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25 Feb in the year of our Lord 2010 - Last April Soma Games launched our first game called G:Into The Rain and it was a genuine critical success...but it could have been better. We got a lot of really good input from people on various message boards including telling us what was lame and what worked. We were listening.
 
 To cut to the chase here, when we ported the game to the PC for Intel, we had the opportunity to also rebuild G basically from the ground up to take up (most of) the input we got from players.
 About a week ago G 2.0 was released on iTunes. With everything that's been added or changed it's really a totally new game and is finally the game we were hoping to make all along...but frankly didn't know how.
 To celebrate this milestone for Soma Games, we're running a big contest March 3-16.
 
 So what's new in the game:

• Twice the speed.
• The most common comment was that the game was too slow. So we gave it a major power boost and it plays a lot more like an arcade now. It's still a puzzle game and not a twitcher, but this one thing radically improved game play.
• On-line leaderboards
• The second most popular request was a set of leaderboards and we're pretty proud of what we've done here: http://www.somagames.com/ARC/top_contractors.php. A limited version of this feature was actually released about a month ago so we could test everything out, but 2.0 adds a lot of new features including a location sensitive option for local leaders.
• In-flight thrusters
• With the new thrusters we've dropped the whole fire-and-forget gameplay model for something much more interactive.
• New ranks and achievements
• Corporate Specific Benefits
• G is chapter one of four games, but now we've started to roll out the benefits players will get by working for different corporations. Keep in mind, other benefits will be revealed in future games and carry over from G to F to E...
• Facebook and Twitter integration
• You can also challenge a friend via email ala DoodleJump
• Better iPhone performance
• Interestingly enough, when we increased the speed of the game, we were actually able to reduce the processor load, so the whole thing runs a lot smoother now, especially on the older 3G iPhone.
• New Freeium -> unlock version
• This should be live by the March 3 contest opening but we'll allow folks to play the first 20 or so levels for free before being asked to upgrade to finish the game.
  

• Must play 2.0 version on the iPhone or iTouch (no PC/Intel players...yet)
• Scores must be posted to the on-line leaderboard between March 3 and March 16
• Any corporation bonuses don't count toward contest score.
• Highest cumulative score in those two weeks wins the iPad.
  

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