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E3 2009: Painkiller Resurrection hands-on impressions

by John Callaham Jun 3rd 2009 @ 8:00PM

We have a very soft spot for Painkiller. The 2004 released first person shooter from developer People Can Fly had some crazy weapons, weird creatures, truly massive bot battles and some unique level design. In short it was everything we wanted in a FPS game.

Publisher Dreamcatcher released an expansion pack for the original game from People Can Fly and in 2007 released Painkiller Overdose (created by another developer, Mindware Studios). Now they head back to the chaos once again with Painkiller Resurrection, this time developed by Homegrown Games. At E3 2009 we got a chance to play with an early version of the title.

Gallery: Painkiller Resurrection

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Filed under: Features, Hands-on, FPS

Painkiller: Resurrection revealed

by John Callaham Apr 10th 2009 @ 7:00AM

Can you believe it? There's another Painkiller game in the works. Yep, IGN has the first word on Painkiller: Resurrection, the third stand alone title in the wild and woolly first person shooter series. Publisher JoWood/Dreamcatcher Games have recruited the previously unknown developer Homegrown Games to create this installment which is due out late in 2009.

This new game willl apparently have more of an actual single player storyline than the first two games in the series as you play the role of a CIA assassin who is thrown into the battle between Heaven and Hell. Expect to see lots of enemies to take on, an enhanced version of the Painkiller engine and multiplayer modes. Oh, and for the first time in a Painkiller game there will be a two player co-op campaign.

Filed under: FPS

More PC game sales hit the Internet this week

by John Callaham Apr 7th 2009 @ 12:00PM

It looks like we don't have to wait for the weekend to get some good PC game sales. The indie-themed game download site Greenhouse has just put three of their titles on sale this week. You can get the just released And Yet It Moves along with Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 1 and Defense Grid: The Awakening for just $9.99 each. That's a 33 percent savings off the first two games and a 50 percent sale for the third. The sale ends on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Steam has given permanent price cuts to two of Dreamcatcher Games' titles. You can now down download and purchase the FPS Painkiller Overdose and the space-based RTS game Genesis Rising for just $4.99 each. Also GamersGate has put the space combat games Tarr Chronicles and Dark Horizon together as a bundle for just $2.99 this week.

Filed under: Downloads, FPS, Indie, RTS

Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods goes gold

by John Callaham Nov 10th 2008 @ 1:00PM

The Gothic RPG franchise got served a detour with Gothic 3 in 2007. The game was released with tons of bugs and issues so publisher JoWood dumped the game's developer Piranha Bytes and moved on, even deciding to rename the next full game in the series, Gothic 4, to Arcania: A Gothic Tale.

But before that game is released in 2009, JoWood will release Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods, an expansion pack to the 2007 release. Developed by Trine Studios, the expansion will add new locations, quests and monsters to Gothic 3 and is also designed as a story bridge between Gothic 3 and Arcania: A Gothic Tale. The expansion has now been declared "gold" and will ship to stores on Nov. 21. JoWood's US subsidiary Dreamcatcher Games will handle the North American release

Gallery: Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods

Filed under: Expansions, RPG

The Orb and the Oracle announced

by John Callaham Jun 26th 2008 @ 8:00AM

Dungeon Lords was, well, just plain broken when it was first released in 2005 by developer Heuristic Park and publisher Dreamcatcher Games. It was full of showstopping bugs and missing features that basically made the fantasy RPG unplayable. Even the release of a so called Collector's Edition a number of months later with a ton of fixes and improvements did little to improve the game's reputation.

Well it looks like Dreamcatcher and its parent company Jowood are going to the Dungeon Lords well again this winter with the release of The Orb and the Oracle. Described in the press release as the "next installment" of Dungeon Lords, the game is supposed to have a huge world to explore, support for both single and co-op multiplayer modes, a new combat system and other features. The feature we really want at this stage is for the game to just work out of the box.

Filed under: RPG