I'm pleased to announced that the Forgotten Isles have been unlocked! The entire single player campaign is now open. Huzzah! These 4 new levels feature a new story line, as well as the Tanuki monk and gameplay progression - meaning you'll build up your forces as you go and take them with you to the next level. The forgotten Isles are a weird, dangerous place! Also, we've added a notification tray to help you multitask but still keep on top of your Skulls games. Notifications appear in two cases: - when it's your turn in a Skulls Anywhere match - when you've searched for an online match and found a game in the background (to use background searches, anytime you fail to find a game, click "keep searching" to search in the background) Tray notifications only appear if Skulls is minimized or not the active application. So if you're waiting for your turn or other online players, just minimize Skulls and click on the notification when it pops up. Full details on the update below. Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------- beta 1.009 - 7/23/13 - changelist 7604 ------------------------------------------------------------- Unlock the Forgotten Isles (4 levels), with developer commentary. Add Notification Tray which will popup if the game is minimized and the player receives a turn notification, or when an online background search is successful Fix join sometimes failing when joining an online match via background search while in the campaign (or a local multiplayer match) Add back option to steam leaderboard choice dlg Fix random crash in ricepaddyoutliner b/c of paddy w/no layer yet Fix mp2fall_4 potion setup Tune all multiplayer Forgotten Isles maps Clarify some dialog messages that were displaying “sign in” when actually offline or disconnected Make sure achievements won outside of end-of level are awarded immediately (like emblem crafting related achievements). award progress achievements for completing each world on normal after any level, in case the player goes back to an earlier level on normal difficulty

Key Features

• A fast-paced, arcade-inspired blend of arcade action and turn-based strategy!
  
• Rub shoulders with the colorful denizens of the Afterlife and power up your army to deadly demons!
  
• Rampage through 24 levels in an epic single-player campaign!
  
• Confound opponents with the all-new Tanuki Monk unit!
  
• Gain experience and fuse emblems with an all-new player progression system!
  
• Battle up to 4 players at once on spectacular multiplayer maps, both locally and online (realtime and turn-based asynchronous modes)!
  
• Power your way through an all-new episode, which features persistent troops and the mischievous new Tanuki Monk!
  
• Get inside our heads with all-new Developer Commentary!

• OS: glibc 2.17+. 32/64-bit. S3TC support is NOT required.
• Processor: Dual Core CPUMemory: 1 GB RAM
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)Hard Drive: 1 GB HD space