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New Trainz Products

We are pleased to announce a new Trainz product line with Spectacular Routes to increase your Trainz experience…

First of these will be the "Trainz Simulator: Murchison 2" to be released in August, which will be a stand-alone program and can also be added to Trainz Simulator 2009. This means that you will not be required to have Trainz Simulator 2009 to use this product, although if you do, it will give you the added bonus of accessing the content in surveyor. This content includes the Nature Series 1 & 2 packs.

The Murchison Route and Nature Series were created by Michael "sirgibby" Sutton, with contributions from the community and utilizing the Download Station. The Download Station over the years has become a large resource for Trainz content, holding more than 100,000 assets. This community share facility has worked well, and we endeavor to improve these services and reliability of content.

Trainz Simulator 2009 is available from the Online Store HERE

Trainz Simulator: Murchison 2
Murchison 2 is a merging of the original Narrow Gauge Murchison logging layout with an extensive Standard Gauge rail network.

By incorporating landscape based on actual New Zealand electronic map data with specially developed Nature Series sets (animated waterfalls, river splines, textures, cliff splines, rail ledge splines, rock splines), Murchison 2 takes Trainz to a new level of realism. The result is a photorealistic colonial layout, set in the steam/diesel transition era, that users can submerge themselves in for a complete interactive rail experience.

Whether a steam-era NG enthusiast, or solely interested in SG steam or diesel operation, the 440 board Murchison 2 layout contains a huge variety of interactive and inter-related industries for operational pleasure that will keep the train enthusiast immersed for 100's of hours of interactive operation.

This is the ultimate in TRANSITION-ERA STEAM/DIESEL layouts

Layout Specs:

2 years and 3500 hrs in the building
440 boards of spectacular 3D terrain incorporating the NATURE SERIES 1 & 2 sets
Extensive SG and NG inter-related and interactive industries
Set in rural pioneer country
Country towns and rail yards
Steep hills and spectacular high-county, ravines, gully's and Fiords
Fully signaled with Coloured Light Main line signals and Semaphore Branch line signals
Breath-taking realism
Continually changing landscape and terrain
Comes with 10 sessions for quick familiarisation
Operational rail ferries - load and move rail ferries between ports
Operational River Steamer - navigate the interactive river lock
Operational aerial flight - explore aboard the helicopter
100's of hrs of operational pleasure

TRACKWORK:

190 km (120 miles) of sceniced SG mainline and branch lines
55 km (34 miles) of NG logging and mining lines
175 km (110 miles) of aerial helicopter route
100 km (63 miles) of Ocean / River ship routes

The release date and pricing will be advised in the next Trainz Newsletter.

Content Creators

If you have completed or close to finishing a route that would work well in a stand-alone package or a great addition to a package, visit the TrainzDev forum to view and discuss this topic further.

PT BOATS : Knights of the Sea
Releasing next month (August 2009) for Australia!

This naval world war II strategy game is set to see gamers pickup their copies in-store and online (http://www.n3vrf41l.com/productpage.php?id=26) middle of August 2009. The game developed by Akella brings new innovation combining strategic management, realistic simulation and in your face action in a much loved World War II theme. Players will enjoy diverse gaming experiences from issuing orders to your entire fleet from above, to getting your hands dirty and gunning down the enemy in first person view! All this captured by engaging fierce battles in spectacular naval WWII environments. PT Boats is set to release in Australia start of August, 2009.

Game Summary

The seas can be dangerous, but when you're in command of a crack strike boat crew, you might just be the most dangerous thing out there...

Join up to the Russian, German or Allied navies and prove your worth out these on the open water. Control every aspect of your boats defensive and offensive, from the anti-aircraft guns hobbling your enemies air superiority to the torpedo strapped to the sides to sink destroyers of merchant vessels.

Combining advanced strategic and action modes you can plan the intricacies of your attack and then lead your crew from the front and right in the battle. As you advance in rank throughout the long campaign you will gain access to new boats and even warships for you to command. Build up your crew in single player then go online and join your friends manning your own boat and challenge others in a battle to the death.

Game Features

The game has an unbelievable combination of strategic management, realistic simulation and in your face action.
Pt boats is a Naval Action Sim that puts gamers in charge of Allied forces during WW2 with historically accurate vessels and battles.
Diverse gaming experiences from issuing orders to your entire fleet from above, to getting your hands dirty and gunning down the enemy in first person view!
PT Boats is cutting edge being very polished with support for DX10 (DX 9 also).
Proprietary graphics engine, with advanced physics and post-processing effects.

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East India Company taking over Australia middle of August

In East India Company, players will enjoy building the Worlds most powerful trading empire and engaging in fierce battles in both single player and multiplayer modes, all within a breathtaking cinematic environment.

Players will fight, manage and rule their trading empires from Europe to the Far East with eight nationalities to choose from: British, Dutch, French, Danish, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish or the Holy Roman Empire.

Starting modestly, you will build your fleet, establish connections to far away countries, and keep rival nations at bay. Choose from a wide array of ship classes, including a variety of transport and military vessels. Create diverse fleets and assign each of them specific trading routes. Control and upgrade well situated ports as you form your strategy for domination.

Conflicts and wars are inevitable. When hostile fleets engage each other, the spectacular naval battles are fought on a real-time tactical level. Devastating broadsides are fired with a deafening roar and cannon balls tear through enemy ships and their crew. For greater tactical depth, you can, at any point, take direct command of any of your ships and feel the battle close up!

Fight against the other European powers to create a trading empire that will rule above all others in this groundbreaking strategy game!

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Company Changes

As many of you are aware Auran and N3VRF41L Publishing Pty Ltd have always been associated. Approximately 1 year ago N3VRF41L took over all publishing and distribution of the Trainz franchise, this has led to N3VRF41L taking ownership of TS2009:WBE and all future versions of Trainz.

Work is continuing at full speed on future releases of Trainz, as well as new releases which you should see soon. With regards to the existing Auran features such as Planet Auran, The DLS, Helpdesk etc. These will all be maintained and you will not see any disruption to service, due to these changes.