Posted in Classic and Remakes on Oct 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Classical strategy-puzzle game Commandos is now available on the Good Old Games store, along with its expansion Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, both for only 6$.
Commandos is the late nineties progenitor of a sub-genre that focuses on leading a small number of team members, each with his, her or its unique abilities, to penetrate [...]
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Posted in Deals on Oct 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Last week of Direct2Drive’s anniversary deal, and ten more titles are on sale for only 5$ each. Under the theme of “wargames”, the ten are:
The excellent WW2 strategy game, Company of Heroes, in its gold version, including the Opposing Fronts expansion.
Futuristic, well-received RTS Supreme Commander, also including expansion.
If you’re done with WW2, World in Conflict [...]
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Posted in Classic and Remakes, Deals on Oct 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Steam are having a weekend deal on Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, the unique side scrolling action adventure from the creative minds at Oddworld Inhabitants. The classic game, describing the exploits of weakling Abe as he outsmarts rather than outguns his enemies in order to save his people from ending up as hamburgers, is 3.4$ instead of the regular 10$.
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Posted in Classic and Remakes, Deals on Oct 1st, 2009 No Comments »
As the new Red Faction: Guerilla is doing the rounds on gaming PCs everywhere, GamersGate are offering the previous two episodes in the First-Person Shooter series for the low price of 10$ – for both games together. Deal is valid for this weekend only, then the price goes back to its normal 20$ level.
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Posted in Deals, Indie Games on Sep 29th, 2009 No Comments »
The D2D Store’s 4th week of its anniversary deal focuses on Independent games. Now you can buy each of the following titles for 5$ only:
Mount and Blade – A freeform rpg game where you lead a band of warriors in a medieval world, the focus being large battles between warbands, including battling on horseback (average review [...]
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Posted in Deals on Sep 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Some new and mostly quality weekend deals from the Impulse store:
Scrapland, an ambitious action-adventure combo set in a world of sentient, flying robots, is selling for 7$. The game won itself a 72 review average when it was released five years ago.
Capitalism II (82 review average) is a detailed economic simulation from the beginning of the [...]
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Posted in Deals on Sep 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Gamer’s Gate have added Far Cry 2 (average review score – 85), Ubisoft’s Mercenary-in-Africa game, to their catalogue. The title comes with the game’s Fortune’s Pack, available in other places for 5$, without an extra fee, so for 20$ you get Far Cry 2 plus the additions of the pack – three new weapons, two [...]
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Posted in Deals on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
The third set of ten games for 5$ each goes live on the D2D store. This week is RPG-themed, so most games are either single player role-playing games or massively multiplayer ones. Unfortunately, as is often the case with Direct2Drive, most titles on the list are only available for North American users.
3rd week games for [...]
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Posted in Deals on Sep 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Good Old Games are selling Painkiller Black for 20% less this week, making it cost all of $8.
Painkiller is one of the best “pure” fps’s to come out, ranking up there with the Doom and Serious Sam brands.
By “pure” I mean nothing to get in the way of the very intensive action - no briefings, in-level cut [...]
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Posted in Deals on Sep 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Direct2Drive are proceeding with their 5-week sale, celebrating 5 years of activity by offering 50 games for only $5 each (though some of them are only available for NA customers). The second week adds ten more game to the sale – many of them top dogs. They are:
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena – The [...]
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