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If you have been playing or even thought about purchasing the first person shooter Necrovision, you might want to hold off. The game's publisher 1C Company has announced this weekend that the multiplayer support for the game will be shut down on March 15. That's less than two years after the game was released in the US via Aspyr Media.

The horror-themed first person shooter was developed by The Farm 51 and it used a modified version of the graphics engine that was first used in Painkiller. 1C Company has said that Necrovision: Lost Company, a prequel that was released in 2010, will continue to have multiplayer support.

[Via Blue's News]

With Halloween just a few days away there is certainly no shortage of horror-themed PC games that you can download and check out. GamersGate has a week-long sale of games that are supposed to shock and scare you, at least in theory.

The game deals end on October 31 and include the recent game Amnesia: The Dark Descent for 50 percent off to $9.99. Other games on sale include Dead Space for $9.99, Ghostbusters for $7.99, NecroVision for a mere $5.18, The Penumbra Collection for $9.99, Resident Evil 5 for $14.97, The Path for $4.99, and Zombie Driver for just $4.99

It would not be a President's Day without some kind of nice sale offer and today Steam gives us two ways to get a free game if you pre-order an upcoming title. First, folks who pre-order Relic's upcoming Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Chaos Rising will get to download the PC port of Saints Row 2 for free.

Yet another pre-order offer launched today is for Necrovision: Lost Company, a sequel to 2009's first person shooter from developer The Farm 51 and publisher 1C Company. If you put down some money for the game now you can download the original Necrovision game for free. As always if you already own the free games or just don't want them you can give the Steam CD key to a pal.

The recently announced NecroVisioN: Lost Company covers events that take place before the original NecroVisioN (released earlier this year) begins, using an old school "shoot everything that moves with big guns" horror FPS style. However, in this prequel, players will jump into the completely new role of a WWI German soldier who finds himself caught up in a war between demons and zombies, eventually leading a war against them himself.

Lost Company isn't expected to release until the early half of 2010, but the demo for the original NecroVisioN can be downloaded here.

Download HD NecroVisioN: Lost Company Trailer (81 MB)
Download NecroVisioN Demo (972 MB)

1C Company continues to release continuations of their many different game franchises. The latest such release is NecroVision: Lost Company, a prequel to this year's supernatural-themed WWI shooter from developer The Farm 51. The prequel has the player control one of the German soldiers who fights the supernatural evil only to become the Necromancer that the player had to defeat in the original game.

Look for 10 new single player levels in the game along with six new weapons, new weapon upgrades, and new drivable vehicles like the FT17 tank and Halberstadt CL.II airplane. There's also a new multiplayer mode: Gas Attack (and we hope it's not what we are thinking about right now) and some improved visual effects and graphics upgrades. Look for the game to come out in the first quarter of 2010.

This patch updates the retail box version of NecroVisioN to v1.2 and fixes a number of gameplay issues. The list of changes can be read after the jump. The NecroVisioN demo can be downloaded here.
"NecroVisioN is a fast-paced shooter that mixes historical accuracy with a twisted plot and an alternate reality that sees gamers venturing into the very jaws of Hell itself to stop a zombie army and an evil demon overlord. Created by several of the original members of the Painkiller Team, NecroVisioN throws non-stop hordes of enemies at the player but gives them powerful weapons to fight off the invasion and save the world."

Download NecroVisioN v1.2 Patch (4 MB)
Download NecroVisioN Demo (972 MB)
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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.

Australia's lack of an adult video game rating has caused yet another game to be banned from sale in that country. The latest in a long stream of such issues is for Necrovision, the recently released horror-themed first person shooter from developer The Farm 51 and publisher 1C Company. Gamespot AU reports that Australia's Classification Board stated that the game's violent content was to blame.

The board specifically made mention of Necrovision's "blood spray" when taking out enemies and also mentioned the ability to do "post mortem" damage to the game's AI foes. As a result the game was deemed too violent to be listed under the country's current maximum rating of MA15+. It's unknown at this point if 1C Company will try to appeal the ruling or perhaps created an edited version of Necrovision for release in Australia as other games have done.

[Via Blue's News]

It's one of the biggest issues in PC games; trying to keep titles from being pirated. While some companies use DRM solutions to "protect" their games from pirates some gamers feel such features actually treat real customers like criminals.

Today 1C Company and Aspyr release Men of War, the first of five games that will ship to stores in the US under their publishing agreement over the next few months. In their press release today announcing that Men of War is now shipping 1C Company announced that the WWII RTS game will not have any DRM solutions. Indeed the other four games being released in the agreement (Death Track: Resurrection, Cryostasis, Necrovision, and 4X4 Hummer) wlll all ship to stores DRM free.

[Via email press release]

Earlier this year we reported that 1C Company had inked a deal with Aspyr Media to release a number of their games to retail stores in the US. However if you don't want to fool with that old-fashioned brick-and-mortal approach to buying your games you can also download all of the 1C titles from the Gamersgate download service.

The agreement begins today with Gamersgate offering up the WWII RTS game Men of War on their service for $39.99. In the next couple of months other 1C Company games will be released as digital downloads on Gamersgate including the action-racing game Death Track: Resurrection (March 24), the first person shooter Cryostasis (April 20) the racing sim Hummer 4x4 (May 22) and the first person shooter Necrovision (May 25).