Galaxy on Fire 2™, the award-winning sci-fi epic featuring everybody’s favourite space adventurer Keith T. Maxwell, continues its cross-platform conquest with today’s release of Galaxy on Fire 2™ HD for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S on the App Store (http://bit.ly/gof2hd). Highly optimized to take full advantage of Apple’s powerful A5 dual-core chip, the latest instalment of the popular space saga looks more stunning than ever on a mobile device and its breathtaking visuals set a new standard for sci-fi shooters on handheld consoles! The completely re-worked 3D models feature four-times as many polygons and a texture resolution, which is four times as high as that of the normal version of the game. Hence, the more than 30 space ships and 100 space stations, as well as all the other in-game assets such as jump gates, asteroids and space debris, do now contain a lot more details and look even more realistic than before.[full] Due to individual texture sets for diffuse, normal and specular maps on the one hand and new OpenGL 2.0 shaders on the other, the surfaces of all space crafts and other objects in the game do now enthuse the gamer’s eye in never-before-seen quality as well. Furthermore, the highly enhanced special effects (lasers, explosions, smoke, etc) and additional light sources round off this truly spectacular HD gaming experience in and make for a visual fireworks that is absolutely unmatched.

To get an impression of how stunning Galaxy on Fire 2™ HD looks, check out the brand-new gameplay trailer and dive right into a colourful hotchpotch of action-packed space battles, complex trading operations, adventurous intergalactic explorations and high-risk space ship manoeuvres!

Besides the amazing new graphics, the HD version of Galaxy on Fire 2™ will also give the gamer the chance to freely transfer his save games from iPad 2 to iPhone 4S and vice versa not only via Open Feint, but also via iCloud. As soon as the add-on Valkyrie™ is out in HD and Full HD (presumably in the first quarter of 2012), an update will follow which will enable the users to synchronize their save games across all platform boundaries. Hence, a game that has been started on the iPhone 4 could be continued on the Mac and finished on the iPad 2, for example.

In terms of gameplay, the developers have listened to one of the most urgent calls of the community and integrated the Full HD version’s throttle control—which allows you to regulate your ship’s speed from full thrust to complete halt—into Galaxy on Fire 2™ HD as well. This new feature will give the user the chance to navigate his ship more freely and win the upper hand on even the most persistent space pirate in one of the game’s many hard-fought dog fights!

More info about the Galaxy on Fire™ franchise in general and Galaxy on Fire 2™ HD in particular can be found at www.GalaxyOnFire.com, the brand-new website, which will henceforth be your #1 source for all things GOF! If you haven’t done so already, check it out and take a look around. And make sure to sign up to receive our newsletter as well. If you do so before next Thursday (October 20th, 2011), you will even take part in an exclusive give-away and have the chance to win one of five promo codes for a free download of Galaxy on Fire 2™ HD!