Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and it is a sad coincidence that the DRM-free game site Good Old Games.com decided to shut down today. Their decision to sell classic games without Digital Rights Management left them wide open for software piracy, and their business venture has closed its virtual doors after two years.
Ahoy Mateys! Sunday be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and several online game stores be unfurlin’ their Jolly Rogers with pirate-themed sales. So hoist your mainsails, sharpen ye cutlasses, and open yer bootysacks for these Week-End Deals.
VVVVVV is one of the few games that is perfection. It is not the most ambitious, nor most hyped game of 2010, but what it is is a difficult, challenging, and incredibly polished platformer. VVVVVV was made by Terry Cavanagh and released on distractionware.com for $15, and while it looked cool, I (foolishly) didn’t think it was worth the price. When it came onto Steam for $5, and my friend recommended it vehemently, I had to take a look. Lo and behold, the game turned out to be one of the best this year.
The Fallout series is known for its stories, and cast of characters, including the companions who join the Player of your quest. Bethesda’s spectacular epicFallout 3 had a great selection of people, robots and creatures who would join you as you wandered the wasteland, including the obligatory Fallout Dog; Dogmeat. Yesterday Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout New Vegas announced the people/ things who will join you on your trip to New Vegas. Depending on the choices you make in the game (Alignment and such) you’ll be accompanied by various humans, a Ghoul, a female Super Mutant, an upgraded Eye Bot, and- best of all- a cyborg dog who is 209 years old (That’s 1,463 in dog years)
For the last five days we here at Player Affinity’s PC gaming department have been suggesting PC games you should play instead of Halo Reach. Well, now that Halo Reach is here, and two million gaming nerds have called in sick to work, we have one final game to recommend for those of you who aren’t fighting the Covenant (And those of you who are waiting by the door for the delivery guy from Amazon.com to bring you your copy of Halo).
Week 3 of the Digital Download Sales is here, and Civilization V is still selling very, very well. Steam and Direct2Drive both show a lot of love for Sid Meier this week, but as usual, Steam has a better deal, so the sales for Civilization are not surprising on Steam.
Halo Reach comes out the day after tomorrow, and we can expect a relentless media blitz about the XBox 360 and its new killer app. But what about us PC gamers who’d rather shoot bad guys with our high-precision mice instead of a clumsy analog stick? Each day from now until Tuesday morning when Halo Reach launches, we here at Player Affinity’s PC department are going to suggest a PC exclusive shooter that you can play instead of Halo Reach (Or at least help kill the time while you wait).
