Futuremark Games Studio has released the Firepower weapons pack for Shattered Horizon on Steam. Firepower, which is free for all players, adds eight new weapons and three new grenades. To celebrate the release, Futuremark is offering Shattered Horizon for just $14.99 until Wednesday May 12.
"We believe players should be rewarded for supporting a game and that’s why we have released all our DLC packs for free," said Jaakko Haapasalo, Head of Futuremark Games Studio. "In fact for $14.99, the same price as 'that other map pack' released this week, PC gamers can now get the complete Shattered Horizon game, including both the Moonrise map pack and the brand new Firepower weapons pack, from a developer that puts players first." (more...)
StarCraft fans, rejoice! Blizzard announced yesterday that the hugely anticipated sequel, Wings of Liberty, will be available at retailers starting July 27 and directly from Blizzard itself shortly thereafter. The game has been in beta since February with a rather hefty update releasing just a few weeks ago, which included the custom map editor, achievements, and a number of other Battle.net additions.
"Thanks to our beta testers, we're making great progress on the final stages of development, and we'll be ready to welcome players all over the world to StarCraft II and the new Battle.net in just a few months," said Mike Morhaime, Blizzard CEO and co-founder.
Wings of Liberty will continue the StarCraft story arc, following Terran rebel leader Jim Raynor. The game will allow players to pick and choose the missions they run, creating a very customizable single-player experience.
A name and release date we already knew for Treyarch's next iteration to the Call of Duty series, but what we didn't know (for sure at least) was the when and where the game will take place. Gametrailers TV had their big reveal Friday night with the debut trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops, and while there were many hints indicating a Vietnam era war game, there were also some more modern elements thrown in than we expected. Take a look for yourself below.
For Gametrailer's breakdown of the trailer, hit the jump
That huge project InstantAction has been working on since the arrival of their new CEO Louis Castle back in July of last year has finally surfaced. Right now, within your browser, you can play The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Croteam's HD-ifying of the second game in the Serious Sam series is complete and ready for purchase for all you steam users out there. The game features better visuals, new additions to the original campaign as well as a co-op play feature and additions to the game's 16-player multiplayer. All this is available for a meager $19.99.
Hit the jump for a complete list of additions and features in this re-release.
Sorry to break it you, but Lorne Lanning, the creator of the Oddworld series, broke word to G4TV that the latest Oddworld game titled "Oddworld Stranger's Wrath" has been put, as he so elegantly said it, "on the shelf." This comes after the next game was originally announced by Maxis co-founder Jeff Braun oh so long ago.
Lanning's explanation for the hold was given as follows: "There's a lot of shakeup going on [in the gaming industry], and in that turmoil, we didn't really want to put the Oddworld brand out there in the middle of it."
So far the series has enjoyed three installments across multiple platforms with the latest being one of the premiere launch titles for the original Xbox. If you're a veteran of the series, this news may come hard to you. If you're a new prospect then there will be a chance to play the game via Steam when the titles make their way to the platform as the Oddbox collection later this year. Then you can also be sad to hear this news. If you want to play some Oddworld right now Steam currently has a two game package available that contains Oddworld: Abe's Exodus and Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee for a cool Benjamin.
Steam has another awesome sale on another great game. For a limited time you can get your hands on Ion Storm's innovative master piece Deus Ex (in addition to its less stellar sequel Invisible War) for the pittance of $5.
Featuring innovative gameplay and a deep, rich narrative Deus Ex is a masterpiece right up there with the likes of Half-Life. There are numerous ways you can play the game and so many distinct paths you can follow to make each playthrough unique and memorable. You'll have to deal with the game's somewhat fussy and antiquated Unreal engine but the experience is well worth the trouble so check it out.
Valve recently announced that the highly anticipated Left 4 Dead/ Left 4 Dead 2 DLC "the passing" which has the protagonists from both games teaming up for some zombie busting action will be released sometime this week for the PC and Xbox 360. As far as an official release date goes all Valve will offer is a nebulous reference to this week so expect the actual landing of the DLC to come at anytime.
In other supplementary news, according to Joystiq you can also get your hands on a couple songs on the rock band network from the Midnight Riders, L4D2's ficticious rock band. Bonuses are bonuses and this is as good as any.
Want more GTA IV PC gamers? Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City is now available on Steam for about $29.99. The package includes both of the critically acclaimed Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony DLC add-ons developed by Rockstar North.
Rather than simply adding more content to Grand Theft Auto IV's single player mode, Episodes of Liberty City focuses on two individual story threads. The Lost and the Damned follows Johnny Klebitz, a member of a Liberty City biker gang called The Lost, while The Ballad of Gay Tony follows Luis Fernando Lopez who acts as a body guard to Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince who owns a string of nightclubs in Liberty City. Each episode plays outs different from one another and is just good content in general.
Currently the pack is only for sale in North America and Brazil on Steam but will later become available world wide on April 16th.
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is coming to Steam April 28th but if you pre-order the game now you'll be able to get some extra goodies by way of a 10% discount off the $19.99 price point and access to Ugh-Zan, the end boss from First Encounter, as bonus content. For those of you lacking proficiency with simple math 10% off of $19.99 saves you a couple bucks.
What other games can have the sheer ludicrousness pictured above? What would you do if a guy with a buzz saw for a head came for your flesh and blood? Good thing video games train us to be natural born killers, eh? Eh? Eh?
