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Free Shadowgrounds With Tank Universal

By Jim Rossignol on August 18th, 2008.


Meridian 4 send word that folks who pre-order Tank Universal on Steam will receive Shadowgrounds free. Tank Universal is a splendid-looking Tron-like tank battle game, which Kieron had a good old blather about just here. Just as significantly for your opnion-forming technique, there is a demo here.

The game is out on 21st August, so you’d better hurry if you’re interested.

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Tank Universal: His Tronish Majesty’s Landships

By Kieron Gillen on June 13th, 2008.

The thing with Tron, which you try to forget, is that it was just a bit rubbish.
Adam Britton dropped us a line, expressing surprise that we hadn’t written anything about Tank Universal. After playing the demo, I can only agree. Those RPS guys are a bunch of slackers. Shun them! Anyway, with the disappointing news about Introversion being fucked around by a magazine, yet still honouring the deal which prevents me telling you about Multiwinia, I was clearly vulnerable for anything touched with the pixel-halo of Tron. And as a Battlezone-derived Tank-war, Tank Universal is clearly one of that eighties kiddie-fi epic’s children. Impressions follow!
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