A band of tiny men has been stealthily carving out a tunnel to Steam right beneath our feet, while we were none the wiser. Suddenly the new game Dwarfs!? just popped up on Steam this afternoon with the full game, demo and launch trailer, taking us all by surprise.
Oh, so YOU’RE the one person who hasn’t played Plants Versus Zombies yet? Well, I guess that Steam has put it on sale at $3.40 just for YOU. Be polite and go buy a copy of it from them. Everyone else, take a look at Steam’s other sale. Today only you can get several Need For Speed games at big discounts, NFS: Hot Pursuit is $14.99, Shift is $6.80, and Undercover is a mere $2.50.
This week Kalypso Media released video detailing the third and final playable character in their upcoming cooperative hack ‘n’ slash game The First Templar. The new character Marie d’Ibelin is one of two possible companions who’ll join the game’s protagonist Celian over the course of the story. Players can switch between them for single-player adventures, but the game is designed to encourage multi-player coop.
A new video of the wacky, trap-based strategy game, Orcs Must Die has surfaced. It’s part of a new weekly showcase in which the developer, Robot Entertainment, shows off the various traps that players will be able to use in the game. This week, it is the Arrow Wall. It’s a placeable wall that shoots out a floor-to-ceiling- volley of arrows that impales any hapless Orcs unfortunate enough to wander by.
You’ll need to act fast, because many of these weekend deals are actually just for one day only, and Electronic Arts has a massive sale you’ll want to check out today. You slowpokes will still find a few deals that stick around over the weekend, but thrifty game hunters will want to take a look at what’s up for grabs today on the digital distributors.
Surviving for seven years quite a feat for an online game, and even World of Warcraft has yet to hit that mark. But the world’s first superhero MMO, City of Heroes celebrates that accomplishment today with a series of in-game events, sales on premium content, and free account reactivations for former members.
While everyone else is obsessing over the royal wedding, us gamers will be attending to the important things in life: Shooting zombies, punching robots, and blowing up Nazis. The only princesses we need to be concerned with are the ones we’re rescuing from evil wizards in these cheap games.
There are no zombies in this trailer for Risen 2: Dark Waters, but it does have Pirates, Voodoo, and a giant tentacle-monster. Made by Axis Animation who stormed the internet a couple of months ago with their artistic, heart-wrenching trailer for Dead Island, this new trailer has plenty of action, and couple of interesting plot twists.
Act fast, because there are some great deals online today, especially if you like classic consoles, harcore army simulators, or pretending to be a superhero. For starters, Amazon.com is selling Crysis 2 for $39.99 on PC, PS3 and XBox. This is a one-day only deal, and it’s for the physical copy of the game, not a downloadable version.
A pair of screenshots from Mass Effect 3 have been released today which show Commander Shepard fighting a new enemy type, Armored goons from Cerberus. The shots give players a look at these mooks in combat, as well as showing a nice close up of what their armor, weapons, and helmets will look like.
