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Video Game News: The Humble Indie Bundle, Aquaria goes Open-Source, Portal FREE until May 24th |
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Written by Jarrett Voight
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 01:26 |
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The Humble Indie Bundle includes Aquaria, World of Goo, Lugaru HD, Penumbra Overture, GISH, and also Samarost 2. It is being sold at the novel price of... whatever you're willing to donate to charity. Want to give the charity all eighty dollars which the bundle is worth? go right ahead. Want to give it a single buck and run off with the games? you can do that too! Each one of these games is excellent and there's quite a bit of variety, from an underwater epic, to a shooter, to a horror game, to a puzzler, and more. Be sure not miss out on the chance to own these games and feel generous at the same time.
Get the Humble Indie Game Bundle now!
On top of that, four of the games included in this bundle are becoming open-source. These are Aquaria, Lugaru HD, Penumbra Overture, and GISH. The Gaming Experience has reviewed Aquaria already and its already had some rather generous modding capabilities, but now you can take the engine and make whatever you want with it, releasing it for free under the GNU license.
Last but not least. You know what Portal is right? That game that won a ton of awards for its excellent physics puzzles and the use of the portal gun that gets a sequel in the near future (Valve time). And the full game (not the demo) costs like twenty bucks... thirty if you get it alongside Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2, and absolutely nothing if you get it between now and May 24th.
...wait, what?
Portal Promotion
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When life starts handing you gifts left and right, it would be very rude and incredibly bad karma not to accept them. Or to tell your friends, and tell them to tell their friends. Word of mouth is the oldest form of advertising, and it still works.
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Video Game News: Starcraft 2 and Mechwarrior 4 |
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Written by Jarrett Voight
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Tuesday, 04 May 2010 14:49 |
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News about Starcraft 2 has been spreading since its announcement two years ago, but now the release date has been finally announced. On July 27th, the epic conflict between the Terran, the Protoss, and the Zerg continues.
Raynor fights a losing war against the tyrant, Emperor Mengsk. Zeratul searches for the truth fearing the return of the legendary Xel Naga. Meanwhile the Queen of the Blades prepares to conquer the universe once and for all.
The campaign will be told through three games, the first of which, Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty will be released this summer. It will follow Raynor through a nonlinear campaign where you can improve your army, learn more about the Starcraft universe, or research upgrades onboard the hyperion. At some point you will also gain access to a short mini-campaign featuring the Protoss.
The multiplayer has been ironed out with the beta testing for the past several months. It does not dramatically change the system from the first game, but adds new units and new strategies in place of some old ones. Battle.net has been tweaked allowing a much more inviting environment for the less skilled players, while also allowing you to spectate games, and share maps.
The game also uses Battle.net for cloud distribution and to allow you to download the game wherever you play. After you connect to verify your account, you can also play games with "guests" on your LAN network.
The Galaxy Editor coming with the game is extremely robust. Already folks with to beta have used it to make some excellent maps and mods, including a startlingly accurate Tetris remake. Eventually, Blizzard hopes that there will be mods worth selling over battle.net, similar to the distribution of Garry's Mod and Half Life Deathmatch on Steam.
The game will retail for sixty US dollars, though the more avid fans (including myself) can pay one-hundred US dollars for the special collector's edition including a 176-page art book, a soundtrack, an exclusive comic, a 2gb USB flash drive shaped like Raynor's dog tag preloaded with Starcraft and Brood War, special battle.net emblems and an exclusive Thor skin, and a "baby Thor" pet for your WoW character.
Mark your calenders, July 27th!
In other news, another long-awaited classic series has had its last game polished and rereleased to its fans.
MechWarrior 4 Free Rerelease
Smith and Tinker Inc has finally negotiated all of the legal issues with Microsoft and have now released Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries for free through the MekTek modding community. With new multiplayer servers, over one hundred 'mechs, new weapons, better support for the new 'mechs, a nonlinear campaign and more... old Mechwarrior fans and newcomers alike can enjoy return to the famous series.
2010 is indeed the biggest year in gaming...
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Left 4 Dead 2 Demo - Things which I consider awesome |
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Written by Danny "Mordred" Hewson
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 19:09 |
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Hi all, just had my first chance to play the L4D2 demo (at least ahead of whatevers playable on saturday at eurogamer) and heres a few cool things which Ive not seen posted about elsewhere.
1 - Some of me may know you to be a bit of a Jonathan Coulton fan, to the point of having been to a couple of his shows over here. I was somewhat surprised to find that when i used a jukebox the first song that started playing was "Re: Your Brains". Suffice it to say that the 2 hordes that subsequently charged me were most welcome. As was the machete I was waving at them.
2 - You can throw canisters of boomer puke over enemies and get the horde to attack THEM. I used this on a witch. She was NOT amused.
More to come when I play on the manlier difficulties.
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Written by Danny "Mordred" Hewson
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Monday, 12 October 2009 18:09 |
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Hullo again everyone,
As well as our recent foray into the wonderful world of criticism I would like to talk about a couple of other things.
Firstly I'd like to see some more of you in the Inn, even with 4 or 5 of us its pretty fun...and the more the merrier, you know?
Secondly Ive started a WoA Steam group recently, and ive now made it public membership. This is basically so we can get into the same TF2 or left 4 dead game from time to time!
heres the link: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/warsofarda/
Discuss...
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