Well pandemic 2 is almost here. It's been a very long time coming. The Pandemic 2 game guide has been released at www.pandemic2guide.darkrealmstudios.com! The guide is huge, and essentially covers the entire game. Pandemic 2 video tutorials are being worked on, and will be released soon as well.

Wow it's been a long time since I've done a front page update. I'm currently working my ass off trying to get Pandemic 2 done. I've re-designed large portions of it, and in a few days it will be beta. I have added four new screen shots to the Pandemic 2 page. Estimated release of May 31st!
List of main features (I'm willing to release) :

• 21 unique countries - I've added cuba to the game
• A total of 65 different disease attributes
• Sophisticated region governments
• Game is played completely in real time, no more smashing of the "go" button!
• Boat system and shipyards help spread your disease
• New region services (schools, hospitals and more)
• Unique regional environments

Stay tuned for more updates!

The front page hasn't been updated in a while so I thought it would be a good time to talk about the upcoming Pandemic 2 game. The game is very close to completion and I am expecting to be able to release it near the end of December.
Some of the main features are :

• 20 unique countries
• Brand new symptoms and disease attributes
• New airport and plane system
• New shipyard and boat system
• New country services
• Streamlined interface that never takes the player away from the action

The 20 countries are :
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, East Europe, Greenland, India, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, Middle East, New Zealand, North Africa, Peru, Russia, South Africa, United States, West Europe.

Also right now for forum members, there is a small contest going on where users can post a disease symptom or attribute in this thread. The top three ideas will be included in the game! If you think you have a great idea, but are not a member, register an account and post it!

It seems that the functionality of the galleries are limited to every-browser except, of course Internet Explorer. I will be updating the display process used by the galleries today so that they will work with IE.

UPDATE :
The galleries now use a new method for displaying images and flash, which works in all browsers even the broken Internet Explorer 6! If for some reason you are still using Internet Explorer 6, it's time to upgrade!

The website updates I talked about in the last news update are now online. The most significant updates are :

• image galleries have been added in the Work section for the Games and Movies catagories
• work listed on the front page under Recently Released now link to their specific page
• all of Dark Realm Studios related projects on the front page now have their own page to outline the details of those projects

In other news, I have also finished game #2 of 4 for Evosphere.

It's been a while since I last posted an update here on the front page so I thought I'd give you guys an update as to what I'm up to.

Over the next week (between September 30th and October 7th) I'll be adding some new features to the site and tweaking some existing things. So, if you visit the site over the next week and it looks broken in some way, it's probably due to the updates.

I just finished a game for Evosphere. The game is #1 of 4 which are a small collection of simple arcade games. Visit them today and join their amazing community! I'm still working on Kingdom Keeper and Pandemic 2 of course. After the site updates happen, there will be a lot more information available to you guys about Kindom Keeper.

I also am working on 2 other projects that aren't directly related to Dark Realm Studios. One is an audio editing program written in C++ with the win32 api that will be done by December. The other project is a Java side scrolling action game that will also be done by December. There is a good chance that both projects will arrive on my site once they have been finished.