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.
In the United States, visual novels are not exactly a common genre; the closest a popular series came to the genre for a long time was Capcom’s acclaimed Ace Attorney (Phoenix Wright). Nowadays, the closest to the visual novel genre is actually 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors by Chunsoft; it is much more in line with the visual novel genre than the Ace Attorney series, but Ace Attorney is more well known.
It has been quite a wait for players of Turbine’s MMORPG Lord of the Rings Online, the last (mini) expansion for the game came out in December of 2009 and apart from the big changes that hit the game when it switched to a free to play title last year. With some hugely anticipated MMO’s on the horizon like Guild Wars 2 and The Old Republic, can Turbine keep players of Lord of the Rings Online hooked with the game’s next expansion,Rise of Isengard?
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.
Pirates of the Black Cove can be described as an adventure real time strategy RPG. But it’s much easier to see it as a modern remake of Sid Meier’s Pirates. For those who haven’t heard of it, Sid Meier’s Pirates and its 2005 remake were pirate simulators that combined numerous gameplay elements and featured ship-to-ship combat, sword fighting, a vast sea to sail and governors’ daughters to woo. Despite the fun fusion of style’s there really haven’t been any other games that have capture the life of a pirate quite so well(Sans maybePirates of the Burning Sea), so it’ll be interesting to see if Pirates of the Black Cove can compete with the PC gaming classic.
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.
