Now THAT’S the spirit America! The only way out of our nation’s economic crisis is to use our credit cards to buy digital goods, then spend dozens of man-hours playing video games during our national three-day weekend! Now YOU can show off your patriotism buy spending money you don’t have on things you don’t need with these weekend video game sales!
Solar 2, a new and interesting space-sim look-alike from developer Murudai, blends the feel of open space sims with shoot-em-up style gameplay and movement to make a truly unique game. It starts you out in an endless universe. Not as a spaceship, not as a god beckoning planets to your will, but as an asteroid. A small, uninteresting asteroid. The progression of the game comes from building your asteroid up to a planet by crashing into other asteroids, then going from planet to star, then from star to star system, and to the eventual fate of becoming a black hole.
Puzzle Agent, the hybrid puzzle adventure game from Telltale Games, marked a new attempt at something unique from the point-and-click adventure specialists. Borrowing a gameplay style not unlike the Professor Layton series, and featuring the artistic style of Graham Annable, this title from Telltale does some interesting things to the already-unique genre. Billing itself as a lighthearted faux-investigative horror thriller, it seeks to differentiate itself from the developer’s usual wheelhouse by adding in the direct puzzle element, and an interesting narrative, with some excellent results.
I really enjoy seeing TF2 class changes. Since the game’s launch in 2007, the game has improved tremendously. It’s been awesome trying out all of Valve’s new items with the recent Uber Update.New features range from replays to a crafting system, but the Team Fortress classes changed more than anything else.
Steampowered.com is having a Daily Deal on a various games through July 10.
World of Warcraft
took its first steps to becoming completely free to play yesterday,
adding a “Starter Edition” that allows players to play for free up to
level 20. The news came alongside Blizzard merging the original game and
its first expansion, “The Burning Crusade,” into a singular package.
This means that its two exclusive races, Draenei and Blood Elf, are
available to Starter Edition players as well. A list of limitations for
these free players was released shortly after the news as well:
Electronic Arts recently announced their new PC release platform Origin. Whether this attempt will stand up more powerfully than previous attempts like EA Link remains to be seen, but EA’s Frank Gibeau has made it clear that they will be pushing the plaform hard by making many of their upcoming (and existing) releases exclusive to Origin.
