I recently had the chance to ask Michal Marcinkowski, the
creator of Soldat and currently the developer of Link-Dead a few questions over
the web. This was quite an honour for me, as Soldat is one of my favourite
games of all time, and I am fervently awaiting the full release of Link-Dead. Link-Dead is a 2D side-scrolling team multiplayer tactical shooter set in a post-nuclear War setting.
Steampowered.com is selling Darksiders for 75% off and that brings it down to ten dollars from now until Monday. Steam also has numerous other games marked down, the highlights of which include all of the Oddworld games for half off, everything in the Victoria franchise, and all four episodes of Winter Voices for $2.49 per episode.
I am a known supporter of smaller indie games and developers. Now, lately, a lot of games have hit it big on the market (comparatively at least), such as Super Meat Boy, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and the big one: Minecraft. Despite all of these “blockbuster indie” titles, there are still plenty of great smaller, lesser-known titles that you probably have never even heard of, each of which deserving every bit as much praise as the former games. I’m going to recommend a handful of fun, quirky, and cheap titles that will help you fill that time between the blockbuster titles you get every major season.
The
Creative Assembly was founded in 1987 and was known for many years
among gamers for its sports games. But in 1999 it began work on a new
kind of game that would mix genres in an experimental way and allow
gamers to explore an exciting historical setting. This game became Shogun: Total War. In the decade since then, The Creative Assembly has received numerous accolades for the Total War series and with the release of Total War: Shogun 2 this week, it seems suitable that we take a look back at the franchise’s humble origins.
Shogun: Total War was first announced in 1999 and then released in June the following year. It combined real-time
tactics and turn-based grand strategy to give gamers a unique breed of
strategy gaming that they hadn’t encountered before. The game was set
during the Sengoku period of Japanese history and received a strong
positive response. The game was also successful enough to warrant the
development of an expansion pack by the name of “The Mongol Invasion,”
and both this expansion and the original game were published by
Electronic Arts.
If you’ve somehow already done all that there is to do in Dragon Age 2, but still need some more RPG action in the Free Marches, then head over to Facebook and try out Dragon Age Legends, a free-to-play flash game based on the Dragon Age franchise. Even if you haven’t had your fill of Dragon Age 2 yet, you will still want to take a look at Legends, because playing through this tie-in game will let you unlock bonus items that your character can use in DA2.
I’m sure that in a day or so, we’ll be seeing some alcohol-themed game sales for St. Patrick’s Day, but so far this week we’re looking at some rather boring sales for online games. Steampowered.com is selling the aerial combat game Dog Fighter Aces High for 75% off which makes it $2.49. They are also selling a few other games at discounts now as well; all Oddworld Tiles, including the Oddboxx compilation are half off, several game sin the Majesty franchise are marked down by as much as 80%, and the Crazy Machines Everything Pack is 40% at $24.99.
I recently had the chance to ask Michal Marcinkowski, the
creator of Soldat and currently the developer of Link-Dead a few questions over
the web. This was quite an honour for me, as Soldat is one of my favourite
games of all time, and I fervently awaiting the full release of Link-Dead.
