The 2008 film In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale by crapmaster Uwe Boll nearly killed the Dungeon Siege franchise, but after a five year break, the third game in the series is almost here, and news is slowly trickling out about the cast of characters. With a new Publisher, a new Developer, along with new characters, Dungeon Siege III is here to fill the hack ‘n’ slash void in your life until Diablo III comes out.
The honestly, completely, really truly free version of the Battlefield franchise is almost here. After months in beta, this new game which combines elements from Battlefield 2, Bad Company, and Battlefield Heroes is almost here, and players who participated in the beta test are getting early access plus special “Veteran Rewards” for their work in the beta.
Something suspicious is going on over at the internet’s biggest digital distributor. Steam didn’t have a midweek sale, and haven’t announced announced their weekend sale yet. I suspect that somewhere around midnight we can expect some sort of April Fool’s shenanigans to kick in with a big sale over there.
Can you believe it’s been ten years since the Lord of the Rings movies first hit theatres? In that time there have been plenty of LotR games; many of them have been great, but a few clunkers have popped in as well. Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment has a new one coming, and I had the chance for a few minutes of hands-on play with “War In The North” at the Penny Arcade Expo East. Here’s what you need to know about this latest adventure through Middle Earth.
After a very good week, we’re coming into a dry spell for online game sales. As of this writing Steampowered.com hasn’t even posted their Midweek Madness sale yet. They are selling a few games at discounts now, including the recently-released Sega Genesis Collection which has dozens of old school Sega games for $9.99. If that’s not to your tastes, you can get the Sega Dreamcast Collection which has four games from that console for $14.99.
The Unreal Tournament games have always been solid first person shooters in their own right but Epic’s powerful game engines have provided a strong platform for numerous awesome games such as huge commercial blockbusters likeBioshock or Borderlands, and smaller indie projects like Killing Floor and The Ball.
The Heroes of Might and Magic
is a series very close to my heart. I have lost many hours to the rich
turned-based gameplay that the previous entries have offered and the
sixth entry to the series looks to be offering the classic Heroes gameplay with an overhauled single-player component. The
first four entries of the series were developed by New World Computing
and the last game was done by Nival Interactive. This entry of the
series is being handled by Black Hole Entertainment, who has previously
delved into the world of fantasy strategy gaming with Warhammer: Mark of Chaos.
