Roubaix, France – April 9, 2010 – Ankama announces the development of a new game, Slage, which will represent a departure from its past productions.

Slage is a PC Hack’n'Slash that shines a
whole new light on the world of DOFUS and Wakfu – it’s cute, but brutal at times.

The name of the latest game was revealed on Ankama http://www.ankama-convention/S after an
intense teasing period. There were 3 million hits on this page in a little more than a day!

Slage is a PC Hack’n'Slash. It combines the richness of the world of DOFUS and Wakfu, including its
varied characters and cute, colourful style with a more adult dimension and more frantic, bloodtinged
action.

Slage is of course aimed at DOFUS fans, but all followers of Hack’n'Slash and action-RPG will enjoy
this action game, which includes some choice elements of role play.

Slage will be the second game after Xbox Live Arcade’s Islands of Wakfu (unreleased) to make use of all Ankama’s know-how in a real time game!

The game will be introduced as a world premiere during Ankama
Convention#5 on April 17-18 in Paris, where 30,000 visitors
are expected.

Every 15 minutes, visitors with a premium pass will get access to an exclusive presentation of the game, introducing a version with no blood. Parental lock will enable or disable blood in the game, in order to make it accessible to all audiences.

Presentation to the press will take place on Saturday April 17 at 3pm.

Players can follow the development team and the game on the official Facebook page and Twitter.

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Maybe a new Baten Kaitos game? Pretty please? (I can’t be the only one who liked those games, can I?)

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• The concept for the game, according to Tsujimoto, is to restart Monster Hunter from scratch, filling the game with new ideas. The switch in platforms from the PS2 to the Wii was one of the reasons for this big rethinking of the series, Fujioka explained.
• Monster Hunter 3 takes place on a new, unexplored island: thick forests, dark caves, deep/underwater environments
• Players have full swimming controls for hunting underwater as well as fishing for use as ingredients
• Ability to use long-range weapons underwater, and most land-based actions
• Air Gauge while underwater, similar to stamina gauge on land (depletes over time)
• Caves can be explored using light from torches, otherwise too dark for hunting
• All new monsters as well as some from past versions with added ‘freshness’ to them
• One creature getting lots of attention: giant underwater dragon known as ‘king of the waters’. He is the game’s main monster.  He can survive on land, so players have choice of where to fight him
• Online component: Online mode played in 4-player groups like the older PS2 installments
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The important thing to note here, is that there are two sites and possibly more. Which confirms the possible release in North America soon after if not alongside the probable Japanese launch.

Thanks for the heads up, daty2k1!

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