As part of Steams Midweek Madness you can once again get the Summer Indie Bundles. The Summer Indie Bundles? It is a load of indie games at reduced prices on Steam all put together into several different indie bundles. Each bundle normally cost £27.99 but now they are £6.99 each. Be warned you can’t save money on individual games you have to buy the whole indie bundle.
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A Ukraine report has announced that apparently Bethesda Softworks the publisher of great games such as The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 3 have gained the publishing rights to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise. The new S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 game was canceled earlier this year when the developer GSC Game World when out of business.
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Some of you might have tried The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Overhaul 2.0 mod which improved The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in may ways with new visuals and better gameplay. Now the guys behind that mod will be releasing a newer better version. The new version will be called Overhaul 3.0 and will go one more step further than before with even better visuals and game improvements. Theres is a new trailers and some screenshots which you can see below.
Markus “Notch” Persson has written on he’s blog recently about the issues of gender in Minecraft. Notch says he’s original intention when designing the game was to have the playable character “Steve” to be entirely genderless. He also says that he regrets adding a goatee to the character and that the character name Steve came from a joke response when someone asked him about the character.
This gave me an idea to explore about gender in games such as Minecraft and Tomb Raider while looking at how films handle this problem at the same time. Also I will explain why sex and gender is important in the various entertainment mediums.
This is a weekly post I do where I highlight some of the posts I have done which you might have missed over the last week. It’s a bit late this week but I have been busy doing a few things. Look forward to my long opinion piece tomorrow morning about gender in games, films and the entertainment industry in general. It’s a long one.
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I have started a new Minecraft series where I plan to build a kingdom with a castle or fort, villages and much more all by hand with no cheats, mods or other voodoo trickery. As a wise and fair King I have decided to do all the work by myself before my citizens move in. Which means they will be waiting for a while.
Over at the action MMORPG combat orientated TERA, the unoriginal named Summer Event is starting soon. The event adds skimpy clothes and douchebag outfits for all the races in the game. There are also new achievements, prizes and a beach party. Which is just what you need to make you feel even more of a loser.
The developers of The Secret World revealed during an official live stream yesterday that The Secret World will be open for anyone to play next weekend. From 3rd August at 4pm GMT until 6th August at 7am GMT. This is to celebrate the games one month anniversary (seriously?), Funcom will be doing events, giving players fireworks and other rewards for completing a series of missions. However more importantly people who want to know more about what the game is about or try out The Secret World will be able to do so over the weekend without paying a single penny a part from a bit of your soul.
So you might be wondering what the feck is City of Steam? Is it some sort of Steam city building game? Well no its a free to play browser-based MMORPG similar in visual style and gameplay to games like Neverwinter Nights, Runescape, Baldur’s Gate with a bit of Vagrant Story. However what makes it different to these games is that it based on architecture and style of a steam punk universe. It is a pretty interesting take on the whole fantasy RPG theme.
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As I mentioned the other day the Path of Exile public stress test weekend has now started one hour ago. This means people who aren’t in the closed beta can now try out Path of Exile for free and see if the game interests you in any way.
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