Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced Gauntlet, a completely modernized action RPG version of the celebrated dungeon crawler, will be available this summer via Steam for PC, offering full support for SteamOS and the upcoming Steam Machines shipping the second half of this year. The game will lead the launch of WB Games Vault, a direct-to-digital portfolio that will deliver paid g... more.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games and writer of checks their bodies can’t cash, today unleashed a monstrous content update for The Showdown Effect, the ridiculously explosive multiplayer action title from Arrowhead Game Studios. Featuring new stages, characters, and costumes, the update is available today for free to all players of The Showdown Effect. For gamers who are not play... more.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games and a face-transplant surgery clinic, today allowed gamers everywhere a taste of action-movie stardom by releasing a free demo of The Showdown Effect. The new multiplayer action title from Arrowhead Game Studios, released earlier this week, throws players into a no-holds-and-no-oneliners-barred brawl for survival, placing them in the roles of 1980s ... more.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games and an abuser of diplomatic immunity, today released The Showdown Effect, a new multiplayer action title from Arrowhead Game Studios. In a world where every single action movie from the 80s and 90s is happening concurrently, players must shoot, slash, dive, roll, punch, and quip their way to victory to become the last cliché standing. Witness The S... more.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher that’s getting way too old for this, today released a new trailer for The Showdown Effect that highlights the game’s understated but haunting beauty. While the upcoming 2.5D action-combat multiplayer title from Arrowhead Game Studios is primarily about cramming as many bullets and 1980s one-liners as possible into a single game, there is a strange and pu... more.

The Electronic Sports League (ESL), Europe’s premier professional gaming league, has partnered with games publisher Paradox Interactive to give the world a sneak peek at The Showdown Effect, a new 2.5D explosive multiplayer platform shooter. ESL will host a live studio event in its ESL TV Studio on Wednesday, February 20th, starting at 20:00 CET, where fifty gamers from the audience wil... more.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher that knew too much and went too far, is preparing to take pre-orders of The Showdown Effect, the forthcoming multiplayer 2.5D bullet-spewing engine of chaos from critically acclaimed developer Arrowhead Game Studios. Furthermore, all players who pre-order the game will be granted instant access to the Beta test, scheduled to begin today, January 31, 2013. The g... more.

Paradox Interactive, a no-nonsense publisher pushed to the edge with nothing left to lose, has launched a new website for The Showdown Effect, the multiplayer movie-massacre mayhem title scheduled for release on March 5, 2013. Visitors will get a taste of what waits for them in The Showdown Effect, and marvel at just how many bullets, explosions, and one-liners can be contained on a single ... more.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games in a world gone mad, has found an old VHS tape for The Showdown Effect in its cousin's garage and has released it for the world to see. The newfound "Meet the Cast" biography video introduces players to four of the 80's/90's action-movie archetypes starring in the upcoming title, bringing players a behind-the-scenes look at Paradox's cinematic multiplayer ... more.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher pushed to the edge, will do whatever it takes to make sure their action-packed 2.5D multiplayer combat title, The Showdown Effect, makes it to gamers in one piece. In a world where fast-paced combat meets over-the-top movie clichés, Paradox will open the floodgates and allow action heroes a chance to participate in the upcoming The Showdown Effect Beta. Sign u... more.