Hi there!

First of all, I would like to thank admins of this site - posting okayed by guod - who gave me an opportunity to start a new thread concerning about our new strategy game. We are developing a new kind of Massively Multiplayer War Strategy game, playable on browser.
More information (screenshots, forums...)is available here and our recently opened site is also there:
http://www.hoursofwar.com/.

Youtube link to Hours of War teaser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPOsa09caZU

World War II is the subject we start with. The whole war is not covered, game starts from the beaches of Normandy 1944. The battle of Tali-Ihantala 1944 (Karelian Isthmus, Red Army´s great Summer Offensive) is also under development. We have some ideas for the next battles, but if you have ideas, what you would like to see developed You are free to join our forum, and tell us your opinion.

At the moment we are finalizing the beaches of Normandy, so Alpha testing phase has already begun. The final version of the game should be ready next autumn. As this is a browser playable MMO game, we will continuously bring new content to the game after the launch.

I post this thread to you, because, normally when someone is interested in history of war, therefore strategy games might interest people also. Historical accuracy combined with unit amount, equipment, supply and so on, will challenge all the virtual-Patton/-Rommel to rewrite history.

If you want any kind of information, you can send me either private message. And of course, Your are free to join to our forum.

I find your forum very interesting and it is loaded with good information.

Best Regards from Finland

Arska/Piri

Ari Pirilä
Community Manager
Hours of War / Sauma Technologies Ltd.
Kalevankatu 30
FI-00100 Helsinki
Finland

email: ari.pirila@saumatechnologies.com

Hours of War: http://www.hoursofwar.com
Sauma: http://www.saumatechnologies.com

Hello Hours of War fans,

Here are some news from us: The game development is advancing steadily, although we have plenty of work to be done, until the game is ready. New screenshots are coming soon and the light version of the gameplay should be out as I write this story!

Don´t forget our competition; a new competition has started: every registered member participates automatically, and everybody, who has registered before 30th April 2009, is included in the competition. You are free to register here:

http://www.hoursofwar.com/members/register

Join the Beta now!

You are just one step away from joining the ranks of our community.

The game is still in development and scheduled to launch this autumn. By registering now you get full access to the forums and might get the opportunity to participate in one of our monthly Beta campaigns.

We need you to help us build the game but please be patient soldier, you will be drafted through your email inbox.

Salute

Piri/Ari Pirilä

Hours of War: http://www.hoursofwar.com
Sauma: http://www.saumatechnologies.com

Hello!

WINNER OF APRIL COMPETITION!
We have a winner for the April Competition: user with a nickname of War Dragon has won 100 Eur Amazon gift voucher and an original Hours of War drawing signed by the artist!

NEW COMPETITION UNTIL END OF MAY!
A new competition has started: every registered member participates automatically, and every new registered user, who has registered before end of May 2009, is included in the competition.

PRIZE: 100 EUR AND HOURS OF WAR T-SHIRT!
The prize is: 100 Eur Amazon gift voucher, and an unique Hours of War t-shirt mailed to you!

REGISTER NOW AND PARTICIPATE AUTOMATICALLY TO FUTURE COMPETITIONS
Ensure that you will automatically participate in all monthly competitions like this in the future:
http://www.hoursofwar.com/members/register

Game launch is expected to take place during Q3/2009.

Cheers!

HOW-Team

Cheers mates!

"Nothing new from the western front!" That slogan was from a famous movie, that is not from the Hours of War game ! At the moment Hours of War is advancing in every technological front! We have made huge steps forward and the inhouse tests have been very promising.

At the end of last week our top brass released the pricing of Hours of War game, and you´d find it here:
http://www.hoursofwar.com/news/view/2009...es-game-pricing

As you remember every registered user takes part to a competition and the price for the winner is: 100 Eur Amazon gift voucher, and an unique Hours of War t-shirt mailed to you! All you have to do is, that you register to our site here:
http://www.hoursofwar.com/members/register

See You later Gents

HOW-Team

Hello fellow members of this site!

Summer has arrived, and it is time to give you some news of the Hours of War. We are steadily moving towards our goal and the overall game development is going to the right direction. Next external Alpha tests are scheduled and we are steaming towards the beta-phase!

JUNE COMPETITION STARTS

A new competition has started: every registered member participates automatically, and every new registered user, who has registered before end of June 2009, is included in the competition.

PRIZE: COMMANDO: D-DAY COMICS AND HOURS OF WAR T-SHIRT!

Prize is the legendary comic, Commando: D-Day Fight or Die! The Twelve Best D-day comics anthology, and Hours of War t-shirt, mailed to you!

More info on the D-Day comic, see publishers page:
http://tinyurl.com/m7yexx

REGISTER NOW AND PARTICIPATE AUTOMATICALLY TO FUTURE COMPETITIONS

Registering now you ensure that you will automatically participate in all monthly competitions like this in the future! Register now to participate!
http://www.hoursofwar.com/members/register

Do remember that the Open Beta Game launch is expected to take place during summer 2009, hope to see you all in the game!

WINNER OF MAY COMPETITION!

We have a winner for the May Competition: user legoman has won 100 Eur Amazon gift voucher, and Hours of War t-shirt, congratulations to legoman!

Greetings from Finland!

HOW-Team


Piri

In order to commemorate the D-Day, 6th of June, and all the soldiers and veterans, we are arranging a giveaway for all Hours of War registered users. All you have to do is to write something D-Day related to this forum thread ( http://www.hoursofwar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=64 ), before Monday 8th of June, 12:00 hours UTC (to see what is your local time, for example use Time Zone Converter like this: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html )- and we will give one War Bonds package to randomly selected person who has written to this forum thread.

The giveaway price is Hours of War: War Bonds package, which includes:
- Play as much as you want during the Beta
- 3 months of Live version playing time
- An exclusive Hours of War t-shirt
- Unique retro style printed war bond with your own name!

Beta will be launched during summer 2009. Live will be launched during fall 2009. War Bonds: the Hours of War game preorder package sales will begin soon.

HOURS OF WAR REACHES 5000 REGISTERED USERS!

We are proud to announce that the Hours of War website now has 5000 registered users! Thank you all for the strong support, hope to see you all in the game when we launch the Beta during summer 2009!

Cheers!

HOW-Team

Piri

Hello all,

In order to commemorate the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, that started on 25th of June 1944, we are arranging a giveaway for all Hours of War registered users. All you have to do is to write something Tali-Ihantala related to this forum thread ( http://www.hoursofwar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=72 ). It could be a link to a related site, video, picture or book, or some story related to Tali-Ihantala, anything really.

PRIZE: HOURS OF WAR: WAR BONDS PACKAGE!
The competition prize is Hours of War: War Bonds package, which includes:
- Play as much as you want during the Beta
- 3 months of Live version playing time
- An exclusive Hours of War t-shirt
- Unique retro style printed war bond with your own name!

Do that before Tuesday 9th of July 2009 at 12:00 hours UTC. To see what is your local time, for example use Time Zone Converter like this:
( http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html )

When you have posted something to the forum thread, you will automatically participate in the giveaway of one War Bonds package! The winner will be randomly selected amongst the people that have written something to the forum thread, and notified by email.

Cheers,

Piri

Attention Officers!

Here is a short briefing about the Hours of War:

* We have a new video preview demonstrating where the client design is heading! ( link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQAGbhDS3Ek )

* Scheduled Alpha tests have provided valuable feedback and influenced the development. Throughout our tests, the servers and client have been stable. We have had some issues with authentication and chat but working with our team of testers, we have solved most of the bugs. Currently our development efforts are focused on the client design and visual feedback. We are also working on improving the in-game chat functionality and the necessary strategy and planning tools for higher ranked players managing the battles. We are working extremely hard to complete the Open Beta version and launch it.

* We have just opened a new forum, where you are able to discuss the game in your own language: (link: http://www.hoursofwar.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=15 ). In the beginning we will support the following languages: Danish, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Spanish, Russian and Swedish.

Salute

Ari Pirilä
Lt. Col. War Game UmpireG

Attention!

We have a brand new website. You´ll find out that we have also new screenshots and video (more to come for sure!). Hours of War blog has found its place at our renewed site also. We added more information about the game including info about new scenarios. You may have noticed that we have upgraded the game graphics, and due to that and many other game tech improvements we made, we´ll have quite intense internal/external tests going on at the moment, before the beta launch.

And as always you are more than welcome to browse our new site here:
http://www.hoursofwar.com

Cheers,


HOW Team
Ari Pirilä
Lt. Col. War Game Umpire

I must of missed the first 8 post on this...thanks... will sticky it for a while so we can get the news out and people can see it more... I'll look into more during the weekend also.