In addition to toiling away on MoW: Vietnam, MoW: Condemned Heroes (a standalone title based on the activities of a Soviet Penal battalion), and more DLC for Assault Squad, 1C are currently planning Men of War II.

Actually, I only managed to persuade him to drop one hint:

“Massively multiplayer!” he hinted.

Eve Online’s Incarna update launched yesterday. In addition to the ability to walk around outside your ship, you can also buy micro-transacted items to spruce up your avatar. The problem? The cost of these items is far, far beyond most DLC prices, and it’s affecting the delicate Eve economy.

Things can get a little complicated here as there’s three different virtual currencies involved, so here’s a breakdown:

Customisation items, including clothes and the ocular monocle pictured above, are purchased using a new currency called Aurum. Most clothes cost 3,200 to 4,400 Aurum. The monocle costs 12,000.
Aurum is gained by trading in a PLEX at the game store. A PLEX is essentially 30 days of subscription as an in game item. One PLEX gets you 3,500 Aurum.
You can get PLEX by buying it from the Eve store. $35.00 will get you two PLEX…
…or you can trade for it in game with ISK, the main Eve currency.


If you’ve followed that, you’ll have realised that in real money terms the clothes cost around $17.50 each and the implant costs more than $70.00 (or four months subscription). An astonishing amount for an item with no in game functionality. For comparison, Bethesda’s often mocked Horse Armour DLC cost $2.50 on release, some 28 times less.

Of course you could trade for it in game, but the new demand caused by these items has driven the cost of PLEX up. It now costs 400 million ISK, up from around 370 million before the update.

Would you pay $70.00 for a monocle? No matter how classy?

Get Gamers,

On the 9th of September, Men of War Vietnam is released. We’re quite the fans of Best Way’s series from the original Men of War, through to Assault Squad each game has in our opinion, been bloody good stuff.

Now Best Way have turned their attention to Vietnam. The pre-eminent superpower, America faced down by the Vietcong, one of the most cunning enemies ever to take to the battlefield.

We’ve gotten together with 1C to put together a deal for you gamers who have previously bought a Men of War game.

Until September 12th we have 30% off the Men of War Vietnam Special Edition.

This edition includes 3 additional multi-player maps and 5 additional single player scenarios. All you have to do to trigger this discount is type CHARLIE into the voucher slot in the shopping cart and you will have 30% knocked off

£34.99 > £24.49
€34.99 > €24.49
$39.99 > $27.99

Charlie's in the wire!

Get Games