Impulse Weekend sales

Impulse is hosting a sale this weekend that will see a number of excellent titles be sold for substantial discounted prices.

Deals include Fairy Tales – Three Heroes RPG for $19.99 from $29.99; FLOCK! for $7.49 from $14.99, Mosby’s Confederacy for $12.99 from $19.99, S.T.A.L.K.E.R – Shadow of Chernobyl for $9.99 from $19.99, Shattered Suns for $9.99 from $14.99 and Capitalism II for $14.99 from $19.99

These are just some of the new deals going on this weekend. Be sure to check out all the games released on Impulse this week. Find out more by visiting www.impulse.com.

Torchlight now available

After a number of false starts and technical problems yesterday it looks like both publisher Perfect World entertainment and developer Runic Games have sorted out all the problems with the digital release of their game, Torchlight. Now users can visit both web sites and purchase the game for right around $20. In addition the game is also available via Steam.

Torchlight was developed by Runic Games, whose collective experience includes Diablo, Diablo II, Mythos, Hellgate London, and the wonderful RPG FATE. Taking a page for that latter title, Torchlight refines and improves on core elements like pets, fishing, retirement, and oodles of side quests and equipment to sort through. New to the formula are three brand new charcter classes, a much improved pet system, better fishing, even more loot, plenty of side quests, new types of weapons. and a light but compelling main storyline that revolves around the most powerful magical substance in the world: Ember.

You can get your copy of torchlight by visiting Steam, the Torchlight web site or the Perfect World site. Also worth noting is this brand new launch trailer.

Impulse weekend deals

Impulse is offering a variety of deals in time for the weekend, cutting the price on games of various quality for a limited time. THQ and Relic’s Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor gets a 50 percent price cut, Capcom’s Street Fighter IV is now $29.99 from $39.99, Circus Empire is available for $6.99 from $9.99, Light of Altair is available for $11.25 from $14.95 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare is now 25 percent off.

You can check out these and other deals by visiting Impulse.com

GamersGate’s latest deals

GamersGate today announced its “Game of the Weekend” promotions and an additional special offer on www.GamersGate.com. Games of the Weekend specials for Oct. 15-18 include Hollywood Pictures 2 - 50 percent OFF, X-Com Complete – 50 percent OFF, and Sword of the Stars Ultimate – $/€ 9.95.

Pre-order specials include Machinarium pre-order at 25 percent OFF and receive 250 bonus Blue Coins, Price Guarantee and Pre-Load), Football Manager 2010 at 20 percent OFF (receive OutRun 2006 Coast to Coast for free with 3,000 bonus Blue Coins with a price guarantee) and Borderlands at 10 percent OFF (receive 250 bonus Blue Coins with a price guarantee).

Next week, starting on Monday Oct. 19th, Elven Legacy and East Indie Company will be 50 percent OFF mainly to celebrate the release of the Elven Legacy: Ranger Expansion Pack on Oct. 20th and the East India Company: Privateer Expansion on Oct. 27th.

Torchlight to be available via Steam at launch

When details emerged about Torchlight at the Penny Arcade Expo earlier this year, developer Runic Games and publisher Perfect World Entertainment said that the game would only be available via their respective web sites at launch. Apparently that has changed because today they announced that the RPG from the makers of FATE and Mythos will also be available on launch day via Steam. Torchlight will be Available on Steam Beginning October 27, alongside the Runic Games and Perfect World Entertainment web sites. Obviously all involved are excited about the deal.

“It’s important for us to make Torchlight as widely available as possible. Steam is an enormous outlet that many players use exclusively – we’re big fans ourselves – so we are really happy that it will be on Steam starting day one,” said Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer.

Good deal for Steam users. Find out more about the game by visiting www.torchlightgame.com.

LucasArts releases Lucidity

LucasArts has released Lucidity, a new game from the LucasArts team that re-imagined The Secret of Monkey Island, is now available on Xbox LIVE Arcade, Steam, and Direct2Drive. Lucidity is a puzzle platformer set in the surreal dreamscapes of a little girl named Sofi. In Lucidity, players take a trip into the imagination of a young girl who enjoys exploring new worlds and overcoming obstacles. She sounds plucky as all get out. Players must keep Sofi safe as she drifts deeper into the strange new world of her dreams. Through quick reaction and placement of randomly generated puzzle pieces, players must create a path through the dreamscapes to keep Sofi in motion and deliver her to safety.

More information about Lucidity can be found at LucasArts’ newly launched blog, The Workshop, at www.LucasArtsWorkshop.com.

Commandos Ammo Pack deploys to Good Old Games

Good Old Games has released the Commandos Ammo Pack, a new compilation product offering Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines and the expansion, Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, for just $5.99. That’s less money than a 12 pack of the silver Bullet, my friends. Find out more at www.gog.com.

Also available today at the classics-only, DRM free site is the Hidden Gem of the Week - Arx Fatalis. You can read about that at GOG as well. Because it is the Gem of the Week, you can get it for a $1 off for a limited time - $4.99.

It’s a double header for basketball fans as EA Sports and 2K Sports’ respective NBA franchises make their way to retail to fight for your hearts, minds and very souls! Okay I might have been a little more dramatic than I should have been, but they do want you to pick one game over the other or buy both of them.