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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space / PC and Mac – Free
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space / PC and Mac (77 at Metacritic) is a small, fun little game where you “explore the galaxy … in 20 minutes or less!”
It plays a lot like a board game — and was originally distributed by a great traditional game publisher, Cheapass Games — but it’s punctuated with arcade [...]
War Games / PC – $5 each
Direct2Drive, an online retailer who specializes in downloadable games, is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a month-long sale of PC titles for $5. Each week offers a new category. This week the theme is “war.”
WAR! (HUH!)
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
A bunch of really bitchin’ games, it turns out.
Of the list of titles that are [...]
Painkiller, Gothic, The Guild collections / PC – $10 or less
A while back, an Austrian game publisher decided that it would be an excellent idea to take some of their long-running, successful titles and gather up the entire series into one product — like, say, the box set of Godfather I, II, and III. As a result, JoWood Productions brought us ‘Painkiller: Universe’, ‘Gothic: Universe’, [...]
F.E.A.R. 2, Left 4 Dead / PC – under $18
Two well-reviewed horror shooters are on sale.
Left 4 Dead / PC – $14.99
Steam is selling Left 4 Dead for $14.99 as a downloadable.
GamingExcellence described it this way:
You’re trapped on a rooftop, zombies are everywhere and you’re running low on ammo. Welcome to Left 4 Dead.
HardcoreGamer lead with:
I should probably get this out of the way [...]
Indie Games / PC – $5
Direct2Drive, an online retailer who specializes in downloadable games, is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a month-long sale of PC titles for $5. Each week offers a new category. This week the theme is “independents.”
Games that are worth playing in the set that are currently on sale include:
World of Goo – a charming platform and [...]
Plants vs. Zombies – Free
PopCap’s critically adored PC and iPhone game, Plants vs. Zombies, is now available as a free browser game here.