Direct2Drive has been holding Daily Deals of late, with just one item on sale for a limited time, rather than the usual “Weekend Sale” approach that has been used by most other online game digital distributors. Today you can grab a copy of Guild Wars Trilogy at half off, for $19.99. The deal only applies for today, Saturday.
No need to be jealous of your Xbox-owning pals. The Kinect motion-sensing peripheral for Microsoft’s console has already been hacked to work with a PC. The Kinect is basically an infrared webcam with a set of special software that lets Kinect-enabled Xbox games interpret the images. It’s not such a big stretch to make it work with a Windows PC, and as you can see in the video below, it just needs the right drivers to be able to sense your body then relay that information to a PC.
At its annual investor conference earlier this week, Hasbro confirmed that Transformers: War for Cybertron 2 is currently in development, with the new title is tentatively scheduled for a 2012 release.
Mark Blecher, SVP and General Manager of Digital Media & Gaming, was extremely satisfied with the response to the first War for Cybertron.
“This is the most highly-rated, critical success of any game that’s had the Hasbro brand yet and we’re looking forward to a sequel in 2012,” Bleacher bragged.
Several board games have found a second life on Xbox Live Arcade, from classics like Risk to more hardcore fare like Catan and Carcassonne. According to Joystiq, the board game Zombies!!! will be joining those ranks this coming spring thanks to developer Barbaroga, who is currently working on the Windows Phone 7 version of the game.
A digital version of Zombies!!! was originally to be developed by developer Big Rooster, but Zombies!!! owner Twilight Creations announced back in August that they would be searching for a new partner for the property.
For those who have not yet experienced the joys of flinging homicidal avian, developer Rovio said that they plan on bringing their popular physics-based phone game Angry Birds to Xbox Live Arcade.
The announcement, reported by Pocket Gamer, came as part of a speech by Rovio staff at the first Social Gaming Summit which took place in London on Nov. 11. Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka said that his company plans on bringing the game to XBLA, Playstation Network and the Wii before they work on a sequel to the game.
Rovio also said that Angry Birds multiplayer is a “priority” for them and described it as being similar to Worms series of games, which featured turn-based battles and destructible environments. It ha
Spellforce was an interesting blend of RPG avatar character development while also allowing the player to control large armies in an RTS framework. Since 2003, two expansions for the original title have been released, as well as a sequel in 2006 and one expansion for that in 2007. Spellforce 2: Faith in Destiny is the second such expansion to the sequel and continues the story from where it left off. In the gap between this release and the last, publisher JoWooD Entertainment and developer DreamCatcher Games have improved on a variety of features, including new units, buildings, spells, missions and maps. The actual graphics are based on the Spellforce 2 engine that the others are based on, but have been updated with contemporary Shaders to reflect the better hardware available.
EA has revealed the future plans for their NBA franchise. After NBA Elite became NBA Delete, EA has had to scramble to release NBA JAM as their 2011 basketball game.
