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Strongbad’s Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1 comes out next week
Posted on August 5th, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC, Wii.
TellTale Games announced that SCG4AP episode one will release on August 11th for both the PC and the Wii (via the WiiWare store). The episode costs 1000 Wii Points (or $8.95 for PC).
If you are buying PC, you can preorder it now, and get it when it comes out.
Games for Windows Live is now Gold for free
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.
Microsoft announced yesterday that Games for Windows that are a part of Games for Windows Live (used to be called Vista Live) will work like they had the gold version of that subscription.
Originally, if you had Xbox Live Gold, you would have Games for Windows Live Gold as well, and you could use the same gamertag, and your gamerscore and achievements would be combined on your PC and your Xbox 360.
Now, you don’t have to pay for a Games for Windows Live Gold Subscription, you can play with all the features of Gold for free.
If you don’t have an Xbox, and play a Games for Windows Live enabled game, you can play with gamers on the Xbox version of the game, and can play in Matchmaking games that use TruSkill (which still has flaws).
This doesn’t mean that Xbox Live Gold Subscriptions are now free. This only applies to PC games.
Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness gone Gold!
Posted on May 5th, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, Mac OSX, PC, Xbox360.
A few days ago, Hothead Games announced that Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness has gone gold on the PC, Mac and Linux versions. According to Hothead, the Xbox Live Arcade game is under review (a process where Microsoft reviews a game/game content and then prices it for the Marketplace). The computer versions are priced at $20 dollars and rumor has it that the Xbox Live Arcade version will be 1600 points.
What does this mean? It basically means that the game is coming out real soon.
Mass Effect’s Bring Down the Sky to be free on PC
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.
According to BioWare, Bring Down the Sky will be free for Mass Effect when it becomes available for the PC on May 28th. Oddly, there’s a clause to this. You have to be a registered community member (sign up on their forums?). And thanks to EA, that’s as vague as it gets.
Strong Bad game launching on WiiWare
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC, Wii.
This was somewhat suggested when Strongbad GameWays was featured on Youtube. Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People is going to be episodic and will release monthly. So far, 5 games in the series have been announced. The first one is scheduled to release in June, in the WiiWare section of your Wii Shop Channel (if you have installed the recent Wii System Update).
Now, what game company is pro at making episodic games that it’s annoying? You guessed it, TellTale Games. You might remember them from Sam & Max.
As with all of TellTale’s other games, SBCG4AP will be also available on the PC, but it’s primarily focused on the Wii.
You can check out the product page for SBCG4AP here and the advertisement announcement here.
New Call of Duty 4 Maps LIVE
Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Wailord.
Categories: Gaming, PC, Xbox360.
Fire up Call of Duty 4, and you’ll see an update ready for you. Download it and go to Multiplayer, Download Maps, and buy it (on the 360) for 800 Microsoft Points. There are four new maps: Creek, Broadcast, Killhouse, and Chinatown, the last of which is a remake of Carentan from Call of Duty 2.
Edios allows alternative purchasing for Tomb Raider Anniversary
Posted on February 18th, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.
If you have been spying on Tomb Raider Anniversary but don’t actually want to buy the game, you are in luck. Edios, makers of the Tomb Raider video game series, have teamed up with Trialpay to allow you to have Tomb Raider Anniversary for free-ish. The catch? It’s like freeipods.com, you have to sign up for a trial or buy an offer with a third party, and then you will get the game for free. Of course, you should always read the fine print on deals like this in order to avoid unexpected surprises.
CSI Fans: TellTale Games releases a demo
Posted on January 21st, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.
TellTale games, the makers of CSI: Hard Evidence and Sam & Max Episodes, have released a CSI: Hard Evidence demo for the PC on their website. Heads up though: the game is rated M for Mature, but you should already be used to the violence if you have watched CSI before. The game only allows you to play through the first case though, but it should be enough to convince you to buy or not buy the game.
You can download the demo here.
If you are not a CSI fan, you probably won’t find this game very fun. Sorry.
EA announces free Battlefield game
Posted on January 21st, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.
EA is attempting to do what Ubisoft did last September, release games for free with advertising. Only difference is that it’s a new game called Battlefield Heroes, and it’s not Ubisoft. The game is primarily online play with matchmaking. Battlefield Heroes looks a lot like Team Fortress 2 in graphics style. But then being a cheap game, did you expect Crysis graphics?
The game also supports “micro-transitions”. In other words, you will have to pay for cool weapons and other addons for the game. Clever…
For now, that’s all we know. EA isn’t telling anyone but the Games For Windows magazine any more details. Battlefield Heroes should release sometime this Summer.
Battlefield Heroes’ website can be found here.
Valve makes pointless Nvidia deal
Posted on January 9th, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.
Valve has teamed up with Nvidia to bundle a copy of Portal with future Nvidia graphics cards. Isn’t that awesome? The catch? It’s an “extended” demo not a full free game. The game promotion also applies to current owners of Nvidia cards and the offer will be hooked (you will see an advertisement saying this offer is available) with future driver updates (if you happen not to know. But you do know because you are reading it here).
If I was Nvidia, I would rather have my name plastered on a $15 dollar off coupon deal instead of this crap Valve tries to push on us. Or give us the full game for free. If you haven’t noticed, people love free (which applies to mostly everything). Free = more potential customers. Think about it Valve.
Rockstar Games on Steam
Posted on January 4th, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.
Steam announced today that all of Rockstar Games’ games for the PC are now available for purchase via the Steam Marketplace. All Rockstar games are on sale, 10% off until January 11.