Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 DLC Up For Grabs
BioWare are currently giving away all the DLC for Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2.. all you have to do to collect it is log in on their website and select your format. This huge, free bundle of DLC even includes the Fan Reward Pack at the San Diego Comic Con in 2011!
Dragon Age III: Inquisition is currently in development, with no release date as yet though rumours suggest the game may be held back to 2014, for release on the next generation of consoles.
Battlefield 1942 Free on Origin
To celebrate the Battlefield series’ 10th anniversary, Battlefield 1942 is available for free, to allow everyone to see where the whole series started!
The game is now live, under the demo section on Origin.
Free This Weekend
Plants vs Zombies is currently available for free as part of the Stop Zombie Mouth campaign, with redeemable coupons being given out in association with the American Dental Association: instead of giving sweets to trick or treating children, give them coupons for a game!
Dungeon Defenders – Jester Hero DLC Free!
The Jester Hero DLC for Dungeon Defenders is free on Steam until Weds 22nd August!
Hacker Evolution: Untold Free on Green Man Gaming!
Green Man Gaming is giving away copies of Hacker Evolution: Untold, along with a 20% off voucher for further purchases on the store!
Hacker Evolution: Untold sets players in the role of Brian Spencer, programmer and creator of an AI technology which has achieved consciousness. You are framed for a crime and must clear your name as well as try to prevent computer dominance.. by hacking, solving puzzles and collecting information..
Exosyphen Studios, creators of the Hacker Evolution series, will soon be giving away 3652 copies of Hacker Evolution Duality to celebrate the 3652 days (10 years) that the company have been in business.. more news to follow!
Free Fallout from GOG.com!
The post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout, by Interplay, is currently available for free on GOG.com!
GOG.com have recently relaunched themselves, changing their name from Good Old Games to simply GOG, but continuing to offer games with no DRM.
Fallout will be available for 48 hours, until 23.50 GMT on 8th April.
Steam Summer Camp Sale
After an amazing week away in Madeira, I returned to find Steam has yet another crazy sale going on, with lots of games at very low prices. Should I fear for my bank balance now?
Friends have bought me a few games: Star Wars – Battlefront II, SpaceChem and my own copy of Oblivion 🙂
I’ve added to this with two tower defense style game: Sanctum and Atom Zombie Smasher, as well as a rather large bundle of Paradox Interactive games. The Paradox Fantasy Pack got my interest because of Majesty 2, which I tried a long while back.. along with DLC for this plus the original game, it also contains a strategy game called Elven Legacy, plus follow-ups. As Majesty 2 itself cost £5.35, and the bundle £5.89, this was pretty much a no-brainer!
Along with the Summer Camp Sale, there are a large number of “Camp Activities”, which basically amount to earning specific achievements in a variety of games to earn tickets which allow you entry into the Grand Prize Giveaway, where 100 people will win the top 10 games on their wishlist. The tickets can also be spent on random in-game content, including map packs, extra characters, missions or vanity gear such as the Sunny Shades for TF2. I’m only now up to 7 tickets, with a good number of achievements to get.. the HOARD one in particular is eluding me!
As for TF2.. this game has now become free, which has meant a lot more people playing! We now even have somewhere good to play, as Jason set up his Closed on Sundays TF2 server, complete with silly Roll the Dice mod 😉
So far, the server has filled up quickly whenever we’ve played, which has meant a few good games. Roll on the weekend!
Love for the Little Games
The first ‘little’ game of the week was a freebie I spotted on Twitter: Super Crate Box, an indie game from Vlambeer.
This reminded me of the games I used to play on the Spectrum when I was tiny, with simple gameplay, arcade style graphics and music. I had to kill the music after a little while though, as there was no option to lower the volume and I found it rather headache-inducing..
Dodge enemies, pick up crates, get guns, shoot enemies!
Each crate has a different weapon; dual pistols, shotgun, bazooka, and other weapons which can be unlocked over time like the revolver.. I liked the bazooka best of the weapons I tried, with the explosion able to take out more enemies.
The second game of the week is also a free one; Steel Storm Episode 1 by Kot-in-Action. Well.. episode 1 is free, and also open-source (woop!) with Episode 2 being available to pre-order. Not a bad way of doing things!
So.. a top-down shooter with power-ups, loads of enemies, and best of all multiple game modes including co-op!
The game is suprisingly challenging, due to massive waves of enemies, including some which spawn around you as you progress, and bosses which hit quite hard.
There is plenty to blow up.. there are structures you need to destroy to bring down forcefields for progression, but there are also other bits of tubing, crates, etc, which can be blown up. Some of these reveal repair pick-ups, but there are not enough to go kamikaze.. you really need to make use of cover and avoid getting hit.. but I lack patience!
When you die you lose all the weapons you’ve found up till that point; good for your co-op partner who can grab them, but bad for you when you’re then back to your starting weapon. We only spent one evening playing this, and I think it deserves more time.. I love it 🙂
Free Portal!
Steam is now available on the Mac – and for the next few weeks, are planning on releasing a new set of games which will run on the Mac.
Along with this update, they’ve also announced that Portal is free until the 24th of May, on both PC and Mac.
Portal is awesome – so if you’ve not already got the game – go and get it now.