The most successful business-strategy game released in this period is definitely Chocolatier.



Developed by Take-Two and published by Take-Two Interactive, the game invites you to learn how to become a master chocolatier.
Carry out your missions by searching around the globe for the most rare and essential chocolate ingredients and make the most exquisite recipes at your factory.



Sell your special chocolate sweets at the best prices, to the pretentious people, to earn more and more money and build more factories. While your reputation grows, your business extends and you will have to stay with the eyes on your competitors.



Chocolatier is not only a business simulator, but a combination with tycoon game style and arcade games.
The action places you in the 1880’s as an apprentice of a famous chocolatier, Evangeline Baumeister, which will help you extend your activity to a worldwide company.



The full version of the game has two game modes, Story and Freeplay, 130 challenging quests targeting 14 cities, and 64 delicious recipes to acquire.
The Demo version is also available.

THQ announced today that a third installment of their prized real time strategy franchise Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War is in the making, currently titled Soulstorm. Developed at their internal Relic Entertainment studios, the expansion will showcase a war that transcends planetary boundaries, taking conflict to a grand scale throughout an entire galaxy. The single player campaign takes us across 4 planets and 3 moons.

<-250x250 Square - left->New units have been added to each race and you should expect two brand new playable races, out of which one will definitely be the Dark Eldar. There is no official word on the second one. It could be everything from the Sisters of Battle to the zerg like Tyranids. Upping the faction count to nine, these balance changes will break most existing play strategies by the addition of flying units, never before seen in the Dawn of War universe. The Dark Eldars are able to harvest souls from fallen opponents and use them as a third resource income. Souls are used to for "Soul Effects", abilities which affect the entire army or the game map as a whole. Developers promised the addition of multiplayer achievements, a system awarding metals to players with impressive winning streaks and other ladder related performances.

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War was the real time strategy Game of the Year in 2004 and saw two expansions packs, Winter Assault in 2005 and Dark Crusade in 2006. News travel slowly at Relic Entertainment, especially if you’re going to judge this by the Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War official site, which has been last updated one year ago. I understand it’s a big franchise which has plenty of dedicated fans, not unlike this Papi_bob individual here, who won 74 ladder games in a row. I know that Warhammer 40k dates back into 1987, as a tabletop, dice rolling fantasy game and efforts have been made to expand its subtle flavor to computer gaming and even beyond real time strategy. Still, I haven’t heard anything about Warhammer Online and its fabled MMORPG goodness in a long time, so news indeed travel slowly around here.

Warranted or not, hype levels are minimal and I can’t tell if it’s either overzealous secrecy, the promise of a game that’s so good that it will sell itself or just a major oversight on Relic Entertainment’s behalf. But don’t despair, there is always a period of calm before the storm and clouds are seen gathering on the horizon: War is coming. Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War - Soulstorm is expected to be released sometime in spring 2008.

Taken from IO Interactive, the same team that brought us the Hitman series, we have a new title just waiting to step in to the gamer’s collective memory as Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. The game features a story of an unlikely duo of former mercenary - genuine professional badass - Kane and crazed psychopath Lynch, unable to restrain his violent fits. Expect a squad based shooter style game, fast paced and packed with action fitting of a heist movie, with a taste for money briefcases, betrayal and revenge. Both Kane and Lynch are delivered as hardcore real characters, driven to terrible deeds determined solely by prior circumstances and mistakes in their lives. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men will hit the shelves on November 20th as announced by Eidos, available for PC and the two major next generation consoles.

Kane has been presented as the centerpiece of the game, as his dark past catches up with him. As an old mercenary by trade, he performed many gruesome tasks and eventually joined up with a secret hit men organization mysteriously known as “The Seven”. When his retirement job goes sour, the whole squad gets killed and he survives with the loot only to get caught by the authorities. Faced with betrayal, “The Seven” impose an ultimatum which Kane takes up silently: the hidden away briefcase for the life of his family.

Lynch is a dockworker suffering from severe schizophrenia and requires extensive medication. When he finds his wife dead, he runs away, unknowing if his regular blackouts followed by atrocious rage fits had anything to do with it. He is sentenced to death and will help Kane bust out of the prison van to bitter tasting freedom. The two outlaws hate each other none the less and are bundled together by fate to rescue Kane's wife and daughter.

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men will be out before Thanksgiving, on the same deadline as console blockbuster Mass Effect and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. With Assassin's Creed and Unreal Tournament III sharing a vague November release date as well, many think this Eidos title will have a hard time earning its fans on launch day. While sales usually are high this time of the year, competition is nothing short of fierce. At least Lionsgate Studios likes what they're seeing, since they've already secured rights for a movie adaptation of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men nine months ago.