Breach, a multi-player only shooter is set to be released on Xbox Live Arcade next week, and as it approaches that time, information about the game is becoming more and more available. Atomic Games’ Breach is a stripped-down shooter with old and new innovations that harken back to more established AAA-shooters like Battlefield: Bad Company 2 as well as to introduce other elements to make it more interesting.
If you own the Oddboxx compilation of Oddworld games, you might have noticed some updates downloading today on your Steam account. The developer Oddworld Inhabitants has previously promised an update for Stranger’s Wrath, which will provide enhanced graphics, but today’s update is not THAT update. Today players got a set of fixes and minor improvements.
Adding to this weekend’s already generous assortment of weekend deals, we have a few more that just started today. First up is Gog.com’s sale on games by the publisher, Cyan. These are the people who publish Myst, so you can get four Myst games, plus something called “Manhole” for 50% off, if you buy them all as a lot for a total of $16.95. If you don’t want all five, you can buy them in any comibination for 30% off which makes them $4.19 each, or $6.99 for Uru, the most recent game in the Myst series. It’s agreat offer if you’re the one gamer who hasn’t played Myst yet, and have been living with that secret shame since the early 90’s.
Men of War: Assault Squad from Russian Publisher 1C is about to launch stage 2 of their open beta, but they need 20,000 members on their Steam community to do so. They are only at 17,000 at the time of this writing, but once the quota of registered users is reached, the beta will introduce a new playable faction, the Soviet Union. So Comrades, do your duty as a gamer and loyal Party member; help this developer test their new game.
I am so not making this up! Electronic Arts has announced that players who buy Dead Space 2 will unlock a set of Dead Space armor in Dragon Age II. This is much like the Blood Dragon armor which players could use in the original Dragon age and Mass Effect 2, but this time it is being used in games created by two different developers.
We’re heading into a good weekend for buying games online. Several digital distributors are holding worthwhile sales, and it isn’t even Friday yet! For starters, Steampowered.com is selling Dead Space for 66% off, or 75% if you pre-order Dead Space 2. That’s $6.80, or $4.99 depending on whether or not you’re pre-ordering the sequel. We highly recommend this deal, and we have some high hopes for the sequel as well, so give that pre-order some consideration too.
If action games can be thought of as interactive movies, and role-playing games can be thought of as interactive novels, then what sort of game might be thought of as an interactive poem? The answer to that is a new independent game called Winter Voices by French developer Beyond The Pillars.
