galcon-fusion posts

It's a bit of a shame to hear that the Ender's Game adaptation won't be happening at Chair Entertainment. We still think a "Battle Room" game would be fun:

• Steam has new bug fix updates for Serious Sam HD The Second Encounter, Killing Floor, Galcon Fusion, and Lead and Gold Gangs of the Wild West.
• Steam has put Football Manager 2011 on sale for the next week for $27.99.
• A month after it was released, Steam now has Need For Speed Hot Pursuit available to purchase and download.
• Sony Online's free-to-play MMO Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures is now available to play on the Mac.
• Commander Keen, the very first id Software game, turned 20 years old today. Check out some game developer memories over at the Bethblog.com site.
• The theme song to the upcoming Ubisoft game Might and Magic Heroes 6 will have its public debut at the Video Games Live concert in Paris, France on December 17.
• You can download a hand-drawn texture pack for Minecraft, called ScribbleCraft, over at the game's forums.

Let's get down to business, shall we? We have some "one day only" sales on Steam to tell you about. Here's the latest list:

One day sales:

Left 4 Dead 2 - $5
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - $14.99
Wings of Prey - $14.99
Supreme Commander 2 - $3.75
Galcon Fusion - $2.50
King's Bounty: Platinum Edition - $8.75
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - $7.49
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - $10.20
Indie Pulse Pack (AudioSurf, Beat Hazard, Bit.Trip.Beat, Rhythm Zone and The Polynomial) - $4.99

One day Gift Packs

Counter-Strike: Source - $24.99 for six copies
NyxQyuest: Kindred Spirits - $14.99 for 10 copies
Red Faction: Guerrilla - $39.99 for eight copies
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - $44.99 for six copies

With DC Universe Online being pushed back to early 2011, it looks like this fall's PC game lineup is looking a bit sparse than in previous years. On the other hand the first quarter of 2011 is looking like it will have plenty of new PC game titles.

• New Steam bug patches have been released for Puzzle Quest 2, Mount and Blade Warband, Puzzle Dimension, Galcon Fusion and Worms Reloaded.
• The Steam client also got a bug fix update.
• You can also pre-purchase the upcoming PC port of Lost Planet 2 via Steam and save 10 percent. off its normal price.
• Former Glu Mobile CEO Greg Ballard is now the new head of Warner Bros. Interactive's new senior vice-president of digital games.
• Disney Interactive now has two presidents, John Pleasants and Jimmy Pitaro.

While the Steam PC game download service has put hundreds of its games on sale during its new summer sales event it continues to give several titles special treatment for one day only. From now until 1 pm Eastern time on Saturday the games below get an extra special price cut ranging from 33 to 80 percent off:

• Aliens Verses Predator Classic 2000 - $1.25 (not a typo)
• Ghostbusters The Game - $4
• Serious Sam HD Bundle (Both remakes of First and Second Encounter) - $7.50
• Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City - $14.99
• Galcon Fusion - $2.50
• Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West - $5.10
• Alpha Protocol - $33.49 (just came out a few weeks ago)
• Resident Evil 5 - $12.50

Direct2Drive already has a nice indie games sales bundle in place, but now Steam wants in on that indie games sales action. From now until Thursday, Steam is offering seven indie PC game titles for just $2 each. The games are Gridrunner, Space Giraffe, Bullet Candy, Bob Came in Pieces, Altitude, Super Laser Racer, and Galcon Fusion.

But that's not the nice deal. That comes when you buy all seven games in a bundle on Steam. Then the price for the bundle comes to $9.99. That's far cheaper than the nearly $59 you would have to pay for each game separately at their normal Steam prices.

This week's new PC game releases include a sequel to an acclaimed first person shooter, a mini-expansion to a great space strategy game and a downloadable action game based on a long running sci-fi TV and movie franchise that isn't Star Trek. In addition to those games, players will be able to download a unit add-on for Empire: Total War (Elite Units of the East) and a new game in the Galcon strategy game series (Galcon Fusion). Also scheduled to ship to stores this week is Windchaser, a fantasy RPG that was first released in Europe back in 2008.

BioShock 2: 2K Marin takes on the first person shooter franchise with this sequel to the 2007 game that was first created by Irrational Games. The single player game takes place 10 years after the original with the player now in the role of a prototype Big Daddy in the underwater city of Rapture. The sequel also has a multiplayer mode, developed by Digital Extremes, that takes place just before the fall of Rapture.

Indie game developer Galcon Labs' most well known game is the self-titled Galcon, a high-energy space strategy game that has some elements of risk but in a real time enviroment. The game was originally released for the PC and then was ported to the iPhone/iPod Touch where it became very popular.

Now Galcon Labs has announced that the first true sequel to the PC version is close to release. Galcon Fusion will get a new graphics upgrade, new single player missions along with team and multiplayer games, new gameplay types and even a "retro" mode that turns the game into an 1980s style title. The game will be released for PC, Mac and Linux on February 11. It will also be made available via Steam.