Arcen Games have pitched in for Steam’s Autumn Sale, putting their deep space strategy game AI War and all of the expansions on sale for 75% off. This basically means that you can get the base game for $5, small DLC for $1, full expansions for $2.50, and the whole AI War bundle together with some extra savings in the Alien Bundle for just $7.50! If that doesn’t get you excited then the unique puzzle game Tidalis is 80% off and is going for just $2 instead of the usual $10.
The sale goes until November 27, giving you a small window to grab the games as soon as possible. You can get both the PC and Mac versions, so pick your poison well. Or, heck, if you have both you may as well pick both since the discounts are so huge.
In what is considered a shock to the world, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has beaten all-comers in the latest charts from Japan this week. A subbed version of the game was released this week. Published by RPG giants Square Enix (yeah, Activsion licensed the release in Japan), the popular first person shooter sold 179,000 units for the Playstation 3 alone. It has beaten Level-5’s Playstation 3 version of Ni No Kuni by quite a distance, with Oliver’s adventure only having 65,000 units sold, placing third on the charts. Second on the charts was One Piece Gigant Battle 2 for the Nintendo DS, which sold 120,000 units.
Media Create, however, have come out with figures on the percentage of retail stock sold on each of those games and they don’t look impressive for both Ni No Kuni and One Piece Gigant Battle 2. For Ni No Kuni, those 65,000 units only represent 40% of stock. That is very disappointing, considering that Level-5 is big in Japan. For One Piece, those sales only represent 45% of stock shipped. Modern Warfare 3 sold 75% of its stock.
Now, if there was massive media hype for Modern Warfare 3 in Japan, then it may have contributed to the weaker sales of what should have been the two biggest Japanese releases. However, this might be just one of those instances where the Western game is more popular than those from their home country. Call of Duty has seen six figured sales for the last few years. However, first person shooters are no where near as popular in Japan than in the West, where the market is flooded with that particular genre. Hopefully the lower than expected sales don’t de-rail the plans for the Western release.
Act of Fury: Kraine’s Revenge is a retro-style shoot’em up developed by DarkWave Games that has an interesting little twist. Instead of giving your main character, Kraine Severe, a weapon, he is in fact the weapon.
Kraine Severe has been experimented on by the mad scientist, Dr Osvald Pernicious, the leader of the Doom Legion. After escaping the laboratory, he finds out that thanks to the mad experiments of Dr Pernicious, he can now turn into a hurricane. Because the names don’t have enough surrealism to them.
There are nine levels of action in four different environments, ranging from the desert to the icy North and South poles. There are three huge bosses to fight, all based on the evolution of the Doom Legion’s prototype weapon. Earn some stars and spend them to unlock special powers, like other smaller hurricanes and thunderstorms. In case you just don’t like any of your surrounding environments.
Act of Fury: Kraine’s Revenge is available now on iTunes for $1.99 – get it HERE
Over in Japan, Square Enix has released a demo for the Playstation Portable and Playstation Vita hunter game Lord of Apocalypse. In addition of being available on the Japanese Playstation Store, the demo will also be available online on 4Gamer and Famitsu.com, so those outside of Japan (which would be most of us) and who are curious how this game plays out, there is access to the demo right there. It worked for the Final Fantasy Type-0 demo, so it should work here.
So, what does the demo contain? Well, there will be two quests available, one for beginners and one for advanced players. Both of these quests will not feature in the final game. Despite the fact that it is a demo for the Playstation Portable version, it will be a great chance to have some sort of idea what the Playstation Vita version will be like, since content will be the same in both versions.
Another Way 2Play have taken all the awesome things of New York noire, put in some ridiculousness, and then put it into a pinball machine. Or should I say an awesome machine?
As a huge Pinball fan (seriously, I spent so long playing that Windows Space Cadet pinball game when I was younger) I think this is going to be a really fun little app. After all, what is better than an awesomely themed pinball machine?
Featuring a whole range of superbly detailed representations of New York, noire themes, the possibility of up to five simultaneous balls, a secret New York night level, a high-performance physics engine, great sountrack, local rankings, and Game Center. Plus, some great collectable trophies.
Pinball City New York is available for iPhone and iTouch for $1.99 – get it HERE
Pinball City New York is also available for iPad for $3.99 – get it HERE
Check out the totally awesome trailer showing off some of the features and theme you can come to expect from Pinball City New York.
Happy Holidays from Team 17! They’ve got your holidays covered with their reduced prices of Worms Crazy Golf, making sure that you’ve got something to do between all the road trips and family dinners and whatnot.
Worms Crazy Golf is an eighteen-hole game with a variety of weird and wonderful courses, with some crazy power-ups, a ton of awesome features, and crazy chain reactions. As always with Worms, there are heaps of fantastic features and lots of stuff to experiment and explode. There are three 18-hole golf courses, with a bunch of skills-based challenge modes with a whole heap of puzzling hole designs and obstacles.
Be quick, this deal will only be lasting until the 28th of November. The Worms Crazy Golf App is available for 99c here, the Worms Crazy Golf HD App is also available for $2.99 here.
In Tales of Innoncent R, the character Hermana Larmo encounters what looks like a bigger version of Geodude (although it would have a different name). Now, in real life, trying to punch a rock usually means a bit of pain on your side. For Hermana, her fists means pain for the rock. In this video, she manages to string in a 165-hit combo, amassing to 1452 points of damage. Wow, a lot of damage to dish out to a living rock. Reflecting her choice of weapons, she can only use hand to hand Artes. However, she also has access to some magical Artes.
Tales of Innoncent R is the remake of Tales of Innocence that will be released on the Playstation Vita on January 26 for Japan.
My favourite free app site Daily App Dream have published Assyria Game Studio’s sequel to their game The Glowing Void. The Glowing Void 2 isn’t just an update, it’s a brand new game with a new look, more content, more fun, more challenges, and is available in beautiful HD.
The concept of The Glowing Void 2 is to fill the glowing void with your circles while avoiding the dangerous bouncing red dots, and finishing each level by filling most of the void. Now, there is a dirty joke somewhere in there, but I’m a classy lady so I’ll let you guys figure it out for yourselves. (But not too classy, so if you come up with a good one, leave a comment below so we can all snicker to ourselves!)
As well as the improved graphics there is also iCloud Support, OpenFeint integration, full Retina display support, and rotating GUIs to allow for gaming in any orientation. There are also a few different modes including Classic where you fill up 70% of your screen, Survival where you keep going as long as possible, and three in app purchase modes, Gamer and Dodger. Gamer mode has power-ups that you can pick up, Dodger mode involves achieving your highest score by surviving as long as possible by dragging around a pre-made void with your finger, and Speed mode where you must do your job as quickly as possible while being able to take 3 hits.
The Glowing Void 2 is now available for $0.99 – get it HERE
In what would be another edition to the thriving hunter, Ragnarok Odyssey, a game based on the popular MMORPG, will see a release on February 2 in Japan for the Playstation Vita. It will be developed by Gravity, the developers behind the MMORPG, with the game published by GungHo Online Entertainment, who are the parent company of Gravity. It joins other offline versions of the game released for the Nintendo DS and Playstation Portable.
In the game, there will be six classes available: sword warrior, hunter, hammersmith, assassin, mage and cleric. It will join the likes of Lord of Apocalypse as one of Vita’s hunter games that will flood the system over its life time. Ad-hoc multiplayer will also be available for the game, so make sure you enjoy the fights with your friends.
G5 Entertainment have announced the release of the addictive time management game Supermarket Management on the Amazon Appstore. Supermarket Management has already reached strong popularity on PC, Mac and mobile platforms, so G5 Entertainment is covering the final frontier, Kindle Fire.
You play as Kate, a new college graduate, who is given the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the supermarket business, managing and growing four supermarkets, upgrading staffing, shelving and more. Go around stocking shelves, pushing carts, and weighing produce while making sure that all your customers go home happy with a full cart and a smile.
There are 49 levels, tons of mini-games, and lots of opportunities for upgrades. So there’s only one question left, Kindle Fire owners, can you take the heat of supermarket ownership?
The game is available now for $4.99 – grab it HERE
