Jan. 14, 2009, Rusty Axe Games is pleased to announce that we have released the Financial Guru Value Pack! Get Real Estate Empire 2, Big$hot and Real Estate Empire bundled together for the low price of $29.99!
Get the Financial Guru Value pack now! 
Jan. 12, 2010, Rusty Axe Games is very pleased to announce that we are once again partnering with Red Marble Games to produce Real Estate Empire 2 for the Macintosh computer system. We will have more news and details about Real Estate Empire 2 for the Mac in the coming weeks!
Dec. 31, 2009, We are now promoting a new web comic series entitled The Continentals. The Continentals is a murder mystery with bits of horror, sci-fi and steam punk - a modern re-imagining of the classic 19th century Sherlock Holmes "who done it" murder mystery created for the 21st century webcomic fan!
a modern re-imagining of the classic 19th century Sherlock Holmes "who done it" murder mystery created for the 21st century webcomic fan Dec. 18, 2009, Just in time for the weekend is a fun comic about a wannabe Barbarian named Bill, Frank, his dragon sidekick and all of the hijinks they get into. Lots of fun!
Rusty Axe Games is proud to announce that you can now find Aztaka from Citeremis in our RPG section! As Huitzilo, heir of the Sun God, skilled in both the arts of combat and magic, only you can save your people from the wrath of the Aztec Gods by reuniting the seven phonograms. Accompanied by your faithful companion Ayohpa - trapped in the form of a hummingbird by a magical curse - you will strive to complete your quest using a combination of fighting prowess and spiritual magic!
Click the link to go to the free downloadable demo!
Details and screenshots for Aztaka!
Dec. 15, 2009, Rusty Axe Games are proud to announce that Real Estate Empire 2 is now available through TrialPay! TrialPay is an innovative sales system that allows us to offer Real Estate Empire 2 for free to players who are interested in buying participating products in the Trial Pay system!
Dec. 8, 2009, Casual Explosion has done a great job diving into the nuts and bolts of Real Estate Empire 2 with the review they have just posted on their site! Don't take our word for it, read what the reviewers have had to say!
Real Estate Empire 2 review at Casual Explosion!
Dec. 2, 2009, Rusty Axe Games, is now carrying a couple of titles by fellow indie. developer My Game Company! Rick Rocket and Dirk Dashing can both be found in our casual arcade section and are available for PC, Mac and Linux! Try the free game demo's today and see if you like them!
Play Rick Rocket and Dirk Dashing now!
Dec. 2, 2009, Rusty Axe Games, in partnership with Winterwolves, is now carrying Universal Boxing Manager and Spirited Heart! UBM can be found in our strategy section and Spirited Heart is a new entry in our RPG category. Try the free game demo's today and see if you like them!
Dec. 2, 2009, New in our Toons Online section today is a terrific looking serialized novel called Amya. Set in an exotic fantasy setting we are carrying this one soon after its release so you'll need to check in weekly to get the updates!
Nov. 27, 2009, Rusty Axe Games is very pleased to announce the release of Real Estate Empire 2 for your windows based PC! To celebrate this release and as a way of saying thanks to our early buyers we will be giving every buyer of Real Estate Empire 2 a free full version of their choice of Real Estate Empire 1, Big$hot or Battle Castles! This is a time limited offer which will end December 5th. As much as we have tuned, tested and polished this game we know it's pretty likely that you folks are gonna find things for us to change. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on the game! Accept the free game of your choosing as our way of saying thanks for being first in line and giving us any feedback that you feel like, emailed to, feedback at rustyaxe dot com. If and when there are upgrades you will, of course, get them for free along with our undying gratitude... and you'll keep the free game you picked!
Nov. 21, 2009, Version 0.97B of the Real Estate Empire 2 demo has been posted to the website. Lots of little issues have been addressed but the big difference is that the hard difficulty setting has been tuned to where it should be. We will be tuning the rest of the hard levels in the game to this difficulty, doubtless fixing a few more little issues and then releasing the game ASAP!
Nov. 18, 2009, Rusty Axe Games is excited to announce that we are carrying a new indie. RPG entitled Dark Souls 2! Click the link below to jump to the Warfare Studios website to read more about the game, see screenshots and download a free demo!
Details and screenshots for Dark Souls 2!
Nov. 17, 2009, A new demo for Real Estate Empire 2 should be posted later this week. The game is pretty much done except for a complete overhaul of the game data for the hard levels - we want to really stretch out the game and provide a serious challenge for the real estate experts who might be less challenged by the easy and normal difficulty settings! Once the hard levels for First Things First have been retuned then a new demo will be posted and we can get your feedback! Sorry for the delay, our goal is to make sure that serious strategy players will be able to get as much enjoyment out of the game as casual and mid-level players. The good news is that this extends our 50% off sale window so those of you waiting to pick up Battle Castles, Big$hot or Real Estate Empire at the reduced price can still do so for a little while longer!
Oct. 30, 2009, Wow. Thanks to everyone who has been picking up the Real Estate Empire 2 demo and playing it. The response has been amazing. We are working hard on final level tuning and still expect the full game to be out in early to mid-November. In the meantime, as our way of saying thanks, we are going to drop the price on Real Estate Empire 1, Big$hot and Battle Castles by 50% until Real Estate Empire 2 goes out the door!
Oct. 27, 2009, The demo is here, the demo is here! Rusty Axe Games is proud to announce that the beta test demo for Real Estate Empire 2 is now available for download! With Real Estate Empire 2 we have moved away from the board game model that we had for Real E$tate Empire towards a level and scenario based game. The demo lets you play all of the first scenario entitled "First Things First" which will give you a great example of what the new game has in store for you! First Things First is far easier than the other three scenarios and will teach you everything you need to know to play the game while giving you a feel for what your hard earned sheckels will be buying if you should choose to purchase the complete game.
Oct. 22, 2009, Those of you following closely will notice that our graphic novel section has been renamed Toons Online to better describe the mix of what we now carry. Today we are happy to announce that we are now promoting a wonderful comic called Jet Packs and Time Machines!
Oct. 6, 2009, Rusty Axe Games is excited to announce that we have been working hard on the sequel to our popular real estate management game, Real Estate Empire! For the real estate mogul in everybody, Real Estate Empire 2 contains over thirty different levels packed into four different scenarios. A playable demo will be released later this month with an anticipated release in early November!
Details and screenshots for Real Estate Empire 2!
Sept. 29, 2009, 2009 has been a watershed year for indie. game developers and small publishers. The well publicized issues surrounding Amazons purchase of Reflexive and their subsequent business decisions has accelerated a trend that has made life increasingly difficult for indie developers. Rusty Axe is no different. Getting our products to market on our terms under the large game portal business model has become just about impossible. Due to this we made a very difficult financial decision last Spring to sever ties with all major portals. We still offer a lucrative affiliate program and that continues to thrive but you won't find our products on any of the big game portals anymore.
This has not been an easy year and this action requires us to drive increasing amounts of traffic on our own to this website. The upside is that we are in a position to help other independent content producers get their products to market as well. If you are a producer of independent content and want help getting your product to a wider audience then click the arrow below for more details!
June 19, 2009, So, if you've been following along at home you probably wonder what our intrepid fiction reviewer, Jennifer, does when we aren't running a Pump Up the Purse fiction writing contest. Glad you asked. Jennifer is in the process of launching not one but two projects right now. Shadow Armies is the book she has been working on since being uprooted from Santa Cruz and it is being serialized daily for your free enjoyment.
And lest you think Jennifer's red pen is going to get all clogged up from dis-use... never fear! She also has a review and editing website geared to help other authors attain their goals.
Click here to visit Editor Jennifer!
June 16, 2009, We've launched a new online comics and graphic novels section to celebrate fellow creative indies and their terrific work online. Some are riveting, some will make you giggle and some will just brighten your day. We hope you will enjoy them as much as we do.
Authors of online graphic fiction, please get in touch if you feel you have a title that should be showcased.
Read free graphic fiction here!
May 16, 2009, The voting has finished and we have winners! This years Pump Up The Purse contest was won by Victoria Hetherington for her story "How It Is in America"! Second place went to Gary Helm for his story entitled "Sleeping Beauty". Third prize went to Krista Hawkins for her story, "The Ride Home". Prizes will be sent out on Monday. Our thanks to everybody who entered the contest this year. The stories were really terrific and there were lots to choose from!
April 27, 2009, We have now entered the user voting part of our Pump Up The Purse story contest. One story had managed to fall throught the cracks - our apologies to Krista Hawkins who wrote The Ride Home which also happened to be the highest rated of all stories submitted with an impressive total of 94! Her story can now be found in our stories section. Our cash prize reached $174 USD and will go to the winner of the user voting part of the contest along with a game prize package and runner up prizes as well.
April 20, 2009, All the stories have been rated and posted! A total of 36 original and amazing stories were accepted into the contest this year. We would like to offer a huge thanks to everyone who took the time and energy to write a story for the contest. We are going to take a week to let people get caught up on their reading and then we will open the user voting on April 27th!
April 16, 2009, That's it folks - Pump Up The Purse II is now closed to new entries! We've had a rush of last minute stories which should be read and rated by early next week. Once the new stories have been rated we will be posting all of them so the contest can move on to the user voting round! Thanks to everyone who has entered and best of luck to all of the contestants who move on to the next round!
March 30, 2009, The past couple of weeks have seen a ton of new stories entered into the Pump Up The Purse II contest. With each new story the purse gets pumped up a little bigger! The latest batch of stories have been rated and are now available on our website by clicking the link below. Remember, you still have until April 15th to enter your stories so keep those stories coming!
March 25, 2009, April 15th is getting closer and you know what that means... that's right, the final entry date for this years Pump Up The Purse contest! This past week we have seen a ton of great new stories - we now have close to 30 in this years Pump Up The Purse contest with more coming every day! Jennifer is working hard to get all of the stories read and we should have a new batch of reviews and stories posted within a few days. In the meantime anybody who is planning on entering still has until April 15th... so keep 'em coming!
March 9, 2009, We have released the latest set of story entries - including a new points leader - for the Pump Up The Purse II cash prize writing contest! Still lots of time left before the April 15th deadline so keep those stories coming!
March 4, 2009, Rusty Axe Games have partnered with Trial Pay to make Real E$tate Empire and Big$hot free to players who are interested in participating products in their system. Click the links below to go to the Real E$tate Empire and Big$hot purchase pages and click on the TrialPay buttons to see how it works!
Feb. 26, 2009, Gamezebo have just posted an interview with me, Lennard Feddersen, and you can read it here!
Rusty Axe interview at Gamezebo
Feb. 3, 2009, A new review for Big$hot has been posted over at Gamezebo. Check it out at the link below!
Feb. 1, 2009, We have released the first set of story entries for the Pump Up The Purse II cash prize writing contest. There is still lots of time left before the April 15th deadline so keep those stories coming! Also, we would like to announce that all finalists will also be receiving an additional prize of a Domain Of Heroes starter pack.
Jan. 27, 2009, Big$hot 1.5a has been released, AKA the King Bob Cat build in honor of the user who found a crash bug and suggested a couple of other useful additions to the game. Thanks Gregg!
Jan. 16, 2009, Big$hot screenshots have been updated to reflect version 1.4a graphics.
Jan. 15, 2009, Big$hot 1.4a has been released to resolve a crash bug in the deal making system. The demo is available on the website and all purchasers have been sent an updated version via BMTMicro. Enjoy the game!
Jan. 11, 2009, Big$hot 1.3a has just been released in both full and demo versions. This version will be sent automatically to everyone who purchased the earlier version. Big$hot 1.3a features a number of minor fixes, a better balanced high score board system for all of the game lengths and pro version has been made even more challenging! We hope you enjoy the game!
Jan. 1, 2009, Happy New Year everyone!
We are releasing another Big$hot demo, version 1.2A which addresses several more minor issues. The end game high score board now also shows the players high score even if they didn't score high enough to be on the high score board. High scores for the twelve month version of the game have been set lower so it is easier for people to place. Additionally all portfolio screens now show the players net income so that it is easier to judge whether another players properties will add too much debt if they are purchased by the player.
The full version upgrade should be available in the next day or two and will be made available for free to everybody who has purchased an earlier version.
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