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October, 2012

By Daav Valentaten On 30 Oct, 2012 At 07:34 PM | Categorized As Game Deals, Games, News, PC, Plants Vs Zombies | With 0 Comments
Plants vs zombies

For our last treat this Hallow’s Eve, we’ll vicariously give you a healthy alternative for kids’ teeth. Instead of passing on molar-rotting candy to young and old this year, why not treat tricksters with a free copy of Plants Vs Zombies for Pc or Mac? PopCap Games is setting up a promotion on www.stopzombiemouth.com, where [...]


By Nikko Laine On 30 Oct, 2012 At 05:13 PM | Categorized As Black Ops 2, Games, Hot News, News, PC, Xbox 360 | With 1 Comment
BO2 Surprise Trailer

  Activision continues to hype up the release of the newest addition to the Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops 2.  This time, Activision did it in the form of a live action trailer.  Behind the direction of Guy Ritchie, a cast of very well known stars shows that there is in fact a soldier [...]


By Nikko Laine On 30 Oct, 2012 At 05:38 PM | Categorized As Black Ops 2, Games, News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 | With 0 Comments
Early Black Ops 2 Copy

According to numerous sources, Black Ops 2 is being sold at a retail store in Slovakia much earlier than scheduled release date of November 13th.  The numbers of leaked copies are still unconfirmed, but it seems as if there are at least a few people that were able to get their hands on a copy [...]


By Daav Valentaten On 30 Oct, 2012 At 05:22 PM | Categorized As Game Deals, Games, News, PC, Steam | With 0 Comments
Steam Halloween sale

Everyone’s biggest love/hate relationships when it comes to PC deals has joined the sale party, we’ll be discussing today. Valve launched their Halloween Sale for Steam and offers over 50 titles at discounts between 10% and 75%. In order to give you some insight on the current choices, we’ve come up with a list of [...]


By Daav Valentaten On 30 Oct, 2012 At 01:43 PM | Categorized As Cryostasis, Game Deals, Games, News, PC, Steam | With 0 Comments
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We’ll continue today’s special date to remind you of several other Halloween sales. The first is another bundle for charity by Groupees. Their Bundle of the Damned offers the marvelous sleeper hit Cryostasis as a Steam download. Along with the basic purchase comes Rijn the Specpyre in…. Manor of the Damned!; your basic 16-bit throwback [...]


By Daav Valentaten On 29 Oct, 2012 At 05:15 PM | Categorized As Akaneiro: Demon Hunter, Big News, Games, Hot News, Interviews, News, PC | With 0 Comments
Akaneiro

Developer Spicy Horse is currently working on an action RPG with tons of flavor called Akaneiro: Demon Hunters. It will be free-to-play on PC as well as Android tablets. The name symbolizes Red Riding Hood; just like the new Snow White film starring Kristen Stewart deviates heavy from the known tale. As the game is [...]


By Daav Valentaten On 28 Oct, 2012 At 02:02 PM | Categorized As Games, Indie, News, PC, Probability O, Torak | With 0 Comments
Probability 0

We enjoy roguelikes, because what could be better than a randomly generated game that’s different each time? Probability 0 is one of these dungeon crawlers that do it a little bit different. This title switches dungeons with an ever-descending platform game. This simple 2D silhouette feature has players fall down into a dungeon with no [...]


By Daav Valentaten On 28 Oct, 2012 At 01:59 PM | Categorized As Games, Indie, News, PC, Storm | With 0 Comments
Storm

Indiepub, a platform that helps publish independent games, has announced the release of Storm. In this game, players use the forces of nature to complete a series of puzzles. The PC game offers a select amount of levels where a given objective must be met by using the different elements present in nature. For instance, [...]


By Daav Valentaten On 28 Oct, 2012 At 11:59 AM | Categorized As Game Deals, Games, Indie, News, PC | With 0 Comments
Indie Royale

It’s the season of holidays, so we can expect a lot of topical events. One of these is the new deal from Indie Royale that combines a few creepy titles for their Halloween Bundle. As always, these titles come to anyone who pay above the set average, currently floating around €4.10. Most games have some [...]


By Daav Valentaten On 27 Oct, 2012 At 04:12 PM | Categorized As News | With 0 Comments
HED

Steam continues to run a near-monopoly on just about any gaming service for PC. After broadening its appeal to non-gaming software, both in its store and on Steam Greenlight, the Valve service still receives plenty of gaming updates. We’ve received a few recent announcements. The free title Stealth Bastard will come to aforementioned platform in [...]