Defense Grid: The Awakening Steam news

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• Release dateDec 8, 2008
• DeveloperHidden Path Entertainment
• PublisherHidden Path Entertainment

Genres: Indie, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: Hidden Path EntertainmentPublisher: Hidden Path Entertainment

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Defense Grid: The Awakening Steam news

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• Defense Grid: The Board Game - 17 January 2017

  Want to save the cores on your tabletop? Now's your chance! http://kck.st/2j2D55s

• Defense Grid: The Board Game - 17 January 2017

  Want to save the cores on your tabletop? Now's your chance! http://kck.st/2j2D55s

• Defense Grid: The Board Game Stream starting Soon! - 3 August 2016

  https://www.twitch.tv/gene_defect Come hang out with the developers of the board game and of the Defense Grid series!

• Defense Grid: The Board Game Stream starting Soon! - 3 August 2016

  https://www.twitch.tv/gene_defect Come hang out with the developers of the board game and of the Defense Grid series!

• Celebrating Classic Scoring With a Sale - 26 March 2015

  Hidden Path Entertainment released an update to Defense Grid 2 that adds the ability to play with classic scoring. To celebrate this addition Defense Grid: The Awakening and DLC will be on sale starting today, March 26, for 10 days. Now is the ideal time to perfect your tower placing skills. Protect the cores!

• Celebrating Classic Scoring With a Sale - 26 March 2015

  Hidden Path Entertainment released an update to Defense Grid 2 that adds the ability to play with classic scoring. To celebrate this addition Defense Grid: The Awakening and DLC will be on sale starting today, March 26, for 10 days. Now is the ideal time to perfect your tower placing skills. Protect the cores!

• DG 2: Defense Grid 2 Wot I Think - 30 September 2014

  Defense Grid 2 sees you building elaborate mazes of mounted guns which shoot, burn, zap, freeze and otherwise slaughter vast armies of dumb aliens who are attempting to steal ‘cores’ from a techno-thingy at the centre of the level. In other words, it’s tower defence. It’s also the sequel to one of the most-acclaimed and charming tower defence games around. Privately invested into existence after a failed Kickstarter last year , it was released on Steam last week. Here’s wot I think. …

• Defense Grid 2′s future secured by unnamed investor - 26 April 2013

  Hidden Path's Kickstarter was a strange campaign. Despite the "Defense Grid 2" title, what backers were actually funding was Containment - a DLC expansion pack for the first game of the tower-defence series. The sequel wasn't secured unless the total reached $1 million - $750,000 over the supposed target fund. In total, the campaign raised over $270,000, which technically made it a success, but was far short of the needed DG2 stretch goal. But! Despite the shortfall, Defense Grid 2 is now in production thanks to the money injection of a secret investor. The team explain more in a video update. "Through the DG2 Kickstarter campaign we were able to not only raise money and make more Defense Grid content, but we created a shared engagement around the project with thousands of backers for several months," says Hidden Path CEO Jeff Pobst. "The excitement, involvement, and passion that the co…

• Defense Grid 2 secures funding - 26 April 2013

  Development on a sequel to splendid tower defense Defense Grid: The Awakening will indeed go ahead, Hidden Path Entertainment has announced. The developer tried to crowdfund Defense Grid 2 last summer and fell short, but has now landed an investor to shake out their pockets in its eager hands. Along with new enemies and levels and all that sequel jazz, DG2 will introduce cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes along with support for user-created content. Though last summer's Kickstarter was billed as funding Defense Grid 2, in reality the $250,000 goal was only to make the latest DLC pack, Containment . The sequel was a stretch goal for $1,000,000 but the campaign only raised $271,726 in cash money. Crucially though, it also raised the game's profile. "Through the DG2 Kickstarter campaign we were able to not only raise money and make more Defense Grid content, but we created a sha…

• Weekend Deal - Defense Grid: The Awakening, 75% Off - 25 April 2013

  Save 75% on Defense Grid: The Awakening as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base. Beautiful environments, spectacular effects, and a dynamic, engaging soundtrack bring the world to life. The controls are intuitive and the gameplay is deep — the special attacks and properties of each tower work together to provide many ways to succeed. *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

• Defense Grid: The Awakening Updated - 5 February 2013

  - Added the mini-games and tools back to the Community console. - Added controller support for Big Picture mode to all areas of the Community console. - Fixed 4 of top crashes reported by users.

• Defense Grid: Containment DLC released - 24 January 2013

  Defense Grid: The Awakening developer Hidden Path may have fell short of its Kickstarter dream of funding a sequel to the tower defense, but it did raise enough money to make new DLC. That expansion, Containment, is out now on PC for $4.99, bringing eight new maps with a new story, including voicework from Firefly’s Alan Tudyk. Containment is available now from Steam . To celebrate the launch, the base game is 50% off, down to $4.99, and all the other DLC is 25% off. Hidden Path hasn't given up on Defense Grid 2 even thought the Kickstarter fell short of that stretch goal, mind. "We're still working to close the funding gap between what we have and what we need in order to make that game, but we'll keep you updated as we work to make that game a reality," the dev said in a recent blog post .

• New DLC Available - Defense Grid: Containment DLC - 23 January 2013

  Defense Grid: Containment DLC , all new content for Defense Grid: The Awakening is Now Available on Steam! Defense Grid: Containment is the all-new expansion to the award-winning tower defense game: Defense Grid: The Awakening. The Containment DLC provides players with many hours of new content including 8 new maps, a new story, two new characters (voiced by Firefly’s Alan Tudyk and E.R.’s Ming-Na Wen), and 32 new challenge modes. Containment’s story line picks up right where The Awakening left off, and leads the player on a new adventure that opens up exciting future possibilities as well. Defense Grid: The Awakening is also releasing 4 new maps designed and chosen by community backers for free! The new maps can be accessed by registering your email from the Community Level Campaign in Defense Grid: The Awakening. To celebrate the launch of the Containment DLC and Commun…

• Defense Grid: Containment out on January 23, adds eight levels and community maps - 16 January 2013

  Hidden Path's Kickstarter campaign for Defense Grid 2 edged past its minimum goal of $250,000/£156,400 back in August, providing funds for Defense Grid: Containment, an expansion for the alien-annihilating tower defense original releasing January 23 for $5/£3. Containment continues the story of Defense Grid: The Awakening right where it left off in eight new levels and 32 challenge modes. As before, you'll herd and zap columns of aliens wandering into your tower jungle, but as Awakening's increasingly elaborate map layouts proved, the task quickly turns into a challenging frenzy of resource management and effective emplacement patterns. It's also one of the few genres that continually reminds me how amazingly bad I am at micromanagement. Hidden Path also chose four user-made maps as a bonus pack launching alongside Containment. Kickstarter donors received access to a private forum with…

• Defense Grid Updated - 3 October 2012

  - Removed Kickstarter related features. - Added new Community button to the Main Menu. - Added a Weekly Challenge to the Community section. - The Kickstarter related mini-games are still playable through the Community button. - Video resolutions in Help & Options > Settings > Video now show aspect ratio instead of bits-per-pixel. - Bug fix: Unspawned aliens from Seekers and Turtles will now appropriately award bonus resources when destroyed within range of a Command tower. - Bug fix: Multimonitor setups are better supported now.

• Defense Grid 2 Kickstarter campaign meets minimum funding, over $700K still needed - 15 August 2012

  The Defense Grid 2 crowdfunding campaign has concluded just above (well, $21,000 above) its minimum goal of $250,000. That minimum was the target for funding of Defense Grid: Containment, an eight level expansion for the original game which is due out this December. That's now underway, but to fund the full sequel, with a new engine and 20-mission story, developer Hidden Path had hoped to reach $1,000,000. Defense Grid fans and backers shouldn't pack up their turrets, though: according to Hidden Path, backers will still receive Defense Grid 2 when it's done. From the Kickstarter page: "We'll need to do extra work on our end to earn or raise the remaining funds in order to complete DG2, but when we do, you'll still be a part of the team. Crossing $250,000 gets you DG:Containment this December, and DG2 when it is complete." Without the seven Kickstarter digits Hidden Path was looking for,…

• Defense Grid Updated - 14 August 2012

  Defense Grid update: - Thanks so much for your support!!! To celebrate the last 24 hours of the Defense Grid 2 Kickstarter crossing the minimum threshold (http://kickstarter.hiddenpath.com), we’ve updated the game with a special treat, and two new contests too! To view and enter the contests, go to the Contests button on the Main Menu. Enjoy! * NEW CONTEST: Play DG2 Hero and obtain at least 100,000 points! * NEW CONTEST: Play DG2 Hero and be one of the top 100 scores!

• Defense Grid Updated - 10 August 2012

  Defense Grid update: - FINAL WEEKLY UPDATE OF FIVE: To celebrate the LAST WEEK of the new Defense Grid 2 Kickstarter ( http://kickstarter.hiddenpath.com ), we’re updating the game with new content and contests. To view and enter the contests, go to the Contests button on the Main Menu. - This week, we’ve reset several leaderboards and introduced the new Defensylvania ASCII arcade game. We also have two new trivia questions about Defense Grid. - We have 10 AMD Radeon HD 6770 video cards to give away this week across the following contests – good luck! - NEW CONTEST: Play, beat, and find all the secrets in the new minigame, Defensylvania! - NEW CONTEST: Beat the mode “Story Reversed”, in “The Awakening” map “Guardian’s Fall”. - NEW CONTEST: Beat the mode “Frozen Core”, in “The Awakening” map “Waste Disposal”.…

• Defense Grid 2 Kickstarter Going on Now! - 29 July 2012

  Go to http://kickstarter.hiddenpath.com and it will direct you to a Kickstarter event underway where we're raising money for more Defense Grid content. We have special pledge rewards and all sorts of ideas for new Defense Grid material up to and including a full design for a sequel DG2! Come join us and help us make Defense Grid 2 a reality!

• Defense Grid 2 Kickstarter Going on Now! - 29 July 2012

  Go to http://kickstarter.hiddenpath.com and it will direct you to a Kickstarter event underway where we're raising money for more Defense Grid content. We have special pledge rewards and all sorts of ideas for new Defense Grid material up to and including a full design for a sequel DG2! Come join us and help us make Defense Grid 2 a reality!

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