“Essentially, the game boils down to a deep and involved crafting system that manages to be reminiscent of Minecraft, Wurm Online, and EVE Online all at the same time. The game is a true sandbox in that everything outside of the lone safe haven of Boston is player-created. This also means that everything outside of Boston is fair game to be player-destroyed. Salem has already made headlines by including a fairly uncompromising take on permadeath in its core gameplay, but the MMO’s complexity bleeds into that seemingly straightforward mechanic as well.”

Read the rest of the article: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/07/20/taking-a-deeper-look-at-salem-and-living-to-talk-about-it/

We finally made it to San Francisco and our days have been filled with squonks, hide-behinds, permadeath, phlegm and pilgrims. It’s been great to meet several editors over the past couple of days and introduce them to the developers vision of Salem: The Crafting MMO. Since we stole 50% of the dev team for this tour, it’s now time for Bjorn to start wrapping things up and head back to Sweden. But Paradox on Tour continues and this time we turn our attention to War of the Roses. 

Stay tuned…

First Ever US Tournament for War of the Roses Taking Place July 27

Broadcasters, Developers and Producers Battle it Out in Live Stream Event

As part of its Six Games and Rock ‘n’ Roll tour, Paradox Interactive will host a tournament of champions for upcoming medieval multiplayer game War of the Roses. Pitting game industry veterans against each other in the first ever US tournament for the ambitious and gritty third-person action title, the live stream event will take place on July 27 from 4pm-8pm PST and can be viewed at www.twitchtv.com/paradoxinteractive

Billed as one of the most brutal tournaments to take place this year, the entire competition will be broadcast online via TwitchTV and will play host to a variety of specially invited guests that will get the chance to play against (read: stab) each other while the whole world is watching.

Totaling 20 competitors in all, these exclusively invited individuals include broadcasters SeaNanners , TotalBiscuit , Angry Joe , and many more, as well as developers from Paradox Interactive and a team of miscreants from TwitchTV. Commentary will be provided by War of the Roses producer Gordon Van Dyke and gaming veteran Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez .

Tune in LIVE and see the mayhem unravel by heading to the official Paradox TwitchTV channel at www.twitchtv.com/paradoxinteractive .

Players who like to get their hands dirty can sign up for the War of the Roses beta at www.waroftherosesgame.com .

Make sure to check back everyday next week as every team will be introduced one at a time :)

A BIG thank you to our sponsors ALIENWARE and RAZER.

Paradox on Tour team

Good bye New York - Hello New York

Seems the gods of thunder & rock n’ roll really didn’t want us to visit Ohio because a thunder storm hit several parts of the country and we’re stuck overnight before heading out to San Francisco. But the glamorous life of being on the road continues as we camp out at Best Western ordering take-out.

Your Paradox on Tour team

Salem: The Crafting MMO - first game on Tour!

Salem Away video making its worldwide debut here in the on Tour blog

Paradox Interactive is on the road for a few weeks and the first part of our tour will be focused on Salem: The Crafting MMO. Stop 1: New York City. After spending a considerable amount of time explaining to the customs officers that game development is indeed a real job as is game journalism we were finally admitted into the US and ready for adventure.

Salems game designer Björn Johannessen didn’t waste any time getting stuck into game presentations for some of the larger MMO sites in the area. Braving jet lag and 90+ degrees (while being dressed for a Swedish summer which is considerably cooler) he met with Ten Ton Hammer and later ZAM at the Paradox Interactive NY office to show them just how Salem: The Crafting MMO has progressed and what the future has in store. We’ll make sure to post their impressions once they go up!

We’ve also created a new trailer for this tour which is making its worldwide debut here in the blog.

Next stop: Cleveland, Ohio where we’ll meet with the Editor in Chief of MMORPG. Wish us luck!

Paradox on Tour Team

Six Games and Rock ‘n’ Roll: Get Fired Up for Paradox on Tour!

Chart-topping Game Publisher Starting Coast-to-Coast Showcase, Launches Tour Blog to Record the Mayhem

NEW YORK — July 18, 2012 — Paradox Interactive, self-proclaimed masters of game publishing and power chords alike, today issued a warning to the world: starting today, game fans everywhere had better be ready to rock. Paradox Interactive has its roadies working around the clock, loading weapons into the tour bus, pumping the tank full of starvoid, and preparing to embark on a coast-to-coast tour where six upcoming games will perform a series of incredible shows. To follow the excitement all summer long, Paradox Interactive fans are being issued a backstage pass in the form of the Paradox on Tour Blog, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes developer stories, world premiere videos, special guest profiles for the upcoming War of the Roses tournament (announcement coming soon!), and plenty of rock’n’roll pictures.

The lineup of games hitting the road with Paradox is as follows:

·         Salem: The Crafting MMO – Live the grungy life of a colonial settler in an unforgiving MMORPG

·         War of the Roses – Engage in brutal team-based melee combat and give your enemies a taste of your death metal

·         A Game of Dwarves – A really underground dwarf management sim; only if you are part on the exciting underground scene will you have heard about it

·         Dungeonland – Co-op hack & slash with an alternative twist: one evil GM controls the dungeon against his “friends”

·         Starvoid – Multiplayer real-time strategy in space with an army of techno-droids

·         The Showdown Effect – Freestyle sidescrolling combat with a fusion of 1980s character archetypes

·         SPECIAL SURPRISE GUEST – An unannounced game will make its debut during the tour… don’t miss it!

The Paradox on Tour Blog kicks off with an all-new video of Salem, making its worldwide debut in our next post.

Cheers,

Paradox on Tour Team