Brink was aimed at making a splash in the highly crowded, competitive FPS market and while it hasnt quite gotten the reception that developer Splash Damage were hoping for, fans of the game are set to get their hands on its first map pack later this week.
Last summer, Playdead Studios released Limbo for Xbox Live Arcade, and it has left an indelible impact on the independent gaming scene. The beautiful art style, open ended story and puzzle platforming combined to form a unique, memorable experience. A year later, Limbo has arrived for the PC and PS3 with some additional content. Is the PC version a faithful port of the Xbox 360 award-winner, or is it an inferior experience to the original?
Remember how awful the DRM software for Assassin’s Creed 2 was? How many times people got locked out of a game that they purchased, and how many pirates still got their hands on the game? Well, Ubisoft is calling it a success now, and they’re putting it in Driver: San Francisco for the PC!
Yesterday’s sales round-up covered many of the big digital sales going on this weekend, but there are always a few late comers who put up their sales on Friday. Gog, Onlive and few others have snuck in a some very tempting sales for the weekend, plus a couple of daily deals.
What’s that you say? “World War II has been done to death”. Oh no, my friend, there is still territory left to explore in the Allies Versus Axis storyline. Dinosaurs for example. That’s right, there’s a great indie game that you can try for free this weekend which will let you play as a Nazi T-Rex with machine guns strapped to it’s face. Aside from free Aryan Giant Lizards, there’re are many other games on sale this weekend, and a few of them even rival the awesomeness of Teutonic Thunder Lizards.
Indie games come in all shapes and sizes and an indie game that I particularly liked was 2009’sGratuitous Space Battles. The upcoming indie game Space Pirates and Zombies? is looking increasingly like a indie game to check out when it comes out later this year. The game is being developed by Minmax Games and looks to combine the gameplay fast paced fun of a top down shooter with the vast scope of old school space exploration games like Elite and after playing the demo, I can confirm it does this very well.
Indie games from Japan don’t often make it to the states, but when they do, they tend to make a pretty big ripple. The most notable example of this was last year’s Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, a game by Japanese developer EasyGameStation, localized by the studio Carpe Fulgur. It was definitely a success, selling approximately 140,000 copies, the number of which is still climbing. Carpe Fulgur recently announced the release date and issued a demo of their new project, Chantelise: A Tale of Two Sisters. It has apparently been in the works for a while, as that release date is this Friday, July 29th. While many will believe this to be a brand new game, it is actually the game made by EasyGameStation before Recettear.
