Guess the release date for Orcs Must Die! and win swag!
Do you fancy winning some awesome Orcs Must Die swag to show off to your friends when Orcs launches later this year? How about an awesome Orcs Must Die! T-Shirt, a Robot “Bot” Shirt, and a Robot Hat. Prizes courtesy of Robot Entertainment themselves! Read more
Orcs Must Die coming late August / September – previews galore!
With E3 having drawn to a close previews are now being published by various gaming websites who visited the Robot Entertainment booth at the event. RTS Guru, Joystiq and Sarcastic Gamer are just some of the websites who have published their previews. There has also been some excellent game play footage from the likes of GameTrailers. It’s great to see Orcs Must Die getting the press attention it deserves. Read more
Machinima & Turtle Beach interviews Ian Fischer on Orcs Must Die!
All the excitement is buzzing at E3, we’ve heard lots of exciting new games from the big guns – Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo and now its time to check out how the Ex Ensemble folks are doing at the Robot booth! A bunch of people have swung by to do interviews with the bots. Earlier today (UK time that is!) Turtle Beach featured Orcs Must Die on their live stream and later on Machinima swung by both interviewing design director Ian Fischer. The interviews re-affirm the direction of OMD, its an action strategy game allowing players to pick and choose the traps and weapons they want and then build up the best defence they can against the army of Orcs. The game is not to be taken too seriously – there’s a whole bunch of humor and fun with gameplay. Infact, if you submitted your Orcs one-liners last month you may well be apart of that comedy process! Read more
Big update Friday: – Atomic City, Gnoll Hunters and something new from NewToy / Zynga
Wow we have a pretty big update from Ex-Ensemble formed studios today Friday 3rd June 2011, infact its so big we have three studios involved – Robot, Windstorm and Zynga With Friends. Incase your’re wondering the Zynga With Friends studio used to be called NewToy before they were acquired by the Zynga machine. The “With Friends” is a link to their previous titles, Words with friends and Chess with friends. Now that we know who we’re talking about lets delve straight into todays news! Read more
Orcs Must Die – trap spotlight: Wall Blades
PC Gamer has the latest exclusive for this weeks Orcs Must Die! trap spotlight. This week we have the wall blades, these are traps which can be placed on walls so that any Orcs passing close by are very much likely to be torn to shreds! These traps are best suited to smaller corridors where the chance of Orcs passing by is greater. Although, you can always “assist” Orcs on their path to death by combining things like the wind belt to give them that small nudge required to ensure they meet thier maker!
Check out the latest trailer on the PC Gamer website below. You might also notice some UI changes on this trailer compared to earlier trailers – its good to see the game progressing and taking shape. See if you can identify some of the new UI improvements at the link below!
AOEO and Orcs updates
Quite a few updates to make here for one post.. I guess I have been slacking and should of got these out sooner! I blame University for taking up too much of my time! In the last week we have had some new AOEO news and a new trap spot light for Orcs Must Die. So without further adue, here goes! Read more
Orcs Must Die – trap spotlight: Wind Belt
Believe it or not despite the blood and gore of menacing equipment and traps like the spikes, maces, cross bow and boom barrel – there is actually a much more greener way to despatch the Orcs. The Wind Belt is the latest edition in Robot’s OMD trap spotlights. This magic is truly for the eco-friendly conscious, blow the Orcs away with a gust of wind. Blowing them into strategic places like spikes and lava is of course, most recommended! The Wind Belt is the second type of magic the War Mage can use that we have seen so far, the previous being the fire ball.
Orcs Must Die! at E3 this year – June 7-9th
In under a months time the some of the bots of Robot Entertainment will be heading off to Los Angeles to the world re-nowened entertainment trade show, E3. I’m sure everyone knows just how big E3 is and it is very exciting to see that Robot will be there at booth 447 showing off Orcs Must Die to the masses! So if you are planning to go to E3 this year you are in for a treat. Read more
Orcs Must Die – trap spotlight: Boom Barrel
Its round 2 of the weekly Robot Entertainment reveals of some traps featured in the upcoming Orcs Must Die video game. This time we have the “Boom Barrel”. This looks like a very cool trap and it involves planting a whole bunch of explosive barrels that detonate on impact or when shot by the War Mage. Remember traps can be placed at the beginning of the level or in real time when playing the game so you can always keep the Orcs on their toes. One of the best features of the boom barrel is the awesome physics effects players can acheieve with well placed barrels. You can send a whole bunch of Orcs flying to their doom if you can set the barrels up correctly. Check out 24 seconds into the video below – now that’s awesome. Read more
Orcs Must Die – new video and screen shots revealed with more to come!
Robot Entertainment has today unveiled a new Orcs Must Die video and a whole bunch of new screenshots. The latest video looks at the Arrow Wall trap and is the first in a number of upcoming videos to demonstrate other traps before the game launches this Summer. The arrow wall can be placed on most walls in each level and fires arrows towards the Orcs as they go past. These arrow walls are perfect to help reduce the size of a large wave of Orcs when they come charging towards you. Place an arrow trap on both sides of a corridor wall and you have a very nice double whammy affect! Read more
