Games Cheats and Reviews

Mega Man 10 is out this week.  I don’t know what more you really need to hear.  If you tear through that in a moments notice, you could also snag the MLB10: The Show demo and warm up before running to the store.  No, Mega Man will not pitch for your favorite baseball team.  Though that would be some sweet DLC!

Price Updates – Cheapness a’hoy:

• Chessmaster: The Art Of Learning Sale (now $9.99, original price $19.99)
• Tom Clancy’s EndWar Sale (now $14.99, original price $29.99)
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 Sale (now $9.99, original price $19.99)
• Cellfactor: Psychokinetic Wars Sale (now $4.99, original price $9.99)
• Far Cry 2 Fortunes Pack Sale (now $4.99, original price $9.99)
• Tom Clancy’s: HAWX: Supremacy Pack Sale (now $4.99, original price $9.99)
• Age of Booty Sale (now $4.99, original price $9.99)
  

Qore – Subscription based entertainment:

• Qore Episode 22: March 2010 ($2.99)
• Qore Annual Subscription: March 2010 ($24.99)

Downloadable Games – You can get Mega Man 10 and never leave home:

• Mega Man 10 ($9.99) – The blue bomber is back with more awesomeness!
• Feeding Frenzy 2 Shipwreck Showdown ($9.99) – Live out your fantasy as a mermaid, err, be a fish

The Tester – Who is still watching this?

• The Tester Episode 4 – Live-action role play, isn’t that was those “freaks” in costumes due

Game Demos – Go on, give it a try:

• MLB 10 The Show Demo – Baseball for the ages
• Feeding Frenzy 2 Shipwreck Showdown Demo – Be a fish and eat smaller fish
• Mega Man 10 Demo – 8-bit goodness on that HD screen
  

Add-on Game Content – You know, that content on the disk that should be free:

• MAG Raven Industries – Spyder Uniform (free)
• MAG S.V.E.R. – Hazard Uniform (free)
• MAG Valor Company – Bulldog Uniform (free)
• Resident Evil 5: Untold Stories Bundle ($12.49) – Get Lost in Nightmares and Deperate Escape in one neat little package
• Dragon Age Origins: Return To Ostagar ($4.99) – The Battle of Ostagar still haunts you to this day
• GRID Prestige Pack ($9.99) – 10 more cars you will never afford in real life
• BioShock 2 Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack ($4.99) – Get another 5 minutes of multiplayer action in

Guitar Hero 5 – Not OK Don’t Go:

• “Do What You Want” by OK Go ($1.99)
• “Get Over It” by OK Go ($1.99)
• “Here It Goes Again” by OK Go ($1.99)
• OK Go Track Pack ($5.49)

Rock Band – Seven nations are bound together by blood:

• “Fell in Love With a Girl”— The White Stripes ($1.99)
• “Seven Nation Army”— The White Stripes ($1.99)
• “You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You’re Told)”— The White Stripes ($1.99)
• The White Stripes Pack 2 ($5.49)
• “Decent Days and Nights”— The Futureheads ($1.99)
• “Hounds of Love”— The Futureheads ($1.99)
• “Walk Away”— James Gang ($1.99)
• “All of This”— Shaimus ($0.99)
• “Tie You Down”— Shaimus ($0.99)
• “The Hockey Theme”— Neil Peart ($0.99)
• Roadrunner Records Pack 1 ($8.49)

Game Videos – Not quite porn, but not exactly an 70’s love story either:

• Gran Turismo 5 and NASCAR Trailer
• ModNation Racers “Build It” Trailer
• THE EYE OF JUDGMENT LEGENDS Trailer
• Feeding Frenzy 2 Shipwreck Showdown Trailer
• Super Street Fighter IV New Features Network Trailer
• Super Street Fighter IV New Modes Network Trailer
• Super Street Fighter IV TGS 2009 Announcement Network Trailer
• FIFA Soccer 10 Returning Tutorial Network Trailer
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Launch Network Trailer
• Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Launch Network Trailer
• Yakuza 3 Characters Network Trailer
• Yakuza 3 Dev Diary 2 Network Trailer

PS3 Themes – Like plastic surgery:

• MLB 10: The Show Themes (x9) (Braves, Marlins, Angels, Mets, Athletics, Phillies, Mariners, Rangers and Nationals) (free)
• Feeding Frenzy 2 Shipwreck Showdown Theme (free)
• Atomic Blast Theme ($1.49)
• Darksiders Theme (free)

Wallpaper – Slap up some new wallpaper without all the glue mess:

• Grandia Wallpaper (x3)
• Section 8 Wallpaper (x4)
• Topatoi Wallpaper

PlayStation Store for PSP
Downloadable Games – Card floppers, your game has come:

• THE EYE OF JUDGMENT LEGENDS ($29.99) – Play battles with cards.  No terrible wester accent necessary!
• Rock Band Unplugged Lite ($4.99) – Play Rock Band but with fewer songs.  Aren’t these setups called demos?

PSP minis – Little bundles of awesomeness:

• Rocket Racing ($4.99)

Game Videos – Check it out, movies on the go:

• The Tester Episode 4
• THE EYE OF JUDGMENT LEGENDS Trailer
• Gran Turismo 5 and NASCAR Trailer

PSP Themes – All the hotness, none of the overpriced surgery:

• MLB 10: The Show Themes (x9) (Braves, Marlins, Angels, Mets, Athletics, Phillies, Mariners, Rangers and Nationals) (free)
• Atomic Blast PSP Theme ($1.49)

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

Ignition Entertainment has shipped Deadly Premonition to stores.  Why wait for some redo of Resident Evil 5 when you can jump on a new story?  The $19.99 price tag doesn’t hurt much either!  C’mon, you get side quests, mini fishing games, crazy characters, and 20 hours or so of game play.  You can’t even go see a good horror movie for that price.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

Capcom announced today that the first downloadable installment for Resident Evil 5, “Lost in Nightmares,” is available now on the Xbox Live Marketplace and will be available tomorrow on the Playstation Store. “Lost in Nightmares” lets players control the action leading up to the death of Jill Valentine, a story that was previously told only through cut scenes. In addition to the campaign component, “Lost in Nightmares” also comes with two new playable characters for The Mercanaries Reunion.

The second content pack for Resident Evil 5, “Desperate Escape,” will be available on March 3 for Xbox Live and March 4 on the Playstation Network. Furthermore, Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition, which will release on March 9, will have both content packs on a single Blu-Ray disc for the Playstation 3 and will come with a download token for the Xbox 360 version.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

Major Nelson’s Blog writes:

"Here is the current schedule for upcoming content coming soon to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace*

Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week:

Feb. 15: Battlefield 1943, 800 Microsoft Points

Xbox LIVE Games on Demand:

Feb. 9: Street Fighter IV

Feb. 9: Halo Wars (Europe, Australia and New Zealand)

Feb. 16: Resident Evil 5

Feb. 16: Beautiful Katamari

Feb. 16: Viva Piñata: Party Animals (Japan)

Xbox LIVE Arcade:

Feb. 10: Darwinia +, 1200 points

Feb. 17: The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, 800 points

Xbox Avatars Marketplace:

These are just a few of the collections scheduled for the Xbox LIVE Avatar Marketplace.

Feb. 11: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

Feb. 16: Resident Evil 5

Feb. 18: Metro 2033"

The final two characters of Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition for both XBOX 360 and PlayStation 3 are finally revealed. Joining the character lineup of the Mercenaries Reunion Mode, Barry Burton and Rebecca Chambers from past Resident Evil games are the two characters that will be added.

Let’s take a look on the screenshots of Barry Burton and Rebecca Chambers in action. Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition is slated to come out next month in both North America and Japan.

Gamersmint writes: "Downloadable content, these days, is becoming a crutch for game developers to lean on for earning some loose change (a lot of loose change in fact). We all know of Capcom’s infamous Resident Evil 5 multiplayer DLC stunt. While Ubisoft has not fallen to that level, ‘Battle of Forli’ still reeks of heresy."

Nick @ PS3Center writes:

In a recent interview with the Japanese publication Dengeki PlayStation, Resident Evil 5 assistant producer Mie Suzuki gave a little more insight into the scenarios planned for the DLC. Apparently, the Desperate Escape and Lost in Nightmares levels were planned from the start of the game’s development, but removed to improve the pacing of the narrative.

BD Writes: You should be warned this article could probably be renamed to something along the lines of ‘What I Want in Resident Evil 6, and why it really doesn’t need a multiplayer’, because I feel that a lot of the problems I have with RE5 stem from the series’ recent foray into co-op play. So if you’re of the mind that every game needs a multiplayer feature to be worth $60, there’s a very good chance you won’t be gleaning too much here (but I guarantee my occasional clever witticism still make reading this worthwhile). If you’re like me and you feel that Resident Evil 5 let you down, you should definitely read on to hear me bitch and moan about what the game did wrong and how I think Capcom can fix it all with Resident Evil 6.

It’s that time again, Steam’s countdown for their ‘early holiday’ sale just ended, revealing yet another line-up of newly discounted games. The main attractions for today include Resident Evil 5 and Borderlands, dropped by 50% and 33%, respectively.

This weekend being inordinately special, many of the download services are going all bring special offers straight to your PC. This is where we step in and give you an idea of what’s the best deals out this weekend. And here they are:

GOG.com

Firstly, our friends at Good Old Games  (GOG.com) are selling a selection of Interplay’s back catalogue at 30% off. Participating titles are:

• Giants: Citizen Kabuto
• Descent 3 +  expansion
• Stonekeep
• Sacrifice

All these games weight in at a paltry $4.19 USD so they’re well worth a look.

Steam

Steam are doing a crazy series of one day sales for the next five days with up to 80% off some titles. This will include a new titles like Left 4 Dead 2 and Mini Ninjas.

Today’s offers are:

• Lucasarts Premier Pack which includes a lot of their classic games like LOOM, the Dig and a whole raft of their Star Wars titles with 60% off.
• THQ Complete Pack: 15 games in all including S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, Dawn of War GOTY, Dawn of War II, Company of Heroes and Tales of Valor, Red Faction Guerrilla, Saints Row 2 loads  more with 50%

Keep checking Steam over the next 5 days to see what other goodies you can snap up cheaply.

For the week thy also have the complete season one of Sam and Max with 33% off.

Impulse

Impulse has also got a crazy Thanksgiving sale. The real highlights of are:

• Sins of a Solar Empire with 50% off.
• Meridian 4 Complete pack which includes a whopping selection of great indie games with 60% off.

GamersGate.com

GamersGate .com are chopping between 30 and 65% off selected titles for Thanksgiving higlights being:

• 50% off Serious Sam 2.
• 25% off new release Tropico 3.

Direct2Drive

Finally, Fox Interactive’s download service is doing an All Killer No Filler sale with some interesting bargains. These include:

• 50% off Resident Evil 5 (ends today).
• 50% off Champions Online.
• And a whopping 75% off the hardcore WWII strategy sim Hearts of Iron III.

So there you go ladies and gentlemen, that’s our pick of the Thanksgiving special offers to download for your PC. Tune in again next week when we will again be cruising the dark recesses of the internet to find you some bargains.