By Craig Lloyd on Jan 30th, 2011 at 1:44PM
This week on Steam’s Weekly Top Sellers list, Magicka gets the top spot, while the newly released Monday Night Combat takes the number two slot. Both The Sims 3 Ultimate Bundle and Penny Arcade Adventures make it on the list thanks to their respective limited-time discounts. And after many weeks, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is still managing to make sales. See the complete top ten list after the break.
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 29th, 2011 at 8:41AM
The browser-based free-to-play MMO Battlestar Galactica Online has been in the closed beta phase since November, but publisher BigPoint is planning on opening it up as early as February 8th. On the game’s official forum, BigPoint mentioned that the beta with have three servers, one for Europe and two for the US, and English is the only language to be used in all chat sessions. It’s kind of an odd rule, but we can understand if BigPoint wants to keep the game organized and flowing smoothly.
[Beta Sign-Up via EuroGamer]
By Tim Hage on Jan 28th, 2011 at 2:08PM
By pre-ordering EA’s upcoming shooter, Bulletstorm, from participating retailers (Amazon and Gamestop, to name a few), you will be upgraded to a Limited Edition of the game for free. Just what does this Limited Edition upgrade mean? A bit of bonus content to give you the edge from day one:
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 28th, 2011 at 1:50PM
Last week, EA announced that the multiplayer demo for Crysis 2 would only be available for the Xbox 360, which frustrated PC gamers around the world, as well as PS3 owners. However, the official Crysis Twitter page mentioned today that the demo will be headed to the PC platform afterall.
“At this time, Crytek & EA are glad to confirm that we’ll be releasing a pre-launch Crysis 2 multiplayer demo on PC! Stay tuned for details.”
We’ll fill you in on those details as they come in.
[Twitter via Big Download]
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 27th, 2011 at 9:00PM
If you can’t get enough of The Sims, but are too broke to really afford any of the newer titles, then we have quite the news for you. Steam has The Sims 3: Ultimate Bundle on sale for $89.97. That’s 50% off the normal $179.94 that you would usually pay for this pack of games. The bundle includes the original title, as well as five expansions: Fast Lane Stuff, High-End Loft Stuff, Late Night, World Adventures and Ambitions.
Sadly, unlike most discounted bundles where you can get just one of the games for the same deal, that’s not the case for this bundle.
The sale is running for a week straight through February 3rd.
By Tim Hage on Jan 27th, 2011 at 3:09PM
Electronic Arts recently announced that Dead Space 2‘s first DLC, a singleplayer add-on titled Dead Space 2 Severed, will not be coming to PC. While future DLC releases remain unknown, this seems to be following a trend by EA, with recent demos of Bulletstorm, Dead Space 2, Crysis 2, and Need for Speed Hot Pursuit also only hitting console gamers’ hard drives.
It seems EA’s recent purchase of the CampaignForPCGaming.com domain name is in no way changing how poorly they support the PC platform when it comes to their games, demos, and DLC. Let’s hope that changes sooner than later.
via [Big Download]
By Tim Hage on Jan 27th, 2011 at 3:04PM
In honor of the semi-official gamer’s holiday, Winter-Een-Mas, Ubisoft is offering 30% off their downloadable PC titles (excluding pre-orders). The discount lasts until midnight (PST) on the 31st, so head over to their online store and grab yourself some good deals.
Happy Winter-Een-Mas 2011!
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 25th, 2011 at 12:25PM
Wow, it seems like yesterday when Nvidia released its first-generation Fermi cards, and now a year later, here we are admiring the second coming of Fermi in the form of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. This hunk of a beast boasts 384 CUDA processing cores, 822 MHz graphics clock, 1.6 GHz processor clock, 4.0 GHz memory clock, and a full gig of GDDR5 memory. Prices will start at $250 at numerous online retailers. Coincidentally, AMD lowered the price of their HD 6870 to $220 and the HD 6950 down to as low as $270. AMD also outed a new, different model of the HD 6950 to directly compete with the GTX 560. The price on that card will start at $260.
Hot Hardware has an in-depth, 12-page review of the new GTX 560 here. It’s worth the read if you’re considering such a card, but if you’re pressed for time, here’s their no-nonsense summary:
“The GeForce GTX 560 Ti, whether in its stock or overclocked configurations, performed very well throughout out testing. In comparison to its closely related cousin, the GeForce GTX 460, it’s no contest—the GeForce GTX 560 Ti smokes the GeForce GTX 460 across the board. It’s harder to summarize the 560 Ti’s performance versus competing cards from AMD, however. In some circumstances, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is actually faster than the more expensive Radeon HD 6970 (Far Cry 2, Lost Planet 2). Other times the GTX 560 Ti hangs right alongside the new Radeon HD 6950 1GB (Unigine, Just Cause 2). In the rest of the games and apps we tested, the Radeons came out on top. Suffice it to say, the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a strong competitor to similarly positioned graphics cards from AMD.”
By Tim Hage on Jan 25th, 2011 at 9:31AM
Because we’re undying fans of Defend the House‘s awesome gaming Mythbusters series, we’re here once again to tell you about their newest episode. If you’re unfamiliar with the series, then check out their previous three episodes focusing on Call of Duty: Black Ops, and be sure to subscribe to their YouTube channel for future updates! Check out episode 4 after the break.
By Tim Hage on Jan 24th, 2011 at 12:14PM
The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out gamers in this tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.
Though some gamers would argue that the casual, point-and-click gaming genre is slowly dying off and regressing into the shadows, Big Fish Games disagrees, and they can prove it with one of their newest titles, Drawn: The Painted Tower.
