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Humble Weekly Sale featuring Alan Wake

Jamie Laike Tsui
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Humble Weekly Sale featuring Alan Wake

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After a short hiatus, the Humble Weekly Sale is back with a bang, this time featuring Alan Wake Collector’s Edition, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, and a large variety of special bonus content. Alan Wake fans are still reeling from the stinging announcement that Remedy’s new project is not Alan Wake 2. As part of the Humble Weekly Sale, Remedy’s Creative Director Sam Lake posted a video discussing the state of affairs of Alan Wake and a little bit about Remedy’s new game Quantum Break.

Part of the proceeds from the Humble Weekly Sale goes to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Child’s Play Charity. The Humble Weekly Sale featuring Alan Wake is available at Humble Bundle‘s site.

Storm, Bad Bots, and Auditorium On Sale

Jamie Laike Tsui
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Storm, Bad Bots, and Auditorium On Sale

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indiePub Entertainment knocked down the prices of three of their games for a limited time. Recently released Bad Bots is 25% off on Steam until May 24th. After the sale ends, Storm will be on sale for 80% off at the official site until May 28th. Both games are available for Windows PC and Bad Bots is also compatible with Macs. PlayStation 3 owners are not left out in the cold as Auditorium HD will be on sale at 50% off until June 4th.

Bad Bots is indiePub’s newest release. The game is a retro styled platformer that arms players with a variety of weapons as they fight through a horde of robots. Be sure to read our review of Bad Bots.

Storm is a relaxing puzzle game that allows players to shape a world by controlling the weather. There are 49 levels to complete and three game modes to play.

Auditorium HD is game where players manipulate light and sound to solve puzzles. The game is compatible with the PlayStation Move.

Wargaming to Support Open-Source Foundations

Sergei Lazarev
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Wargaming to Support Open-Source Foundations

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Wargaming.net, developer and publisher of the free-to-play MMOs World of Tanks, World of Warplanes and the upcoming World of Warships has announced today that it will be financially supporting three major open-source development foundations.

These include the Linux Software Foundation, the Django Software Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation. Wargaming has a key interest in making sure they succeed, as they utilise and heavily rely on open-source tech to power their online titles.

Maksim Melnikau, Solution Architect at Wargaming says, “As a company, we’d like to say thank you to all the developers, testers and users who’ve helped create these awesome tools and that we’re extremely honored to hopefully help them continue their great work moving into the future.”

Wargaming was founded in 1998 as a privately-held company and has since shipped over 15 titles while employing 1600 people across the world in places like North America, Europe, Russia, Asia and Australia. Games like World of Tanks, boasting over 45,000,000 players, has seen it grow into a giant on the MMO playing field.

Stardock’s Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Released

Jamie Laike Tsui
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Stardock’s Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Released

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Fallen Enchantress’s standalone expansion pack Legendary Heroes was released today. The game is a fantasy 4X strategy game with RPG elements. Legendary Heroes addresses some gameplay concerns in the Fallen Enchantress including the champions system. Players can now earn champions rather than finding them randomly scattered across the map. The game’s units and item systems have also been rebalanced.

“While it was tempting to create a traditional expansion pack that focused on new, we wanted to use this opportunity to take Fallen Enchantress, a good game, and make it into a great game,” said Brad Wardell, President & CEO of Stardock.

Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes is available on Steam for for $39.99 USD. Owners of the original game will receive a 50% discount on Legendary Heroes.

Australian Youth to ‘Stay Living’ in a Zombie Apocalypse

Zac Elawar
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Stay-Living-Campaign-01The macabre seems to be the zeitgeist of this generation. First, it was vampires, but now zombies rule popular culture.

And with the success of recent movies such as Warm Bodies, and the buzz behind future releases like World War Z from Paramount Pictures, Boost Mobile Australia recognises the mega-trend’s staying power and continued popularity. This is why they are soon to launch a new campaign called ‘Stay Living’.

‘Stay Living’ will feature a series of three short films that tap into this global phenomenon with action-packed scenes that depict the lives of four young Australian heroes in a zombie apocalypse. Battling their way through the zombie infested streets of urban Australia, the characters use their razor sharp survival skills to stick together, look out for each other, and above all else, ‘Stay Living’.

What may seem like your regular zombie genre entries on the surface will hold a more meaningful message, specifically targeted at the more clued-in Gen-Y audience. The short films will be available on June 4th online, via social media channels, on TV and in-store.

For a sneak-peek, visit Boost Mobile Australia’s official YouTube channel.

Ayopa Games goes FREE this Memorial Day Weekend

Luke Halliday
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Ayopa Games have announced that their titles will become available for completely free, this coming Memorial Day Weekend as part of their massive free promotion for several of their most popular paid titles.

The following games have been confirmed as part of the deal and thus will be available for free this weekend:

iPhone/iPad/iPod touch

Mac

Android

Kindle Fire HD

This is undoubtedly an incredible promotion from the industries leading publisher of independently developed mobile games. Please note that these titles will be available for free starting midnight on Friday, May 24 and ending midnight on Wednesday, May 29. So be sure to get in quick to take advantage of this amazing offer from Ayopa Games.

Guncraft is Groupees Be Mine 8’s Newest Addition

Jamie Laike Tsui
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Groupees announced that the upcoming voxel based shooter Guncraft is the newest addition to the Groupees Be Mine 8 bundle. The game is currently in beta and is available to any buyer who spends $5.00 or more on the Be Mine 8 bundle.

Guncraft developers Exato Game Studios is also running a map making contest challenging players to create a board game themed map. Winners will receive special in game items and copies of Guncraft. More information can be found at the official contest thread.

Guncraft is a voxel based FPS that allows players to build the world then do battle on the maps. Environments are fully destructible by weapons and vehicles. The game is currently in the Steam Greenlight program.

Ghostlight announce Eliminage Original for PAL regions

Luke Halliday
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Ghostlight Games have just made a major announcement that they will be localizing the first-person dungeon-crawling JRPG Eliminage Original for the PSP in PAL regions.

Eliminage Original is a very unique PSP JRPG due to its first-person dungeon-crawling gameplay. Ghostlight plans to release Eliminage Original through the PSN with a boxed collector’s edition rumoured for somewhere down the line.

According to Ghostlight, Eliminage Original has the following features:

  • Classic First Person Dungeon Crawling
  • Hugely rewarding turn-based combat with a wealth of enemies to encounter
  • Tackle dozens of quests in any order you choose
  • Massive variety of dungeons to explore
  • Create Your Party: Many races, jobs and skills to master

The game itself is developed by Japan’s Starfish-SD of Heavenly Guardian fame. The Ghostlight release of Eliminage Original will include the recent North American patch to the game’s translation.

You can check out some brand new screenshots for the exciting Eliminage Original as provided by Ghostlight Games below. No date has been confirmed as of yet for the release of Eliminage Original. Stay tuned for more information on this title as it comes to light.

Dracula 4 Travels to Istanbul

Nathan Farrugia
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The fourth entry in Microids’ Dracula series, published by French company Anuman, has revealed that the city of Istanbul is being added to the game as well as the character of Yanek Kaneyek (pictured above in his rather dashing outfit).

The story of Dracula 4 focuses on a period a few months after a freighter that carries an important art collection meant for the Metropolitan Museum shipwrecks, and one of the masterpieces is found in Hungary. Assigned by the museum to authenticate it, Ellen Cross, an art restorer, does not suspect that this mission is about to take her throughout Europe, on the steps of Valachi’s famous prince, Vlad Tepes.

Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon will be releasing in the Summer of 2013 for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android. You can check out a developers diary video below and a trailer for the game in one our previous articles.

Bowers & Wilkin’s C5 Headphones Now Available in Satin Titanium

Jamie Laike Tsui
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Bower & Wilkin’s highly regarded C5 in ear headphones are now available in Satin Titianium. The C5 are designed to stay in the ear even during vigorous movement with the secure loop design and the tungsten weights located inside the headphones. Bowers & Wilkins uses a micro-porous filter on the outside of the C5 to provide room for the sound, resulting in a larger sound stage. This concept is similar to how open back headphones work. The cables include an Apple remote, allowing owners to remotely control their iDevice.

The C5 is constructed from aluminium and is available in Gloss Black and Satin Titanium. They cost $229.95 AUD. The Gloss Black is available now and the Satin Titanium will be released in June. The C5  can be purchased from Apple Stores, select JB HiFi and Harvey Norman, and independent specialist stores.

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