Change of Topic (and Continent!)

SCS updated their blog with the following post on Friday, September 6, 2013

There is going to be an avalanche of information, images, and movies from Euro Truck Simulator 2 – Going East! add-on coming at you during the next few weeks ahead of release from all sides. Just check out a fresh article on Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
But before this happens, let’s take a short break and take a look at another project under development at SCS Software – American Truck Simulator.

Most developers at our company are dual-monitor users, and there never seems to be enough good wallpapers for two monitors. Perhaps there are also dual-monitor players among the visitors of this blog, so we thought that we would give you a little gift. (Full size here)

Why stop at a wallpaper, maybe you would also appreciate some screenshots from the game?

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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.

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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?