If you’re a grown-up heading to the Penny Arcade Expo East next month in Boston, you can join your fellow drinking-age nerds at the Friday night “Gamers Gone Wild” party held by 2Old2play.com and SFX-360. The event will run from eight o’clock until two am at a venue called MKT at 120 Water Street. Admission is free if you have a PAX East badge and you’re over 21.
Do you suck at video games? If you find yourself getting stabbed in the back every ten seconds in Call of Duty, or if you walk around Halo with a “Stick Plasma Grenade Here” sign on your helmet, then you might want to have a look at a new free-to-play online game called FPS Trainer. It purports to help raise the skills of a novice player to an intermediate level, and even has some content on the way which will help already experienced players get to a professional level.
A new teaser site has popped up for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, with the URL titled “www.findmakarov.com”. The icon is a holographic picture of Makarov’s face, who, in case you didn’t know, is the main villain from Modern Warfare 2. The site was nothing more than a countdown, but it used assets from the Modern Warfare 2 trailers, and briefly showed. a shadowy figure with military fatigues and a beret.
Most of the digital distributors announced their weekend sales yesterday, but a few new ones have popped up today. Let’s take a look. Gog.com has what they call “Assorted Classics” on sale. This is six games with no real theme and they include both Postal games, two installments of Stronghold, Arx Fatalis and The Incredible Machine Mega Pack. They’re all 40% off which puts them between $3.59 and $5.99 each.
Remember back when Dead Space 2 launched, there were three downloadable weapon packs that you could buy, right on launch day? Well it should come as a surprise to nobody that the “DLC” was actually already on your game disk, and if you bought them, you were essentially paying to get an an unlock code for something you already owned. Some intrepid hackers discovered proof of this and, surprisingly, Electronic Arts is being very cool about it!
Normally, we don’t mention Console games on these weekly sales features, but today Amazon is doing a right fine deal on the special editions of Halo Reach. If you still haven’t grabbed Halo Reach yet, or were holding off on the special editions for just such a sale, head over to Amazon to grab the Limited Edition of the game for forty dollars, or the Legendary Edition for sixty. In terms of PC games, let’s take a look at our usual suspects.
Most of us are going to the Penny Arcade Expo East to frolic with our fellow nerds and grab as much schwag as we can get our mitts on. However there are apparently some people who go to industry conventions to engage in actual productive behavior, like discussing how to improve the gaming industry
Ubisoft garnered quite a bit of hate from PC gamers last year when all
their new releases came with a new Digital Rights Management system that
prevented you from playing your game if you didn’t have a constant
internet connection. The reason this caused so much controversy is
because this system applied even if you were playing a game that was
exclusively single player. There were occasions where the DRM servers
went down and nobody was able to play any of Ubisoft’s PC games that
used the system, including the PC versions of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Assassin’s Creed 2.
Even though last month Ubisoft scaled back some of its DRM on last year’s games, there were still some initial worries that Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
would be using this same DRM system. Ubisoft has confirmed that the
game’s Single Player campaign would be playable offline, although it
would require an initial login process.
The day that Dead Space 2 launched, players were told that will be a DLC pack of single-player mission in the near future. Well the future is March first, when Dead Space 2: Severed becomes available for the surprisingly reasonable price of seven dollars. You won’t be continuing the story of Isaac Clarke, Dead Space 2’s main protagonist, but rather, you’ll play as Gabe Weller who was one of the characters from Dead Space Extraction (Which was only available on Wii and PS3).
Frankly, I don’t understand how someone can possibly own Half Life Two, and not own the downloadable Episode 2, but if you fit that category, you’re in luck, because Steampowered.com is selling Ep 2 for 80% off. That makes it two bucks, and needless to say, it’s a must buy if you already have Half Life 2 and Episode One, not to mention an excuse to grab the lot of them if you haven’t played this franchise yet.
