age-of-booty posts

While Steam is offering sales of Capcom's PC titles during its summer sale, Capcom itself has put several of its PC downloadable game titles on the price chopping block itself on their own online store. In most cases the savings are actually more than the ones that Steam is currently offering.

For this weekend only you can get Street Fighter IV, Dark Void and Neopets Puzzle Adventure for just $14.99 each, which is at least a 50 percent savings from their normal prices. You can also get MotoGP 08 for $9.99 and Dark Void Zero, Flock and Age of Booty are on sale for $4.99 each.

It was a game that had one of the greatest titles of all time: Age of Booty. Developer Certain Affinity's downloadable pirate-themed strategy game was pretty good in itself. Publisher Capcom released the game for the PC back in March 2009. Now it looks like the game was successful enough to perhaps generate a follow-up.

Certain Affinity has registered the title "Legend of Booty" with the US Trademark Office a few days ago. Since it doesn't make sense that they would register such a title without some sort of plan for a game to go with it we feel safe in speculating that some kind of Age of Booty sequel might be underway.

Download the Age of Booty Demo (103 MB)

We thought that we had gone over all of the weekend's Internet PC game sales but as usual a few more have popped up since then. So consider this new post a late heads-up.

• GoG.com has both of their Ground Control RTS games in a bundle this weekend. You can get the bundle pack for $8.38 from now until Monday night.
• Direct2Drive has Drakensang: The Dark Eye on sale for $5 off its regular price until Sunday if you put in the code 5OFFDRAKENSANG at checkout.
• Steam's pre-order for Torchlight is now up and you can get 10 percent off the game now before its release on October 27.
  
• Finally, Capcom's online store has their downloadable strategy game (and one of our favorite game titles) Age of Booty on sale for just $4.99.

As we head into the long Memorial Day weekend, we've spotted a couple of weekend deals on downloadable games that might be of interest. Over at GamersGate they have the recent pirate themed strategy game Age of Booty (from developer Certain Affinity and publisher Capcom) for just $4.99 this weekend. You can also purchase and download Civilization IV from the same outlet for just $14.99.

Meanwhile Direct2Drive has the PC version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on sale this weekend for just $9.99. Also the recently released first person shooter Necrovision is on sale for $23.99, a 20 percent reduction. You can find some more minor sales deals at Direct2Drive's web site.

Capcom released a playable demo for Age of Booty, "a casual, real-time pirate-themed multiplayer strategy game that puts you at the helm of your own pirate ship with the goal of sending your enemies to the briny deep, and looting/capturing towns for your pirate faction." The full game can be purchased for $10.

Download the Age of Booty Demo (103 MB)

Capcom has been making waves about their commitment to PC gaming, including a recent announcement that they would be joining the PC Gaming Alliance as a full member. However, their record to date on supporting PC titles is spotty at best. Games like Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry 4 and most recently the downloadable title Age of Booty have been released for the PC months after their console counterparts.

VideoGamer.com has a new chat with Capcom VP Christian Svensson on why exactly this happens. Svensson basically says that it takes more time to develop a PC port of a game, particularly when it has content that is not in the console version. Testing of PC games also takes a lot of time, according to Svensson. He admits that on the subject of the timing of their PC game releases compared to console ports, "The sad news is we're not going to be consistent about it for a while. So while it's a message I'd love to get across we're not quite walking the walk yet." He also goes into some detail on their views of PC piracy, why they don't work with Valve's Steam service more and other subjects.

We've been waiting a long time for this moment but it has now finally arrived: Capcom has just released the PC downloadable strategy game with our personal favorite title: Age of Booty. Yes, now you can purchase and download the Certain Affinity-developed title for $10 at Capcom's online store.

The pirate themed Age of Booty was first released as a PC beta back in October but the full and final version of the game was released for the Xbox 360 in October and for the PS3 in November. There is no word as to why the full PC version took so long to be completed but it's ready now. In its official blog, Capcom says the game will appear on other download outlets like Steam and Direct2Drive soon. in addition we can also expect a PC demo of Age of Booty to be released with Capcom it will "likely arrive next week."

Our lives are now complete...wait, oh darn..we still have to wait for Stalin Vs Martians to be released before that happens. Our bad.

Gallery: Age of Booty Screenshots

Capcom's downloadable game program hit a delay with their next release Flock. Originally scheduled for release in January, the title is now set for release for the PC on April 7 with console releases later that week, according to a new article on IGN. Developed by Proper Games, this Lemmings-style action-puzzle title will have players herding animals over to a waiting UFO.

Meanwhile PC gamers are still waiting for Capcom to give them their booty; that is, their copy of Age of Booty, the pirate themed strategy game from developer Certain Affinity. Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game have been out for those platforms for several months now but PC owners, who got to play a beta version last fall, have been left in the lurch. The last word is that the PC version would be out by the end of this month but it now looks unlikely like that will happen.

Last time we checked in with Capcom on the long delayed PC release of Age of Booty their spokesperson said they were targeting a release sometime this month. Well the downloadable pirate themed strategy game from developer Certain Affinity seems to have run into yet another delay.

According to a new IGN article, Capcom now appears to be targeting a late February release for the PC version. The release would be timed with updates to the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions which were made available last fall. There's still no word as to why the PC version of Age of Booty has been pushed back yet again.

As you know we have been waiting for some time for the PC release of Age of Booty, the downloadable pirate themed strategy game from developer Certain Affinity and publisher Capcom. The game was released via download for the Xbox 360 in October and for the PS3 in November but PC gamers are still awaiting their shot at booty.

And now it appears they will have to wait a bit longer. Big Download finally got a hold of Capcom's PR rep for the game who told us that while they still don't have a specific release date, it does look like the PC version will be released via download sometime in January. There is no word as to the reasons for the delay but we will keep you up to date when we get more info on a specific release date.