Browsing all articles from December, 2009.
Guitar Hero: World Tour / Xbox – $13.92
Guitar Hero: World Tour for the Xbox (85 at Metacritic) is on sale at Walmart for $13.92 plus a couple of bucks for shipping, or opt for in-store pickup. This is the version of Guitar Hero that came out about a year ago, and supports the full band — drums, guitar, bass, vocal. This copy [...]
The Week in Games
WoW Philosophy! Strippers and Counter-Strike! And Hot Elf Lovin’! … after the break.
Mass Effect / PC : $9.99 at Steam
Mass Effect / PC (89 at Metacriticc) is half-price at Steam this weekend.
Mass Effect is a space opera action RPG from BioWare, the development company that brought us — well, let’s just say, “all the best RPGs of the last ten years.” Starting with Baldur’s Gate, through Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old [...]
Picks from GoGamer’s 48-Hour Madness
Another week, another GoGamer 48 Hour Madness Sale. I wonder if they get tired of the regular cycle of insanity over there.
Flipping through the picks, and looking for ‘cheap and don’t suck’ gets us down to a fairly thin list, show below, with their GameRanking score:
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas / PC : $7.90 (91)
Lego [...]
Wallace & Gromit Episode 3: Free this Week
Telltale Games is celebrating 20 years of Wallace & Gromit by giving away Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures Episode 3: Muzzled / PC (75 at Metacritic). It’s an adventure game starring an Academy-award winning cheese-lover and his dog.
For a limited time, you can buy all four episodes in the series for $20.
Here’s the trailer:
Rock Band 2 on sale for $20
Best Buy has Rock Band 2 / all platforms (91 or so at Metacritic, depending on platform) on sale for $20. Visit DealNews for the platform links.
If you haven’t already played the title — and you have any interest at all in musical games — go! Now! Rock Band 2 is one of the best [...]
AAAAAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (84 on Metacritic), the ‘jump off a building’ game from Dejobaan games, does not suffer from a lot of story getting in the way of the fun. Here’s the pitch from the developer:
Dive off a skyscraper.
Flip off protesters.
Spraypaint buildings.
How great does that sound?
It ends up looking like this:
In their 9/10 review, GamesRadar [...]
Rainbox Six Vegas 2 drops to $20
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 / Xbox, PS3, PC (81 or so on Metacritic, varies by platform) just dropped to under $20 on Amazon.
Rainbox Six Vegas 2 a tactial first-person shooter. It’s the seventh in the Rainbow Six series (nineteen if you count expansions), but it’s only the second where you get to lead [...]
F.E.A.R. 2 drops to $20
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin / Xbox, PS3, PC (78 or so on Metacritic, depending on platform) just dropped below $20 on Amazon.
It is a first-person shooter in the horror genre.
In marketing speak — “The sequel to F.E.A.R. continues the original game’s spine-tingling supernatural suspense story of an escalating paranormal crisis that threatens [...]
Torchlight / PC – “Diablo meets Pixar”
Sure, the recently-released Torchlight / PC (86 at Metacritic) is another in a long line of Diablo-alikes. But it’s an extremely well-done and inexpensive Diablo-alike, produced by people who have spent their careers refining their Diablo-alike development skills. (Some of them started with developing Diablo, even.)
As usual, you pick a character-type (wizard, warrior, ranger), and [...]