Labor Day PC game sales lighten our work load
Filed under: Downloads For many of you reading this, this is the beginning of a long weekend. If you are off this Labor Day, perhaps you will celebrate it by purchasing some cheap PC games and in so doing support your local work force: As we reported before, Steam has cut prices this weekend on all of the Company of Heroes games by 75 percent and Altitude by 50 percent . Direct2Drive has put two ...
The Witcher 2 to have 16 (!) endings
Filed under: RPG Is it possible for a fantasy RPG to have too many endings? The team at CD Projekt is hoping the answer is "No". At a presentation at GamesCom last month, and reported by PC Games Hardware, the development team revealed that its upcoming RPG sequel The Witcher 2 will have a whopping 16 different endings. That compares to "just" three different endings in the original Witcher ...
Interplay returns to publishing PC games with Tommy Tronic and Pinball Yeah
Filed under: Downloads , Casual It's been a publisher that has been living off the revenues of its previous titles for the past several years but this week Interplay announced that it was returning to publishing all new titles from third party developers. The new Interplay Discovery publishing brand will begin with two casual titles that will both come out sometime in October. One is Pinball ...
OnLive's free first year offer to end in 2010; 50 percent game sale this weekend
Filed under: Downloads , Hardware Since launching last June the OnLive streaming PC/Mac gaming service continues to be the only way for many gamers with low hardware specs to play high-end PC games. Today the company revealed three new announcements for its service. First, the Founding Members program, which was scheduled to end on Labor Day, has now been extended to December 31. This means you ...
DFC: English Language Free-To-Play Games To Generate $2 Billion by 2015
Client-based, free-to-play English language PC games will generate as much as $2 billion annually by 2015 due to a number of factors, according to a new report from market research firm DFC Intelligence. The group says titles in that category brought in only $250 million in 2009, but it expects that the widespread adoption of high-speed internet connections, more consumers becoming acclimated to ...
Paradox Interactive getting into free-to-play game business in 2011
Filed under: Biz , MMO Earlier this week we reported on a new study that claims that the free-to-play PC game business will boom up to $2 billion in revenues by 2015. A publisher with deep PC games ties that wants in on that business is Paradox Interactive . In a new interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester states, "We're releasing three new free-to-play games next year ...
Duke Nukem Forever coming '2011' on Xbox 360, PS3 & PC, courtesy of Gearbox
It's finally, really, actually ... maybe going to happen at this point. The rumors are true: Gearbox Software and 2K Games have taken on the Herculean task of completing and releasing 3D Realms' unfinished Duke Nukem Forever . The project was officially unveiled today at PAX during a livestreamed presentation at the 2K Games booth and announced for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. "It's coming out in 2011 ...
News: The Witcher 2 will have 16 endings
And just four load screens. CD Projekt has boasted that The Witcher 2 will have a whopping 16 game endings, whereas the first game had only three. Only three? The sequel's got that many game openings, according to a screenshot of a demonstration press slide on PC Games Hardware. And the willy-waving doesn't stop there: The Witcher 2 has 256 cut-scenes (150 minutes' worth), The Witcher 1 had 130 ...
Memega Celebrates Eid
Memega has announced a number of special offers on technology products in order to promote gift giving during the 'Eid' Muslim festival.
Reminder: Last day for $200 Best Buy gift card giveaway
Filed under: Contests , MMO Hey, would you like to get a chance to purchase some cool new PC games or maybe that new video card for your gaming rig? If so then you had better head over to our official contest page where we are giving away three $200 gift cards for Best Buy to three of our loyal Big Download readers. We started the contest on Thursday and the response has been huge so far ...