For immediate release DreamCatcher Games Announces Universal Combat
Engage in Infinite Warfare on Your PC September 11th , 2003. DreamCatcher Games today announced the first details of the newly titled Universal Combat, for the PC-CD, with the unveiling of the new website at www.universal-combat.com. A full-featured demo is expected to follow the first week of October. Universal Combat brings together the greatest components of any war together in a single game. Conceived in late 2001 as Battlecruiser Generations, the fifth title in the long-running Battlecruiser series, it morphed into much more than a massive space simulation. As Universal Combat, the new action-based focus, direction and premise of the new incarnation caters to a wider audience of action and space sim fans alike. The game is one of incomprehensible scale and gamers really can choose any aspect of combat they wish. Choices of combat styles and gameplay include:
Engage in compelling multi-player games against up to 63 other gamers. Take part in carefully designed campaign and instant action scenarios. Pilot more than 54 different air and space crafts, from basic multi-role combat fighters and low altitude multi-role gunships to massive carriers, cruisers and transporters. Control 22 land vehicles and 10 naval vessels including jeeps, tanks, SAMs, carriers, LCACs and even nuclear submarines. Go ballistic with 20 first person weapons and 28 characters with over 1500 animations. Explore over 250 planets with enormous planetary detail spanning more than 21,000 planet side mission zones containing various bases. Choose any of 9 careers as a heroic pilot, ships captain or lethal recon marine infiltrating a hostile base in a low altitude gunship or LCAC craft.
Universal Combat has evolved from a classic, and in the midst of developing the initial BCG game, we realized that we were onto something much bigger, that a larger gaming audience would thrive upon, commented Richard Wah Kan, DreamCatchers President and CEO. Lead Developer and Executive Producer, Derek Smart is excited by the games new form, As a producer, youre always delighted when your games reach a wider audience, and in Universal Combat, Im sure well do just that. There are elements that existing fans will love, but tons of new stuff that everyone can get their teeth into! Spawning what I hope will be a new long running franchise which caters to action and die hard Battlecruiser fans alike, has been a tremendous and risky
undertaking to say the least. The inclusion of FPS-based action elements in the 2001 Battlecruiser Millennium title, took the series in a new direction and this new action based franchise allows us to build upon those [action based] elements to a greater extent. As with all Derek Smart games, details are important. Several new design elements will add to the experience:
New action based focus, complete with a new interface and heavily revised control scheme for ease of use, regardless of craft or vehicle. New shader-based graphics and animation engine, complete with the third generation of the industry's most advanced and seamlessly integrated planetary terrain engine ever developed for a game. The new terrain engine is capable of handling regions the size of real world planets instead of boxed in regions (e.g. 5km sq) in zoned area as in other games. This allows massive planet side combat engagements which can span small concentrated areas, large continents or even entire worlds alike. All components of SINGE, our proprietary Seamlessly Integrated Game Environment, have been further advanced to expand and streamline our massive game worlds. This allows gamers to play in space or on planets (including land and now underwater environments) and be able to transition from one to the other seamlessly. With the inclusion of naval assets control, new advanced dynamics and AI kernels, the integrated battlefield is not just relegated to driving around in vehicles or low altitude crafts in a box. This new incarnation of SINGE blends space flight, planetary flight, vehicular dynamics, naval asset dynamics and first person action to provide adrenaline pumping land, sea, air and space engagements. New 3D object database with excess of 500 unique high detail 3D models and assets.

About DreamCatcher Games: DreamCatcher Games is a fast-growing publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment for both core gamers and the mass market. Established in 1996, DreamCatcher is committed to publishing great games on the PC, PlayStation2 computer entertainment system, Xbox, GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Visit www.DreamCatchergames.com for further details. About 3000AD, Inc: 3000AD is an indie game development company founded in 1992 by fourteen year industry veteran Derek Smart. Made famous by the long running industry recognized Battlecruiser series, 3000AD develops games for a niche hardcore audience. Universal Combat marks its first foray into the mass market action forum. Visit www.3000ad.com for more info on the companys products, owner/founder and its gaming audience. Contacts: Tara Reed PR Coordinator DreamCatcher Games treed@dreamcatchergames.com 416.638.5000 ext. 268
Brian Gladman Product Manager DreamCatcher Games bgladman@dreamcatchergames.com 416.638.5000 ext. 256

3000AD ENTERS THE MMO FRAY WITH LINE OF DEFENSE
Fort Lauderdale, FL (GAMESBIZWIRE) February 1st , 2011 3000AD, Inc, one of the industry's oldest independent game developers of several industry recognized brands such as Battlecruiser 3000AD, Universal Combat, Galactic Command and the All Aspects series of games, today announces Line Of Defense, its fifteenth video game for the PC. In Line Of Defense (LOD), players will experience the thrill of pure war waged across stunning planetary landscapes and space vistas. Players will engage in combat as one of two opposing sides fighting for control of military bases across various continents on contested planets and space regions. As an infantry marine with access to various weapons of mass destruction, engage in frontlines combat using land and naval vehicles, as well as various aircrafts and gunships. Take the fight from planet to the regions of space above the contested planets as you fight for supremacy and for all that is good or evil in a massive game world. Featuring twitched based pure PvP mayhem with various character progressions, classes, abilities and attributes, all set in a massive open persistent game world, experience the future of sci-fi warfare as you've never seen it before. Especially not of this scale and scope. Line Of Defense is scheduled to be released for the PC later this year. For more information about this exciting new game, please visit the primary website and FAQ at http://lodmmo.com
About 3000AD Inc. Located in Florida and established in 1992 and headed by twenty year industry veteran Derek Smart, 3000AD Inc (http://www.3000ad.com). is a privately owned independent developer of PC games. The company is most famous for its industry recognized Battlecruiser series conceived in the mid eighties. CONTACT 3000AD, Inc 2645 Executive Park DR Suite 617 Weston, FL 33331 Tel: 954-960-6851 biz@3000ad.com