Gold!

SCS Updated their blog with the following post on Thursday, September 5, 2013:

The first expansion of Euro Truck Simulator 2 – “Going East!” – is officially completed, and in fact our publishing and distribution partners are already manufacturing boxes for retail release of the add-on. It will also be available digitally in the “DLC” form.
The launch is planned for September 20th; we are excited that in two weeks from now finally you will see what our map design team has spent so much hard work creating!
Something incredible has appeared on YouTube today. RestaCar is at it again. Simply put, wow!

Going East! Almost there!

SCS Updated their blog with the following post on Friday, August 30, 2013.

Today we are giving our publishing partners so called “Release Candidates” of the upcoming ETS2 add-on. We have been in testing period for quite some time, and after yet another final round of verifications on this build, we are hoping to sign off the game expansion as “gone gold” early next week, so that we hit the intended simultaneous release date of September 20th.
Once this is all done, the DLC team will be facing the big question – what next? Another territory expansion? What do you think?
For those still hesitating if they should actually buy the game, there is probably the last good opportunity to grab Euro Truck Simulator 2 on the cheap before the Going East! add-on is released. This weekend, Steam is celebrating the first anniversary of launching their “Greenlight” system, and ETS2 is among the featured games, with quite nice discount. Check out the Euro Truck Simulator 2 Steam page here.
More and more images and movies from Going East! will be appearing in the weeks ahead of the release. Of course we do not want to leave you without any images already for the weekend.

Trans European Logistics Part 17

London To Birmingham

Just a short hop from London to Birmingham, but I have to fuel up the truck before I leave London as the other driver did not fuel it up before he went on holiday ( lazy git ).
We are also running a competition on the forums to win a copy of the upcoming DLC for ETS2, if you want a chance at winning head over there and enter it is free after all.

Disclaimer – All music played during this video is copyrighted by the original authors.

Back from GamesCom 2013

SCS updated their blog On Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Back from GamesCom 2013

With over 300,000 attendees, GamesCom is the biggest game expo in the world. During our 2-day stay at the event, we spent a total of 90 minutes in the public area of the event. The reason?



This is a shot of the "Boulevard" mega-corridor connecting the halls. It's not even a weekend day when more people are free to come, and it's not the peak time of the day. Many of these visitors came to see just their favorite game, and after waiting 3-5 hours in a line, they may be lucky to get a 5 minute glimpse of it.

None of our games was to be seen in the public halls, as our visit centered on business negotiations with our existing and prospective publishing and distribution partners, and exploring business opportunities. Thousands of games industry executives, mixed with official press people, have halls 4 and 5 set aside for negotiations and meetings, secluded from the public halls.

So far, only business visitors passing by the stand of rondomedia, our German publisher, could see the video below. Created in a rush in under a day, the movie was only supposed to run in the background of a distributor's private booth in the business area at GamesCom. We have not intended originally for it to be exposed to public scrutiny, we thought that the movie was too unpolished, but eventually we changed our mind after some people commented on this movie quite positively. What do you think?

Going East Competition

With the upcoming release of the first ever Downloadable content for Euro Truck Simulator 2 next month, we decided to have another screenshot competition for a lucky member of the forums to win a ‘free’ copy, the rules are very simple and easy to understand.

1. Only members/staff of the forums can enter.
2. Each member is only allowed to enter a maximum of 3 screenshots.
3. All entered screenshots have to be in .jpg format, any other picture formats will be removed by a member of staff without warning and the entry will then be voided until the problem is fixed.
4. All entries have to be added to the Going East competition thread by Midnight September 19th, 2013. Any entries after this date/time will be voided and removed from the competition.
5. Game mods are allowed to be used, but please include the correct credits for the person/persons who created it have to be included in the entry.

Any breach of the rules above could get your entry removed from the competition, we have tried to keep the rules simple to understand and easy to follow.
The compitition will end at midnight on the 19th Sept 2013, and the following day all the entries will be listed in a poll which each member is allowed to vote using their single vote, the poll will stay open until midnight on the 21st September 2013, after this time the entry with the most votes will win the unlock code.
Good Luck
If you would like to enter follow this link 

Good Luck.

M@x