Star Wars Fan rejoice! A major digital distributor has put every Star Wars game in their catalog on sale for the weekend. If you aren’t into ancient weapons and hokey religions, then you can still find a few other good deals this weekend as well.
Max Payne was always a series about a hard-boiled detective who takes the law into his own hands, but the new trailer for Max Payne 3 shows that the latest game in the series is taking the franchise in a completely new direction.
If you were hoping to “Cross Lightsabers” in Star Wars: The Old Republic, you’ll be sad to hear that same-sex romantic subplots with NPCs are not going to be an option at launch. This is a surprise, considering that Bioware’s last game, Dragon Age 2, surrounded the player with a gang of priapic bisexuals.
Earlier last week, Electronic Arts’ CFO, Eric Brown, traveled to the Citi 2011 Tech Conference, talking about Battlefield 3 preorders and the current release status of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Now, he’s discussed the success of Origin and free-to-play games from EA.
A remake of the old isometric Syndicate strategy games has been rumored for years and finally some real details and screenshots have emerged of the game, which is being developed by Starbreeze. While many gamers were expecting this new Syndicate game to be somewhat similiar to the original, to a lot of people’s surprise (and anger) it was revealed that, like the new X-COM game, the new Syndicate will be a first person shooter.
Sony Online Entertainment has dabbled a bit in the free-to-play business model before, with the microtransaction model forEverquest 2 last August. Apparently, it worked quite well, since SOE has transferred the business model to the upcoming MMO, Planetside 2.
There’s a lot of doubt surrounding the upcoming (and currently in beta) browser-based MMO Battlestar Galactica Online, but it looks like it’s already gaining quite a playerbase with a reported 5 million players registered since the game went into open beta in February this year.
I’m not ashamed to admit that I played the original Deus Ex on a Macintosh Powerbook. That $3,000 slab of black plastic had 8 MEGS of VRAM but was still the most powerful laptop Apple made at the time. It was just barely able to run the game but it brought me hours of portable cyberpunk joy eleven years ago. Now a new generation of Mac gamers with their fancy Intel processors with be able to enjoy the latest Deus Ex game thanks to a port made by Feral Interactive.
This weekend on Steam, the new release (released this spring) Sid Meier’s Civilization V is a whopping 75% off, bringing the price down to a quite lovely USD $ 12.50 for all of your turn-based, winning the world strategy needs.
Also on special on Steam is the Need for Speed franchise, ranging from 50 – 75% off.
The latest trailer for Telltale’s upcoming adventure game based on Jurassic Park shows this indie developer turning away from the slow pace and light tone of their previous games by focusing on action and giant lizards that want to eat you.
