Slitherine is Hiring!

Seeking Web Developer and Network Administrator

Slitherine and Matrix Games are seeking to add to its staff a new Web Developer/Network Administrator.  This is a full-time paid position.  Qualified candidates will have skills and experience in the following areas:

• Programming experience in ASP, Javascript, JQuery, AJAX, XML, HTML, SQL
• Database design and management in SQL Server 2008 R2 (including T-SQL, StoredProcedures, CLR, Indexes, etc)
• Server administration and management in Windows Server 2008 R2
• Experience with FTP, DNS, TCP/IP
• Experience with Remote server administration, server virtualization and with server and network security, including an understanding of physical networking and advanced router/firew

Candidates who are already near or able to relocate to work at one of the main offices (US Office in Vermont, UK Office near London, Italian Office near Milan) will be given preference, but skill and experience are the primary considerations.

Excellent communication and organizational skills, a fast internet connection (if unable to work from one of the main offices mentioned above) and fluency in English are required.

If you feel that you qualify, please contact erikr@matrixgames.com with your resume and why you would like to work at Slitherine/Matrix Games.

Panzer Corps Grand Campaign ’42 Released!

The war on the Eastern Front continues with this 4^th DLC release

We are thrilled to release Panzer Corps Grand Campaign ’42, the fourth DLC installment to the highly successful Panzer Corps series. Now players can take their battle-seasoned troops into intense urban combat in Stalingrad along with several other famous Eastern Front battles!

If you haven’t already, check out what all the buzz is about and download the playable demo of Panzer Corps! See why critics have praised this smash hit as ”…nothing short of brilliant.”

About Grand Campaign ‘42

Poland, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece.  All of these nations have fallen under occupation, and it was assumed that Russia would quickly join their ranks.  Not only has the Russia Bear survived the invasion of 1941, but its winter offensive is still in full swing!  Take command of your forces once again in the latest installment of the Grand Campaign as you repel Soviet offensives and begin the fateful advance between the Don and Donets towards Stalingrad!

This DLC features 15 all new scenarios, a sprawling urban combat environment of Stalingrad, new campaign features, unique objectives such as escorting train convoys and smashing enemy reinforcements as they attempt to cross the Volga River, and the capacity to save your core force for use in future campaigns!

The Grand Campaign’s are a series of expansions for Panzer Corps and require Panzer Corps. Each campaign can be started with the core force from the previous Grand Campaign, so you can continue all Grand Campaign expansions carrying over all the core forces that completed the previous ones. Alternatively players can start with a preset core force and play each campaign on its own, or jump in to the Grand Campaign at any year.

Grand Campaign '42 requires the original Panzer Corps to play.

Get more information on Panzer Corps from its official on the Slitherine site or on the Matrix Games site. More information on Grand Campaign ‘42 is available from both Slitherine and Matrix Games as well.

Paypal Payment Method Available Again

Paypal is now available as a payment option in both the Matrix and Slitherine stores

We are pleased to inform customers that Paypal is once again available as a payment option for both of their stores. We apologize again for any inconvenience the disruption in Paypal payment may have caused.

Panzer Corps Named Wargame of the Year by Usenet!

Plus Unity of Command brings home the bronze medal in this highly competitive category

We would like to congratulate The Lordz Games Studio (www.thelordzgamesstudio.com) for winning the Usenet’s Wargame of the Year Award 2011! This coveted honor is bestowed upon the best historical wargame of the year and, given the near universal critical and fan acclaim of Panzer Corps, the award is no surprise!                                                                               

Slitherine and Matrix Games would also link to congratulate 2x2 Games (www.unityofcommand.net) for taking the Bronze medal in the same category for Unity of Command. Although Unity of Cmmand is 2x2’s first release, it’s been met with great success and this award is well deserved!  

About Panzer Corps

Panzer Corps is a brand new turn-based strategy game that reinvents a classic genre. Produced and developed by a team of experts and brought to perfection by a community of hundreds of fans, the game has evolved over 2 years to become what can be defined as a modern classic! Set in World War II, Panzer Corps puts the player in charge of Axis armies, taking their core force with them through the entire war. The use of combined-arms tactics requires each general to make use of the strengths and exploit the weaknesses of their opponents. Panzer Corps is designed to replicate the feeling of a classic wargame, but brings it up to 21st century standards and to a whole new generation of gamers.

About Unity of Command

Unity of Command lets you replay the epic conflict that was the Stalingrad Campaign of World War II. In this turn-based game of strategy and cunning, observe how opportunity leads the German army to advance recklessly into the steppes of southern Russia. And as the story unfolds, join the Soviet campaign to repel the invaders... As these legendary battles play out on the hex board, the tension of decision making and difficulties of conducting operations on a massive scale emerge. Command armies and fronts in maneuver warfare, thrust and encircle, capture cities and cross continents; but never, ever forget to watch your supply lines.

Experience the highly fluid, enormously large battles of maneuver in a turn-based strategy setting. Take command in this mobile, back-and-forth sort of war where logistics and poor weather are often the decider, and defeat and victory are sometimes just a mile, or a day, apart.

Get more information on Panzer Corps from its official on the Slitherine site or on the Matrix Games site and more information on Unity of Command from its Matrix product page.