BRISBANE, Calif., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Underscoring its continued commitment to the independent games community, Direct2Drive, IGN Entertainment's digital download store, today announced an exclusive pre-order promotion to support the upcoming launch of indie game standout OSMOS from Hemisphere Games. Beginning today, fans can visit Direct2Drive (www.direct2drive.com) to pre-order the game in advance of its launch on August 18th. Fans who purchase OSMOS through the pre-order offer will also receive a coupon code by email which they can forward to a friend to redeem an additional copy of the game for just $1.
Direct2Drive first discovered OSMOS at the 2009 Independent Games Festival, where it honored the title with its first annual Direct2Drive Vision Award, which awarded $10,000 to Direct2Drive's top pick as the best indie game of the festival.
"Direct2Drive is excited to help drive pre-order sales for OSMOS - an accessible and sophisticated indie game worthy of recognition. In fact we liked it so much we want people to share it with a friend," said Sutton Trout, VP of Digital Content, IGN Entertainment. "We're proud that Direct2Drive can play a role in providing an outlet for outstanding indie developers to gain consumer awareness and distribution."
"Direct2Drive gets indie gaming. The site has been a huge supporter of our game and our vision since its inception, and we're thrilled to have the site's continued support as we prepare to launch OSMOS," said Eddy Boxerman of Hemisphere Games.
OSMOS offers players a mixture of a gaming and an ambient experience that uses the biological principle of "osmosis" as basic game-mechanics. Players can experience elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals and a minimalist, electro-acoustic soundtrack as they seek to grow through absorption. As cell-like "motes," players grow bigger by absorbing other motes, but are absorbed when other motes collide with them. Players navigate through the matter using propulsion, ejecting matter behind them, but they must beware: - doing so costs them energy and shrinks them again! In OSMOS, it's "absorb or be absorbed," and as its developer claims, "Good things come to those who wait."
A unique catalyst for the indie gamer, IGN Entertainment offers multiple destinations to support indie game developers through multiple stages of the development process. IGN's Direct2Drive and Fileplanet (www.fileplanet.com), IGN's popular game download sites, help indie developers distribute their products digitally to millions of videogame fans; while IGN's GameSpy Technology (www.gamespy.com), the leading provider of connected gaming services, provides technology solutions that help indie developers make better games.
ABOUT DIRECT2DRIVE
Direct2Drive (D2D) is IGN Entertainment's digital download store (http://www.direct2drive.com and http://www.direct2drive.co.uk). Launched in October 2004, D2D allows consumers to conveniently purchase and download the latest premium PC games, comics and anime titles directly from the Web to their desktops. A supporter of the indie games movement, D2D also offers fans creative promotions, deals and total access to the hottest indie games and developers. Since the site's launch, more than one million games have been downloaded on Direct2Drive.
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