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'Comprehensive' Omerta: City of Gangsters Gold Edition arrives today
Publisher Kalypso Media has revealed details on a new version of Prohibition-era gangster simulation Omerta: City of Gangsters that collects all of the game's content into a single, convenient package. Included in the Gold Edition are Omerta: City of Gangsters, every piece of DLC released for the game to date, and the sizable expansion dubbed The Japanese Incentive. While Omerta itself allows players to build a crime empire in a fictionalized version of Atlantic City through all sorts of illegal means, The Japanese Incentive adds new weapons, gameplay mechanics, player abilities and a wholly original story. This new release of Omerta: City of Gangsters is slated to make its digital debut later today on both PC and Mac, with a retail release appearing on April 25. Kalypso's announcement fails to specify a price point for this new release, and our attempts to contact the publisher have so far been in vain. [Image: Kalypso Media]
West shoots East, East stabs West in Omerta: The Japanese Incentive
Omerta: City of Gangsters, Kalypso's Prohibition-era gangster simulation, just grew a bit more international with the launch of The Japanese Incentive, a downloadable addition that sees thugs from the Yakuza invading Atlantic City. Priced at $20 (though momentarily reduced to $17 on Steam), the DLC adds new areas, new weaponry, new members to add to your crew and a whole new campaign focusing on the no doubt bloody interactions between the most famous organized crime elements of two continents. Especially neat is the new flamethrower weapon which can actually ignite fires within the game's combat zones. That may add new strategic elements, or simply allow you to dispatch your foes in brutal, gooey, inhuman fashion. In a game about people who get paid to murder one another, that seems fitting.
Steam weekend: Sonic & All-Stars, War of the Vikings free to play
Steam has a full schedule this weekend, with Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed and War of the Vikings playable for free through Sunday at 1PM PT, plus sales on Omerta: City of Gangsters and Killing Floor. Omerta is 75 percent off, $10, through Monday at 10AM PT. Killing Floor has kicked off its Twisted Christmas Event, offering the game and its bundles for half off through January 2. That's $10 for the game alone, $50 for a six-pack and $25 for a 14-item DLC bundle. Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed is also 75 percent off through the weekend, going for $5.
Omerta: City of Gangsters demo smuggled onto Xbox 360
Omerta: City of Gangsters now has a demo available on the US Xbox Live Marketplace. The 1920s Atlantic City bootlegging simulation (developed by the makers of Tropico) arrived on PC and Xbox 360 earlier this month.Unfortunately, especially if you go by Metacritic scores, reviewers of the game haven't been very kind. See if you disagree – and don't forget there's already a PC demo.
Omerta: City of Gangsters brings bootlegging to UK, EU territories
Omerta: City of Gangsters dropped on Friday for PC and Xbox 360 in the UK and European territories, likely causing havoc as any good 1920s Atlantic City crime boss would. Omerta hits North America on February 12, and a Mac version is "coming soon," as the above UK trailer says.
Omerta has bootlegger demos available now
The demo for Omerta – City of Gangsters, the Prohibition era organized crime simulator from the team behind the Tropico series, is available now. The demo includes two levels from the game, mixing tactical turn-based combat and city resource management.Omerta takes over January 31 and February 12 in Europe and North America, respectively, on PC and Xbox 360.%Gallery-166481%
Omerta taking out Mac, finds latest release dates in sights
Omerta - City of Gangsters, the Prohibition Era city-conquest tactical RPG (think XCOM), will also be available on Mac in "early 2013." The game finds Tropico developer Haemimont Games trying its hand at a turn-based action game.Publisher Kalypso also gave several solid dates for the game's launch on previously mentioned platforms, which were delayed last year. Omerta arrives January 31 in Europe and February 12 in North America on PC and Xbox 360. Those are the dates for the boxed retail copies, but our understanding is that it could arrive on digital distribution platforms later this month.%Gallery-166481%
Omerta delayed until early 2013
Omerta - City of Gangsters, from Tropico developer Haemimont games, will smuggle copies in crates of booze to retail in early 2013 for Xbox 360 and PC. Omerta was originally going to invite us to build some speakeasies this November. A representative for publisher Kalypso tells us that the company is currently "aiming for early February" as its new release window.Omerta departs from the simulation aspects of Tropico by also providing a turn-based battle system. A team of thugs is selected to carry out missions and help raise capital for your Prohibition era empire. Think of it as 1920s XCOM without the aliens.%Gallery-166481%
Atlus and Kalypso join forces to publish Dark, Omerta, more in NA
Kalypso Media USA is teaming up with Atlus to publish the following Kalypso games in North America: Port Royale 3: Pirates and Merchants, Tropico 4 Gold Edition, Omerta: City of Gangsters and Dark.Under this partnership, Port Royale 3 is heading to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on October 9; Tropico 4 Gold Edition drops November 13 for Xbox 360 and PC; Omerta is out in early 2013 for Xbox 360 and PC; and Dark launches in March for Xbox 360 and PC.The most mysterious game in that list is Dark, a stealth game featuring a freshly turned vampire as he takes down elder vampires, modern corporations and young adult paranormal romance writers worldwide. OK, we made that last part up. We can dream, can't we?
Omerta: City of Gangsters screens, featuring an infamous gang
Brainstorm: Omerta: City of Gangsters, November's Atlantic City-based prohibition-era mob simulator developed by Haemimont Games, can't use Nazis as enemies. It wouldn't be historically accurate. So, what about the KKK? And what if the KKK leader was beaten by a black dude in a flamboyant purple jacket?%Gallery-164951%
Omerta fires off a drive-by gameplay trailer
Speak easy and carry a big stick, that's the Omerta way. The prohibition era mob simulator impressed us at Gamescom with its mix of macromanagement and turn-based – a potential alternative for those who aren't into the sci-fi setting of XCOM.%Gallery-163144%
Omerta gangs up this November
Omerta: City of Gangsters will muscle its way into retail this November. Developed by Haemimont Games, the Atlantic City mob simulator isn't so much about building a burg like in the developer's Tropico series, but is actually focused on turn-based combat and keeping the economy of the player's mob empire stable.Omerta's prohibition setting of the 1920s puts players in control of obtaining and maintaining a mob network that's earning cash through speakeasies, distilleries, bank heists and more. The game takes place on two levels, with the macro mob management game and the turn-based missions, where a team is personally selected thugs rob a bank, take out the competition or other enterprising opportunities. The game will be available on both PC and Xbox 360 when it arrives in "early November," according to Haemimont CEO Gabriel Dobrev.%Gallery-156648%
Omerta - City of Gangsters heading to Xbox 360, PC
Publisher Kalypso Media and Tropico series developer Haemimont Games are bringing mob city simulator Omerta - City of Gangsters to Xbox 360 this fall. The game was previously announced for PC, but will now make its way to Microsoft's console, much like Tropico 3, Tropico 4 and Tropico 4: Modern Times (albeit, a little later).Instead of controlling the day to day of Tropico's banana republic operations, Omerta takes place in the 1920s, as players work their way up as a powerful mobster on the macro level. The made men and women of Omerta must construct or buy building to create speakeasies, distilleries, illegal boxing rings and much more to be good earners. If they don't, well... we hear fishes make great cuddle buddies.%Gallery-149785%
