Wild Hare Entertainment, the same folks working on Etrom: The Astral Essence, has just announced that their upcoming PC fighter, Rag Doll Kung Fu, has reached gold status and is now set to kick North American ass on February 12.

If this is your first time to encounter the game, all ya have to do is think of it as rag dolls gone string crazy as they pull off the weirdest Kung Fu moves evarrr! The game is heavily mouse-dependent as players move their rag doll characters via analog movement with the mouse (much like you would with puppets on strings).

Featuring 16 levels of story mode, a retro-style kung fu film, single-player mini-games including Ninja Onslaught, ChuChu Wing Pooh, Rag Doll Soccer and Rag Doll Athletics, players will also be able to import graphics and customize/construct their own characters.

Rated M by the ESRB, the Rag Doll Kung Fu retail box will also include custom skins, an 11 X 14 poster, and a 28-page manual and will sell for US$ 19.99.

Etrom: The Astral Essence, a 3D Action-RPG game set in a dark, futuristic world of science and magic, will soon be available at North American retailers according to Wild Hare Entertainment and Alten8 Limited.

Etrom: The Astral Essence promises to take gamers on an epic adventure filled with warring societies, demons, secret divinities, dragons, mechs, hover tanks, different races, and intelligent entities from across space and time. Think of it as "Lord of the Rings" meets "Star Wars" inside a blender.

The game features:

• Deep and involving storyline set in a "neo-gothic" world where technology and a fantasy Middle Ages clash
  
• Non-Linear Game Structure
• Seven possible endings
• Frequent and Bloody Battles ranging from close combat with an Astral Axe to long range fights with Energy Weapons (Assault rifles, Sniper rifles, heavy machine-guns, Hyper rifles, Disruptors) and amazing Astral Spells
• Astral Transformations (Inner Demon, Dragon Guardian, Abyss Knight, Lux Soldier, Legio Infenalis)
• Futuristic MECHS
• More than 70 huge levels and secret levels in the 4 States, the Mysterious Void Lands and the Dungeons of the Abyss
• Hordes of Enemies and Powerful Enemy Gods
• Free and Strategic management of the Character's Inventory with over 500 types of armor, objects, energy weapons, power-drugs, magic items