Blood Bowl: Dark Elves Edition dated
Blood Bowl: Dark Elves Edition will be released on Steam November 26, according to Focus Home Interactive. Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent team sport set in the Warhammer fantasy universe that lets players compose a team of Orcs, Elves, Humans, Dwarves and many other fantasy creatures before jumping into the bloodiest arenas in the realms. The sport game is both strategic and violent and requires tactics, and a lot of self-confidence.
Recently released in Europe where it reached first place on the PC charts, Blood Bowl will be launched in the United States on the Steam digital platform starting November 26. Preorders started on November 19th. A brand new version of the game will be available for American players via Steam. The new version features the original eight races and an additional playable race: the dreadful Dark Elves. The Dark Elves will have their own star player, cheerleaders, and play style.
More details, including a video of this new race , can be found at www.bloodbowl-game.com.
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Category Action, Genres, PC, Platforms, RPG, Sports, Strategy | Tags: Blood Bowl,Blood Bowl: Dark Elves Edition,Cyanide,Fantasy,Focus Home Interactive,Sports,Steam
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Top Selling Digital Downloads
The top selling game on Steam was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for the week of Nov. 14, 2009, but over on Direct2Drive where it wasn’t available, various versions of Dragon Age: Origins were selling like hotcakes - whatever that means. I mean, who are the people buying and selling hotcakes and why are they so f**king popular?
Dragon Age is doing pretty well on Steam, Direct2Drive and even on Stardock’s Impulse. 2K Games’ Borderlands is in a respectable position as well, followed by the wonderful indie RPG Torchlight - which doesn’t seem to be available on Impulse for some reason. Come on Stardock, this game is awesome. Complete top ten charts, without any actual sales numbers, below. Sure it’s mostly anecdotal, but it’s fun to look at top ten lists, right?
Steam
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. Dragon Age: Origins
3. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
4. Borderlands
5. Overload Complete Pack
6. Torchlight
7. Crysis / Crysis Warhead Bundle
8. Football Manager 2010
9. Mass Effect
10. Counter-Strike: Source
Direct2Drive
1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
3. Borderlands
4. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition (with strategy guide)
5. Torchlight
6. Best of Indie Bundle Vol. 2
7. Tropico 3
8. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
10. Fallen Earth
Impulse:
1. Demigod
2. Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment
3. Tropico Reloaded
4. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
5. Dragon Age: Origins
6. Sins of a Solar Empire
7. Gratuitous Space Battles
8. Fort Zombie
9. Hacker Evolution
10. For the Glory
Source: Impulse, Shacknews
Zombie Driver coming Dec. 4
The digital release of Zombie Driver is tentatively scheduled for December 4, according to developer EXOR Studios. Zombie Driver will be released on Steam and GamersGate and will be published in Russia through Akella. EXOR Studios is best known for creating the Source Engine modification, D.I.P.R.I.P. Zombie Driver, which was built using the open-sourced OGRE game engine, mixes top-down action themed driving with loads and loads of zombies and a dash of gore just for fun.
Your goals in the game are pretty straightforward: drive through the streets of a destroyed city to save the survivors of a disastrous chemical accident that changed most of the population into mindless zombies. Time is your enemy and your car is your weapon as you race through the streets smashing everything on your way including fences, phone booths, street lamps and hordes of zombies. When those zombies become too much to handle, players can buy a new car or get more guns and upgrades installed. You earn more money for finishing side quests, racking up kill combos and searching (and finding) hidden prizes.
The game will cost 9.95 dollars, 8.95 euro and 7.95 pounds at both digital distribution portals. Retail distribution in Russia and surrounding territories will be handled by Akella. Further retail distribution partners and other territories will be announced soon.
Learn more by visiting www.zombiedriver.com.
Gyromancer now on Xbox Live Arcade, Steam
Square Enix and PopCap Games have released their first collaborative game development effort, Gyromancer, on XBLA for 1200 points and on Steam for $14.99. Gyromancer is a strategic puzzle RPG that offers a deep storyline, a multifaceted leveling system and 50 monsters to call upon during battle.
Players assume the role of Rivel, a summoner who ventures through the enchanted Aldemona Wood. Each stage contains its own objectives, from defeating beasts that block the player’s way, to solving puzzles before time runs out. Rivel can learn to summon dozens of the beasts he encounters, bending their power to his will and commanding them in battle. Hidden within each stage are a number of rewards earned for completing feats great and small.
Look for the game on Steam and Xbox Live Arcade today.
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Category Casual, Genres, Online Play, PC, Platforms, RPG, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | Tags: Gyromancer,PopCap Games,Puzzle RPG,Square Enix,Steam,Xbox Live Arcade
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Modern Warfare 2 sanitized for Russia
If you live in Russia, and want an original version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, you may be out of luck for awhile. The console versions of the game have been pulled from retails shelves as an official rejection of the “No Russian” mission in the game. If you are a regular Crispy Gamer reader than you have probably read some of our discussions of that mission (See our Modern Warfare 2 review, this blog post about playing it, another blog post about a segment on Fox & Friends and how the No Russian Mission is a failure). The objection is to a terrorist act, where the player takes part in a mission in an airport as an undercover agent secretly involved in a Russian-lead massacre of innocent civilians. Russian citizens and politicians don’t like the way the game depicts its soldiers in this Red Dawn style storyline and have donw something about it.
Further, the PC version of the game has been sanitized of the No Russian mission, so if you didn’t get the game before all this blowback you won’t have a chance to experience the mission for yourself. While people and governments certainly have a right to object to a game’s content, this hardcore approach seems a little rigid to me; couldn’t people object to the game’s content by simply not buying it?
According to published reports, these new console versions of the game will be released in less than a month, contingent on government approval.
Source: GotPS3.ru via Hellforge
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Modern Warfare 2 in stores, selling well on Amazon.com
As many of you know - especially those of you crazy enough to hang out at GameStop during the witching hour (hello, Kyle Orland) Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is now out and it is selling briskly. But GameStop isn’t the only retailer cashing in on Infinity Ward’s and Activision’s latest modern themed first-person military shooter; Amazon.com is claiming very brisk sales of the game.
Amazon.com has gone so far as to call it “the biggest selling pre-order video game of all time,” having overtaken the previous pre-order record holder, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. The game currently holds the number one and two positions on Amazon.com’s Bestselling Video Games list for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, respectively. Amazon also claims - I assume, according to its own internal data tracking - that “Release-Date Delivery” pre-orders for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 have surpassed TOTAL orders for the previous pre-order record holder, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Amazon.com offers Release-Date Delivery for selected pre-order items it knows it can deliver on the date the item releases for ZIP codes within the continental United States.
If you don’t want to hang out at GameStop or any other traditional retailer, you can pick up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the PC DVD at Amazon. PC Gamers can pick the game up at Steam.
Massive Assault series now on Steam
Waraming.net’s Massive Assault series is now available on Steam All the games from this turn-based strategy, sci-fi themed war game series are available including Massive Assault, Massive Assault: Phantom Renaissance and Massive Assault Network 2. The Massive Assault series uses an original Secret Allies concept - an ally who waits for the right moment to disclose itself as loyal to the player or the opponent. The game charges players with fighting your rival for survival in the 22nd century hostile surroundings using air land and naval units .
Learn more about these game by visiting www.wargaming.net or www.steampowered.com.
