Browsing all articles from December, 2009.
Team Fortress 2 / PC – $2.49
Steam is running a special this weekend — Team Fortress 2 (92 at Metacritic) for the PC is $2.49.
If you like the shooters, Team Fortress 2 is a ‘must-have.’ If you don’t like the shooters, it’s good enough that it might change your mind. YouGamers summed it up with:
When the biggest flaw of the [...]
Halloween at Direct2Drive: PC titles from $4.95
Direct2Drive is having a halloween sale of appropriately themed titles for the PC. Recommended in the batch – along with their Gamerankings score – are:
BioShock – $9.95 (94)
Dead Space – $19.95 (86)
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut – $19.95 (85)
Far Cry 2 – $9.95 (83)
Vampire: The Masquerade – $4.95 (80)
The Path – $4.95 (75)
Stubbs the [...]
The Week in Games
Turntablism comes to the consoles, gamers celebrate the season of terror, and a moonwalking cat game — after the break!
The Sims 3 / PC and Mac – $29.98, $20 off
The Sims 3 / PC and Mac (86 at Metcritic) is Amazon’s ‘Video Game Deal of the Day.’ Save $20 on the best-selling and enormously popular digital dollhouse. (With over 100 million units sold, it’s the most successful PC game franchise ever.)
Here’s the official trailer:
And here’s a video of how the Sims in Sims 3 [...]
GoGamer’s ‘Madness Sale’ – three good picks
GoGamer.com routinely has ‘Madness Sales.’ They tend to feature a mixed bag of ‘$5-off top titles’, a lot of bad games, and occasional gems.
Here are three titles in the latest sale that are solid values:
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 / Xbox 360 – $9.90 – (86 at Metacritic) is a squad-based tactical shooter [...]
House of Dead: Overkill / Wii – $19.49
House of the Dead: Overkill (80 at GameRankings) is a first-person zombie shooter on rails with a grindhouse vibe. If that hasn’t sold you, maybe this will: it holds the Guiness World Record title for ‘most swearing in a video game’ with 189 occurrences of the f-bomb alone.
Here’s the trailer:
And here’s what game play looks [...]
Canabalt / iPhone: $2.99 or free
Canabalt (iPhone or web) is a fun little game about a character who runs. It isn’t said what he’s running from, or why, but it’s clear that he has to bound from building to building, avoiding crates and crashing through windows, to escape some horrible fate.
There is just enough design to make it pretty, and [...]
Best Buy: 3-for-2 on games under $60
Best Buy follows Toys R Us and Amazon with a ‘Buy 2, Get 1 Free’ sale. Several titles are also on sale. To see them, click through to your platform of choice, then click the ‘On Sale’ link on the right side of the page.
Fallout 3 / PS3 – $19.99
Amazon’s Videogame Deal of the Day is the almost universally loved Fallout 3 (90 at Metacritic). It’s $19.99 for the PS3. PC and Xbox are still around $37. (Be sure to click through to the ‘Standard’ version.)
It’s a shooter with strong role-playing elements set in a — say it along with me! — a post-apocalyptic [...]
Hive / iPhone : $4.99
Hive, a 2-player strategy game — and one of BoardGameGeek’s 100 best games of all time — is out on the iPhone. Like Othello, it’s ‘quick to learn, hard to master.’ It offers four levels of single-player play, two-player ‘pass the phone’ play, and four different tile sets.
At under $5, it’s worth checking out, [...]