Bethesda Softworks have announced today that the first official Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC Dawnguard is now available on PC. It can be bought on Steam purchased through Steam for £13.99 which I think is more than Xbox 360 version was on the Xbox Live Marketplace. However the PlayStation 3 versions has been indefinitely delayed.
Over on the ever rampaging Steam, to celebrate the gaming event Quakecon, you can currently save some money on various games from id Software and Bethesda Softworks each day from 2nd August to 6th August at 10am Pacific Time.
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BioWare have announced yesterday that its top budget MMORPG will be adding a free-to-play option by this Autumn. The game will also be going on sale in August for $14.99 (£9.61) with a free one month subscription included for people who might want to get involved in the game before free to play changes happen. As Star Wars: The Old Republic is going to free to play get ready to hear about Cartel Coins a lot.
Minecraft version 1.3.1 is now officially released for all you Minecraft fans to try out. This update is quite big and adds plenty of new features such as “demo mode for non-premium users”, “Adventure mode”, “trading”, various “Tempel” types, “Emerald Ore” and much more. They have also added cool little subtlety things like “water slowly drips through them when it’s raining” on leaves and cauldrons “slowly fill up when it’s raining”.
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Electronic Arts announced yesterday that Battlefield 3 Premium subscriptions have passed way over the one million mark. According to Electronic Arts fiscal report for the first financial quarter of 2013, the number of Battlefield 3 Premium subscriptions our around 1.3 million. Last month around 800,000 players had signed up for Battlefield 3 Premium in its first two weeks of availability.
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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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