Archived News:
Futuremark and Fatshark announce Frontiers Pack, which will bundle Shattered Horizon and Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West into a multiplayer shooter combo pack. To celebrate, the pack will be on sale for 75% off this weekend, which will also be a free weekend for each game. Here's word: Futuremark® Games Studio and Fatshark today announced the Frontiers Pack, a special game bundle that includes multiplayer shooters Shattered Horizon™ and Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West. From November 4–7 both games will be free to play on Steam during the Frontiers Free Weekend letting friends enjoy combat from the frontiers of the Wild West to the depths of space. In addition the Frontiers Pack will be on sale during the event for just $12.49, a saving of more than 60% over the regular cost of the two games when bought separately.
Steam now offers a new patch for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II to automatically update Relic's real-time strategy sequel. The new version has balance changes, bug fixes, and after patching the game will save players' ranks and Last Stand data to the cloud. The full change list follows. Continue here to read the full story.
- 48 Hour Madness on GoGamer. Thanks Batman.
- AI War: Fleet Command on Steam. Save 50%.
- AI War: The Zenith Remnant on Steam. Save 50%.
- Farming Simulator 2011 on Steam. Save 17%.
- Major League Baseball 2K9 on Steam. Save 90%.
- Major League Baseball 2K10 on Steam. Save 90%.
- MLB Front Office Manager on Steam. Save 90%.
- Tommy Tronic on Steam. Save 20%.
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PopCap Games announces Bejeweled 3, a new installment in their popular match-3 series planned for release on December 7. Here's word on what to expect: Beyond stunning, high-definition graphics and mellifluous music and sound effects, Bejeweled 3 is packed with completely new game experiences in addition to updated and expanded re-imaginings of the four original game modes from Bejeweled 2. Four all-new secret games including Ice Storm and Poker offer surprising new interpretations of the Bejeweled theme, while Quest mode features eleven mini-games — clever hybrids of Bejeweled game-play with other classic game mechanics — comprising 40 total quests.
Shmusicup (Shoot-music-up) is an upcoming shooter from carefulTzai Entertainment "where you get to play against your own music collection" (be careful, Milli Vanilli uses an aimbot). The site offers a gameplay trailer, and here's word: "It is a vertical scrolling shooter where the enemy bullet patterns are generated by any mp3 chosen from your music collection! Imagine grooving to your favourite song while dodging barrages of bullets in sync with your music and nailing the highest score in the world for that tune you love!"
The Launch Trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops that debuted during yesterday's NFL broadcasts is now available online, showing off more of the military shooter sequel due on November 9. Set to the strain's of Gimme Shelter, the clip depicts various bits of cold war action and diplomacy, including a cameo of JFK.
JoWooD Forums have word on plans for a Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition patch that will soon update the role-playing sequel. The patch is in the works at their Community Patch Team, but it is nonetheless official, as word is: "It will be part of the soon to be sold Enhanced Edition of Forsaken Gods, it's being built by the Community Patch Team, produced by our newly formed game development company Mad Vulture Games and it will be published by JoWooD." They offer some screenshots and details on the "masses of improvements" the patch will include. Thanks LittleMe.
The Stardock interview on Gaming Nexus talks with Derek 'Kael' Paxton about his role at the indie publisher/developer as they try and whip Elemental: War of Magic into shape. Here's word on that: "I love the concept of Elemental, I think it has the potential to be a great game. But I don't love the implementation. That's good news because if the concept was simply flawed it couldn't be improved. I believe Stardock has done a lot of work to improve the game since its initial release and Elemental is now stable and fun to play. But I don't think the job is done. Stardock is committed to making Elemental great, and we have everything we need to make that happen. As for turning around the perception of the game, I believe that if you create a great game everything else will fall into place."
Here's Valve's list of the top 10 bestselling games on Steam for the week:
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Metro 2033
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Gold Edition
- Medal of Honor
- Sid Meier's Civilization V
- Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
- Team Fortress 2
- Blood Bowl Legendary Edition
We had a very enjoyable Halloween yesterday, as always the kids around here were exceptionally nice (even the boys covered in shaving cream), and the doggies greatly enjoyed the attention their costumes earned them, which is why Halloween is right up there with Thanksgiving as their favorite day of the year. We ended up reusing a Batman costume from a previous Halloween to make them the more well-matched Batman and Robin combo, and they were a big hit, and perhaps for the first time did not traumatize a single child, as we're usually good for one screamer a year. We also had a very strong turnout, probably in part thanks to it falling on a Sunday, and don't even have our usual slightly ridiculous amount of candy leftover. All in all, a rousing success.
R.I.P.: JFK's speechwriter Ted Sorensen.
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