s Bravest Warriors launches in 2014 with an evolutionary card game from Catalyst Game Labs, based upon the LevelUp system. Designed by industry innovator Greg Gorden—who created some of the industry’s quintessential early games in the original Star Wars, Torg and Earthdawn RPGs—LevelUp is a cooperative play card game with fractured story telling. Players—playing as the Bravest Warriors—will face a variety of threats grouped into Episodes. As the players determine which cards are faced, along with their character abilities they roll dice to defeat those challenges. As a challenge is defeated, the card is flipped over to reveal a reward, a trap or perhaps an even more challenging villain! And as the Bravest Warriors advance, their cards flip-over, leveling up to unlock new strengths and powers!
“I’ve been a fan of Greg Gorden’s work for long years,” said Randall N. Bills, Managing Developer for Catalyst Game Labs. “Being a part of developing and publishing one of his game designs is absolutely brilliant. The fact that we’re able to wed this to such fantastic animated series in Bravest Warriors, Bee And PuppyCat and The Reward is all the sweeter. There is so much potential for storytelling in this game that’ll immerse players into their favorite animated series, and for a pile of great fun along the way.”
    Bee and PuppyCat follows Bee, ever the reluctant heroine, who becomes entangled in the adventures of a puppy (…or is he a cat?) as they travel between reality and the void of Fishbowl Space. Created by Natasha Allegri, character designer and storyboard artist for Adventure Time, Bee and PuppyCat will continue their travels in 2014 as they join the Bravest Warriors in the LevelUp card game, bringing their wackiness to any tabletop.
“We at Frederator are fans of Catalyst and the fans of Bravest Warriors and Bee and PuppyCat are clamoring for card games based on the show,” said Nate Olson, Director of Marketing & Licensing at Frederator Studios. “We are excited for everyone to get to play.”
Catalyst Game Labs will be working closely with the studio and creators to ensure our games capture the feel that fans of these animated series have come to expect.
Check out the launch of Season 2 of Bravest Warrriors, as well as the Kickstarter for the Bee and PuppyCat series!
Look to www.catalystgamelabs.com in the future for more details surrounding these coming games!

Monday, September 23, 2013

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Shadowrun Fifth Edition First Printing Sold Out

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website


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We are thrilled to announce that the first printing of 15,000 copies of Shadowrun, Fifth Edition has sold out from Catalyst Game Labs before the standard edition has hit its Street Date this month. Additionally, well over a month since the book became the best-selling PDF of all time in the more than ten years of DriveThruRPG operations, it is still in the number one slot

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“Every time I think the Shadowrun community can’t surprise me with their brilliance, they surprise me again,” said Randall N. Bills, Catalyst’s Managing Developer. “We were confident we’d sell out by end of the year, but in mere weeks?! Once again, Shadowrun players stepped up in a fantastic way, showing how much life beats within the Sixth World … and how much life yet beats in the tabletop roleplaying community as a whole!”

Catalyst Game Labs is immediately starting a second print run to minimize any chance of a retailer or player trying to purchase a copy and being told it’s “out of stock”. Additionally, we have multiple items all heading to print simultaneously with this second print run so that they can hit store shelves roughly at the same time as the second printing. These include Splintered State, the first full SR5 adventure; Equipment and Spell decks of cards that make for easier game play; and the Shadowrun, Fifth Edition GM Screen.

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It’s important to note that while Catalyst Game Labs is sold out, the Street Date for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition is September 25th. This means that orders made through retail stores should be available this week. Additionally, orders through such venues as Amazon have been shipped to those companies (though when those companies will ship to customers is beyond our purview). Finally, if retailers sell through their copies they can immediately start taking preorders again (if a player is unable to preorder your copy through a local retailer, you can preorder online).

Check out shadowruntabletop.com and www.shadowrun.com in the near future to learn more about these fast-approaching additional releases and their specific street dates!

Catalyst Game Labs

Catalyst Game Labs is dedicated to producing high-quality games and fiction that mesh sophisticated game mechanics with dynamic universes, all presented in a form that allows beginning players and long-time veterans to easily jump into our games, while helping fiction readers enjoy our stories even if they don’t know the games.

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Catalyst Game Labs is an imprint of InMediaRes Productions, LLC, which specializes in electronic publishing of professional fiction. This allows Catalyst to meld printed gaming material and fiction with all the benefits of electronic interfaces and online communities, creating a whole-package experience for any type of player or reader. Find Catalyst Game Labs online at www.catalystgamelabs.com.

         

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Randall N. Bills Attending MechWarrior Online Launch Event!

From the Catalyst Games Labs Website

Catalyst Game Labs is pleased to announce that Randal N. Bills will be attending the MechWarrior Online North American Launch Event in San Francisco, California, on September 26th.

“I played the original MechWarrior computer game when it was released in 1989,” said Randall N. Bills, Managing Developer for Catalyst Game Labs. “In fact, I remember that my friends bought it for me and I had to go in half with my dad to double our RAM from 2 megs to 4 just so I could run it. And I’ve been a fan ever since, having played every version across the years. Watching MechWarrior Online unfold, being a small part of that process, and watching the community embrace it and take it to whole new levels…it’s crazy exciting. It’s an honor to be apart of this event.”

Randall N. Bills will be running BattleTech: Alpha Strike at the event in a dedicated Catalyst Game Labs’ BattleTech section. BattleTech: Alpha Strike is a quick-playing tactical miniatures game that provides a whole new way to enjoy BattleTech, giving you the complete experience as a true miniatures game with fast, exciting game play!

Meet Randall, ask him questions, play in an Alpha Strike game…he’ll see you on the 26th!

Catalyst Game Labs

Catalyst Game Labs is dedicated to producing high quality games and fiction that mesh sophisticated game mechanics with dynamic universes-all presented in a form that allows beginning players and long-time veterans to easily jump into our games and fiction readers to enjoy our stories even if they don’t know the games.

Catalyst Game Labs is an imprint of InMediaRes Productions, LLC, which specializes in electronic publishing of professional fiction. This allows Catalyst to participate in a synergy that melds printed gaming material and fiction with all the benefits of electronic interfaces and online communities, creating a whole-package experience for any type of player or reader. Find Catalyst Game Labs online at www.catalystgamelabs.com.

Piranha Games Inc.
Piranha Games Inc. was founded in January 2000 by Russ Bullock and Bryan Ekman. Piranha Games is focused on the core action games market and has worked on exciting IPs such as: Need For Speed®, Transformers® 2: Revenge of the Fallen and Duke Nukem Forever®. Please join us at www.piranha-games.com

About Infinite Game Publishing

IGP is a newly formed publisher of AAA online interactive entertainment. Formed by industry vets with a passion for great games, IGP’s leadership is driving online entertainment forward by partnering with best-in-breed developers to bring high-octane excitement to PC gamers everywhere. 
Official Web site: www.infinitegamepublishing.com.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Catalyst Game Labs at Pax Prime 2013

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

Catalyst Game Labs at Pax Prime 2013


Catalyst Game Labs is pleased to be attending Pax Prime again, in Room 213!
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“…this is one of the best abstract strategy games I have ever played.” 
—Tom Vasel (The Dice Tower)
The politics of the high court are elegant, shadowy and subtle. Not so in the outlying duchies. Rival dukes contend for unclaimed lands far from the king’s reach, and possession is the law in these lands. Use your forces to capture enemy troops before you lose the chance to claim the land for yourself.
In The Duke, players move their troop tiles around the board and fl ip them over after each move. Each tile’s side shows a di erent movement pattern. If you end your movement in a square occupied by an opponent’s tile, you capture it. Capture your opponent’s Duke to win!

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Come play a larger-than-life version of The Duke with 18-inch tiles on a 10-foot x 10-foot board! Or sit down and give this fantastic tile-laying game a full try.

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Shadowrun

There are cracks in the world. They’re slender, dark, and often cold, but they are the only things that keep you hidden. Keep you alive. They are the shadows of the world, and they are where you live.
You are a shadowrunner, thriving in the margins, doing the jobs no one else can. You have no office, no permanent home, no background to check. You are whatever you make yourself. Will you seek justice? Sow seeds of chaos? Sell out to the highest bidder? It’s up to you, but this much is certain—if you do nothing, the streets will eat you alive.

Shadowrun, Fifth Edition is the latest version of one of the most popular and successful role-playing settings of all time. Fusing magic with technology in a dystopian near-future setting, Shadowrun’s popularity has crossed into video games, fiction, and more, but the living, breathing Sixth World role-playing setting has always been its heart.

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The release of Shadowrun, Fifth Edition so close to the release of Harebrained Schemes’ Shadowrun Returns kicks off The Year of Shadowrun in Sixth World style. Stop on by and grab a table top demo of the best edition yet of the dark and gritty roleplaying game.

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The Year of Shadowrun will continue with a slew of new games: board games to miniatures, an MMO in Shadowrun Online by Cliffhanger Productions, and more. First up beyond the RPG, though, our new adventure deck-building game.
    Shadowrun: Crossfire is a cooperative deck-building card game for two to four players set in the gritty, cyberpunk fantasy world of Shadowrun. Play a shadowrunner team and take on tough jobs such as protecting a client who’s marked for death, shooting your way out of downtown when a run goes sour, or facing down a dragon. In each game you’ll improve your deck with a mix of strategies while earning Karma to give your character cyber upgrades, physical augmentations, magical initiations, weapons training and Edge. Shadowrun: Crossfire includes an obstacle deck, black market deck, race and role cards, scenario cards, augmentation stickers, and personal missions that test a team’s allegiances.
Play the Shadowrun: Crossfire Demo Box, a fast and fun experience of the full game coming out in the near future!

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BattleTech: Alpha Strike is a quick-playing tactical miniatures game that provides a whole new way to enjoy BattleTech, giving you thecomplete experience as a true miniatures game with fast, exciting game play!
Dive into the demo to let us show you how you can take fast-playing BattleTech to new levels of miniatures wargaming fun!

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In 1878 the Polish genius Rynchowski isolated an electrical fluid with remarkable lifting capabilities. A single, pivotal event that would change the world.

The smartest military minds of the coming generation—Zeppelin, Jellico, Fisher and others—diverted their attention to the glorious new technological revolution and sea-going battleships were abandoned around the world. In their place, armored giants took to the skies.

In 1906, Great Britain launched the HMS Leviathan, the first of the “super air ships”, sparking an arms race around the world. By 1910 the most powerful nations boasted large High Fleets, and the start of small skirmishes left the world uneasy…welcome to Leviathans!

Check out our steampunk, alternate-history 1910 miniatures game of air fleet battles. The color-coded dice mechanic makes it fast to learn, with a ton of depth of play. Perfect for boardgame players looking to dip their toes into miniatures game play!

AND MORE…

Swag

In addition to playing some great games, we’ll have a variety of games for sale, as well a slew of other game swag, from t-shirts to laser-etched glasses, clip boards to USB drives loaded with game PDFS, and more.
Stop on by Room 213 and check out all the action!

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Catalyst September/October Street Dates

From the Catalyst Labs Website

Catalyst September/October Street Dates

The following products have a Street Date of SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2013:
SR5 Standard Limited Edition
Shadowrun, Fifth Edition [Limited Edition] ($99.99)

There are cracks in the world. They’re slender, dark, and often cold, but they are the only things that keep you hidden. Keep you alive. They are the shadows of the world, and they are where you live.

You are a shadowrunner, thriving in the margins, doing the jobs no one else can. You have no office, no permanent home, no background to check. You are whatever you make yourself. Will you seek justice? Sow seeds of chaos? Sell out to the highest bidder? It’s up to you, but this much is certain—if you do nothing, the streets will eat you alive.

You can survive—even flourish—as long as you do what it takes. Sacrifice part of your soul for bleeding-edge gear. Push the limits of your will learning new and dangerous magic. Wire yourself into the Matrix, making your mind one with screaming streams of data. It’ll cost you something—everything does—but you can make it worth the price.

Shadowrun, Fifth Edition is the newest version of one of the most popular and successful role-playing worlds of all time—a fusion of man, magic and machine in a dystopian near-future. With rules for character creation, magic, combat, Matrix hacking, rigging, and more, you have everything you need to face the challenges of the Sixth World.

NOTE: Shadowrun, Fifth Edition Limited Edition includes: bonded red leather cover, foild-stamped cover, spine and back with dragon embossed on cover, gold-gilded page edges, and cloth bookmark. Interior is identical to the standard printing. While supplies last.

Shadowrun: Sprawl Wilds
 
Sprawl Wilds ($19.99)

You live in any sprawl long enough, you’ll find out that there’s a lot more to it than businessmen and soykaf stalls. Any sprawl worth its mettle has its dark corners, its forgotten places, its spots that are just as wild and untamed as the deepest rainforest.

Seattle, the prime metroplex in the world for shadowrunning, is filled with such places, and Sprawl Wilds gives shadowrunners a chance to tour them. From a fortress-like Barrens farm recovering from a mysterious attack to a dark secret hidden in a clinic, runners have a chance to see the sites most people never encounter, and uncover information that some people want to stay secret at any cost. They’ll meet jaded smugglers, wary police officers, passionate activists, hardened criminals, wounded warriors, and at least one deranged killer. The questions are, will they survive long enough to collect a paycheck—and how much of the sprawl will be nothing more than dust when they’re done with it?

Sprawl Wilds is a collection of Shadowrun Missions developed for major summer gaming conventions. These adventures have been adapted for both Shadowrun, Twentieth Anniversary Edition and Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, and they provide hours of shadowrunning goodness for experienced street veterans and new shadowrunners alike. With complete game information, including NPC stats, these adventures are poised to plunge players into urban chaos!

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Technical Readout: 3145 ($39.99)

The great experiment that was the Republic of the Sphere has failed. Withdrawn behind the Fortress walls, the once-great power has become a silent, opaque remnant of its former glory. Without its influence, old hatreds have risen anew. As war once more rages across the Inner Sphere, new equipment strides across ancient battlefields. Technology, once stagnated by trade restrictions and peace treaties, now surges forward again, testing these new machines in the fierce crucible of war.

Technical Readout: 3145 introduces the wave of new battle armor, vehicle, ‘Mech, and aerospace units appearing across the Inner Sphere in the Dark Age era. Featuring new equipment described in Era Report:3145 and Field Manual 3145, this book brings players an update on the advancing technologies used in the battlefields of the thirty-second century.

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Fire For Effect: BattleCorps Anthology Vol 4 ($14.99)

A massive invasion fleet is destroyed almost to a man. Legions of soldiers, confident of victory, are cut down before they even reach the ground. Those that do make landfall are bombarded and shattered and rained with nuclear fire. Elsewhere, veterans long retired from combat are called back to duty by desperate times. Explorers comb unknown worlds for hints to explain deadly evils.

Seventeen stories of combat, honor, betrayal and death fill the pages of Fire for Effect: BattleCorps Anthology Volume 4.

Savvy readers will recognize now-familiar names in BattleTech lore among the authors: Steven Mohan, Jr., Kevin Killiany, Phaedra Weldon, Jason Schmetzer, Jason Hardy and Herbert Beas. These writers have shaped the direction of the BattleTech universe. In 2007, with these stories, they took the fictional storylines of the BattleTech universe to new and violent heights. Worlds rose and fell, and empires toppled. Armies of BattleMechs and fleets of WarShips fought and perished.

And beneath all of it, the spidery tendrils of the Word of Blake sowed mistrust and conflict in every realm.

The following products have a Street Date of SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2013:

Shadowrun, Fifth Edition Core Rulebook
 
Shadowrun, Fifth Edition [Standard Edition] ($59.99)

There are cracks in the world. They’re slender, dark, and often cold, but they are the only things that keep you hidden. Keep you alive. They are the shadows of the world, and they are where you live.

You are a shadowrunner, thriving in the margins, doing the jobs no one else can. You have no office, no permanent home, no background to check. You are whatever you make yourself. Will you seek justice? Sow seeds of chaos? Sell out to the highest bidder? It’s up to you, but this much is certain—if you do nothing, the streets will eat you alive.

You can survive—even flourish—as long as you do what it takes. Sacrifice part of your soul for bleeding-edge gear. Push the limits of your will learning new and dangerous magic. Wire yourself into the Matrix, making your mind one with screaming streams of data. It’ll cost you something—everything does—but you can make it worth the price.

Shadowrun, Fifth Edition is the newest version of one of the most popular and successful role-playing worlds of all time—a fusion of man, magic and machine in a dystopian near-future. With rules for character creation, magic, combat, Matrix hacking, rigging, and more, you have everything you need to face the challenges of the Sixth World.

Note: All online orders have already begun to ship (including all three editions).

Cosmic Patrol: The Moon Must Be Ours!
 
The Moon Must Be Ours! ($24.99)

Since the founding of the Cosmic Patrol, the Moon Men have maintained an iron grip on the Moon, forbidding landing of any kind. Wielding the mind powers of dynamo-psychism, the Moon Men have posed a threat to humanity unlike any other. But no more! Mounting the largest invasion in the history of the Patrol, Director Roderick Dyson has given the order: “The Moon Must Be Ours!”

The Moon Must Be Ours! is a campaign book for Cosmic Patrol that puts players into the mysterious and dangerous domain of the Moon Men. Using a unique “choose-your-own-path” structure, players will navigate the massive maze of rooms and tunnels that the Moon Men have created in the sub-lunar surface. Robot! Goo Monsters! Moon Gorillas! Players will have to face them all to win victory for the Cosmic Patrol!

The following products have a Street Date of OCTOBER 9TH, 2013:

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Alpha Strike ($39.99)

For centuries, the armies of the Great Houses have fought to reclaim the glory of the fallen Star League, sending regiments of their elite MechWarriors into battle across hundreds of worlds as humanity slid inexorably toward a new Dark Age. The coming of the Clans—descendants of the lost Star League army—did little to stem the slaughter.

It only raised the stakes.

Alpha Strike is a new, fast-playing form of the BattleTech game of futuristic, armored combat. Developed for the modern tabletop miniatures wargamer, this book brings players the ability to wage war on land, sea, and air using the Quick-Strike game system first devised for truly large-scale play, re-scaled to the tactical level of “classic” BattleTech. Complete with sample armies and a ready-to-play campaign system, all you need besides this book are dice, miniatures, and tabletop terrain to fight for control over the Inner Sphere on land, sea, and air—one world at a time!

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Alpha Kit ($14.99)

Tired of hunting for a specific table in a rulebook? Wish you had heavy-duty reference cards for Alpha Strike game play like that found in the Introductory Box Set? Then the Alpha Kit is for you!
The Alpha Kit contains several heavy-duty cards of compiled tables from Alpha Strike.

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Tech Kit ($14.99)

Tired of hunting for a specific table in a rulebook? Wish you had heavy-duty reference cards for Total Warfare game play like that found in the Introductory Box Set? Then the Tech Kit is for you!

Also includes a brand new BattleMech blueprint poster!

The Tech Kit contains seven heavy-duty cards of compiled tables from TechManual.

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Strategic Kit ($14.99)

Tired of hunting for a specific table in a rulebook? Wish you had heavy-duty reference cards for Total Warfare game play like that found in the Introductory Box Set? Then the Strategic Kit is for you!

The Strategic Kit contains five heavy-duty cards of compiled tables from Strategic Operations.

Musketeers Expanion Pack
 
Musketeers Expansion Pack ($11.95)

Add your favorite characters from the Musketeers-Athos, Porthos, Aramis, D’Artangon, Richlieu, de Winter and Rochforte-to your game of The Duke!

Monday, August 26, 2013

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - A Changing Of The BattleTech Development Guard

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

A Changing Of The BattleTech Development Guard


Herb Beas is stepping down as the BattleTech Line Developer.

Herb has served long years, first as an assistant line developer and then almost five years as the Line Developer, adding immensely to the lore that is the BattleTech game and universe. His skills and dedication have helped swim the often-muddy waters of licensing, as well as wrap up the epic Jihad Era, flesh out the Dark Age Era and solidly start to prepare for what comes next.

Randall Bills will be stepping back in as an interim Line Developer, while Catalyst is already starting the process of looking for a new BattleTech Line Developer that will take on the task for the long term.
If any one is interested in stepping into that position, by all means, contact randall@catalystgamelabs.com and Catalyst will review your qualifications.

About Catalyst Game Labs

Catalyst Game Labs is dedicated to producing high quality games and fiction that mesh sophisticated game mechanics with dynamic universes-all presented in a form that allows beginning players and long-time veterans to easily jump into our games and fiction readers to enjoy our stories even if they don’t know the games.

Catalyst Game Labs is an imprint of InMediaRes Productions, LLC, which specializes in electronic publishing of professional fiction. This allows Catalyst to participate in a synergy that melds printed gaming material and fiction with all the benefits of electronic interfaces and online communities, creating a whole-package experience for any type of player or reader. Find Catalyst Game Labs online at www.catalystgamelabs.com.

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Catalyst Game Labs Press Release - Catalyst Game Labs Closed While Attending Gen Con 2013

From the Catalyst Game Labs Website

Catalyst Game Labs Closed While Attending Gen Con 2013

As happens every year, Catalyst Game Labs is effectively closing down as all-hands are on deck to run Gen Con. Effective from tomorrow and running until roughly August 21st, the usual channels of communications (emails, website updates, and so on) will go unanswered.
Additionally, even once communications resume it’ll be another week or two for us to dig out of the backlog and resume timely responses.
For those attending Gen Con, we’ll see you in five days! For those not attending, thanks for your patience while we’re gone…we’ll have our usual stories and photos to share after the con.
Thanks for your brilliant support!
Catalyst Team