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Three Rings' Bang! Howdy Rides Into Town

A press release was issued to announce that Bang! Howdy is launched and ready for you to mosey on over and check it out.

hree Rings Design, Inc., a leading developer of multiplayer online casual games, announced today that the company officially launched its newest title, Bang! Howdy. The free-to-play game has experienced strong growth since the end of beta, thanks to promotion by its launch partner, Miniclip (www.miniclip.com), the world's largest online gaming site with 34 million unique game players per month. Aspiring cowboys can download and play the game now at www.banghowdy.com.

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The Great Land Rush

The Great Land Rush is a posting on the official Bang! Howdy site that tells us about the Land Grab senerio.

Hee hee hee! With Sheriff Mike off in the Nevada desert, no one can spoil my nefarious plot to release more beta chaos on the unsuspecting citizens of Frontier Town!

* There's a new scenario, Land Grab, based on the capture and defense of towering homesteads. Play the Land Grab Tutorial to find out more.

There's lots more where this came from so get clicking!

Welcome to the Indian Trading Post

As part of an update frenzy on the official Bang! Howdy site, the developers offer us information on the Indian Trading Post...

Pardners, we're pleased as punch to announce that Indian Trading Post is now available on the public beta server. It's been a long road, but we're mighty happy with how it all came together. We've introduced a pile of new stuff to the game.

There are three new Big Shot units:

* The Storm Caller attacks his opponents with a bolt of lightning that chains to anyone unlucky enough to be standin' next to his target.

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Boba Fett Was Never This Cheerful.
The folks at Bang! Howdy, although being fairly quiet since January, have been putting together a new mini-game, Bounties, for the intrepid deputy. Bounties sets your character against an outlaw in a series of games. If you win and bring the outlaw in, you earn rewards. Simple as that. Here a piece from the official site:

What are bounties, ya might be wonderin'. Well, bounties are a single player campaign mode where an intrepid Deputy (that's you) is pitted against an Outlaw (and sometimes their henchmen) in a series of games. Except that in bounty games the goal isn't always to come in first place. Games can define additional criteria like finishin' the game without losing more than five units or gunnin' down more than ten of the opponent's units in the process.

Yeehaw! Time to russle me up some outlaws!