Nyxquest-Kindred-Spirits posts

There's always love in the air somewhere in the world but there always seems to be more of it on Valentine's Day. On this quasi-holiday there are a couple of one day PC game deals that we found out about. You can use the money you save to buy your significant other another rose or two:

• For a "limited time" you can purchase and download the indie side scroller game NyxQuest Kindred Spirits from the game's official web site for just $1.99, an 80 percent price cut from its normal price.
• Impulse has put the strategy game Real Warfare - 1242 on sale today only for just $5.99.
• OnLive's streaming PC game service has Just Cause 2 on sale today only for $14.99.

It's been a little bit of a slow news day. Will things pick up tomorrow or will we have to start reporting news about Lindsay Lohan? Stay tuned:

• NyXQuest: Kindred Spirits is now available on Steam along with a demo for the platformer.
• Steam also has some puzzle games on sale including Everyday Genius: SquareLogic for just $2.50 and Turba for $4.99.
• Steam also has Rig N Roll on sale this week for $12.50.
• The free-to-play MMO King of Kings 3 is now officially live.
• PC Gamer's next print magazine cover story is on Guild Wars 2.

This week is yet another busy one with a new zombie action game, a mech-action title and more. Also folks who purchased the regular edition of Final Fantasy XIV can gain access to the MMO this week (the game's already live for owners of the Collector's version).

Dead Rising 2 - Developer Blue Castle Games and publisher Capcom bring this sequel to the zombie action game to the PC franchise for the first time. Players will get to fight off the undead horde in a fictional Las Vegas-style city with pretty much any item they can get their hands on.

While other gamers this week are prepping for the release of a big sci-fi shooter on a certain console, PC gamers this week are getting a historical strategy-sim title, an expansion pack to a fantasy strategy game and a new free-to-play MMO based on a huge sci-fi property.

Patrician IV - This is the latest game in the historical trading-strategy-sim series that is highly popular in Europe. Developed by Gaming Minds Studios and published by Kalypso Media your goal in the game is to start as a lowly merchant in Europe during the Middle Ages and rise through the ranks to become the head of a powerful trading empire.

A game that was originally released over a year ago as part of Nintendo's WiiWare downloadable games program is now set for a PC and Mac release. The Steam web site is now listing NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits as coming to the downloadable PC service later this month.

Developed by Madrid-based developer Over the Top Games, NyxQuest: Kindred Sprits is a 2D platform action game with a Greek mythology theme as you control the character Nyx through 12 levels of puzzle solving and fighting monsters. It has a fairly minimalistic art style as you can see and also has support for Steam achievements. No pricing for the game was announced.

The Independent Games Festival awards a lot of stuff on their own and they will do so again next month during the 2010 Game Developers Conference, However one of their awards, the Vision Award, is given out with the help of the PC game download site Direct2Drive. The award gives $10,000 to a game that has "new ideas and concepts that will help spark innovation in gaming".

The five finalists this year for the second annual award include games about a daredevil cyclist, a magic drawing device and a living piece of meat. We will see which one of the five games below gets the Vision Award during the IGF 2010 ceremonies on March 11.

• HurricaneX2
• Joe Danger
• Max and the Magic Marker
• Nyxquest: Kindred Spirits
• Super Meat Boy