The Week In PC Games: September 28-October 4

Posted Sep 28th 2009 8:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Meta BD

After a very busy past few weeks for new PC game releases, things calm down a bit this week with just one major retail game, a downloadable title and a free major update to a popular shooter:

Risen: Developer Piranha Bytes, best known as the creators and developers of the first three games in the Gothic series, launch a new fantasy RPG franchise with this new title from developer Deep Silver. The game takes place on an volcanic island teaming with creatures in an open world environment. Risen has the dubious distinction of being part of a select group of games this year to be banned for sale in Australia.

Gallery: Risen

Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan: Telltale Games releases this third installment of their LucasArts adventure game revival as a downloadable game on Tuesday. Hey you can't beat a game which has our hero Guybrush Threepwood being swallowed by a giant manatee.

Gallery: Tales of Monkey Island

Left 4 Dead: Crash Course: Valve releases this new campaign for their hit zombie co-op shooter for free via Steam on Tuesday. Details on the setting remain a secret (they haven't even released screenshots from Crash Course) but we know there will be new maps for Campaign and Versus modes along with new Survival maps.

Gallery: Left 4 Dead

Tags: crash-course, left-4-dead, risen, tales-of-monkey-island

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Risen could quite possibly be one of the best pc rpgs of all time. thats what im hoping anyway. not too many people know about it due to their apparent lack of a marketing budget though. oh and more l4d!!! its about friggin time is all i have to say. this week its gonna be hard for me to focus on the important things in life. Posted at 9:33AM on Sep 28th 2009 by goog9

Important things in life? Is there anything more important than games? :)Posted at 9:45AM on Sep 28th 2009 by Quijote3000

haha touche'. i suppose grad school and meeting women should definitely take a back seat. Posted at 8:28PM on Sep 28th 2009 by goog9

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