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Crayon Physics Deluxe: Pay What You Want
From now until the 15th of January, the independent game, Crayon Physics Deluxe (77 at GameRankings) is for sale for whatever price you’d like to pay.
It’s a puzzle title with over 70 levels. In their B+ review, the Onion described it like this:
Each of the 70-plus levels occupies just one screen, and the objective seems [...]
Machinarium / PC – $10 today
Direct2Drive has been having a 24 days, 24 games sale. Today’s game is Machinarium / PC (84 at GameRankings).
It’s a very attractive puzzle game, released in October. You play a little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard. You have to return to the city, confront the evil organization behind your demise, [...]
Trine – fantasy platformer on the PS3, PC: $20
Trine / PS3 and PC (83 at Metacritic) is a very pretty 2d action platformer, in which the action shifts between a thief, a knight, and a wizard. In the single-player game, you flip between these characters. In the co-op mode, up to three players can join up and fight the good fight together. Each [...]
Psychonauts / PC – $9.99
Psychonauts / PC (87 at Metacritic) is $9.99 at GoG.
This title is possibly the most likely game to wind up on the “great overlooked games” list, right next to Beyond Good and Evil. It’s a smart platform game with an original setting, an interesting premise, and a wicked sense of humor. (The trailer starts with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]