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Darkest Of Days

There is a great idea in Darkest of Days, so it is very disappointing that the final execution of the game falls very short of its potential. Allow me to illustrate. Very early in the game, such as less than 2 minutes into things, the player is surrounded by chaos during the battle of Little Big Horn. Bodies are everywhere, both of horses and men. The sound is all over the place with soldiers, hooves, ...

News Briefs (9-9-09)

Konami has released WiiWare title Contra Rebirth.   In Contra Rebirth, Chief Salamander and his Neo-Salamander Force travel back to 1973 AD to invade Earth. They land in Central America and take control of the Shizuoka ruins on the Yucatan Peninsula. There, the aliens plan the destruction of all the "Contra" on Earth. The Galactic President calls on Lance Bean, a member of the elite "Contra" warriors to save the Earth, but his sudden disappearance jeopardizes the ...

News Briefs (8-10-09)

Fossil Fighters for the Nintendo DS and DSi has shipped out to retail.   Fossil Fighters invites players to enter a world in which fearsome creatures are hidden as fossils for players to collect, using the unique touch-screen controls of Nintendo DS. Players can clean, collect and battle their discoveries. The game features more than 100 dinosaur-like creatures called Vivosaurs, each of which can be revived and deployed in strategic turn-based battles. With fun tactical elements, vast ...

Darkest Of Dates

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE Phantom EFX, the world's leading developer and publisher of PC-based casual game titles, and independent game development studio 8monkey Labs announced today that their highly anticipated historically-based first person shooter, Darkest of Days, is set to launch on September 8, 2009 for both Windows-based PC and the Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. "Working on Darkest of Days has been, without a doubt, the crowning achievement in both my personal ...

The Darkest Web

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE Phantom EFX, a game publisher known for innovative PC-based casino games, and developer 8monkey Labs announced today the launch of a new, completely redesigned website for their anticipated upcoming first-person shooter Darkest of Days. The new site, which can be found at www.darkestofdays.com, goes live today. “The new website is really exciting and does a great job to convey great gameplay and features Darkest of Days has in store for gamers,” said ...

Darkest of Days

In Darkest of Days, the action begins with the player being ripped from his period in time by a mysterious organization moments before his grisly death. In order to ensure the future of mankind, he is then tasked with the mission to travel back and forth through time – to famous, turning-point battle campaigns in world history – acting as the organization’s agent in a larger, seemingly otherworldly, battle between good and evil. ...

First Look: Darkest Of Days

Phantom EFX started out doing casino style PC games. The developer now has enough capitol to take on a pet project that has been in the planning stages for a number of years - that project is Darkest of Days. Coming in the fall of 2008 (tentatively) this first person shooter is primarily story driven though without a lot of pre-scripted events. Okay, lots of games purport to be story driven, and not having a ...

New Producer

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE Phantom EFX, a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment titles for PC and Mac, today announced that Bill Wadleigh will join the company as Executive Producer. Wadleigh will work closely with Phantom EFX’s development studio 8 Monkey Labs on the creation of Phantom EFX’s first hardcore game, Darkest of Days. Wadleigh brings more than 12 years of development experience on more than 40 titles from a variety of companies. ...

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Going Dark

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE Phantom EFX, a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment titles for PC and Mac, today announced Darkest of Days, a story-rich first-person shooter and the company’s first foray into the hardcore PC game arena. Created by newly formed developer 8Monkey Labs, the game presents an intriguing story of time-travel to some of the darkest periods in the history of mankind and melds it with amazing graphics and physics powered by ...

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