On Steam this weekend you get 33% off if you buy RIFT. The game usually costs 49,99€, but this weekend it only costs 33,49€, and that's quite a nice price for a brand new mmorgp! (Massively multiplayer roleplaying game for those who didn't know).
RIFT is the new big mmo and has actually been very successfull, and of course I have to compare it to wow and say that this might be the mmo that has come closest to wow's success of all the one's that has come out since 2004 when wow exploded. Now enough of that, wow will always be my favorite, but if you wan't a break from wow or are thinking on buying this game I recommend you do it this weekend.
First of all I want to say congrats to all my fellow Norwegians, for it is may 17th, our national day! Or constitution day if you may. The weekend and monday have been slow on the game front and really buisy for me, well I've had a LAN at my apartment, so good-buisy. I've discovered some cool new games which I'm gonna write about very soon, mostly free and otherwise cheap games. I like to review casual cheap games that you might not have heard about, since the internet is flooded with information on the big ones. But anyway, I have collected some news from the week so far for you.
First off: the PSN is back up! Not in all countries as we speak, but they are working on it one by one, so be prepared! The date was originally may 31, so this is a nice suprise from Sony.
Ubisoft is in the process of making movies from some of their games. Splinter cell, assassins creed and ghost recon are still the only three games they are talking about, but more may come. It will be big projects and Ubisoft will be keeping sure that everything will be true to the games.
Lots of short Modern warfare 3 teasers went up this weekend, every one of them for different countries, you can find them all on youtube of course, but here is the one for america.
The last part is in russian, and means "One. Eliminate enemy hopes for victory." (Correct me if I'm wrong russians).
The wait is finally over, well atleast very soon. Blizzard announced this week that the diablo 3 beta will be coming this fall. No news yet on whether it'll be an open or closed beta, but atleast it's a sign that the release is not that far away. When it comes to the actual release of the game no date has been announced yet, but blizzard president Mike Morhaime says that a 2011 release is something they are hoping for. Even though we know blizzard loves to postpone releases and tease us over and over again, they usually announce their release dates very short before it actually happens ,so the release is probably going to come as a blow to the face just when we aren't looking. I'm actually going to believe blizz this time and say that the game will come out sometime between christmas this year and february next year. What do you think? Are you as optimistic as me?
Sumotori is a casual ragdoll fighting game, and it is one of the best small fighting games I have ever played! You play as a sumo-wrestler ragdoll and have to fight other ragdolls. The game starts with you and your opponent(s) touching your hands to the floor like in real sumo-wrestling, and off you go to punch the opponent to the ground. The loser is the first one to hit the ground, but you can still play the same game as long as you want. The special and best thing about this game is how the "dolls" move, i'ts like trying to control a drunk, blind and crazy man with loose limbs and springs on his feet. The juddering wrestlers move so unsteadily that even the slightest jerk is enough to send them into uncontrollable death spins. You’re basically your own worst enemy – one missed push and you’ve condemned your poor robotic wrestler to smacking his face into the ground, tangling his limbs up with the other fighters, having his adversaries pile on top of him and technically ending the match. But that’s when the fun begins.
A very common situation.
It is for 1-2 players but if you add computers you can play up to 4 at a time. You only have two attacks which are push, and push with one hand. And you move with the arrows, while the down arrow is jump, so no walking backwards. You can choose between lots of arenas and mods, for example the seesaw arena from the picture above, and mods like football, labyrinths, slides and tons more made by players, or you can build one yourself. I recommend this game to everyone, you will laugh your ass off untill your stomach aces.
You can download the demo for free or buy it for only 4.50 USD here.
Sony is saying that they are busy improving the security of the playstation network and that it will be up by may 31. But sony is still planning to restore online gameplay before that date. As a welcome package to the european users they have now revealed that in addition to a year of identity theft protection and a month of playstation plus, european users will get a choice of two playstation games, and two psp games, but which games are not yet revealed. Us and the rest of the world will probably get something similar, but we will have to see. Sony promised last week that the online gameplay would be up by the end of that week, but nothing happened, so can we really trust them this time? It is a long time to wait but I have my doubts.
Ubisoft finally revealed the release date of Assassins creed revelations last week, and it seems this will be yet another game we can spend our christmas playing. In revelations Ezio Auditore will travel to Constantinople, in the footsteps of Altair, in order to further unravel the mystery between the Templars and the Assassins. It brings back the multiplayer experience first introduced in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood with "more modes, more maps and more characters" according to the official announcement. Revelations will be the final chapter of the Ezio trilogy. It will be out this november, wich I think is a perfect time for game releases! We desperately need alot of games in the winter ( atleast here in scandinavia!) The only thing the winter is good for is that it gives us more time to play (and it kills all the bugs). It really is a good country to be a gamer in, lol.
Four rather special teasers was released a short time ago, if you want to check it out i recently wrote a post on it where you can see the fourth teaser aswell. Check it out here.
There are a lot of bargains on games almost every week and I usually keep myself updated on them in case I see something I like, so I thought that must be something you would like to know about! And I recomend you buy them through steam, just because steam is the easyest way to keep track of your games, friends and find new games. Look at me talking when I'm sure most of you already know this. Because I live in europe I only see the euro currency, but for those of you who use other currency's it is converted so it is no difference in the prices. So on too the important bit:
Hydrophobia: prophecy: If you pre-purchase you get 15% euro off. that means it now costs 8,49 euro. The game releases may 9th so better hurry! I know I'm getting it! You can buy it on steam here.
Plants vs zombies: You get 66% euro off today! That means it only costs 3,40 euro now. the offer ends at thursday 4pm pst ( 7.30 friday morning gmt+1) You really dont want to miss this, cus this game is friggin' awesome! you also get two plants vs zombies inspired hats in team fortress 2. You can buy it on steam here.
I will update soon, I just wanted to get this out as soon as possible! :D
So I'm quite fond of assassin's creed even though the two games I've played I only made it a few hours in, the stories are great and I had a good time, but suddently I just forgot about it. When that happens it's quite hard to continue again. But now that a new game is releasing it's like I have a new chance, if you know what I mean? Might sound weird, but I can't explain it any better. The new teasers makes it even more exciting, the only hints we get is some arabic words, in the first trailer people have translated it to "Altair son of Alahd" and in the second one it is translated to "Altar son of none" and has the mayan calender flashing in the background. There are more hidden stuff in all four of them but its kinda confusing. It kinda reminds me of something out of lost (Oh how I miss lost). I'm looking forward to finding out more but mostly to playing the game of course. The game will come out some time in 2012 but wee will find out more on this years E3. Here is the fourth teaser for you, are you excited? Maybe some of you who have played more than me can get more out of it?
The big release I was talking about was of course Portal 2. And the way it was released blew everyones minds. It all started as an potato-based april fools joke, where Valve released a game bundle on steam, In the days since, updates and cryptic messages have appeared both across the Internet and in the Potato sack games (the game bundle). At first it was merely simple messages or cryptic clues, such as strings of numbers or in-game glyphs, but soon more and more clues surfaced, eventually leading to potatoes invading the games en force. A week before schedueled release a mysterious page went up, on it was only a timer. It was counting down to something, and nobody knew anything exept that it had something to do with the portal 2 release. Everyone was of course hoping for an early release, but we know Valve (the company behind portal), and no way in hell would these wishes come true. They are not exactly known for early releases. A couple of hours before the timer would reach zero, a message from GLaDOS appeared which ended with this:
"The time is near, humans. But it is not here yet. Tomorrow you will be given
the final test. Then it will be entirely in your hands when I am freed."
Then at est. 19:00 GMT+1 friday night the timer ran out and a new site came up, with just that, the final test. Valve had collected 13 indie games that we could play, and collect potatoes in to power up GLaDOS so that the game could release early. (If you think the potatoes sound weird, i guess you havent played portal). So over the weekend there were tens of thousands people playing these games and collecting potatoes, and we got the game out around 12 hours earlier than chedueled time. That doesn't sound like alot, but the event was absolutely crazy and a lot of fun. I am so glad Valve made this release into such a big event, it was more than i had hoped for, even though it was almost unbearably nerve wrecking at some points. Frankly Valve is my absolute favorite game company of all time.
The site is still up here where you can see the games, GLaDOS' messages etc. Also a wiki site was made just for this special occasion, where you can view all the announsements and news that was posted during the event.
First of all I want to say congrats to all my fellow Norwegians, for it is may 17th, our national day! Or constitution day if you may. The weekend and monday have been slow on the game front and really buisy for me, well I've had a LAN at my apartment, so good-buisy. I've discovered some cool new games which I'm gonna write about very soon, mostly free and otherwise cheap games. I like to review casual cheap games that you might not have heard about, since the internet is flooded with information on the big ones. But anyway, I have collected some news from the week so far for you.
Ubisoft finally revealed the release date of Assassins creed revelations last week, and it seems this will be yet another game we can spend our christmas playing. In revelations Ezio Auditore will travel to Constantinople, in the footsteps of Altair, in order to further unravel the mystery between the Templars and the Assassins. It brings back the multiplayer experience first introduced in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood with "more modes, more maps and more characters" according to the official announcement. Revelations will be the final chapter of the Ezio trilogy. It will be out this november, wich I think is a perfect time for game releases! We desperately need alot of games in the winter ( atleast here in scandinavia!) The only thing the winter is good for is that it gives us more time to play (and it kills all the bugs). It really is a good country to be a gamer in, lol. 
