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.