Browsing all articles from December, 2009.
Assassin’s Creed / PC – $5 through Thursday
Assassin’s Creed /PC (79 at Metacritic) is available through Steam for a mere $5 through Thursday.
It’s a third person action-adventure title set during the Crusades in the Holy Land. You play an assassin, doing a whole lot of what assassins do: blood and murder and mayhem and the like.
Here’s the trailer:
Here’s what gameplay looks [...]
The Week in Games
Back to the post-apocalyptic future, more games with sexy librarians, and lots of pretty, after the break.
GameFly Sale: Used Games Under $20
Cheap Ass Gamer has announced that there’s a sale at GameFly. Oddly, GameFly doesn’t seem to be promoting the sale — yet, anyway.
In any case, the links from Cheap Ass seem to be valid. (If you’re searching in GameFly, be sure to select ’store’ in the search drop-down. — Bad UI designer! No latte.)
However! … [...]
Entire Half-Life line / PC – 55.8% off
To celebrate Gordon Freeman’s victory over Mario in GameSpot’s All-Time Greatest Game Hero contest, Valve has put all of the Half-Life titles on sale for 55.8% off for this weekend only. (Why 55.8%? Because that’s the margin with which Gordon won.)
Half-Life 2 is one of the greatest videogames of all time (96 at Metacritic), but [...]
Virtua Fighter 5 / XBox, PS3 – $12.14 or $23
Virtua Fighter 5 (89 at Metacriic) is a fighting game that specializes in quick, technical combat. There’s not much of a story, no character development (outside of buying items to hang on your fighter), no levels to unlock, no hidden bosses to reveal.
But what it does, it does really well.
It’s fast, it’s responsive, and it’s [...]
Beneath a Steel Sky Remastered / iPhone – $4.99, or free
Oh, 1994.
You with your whining modems, your EGA monitors, and your dreams of cyberspace. You were cheeky, a dreamer, but you were underpowered. My 2009 cell phone would make you genuflect with its speed, color, and wirelessness.
By comparison, your action games were thin and sad — a very-flat looking Doom came out in 1993 — [...]
News Round-up
The geek rage abates, the holiday frenzy begins, and, soon, you’ll be rocking the Beastie Boys at the bus stop — all after the break.
Amazon says, “Yeah! 3-for-2 videogames! Me too!”
Amazon follows Toys R Us’s lead with a 3-for-2 videogame sale.
Toys R Us: 3-for-2 all week
Buy two videogames at Toys R Us, get the third free. Sale ends Saturday, October 17th.
World of Goo / PC, Mac, Linux – name your price
Developer 2D Boy is celebrating the first birthday of their terribly charming World of Goo (90 at Metacritic) by letting you name your own price for it.
Wikipedia describes it like so:
The game is built around the idea of creating large structures using balls of goo. … The game is divided into five chapters, each containing [...]