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Direct2Drive has some high-powered Fourth of July PC game deals

Posted Jul 3rd 2009 6:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, FPS, RPG, RTS

IGN's Direct2Drive site is celebrating the upcoming Fourth of July holiday with some big price cuts on selected games. From now until July 5 you can download and purchase Call of Duty 4 for just $27.95, Call of Duty World at War for just $34.95 and a Company of Heroes bundle (containing the original game and the two stand alone expansion packs) for just $34.95.

If you are a procrasinator you can wait until July 12 to get the following deals: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for just $14.95, the Game of the Year version (containing the original game, the Knights of the Nine and the Shivering Isles expansions and all of the official DLC content) for just $17.95, and the original ArmA for $14.95. You can also get the original ArmA with its just released sequel ArmA II in a bundle for $60.

GoG.com puts its pinball games on sale this weekend

Posted Jul 3rd 2009 3:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Casual

GoG.com has been busy this week adding four games to their line-up of DRM-free PC game titles. This weekend they have a special old-school game sale going on; no first person shooters or real time strategy or role playing games here. They have the simple fun of pinball games at a special price.

Yep from now until the end of the day on Monday you can download all four of GoG.com's PC pinball titles (Pure Pinball 2.0 Redux, Timeshock, Big Race USA and Fantastic Journey) for a mere $4.79 each. That's a 20 percent discount on their already low, low prices. This is not a bundle deal; you get the 20 percent price cut no matter how many you want to get.

Download: Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs PC Demo

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 9:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Demos, Action

Activision has released a playable PC demo for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the just released game adaption of the third movie in the CGI animated series. Yes you can play with the characters from the movie like Scrat, Sid, Manny and Diego as they discover a lost world of dinosaurs. The demo comes from developer Eurocom.

Download the Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs demo (513 MB) at Big Download

Dawn of War II "There Is Only War" beta begins

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 9:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Betas, Downloads, Patches, RTS, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

After a 24 hour delay, owners of Relic's Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II can now download the open beta update for the sci-fi RTS game via Steam. In order to access the beta, titled "There Is Only War" you first select "file" in the Steam client and then click "change" under the "beta participation" section. Then select "Dawn of War 2" and restart Steam. The beta patch should then start downloading.

You can check out the massive patch list at the game's official web site. The patch includes support for the World Builder map editor and the official web site also has a PDF file with documentation on how to map a simple map using the tool. The patch, as we have mentioned before, has also eight new multiplayer maps the new Observer feature and lots of other new features, balances changes and bug fixes. The beta period will last until July 13.

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Download: Men of War: Red Tide Trailer

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 8:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, RTS, Trailers

1C Company has released the first gameplay trailer from Men of War: Red Tide. This trailer shows off gameplay from the upcoming stand alone expansion pack to the WWII strategy game that was developed by Best Way. Men of War: Red Tide is scheduled to be released later this fall.

Download the Men of War: Red Tide trailer (95 MB) at Big Download

Steam offers HUGE 2K Games bundle sale

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 8:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Action, RPG, Strategy

Fallout 3 isn't the only game on sale on Steam this weekend, In fact there's a ton of games that have just been collected into a new game bundle via the download service. 20 titles from 2K Games are now available to purchase as one big game pack for just $59.99. If you bought each game individually it would cost $229.80. Oh, and did we mention that from now until July 7 you can get 10 percent off that already low price, making the bundle $53.99?

Here's the full list of games in the bundle:

Sid Meier's Civilization IV,
Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Shattered Union
Prey
CivCity: Rome
Civilization IV Warlords
Sid Meier's Railroads!
Railroad Tycoon 3
Railroad Tycoon II Platinum
X-COM: Terror From the Deep
X-COM: Apocalypse
BioShock
X-COM: Interceptor
X-COM: UFO Defense
X-COM: Enforcer
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Freedom Force
Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization.

Download: East India Company Multiplayer Trailer

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 7:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Trailers, Strategy

This is a trailer that shows off multiplayer gameplay for East India Company, the upcoming historical strategy game from developer Nitro Games and publisher Paradox Interactive. The full game, which depicts Europe during the time of the dominance of the real East India Company, is currently scheduled to be released on July 28.

Download the East India Company Multiplayer Trailer (103 MB) at Big Download

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Full version of Trine available on Steam one day early

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 7:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Action, Puzzle

Sometimes games are actually released earlier than expected. Such is the case for Trine, the long awaited downloadable fantasy themed action-puzzle game from developer Frozenbyte. While the game was supposed to be released tomorrow for the PC, the full version of the game is now available to download via Steam right now.

As we mentioned earlier this week, the Steam version of Trine costs $29.99, which is $10 more than the Playstation 3 downloadable version (that port has yet to be released as of this writing). Of course if you were smart you would have pre-ordered the game via Steam and gotten a $9.99 title from Frozenbyte for free (Shadowgrounds). You can download a free demo right here at Big Download to see if you think Trine might be worth the extra $10.

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Download: Battlefield 1943 Guadalcanal Trailer

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 5:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, FPS, Multiplayer, Trailers

Electronic Arts has released a new gameplay trailer showing the Guadalcanal level of Battlefield 1943, the upcoming downloadable multiplayer shooter from developer Digital Illusions. The PC version of the game is due to be released in September following the console versions which will be available to download next week

Download the Battlefield 1943 Guadalcanal trailer (121 MB) at Big Download

Gallery: Battlefield 1943

Fallout 3 on sale on Steam this weekend

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 2:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, RPG, Fallout 3

Like other PC game download sites this week, the Steam service is starting their weekend sales pitch a little bit early thanks to the US-based Fourth of July holiday. Today Steam announced that for the next few days the price of the hit Bethesda Softworks RPG Fallout 3 will have a 50 percent price cut.

Yep, that means that the highly acclaimed 2008 game, which is normally $49.99 on Steam, can now be bought for the next few days for just $24.99. It's too bad that you can't download the four (so far) mini-expansions to the game via Steam as well.

Gallery: Fallout 3

Gametap adds (and subtracts) PC games to library

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Action, Adventure

The PC game download site Gametap updates their library of titles every Thursday and today is no except. This week they are adding the adventure game Runaway: Dream Of The Turtle for their premimum users. Also, the Rebellion-developed action game Rogue Trooper will be free to play via Gametap for the next week.

However the official GameTap blog is reporting some bad news; they are now removing nearly all of the Myst based games from their library of titles. According to the blog the surprise removal of the games was "due to an external conflict between (developer) Cyan Worlds and (publisher) Ubisoft" The one exception is RealMYST, the fully 3D remake of the original game.

More classic games added to GoG.com

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 12:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Adventure, RPG

The DRM-free web site GoG.com isn't done with us yet this week. The classic PC game site has a couple of extra additions to their growing library to tell you about. One of them is Personal Nightmare, a classic horror-adventure game from developer Adventure Soft. It was released way back in 1989 making this title the oldest in GoG.com's library. You can download and play it now for $5.99.

GoG.com has also added Crystals of Arborea and Ishar III to its Ishar Compilation of RPG games. You can now get all four games in the series for just $5.99. If you already bought the collection when it just had two games, you can now get the two additional titles for free.

Two more Battlestations Pacific content updates coming in July to PC

Posted Jul 2nd 2009 11:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, Action, Strategy

Eidos's recent WWII action-strategy game Battlestations Pacific was released last May and later this month folks who picked up the title will be able to download two new content update for the game. One of these updates is called the Mustang Pack which will add six new units to the game including the P-51 Mustang plane, the US Navy's Alaska Class cruiser and the Japanese Super Yamato Class, a bigger version of the legendary Yamato battleship that in real life was never made.

The second content update is the Carrier Battles Map Pack which adds four new maps to the game that can be played on all five of Battlestations Pacific's multiplayer modes. The map pack even includes a level set in Aleutian Islands near Alaska. PC owners can download the Mustang Pack sometime today for 160 Microsoft points on Games For Windows Live. The Carrier Battles Map Pack will be released on July 23 for 800 Microsoft points.

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One day delay for Dawn of War II 1.4 beta patch

Posted Jul 1st 2009 7:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Expansions, Patches, RTS, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II

Looks like we will have to wait another day or so before we can get our hands on the 1.4 beta patch for Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II. The patch from Relic and THQ was supposed to be made available via Steam today but a note on the game's official web site states, "We are experiencing an unforeseen technical problem and believe it will be resolved in the next 24 hours."

Just a reminder: this is an open beta for the 1.4 update to the sci-fi RTS title that will contain eight new multiplayer maps, a new Observer feature, the World Builder map editor and lots of other cool stuff.

Gallery: Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War 2