Defense Grid: The Awakening for PC to Tower Over Retail Shelves this Summer

April 27, 2009

Defense Grid: The Awakening for
PC to Tower Over Retail Shelves this Summer

Hidden Path Entertainment and
Aspyr Media Partner to Deliver Critically Acclaimed Hit to Stores Worldwide

Defense Grid: The Awakening, Hidden
Path Entertainments critically acclaimed tower defense strategy game for PC,
will finally fortify store shelves this summer. Under an agreement between
Hidden Path and Aspyr Media, Aspyr will manage worldwide retail publishing and
distribution for the title.

Released through digital
distribution in December 2008 to tremendous praise, Defense Grid: The Awakening
takes the best features of the addictive tower defense genre and fuses them with
the Gamebryo engine to deliver beautiful 3D environments, spectacular effects, a
dynamic soundtrack and deep strategy gameplay. Ensuring AAA quality and
impeccable game balance is a development team with a pedigree that includes
franchises such as Age of Empires, Half-Life, Crimson Skies, Homeworld,
MechWarrior, and Rise of Nations.

Defense Grid: The Awakening finds
humanity struggling against an invasion by a relentless alien force. The player
is tasked with defending key outposts with the aid of ancient, but powerful,
defense towers and an artificial intelligence construct. Intuitive controls and
a range of objectives make it fun for players of any skill to progress through
the 20 story levels, and the dozens of additional challenge modes. Ten different
tower types, each with unique strengths, allow for multiple strategies as
players scheme to take down wave after wave of invading creatures, each more
powerful than the previous.

Defense Grid: The Awakening
will be available this summer and is rated E10+ (for gamers 10 and older) by the
ESRB. For more information on the game please visit

www.hiddenpath.com