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Robot’s Sci Fi action RPG ‘Echo Prime’ has now landed on the Steam store and is ready for purchase! As always Robot have a fantastic deal to get things rolling, purchase Echo Prime before February 9th and you’ll get it 20% off and get a free copy of Orcs Must Die! 2. Now thats an awesome deal!

Head on over to Steam and check out Echo Prime now! For a reminder on what Echo Prime is all about check out the Steam launch video below:

Have you played Echo Prime already? Be sure to let us know your thoughts on the REF Poll on the right hand menu!

Keep your eyes peeled on Steam Robot Fans as Echo Prime is due to touch down sometime tomorrow Wednesday 28th in the Steam Store. Prepare to fight your way through the galaxy with Robot’s sci fi action RPG “Echo Prime“.

To be the first to know be sure to follow Robot Entertainment on Twitter for updates!

https://twitter.com/RobotEnt

See you on the far side of the galaxy!

Great news for PC gamers who many not have had the chance to check out Robot’s awesome futuristic action / RPG “Echo Prime”, it is now on route to PC via Steam. Not only that but the Echo Prime edition coming to Steam will be an expanded edition of the game with more locations than before and a whole new enemy race the “Tide”. Whats more to make the game work better on the PC platform the bots have re-worked the controls to make them more suitable for traditional, less finger based input!

Hardcore mode has also been added. In similar vain to endless on Orcs Must Die 2, players fight against wave after wave of enemies to compete and see just how many waves they can survive.

Players also get the full 14 track soundtrack with purchase of Echo Prime on Steam. How about that.

Here is the full run down on the things to come as seen in Robot’s most recent newsletter:

Echo Prime on Steam

• Optimized for PC – Echo Prime’s real-time action gameplay has been redesigned for PCs, including improvements to visual effects, a retuned economy, and new PC controls with mappable hotkeys.
• Even More Enemies and Environments – Echo Prime for Steam includes new locations in which to do battle and a new enemy race, the alien “Tide”.
• New Hardcore Mode – Tests your mastery. How far can you get without dying?
• Upgrade Your Arsenal – Over 100 pieces of gear with a diverse mix of deadly effects, from fire to toxic, all unlockable at no additional cost.
• Echoes of the Multiverse – As you play you will discover and unlock dozens of “Echoes,” alien life forms from alternate universes. Build connections with them,  and Echoes will offer you powers and abilities to help you on your missions. Experiment and find the best combinations to customize your ability loadout.
• Share Echoes – Use your friends’ Echoes in combat to help them level-up, and level up your Echoes when your friends use them!
• Random Campaign Generation – Echo Prime features an action-driven story campaign with randomly generated missions. Every experience is different!
• Includes the Full Soundtrack – All 14 tracks of the Echo Prime soundtrack are included when you buy the game!

Its sure to be a blast and its all coming next week January 28^th, 2014. That’s real soon!

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Happy New Year to all Robot fans worldwide from the REF team! We hope 2014 brings good tidings, plus more super fun Robot games!

Hot on the heels of the Humble Jumbo Bundle which featured Orcs Must Die 2, the next Humble Bundle now features another Robot Entertainment game, this time its strategy game Hero Academy. Traditionally Humble Bundle offers games which are multi-platform and DRM free. Hero Academy has been available on Android and PC via Steam. To make things fit better with Humble, Robot have released for the first time a DRM free PC version and a Linux version.

If you already have Hero Academy here is a great reason why you might want to check this out. Buying Hero Academy via the bundle gets you the Gold Pack with all the downloadable content including:

• Challenge Pack
• Dark Elves Pack
• Dwarves Pack
• Shaolin Team Pack
• Tribe Pack
• Uniform Colors
• Additional Team Fortress 2 content (only available via Steam)

Supporting the Humble Bundle is also a fantastic way of giving to charity. I encourage everyone to check out the Humble Bundle website.

Just a heads up if you choose to download the DRM free version of Hero Academy you will need redeem your code on the classic Robot website. Details of how to do this can be found here:

How to register and download the DRM free version of Hero Academy from the Humble Bundle.

Super thanks to everyone who voted in the Age Community awards. Plenty of nominations were received to celebrate the 8 years of Age Community and its iconic members. It is a great shame to see Age Community close after all these years, these awards celebrate the good times and the contributions of these sterling members.

Although we asked for nominations for the awards we have decided to go straight to announcing the winners. There we some clear winners for the top categories as can be found on the detailed results page. I hope we can all agree that these wins are well deserved!

Below you can find the first and second winners for each category. Head over to the prize breakdown to see what these distinguished members have won! Remember if you took part in the nomination process, you too may have won a prize! Check out the nominator winners section and see!

Results:

GRAND PRIZE – Best Overall Member

1st Prize – Metis

Most Helpful member

1st Prize – musketeer925

2nd Prize – Metis / Augustiello *

Metis came in 2nd here, but as he is also the winner of the Grand Prize I have brought Augustiello forward from 3rd place to collect the prizes.

Funniest Member

1st Prize – Milky__

2nd Prize – cam44

Best Strategies

1st Prize – gs

2nd Prize – TacticalWillie

Best Age 3 Video / Recorded Game

1st Prize – gs / Interjection *

2nd Prize – BTM
gs came in 1st here, but as he is also the winner of the Best Strategy prize I have brought Interjection forward from 2nd place and BTM from 3rd place to collect the prize.

Best Age of Empires images

Winners chosen by Aloysius!

1st Prize – PixelPanda’s entry

2nd Place – Angus Grant’s entry

Congratulations!

Age Community Awards – Nominator Prizes

There were 10 prizes to be given away to 10 lucky people who took the time to nominate in the Age Community awards. Here are the lucky winners! If you are on the list look out for a PM on Age Community for instructions! No PM? Just let us know.

1. Luckey2330
2. Flygonex612
3. Magnam
4. S3K
5. Amsinator
6. Dcdonnie
7. Thatrabbi
8. Oasisl2
9. Jerom
10. Ivan

Finally, thanks everyone for these 8 years on Age Community. Its been a blast!

Orcs Must Die 2 has been featured as a downloadable game in the most recent Humble Jumbo Bundle. In case you are not in the know, Humble Bundles are where you can pay whatever you want and receive games. You can also control who gets what share of your money – you can customize the split between charity, developers and Humble Inc. To get OMD2 all you need to do is pay more than the current average shown on the Humble Jumbo Bundle website.

The bundle lasts for 14 days and it is a great way to send money to charity in return for games. Check it out on the website:

https://www.humblebundle.com/