painkiller-redemption posts

The first day of GDC is usually pretty slow but there were a few bits of cool info today including the Serious Sam 3 reveal. Neat stuff.

• Steam has new automatic updates for Painkiller Redemption, Race 07 and the Steam client.
• Google continues to push high end PC gaming in a browser.
• Watch a non-gamer get frustrated at playing Portal. Cool.
• Read an interview with the makers of a Half-Life 2 mod based around school shootings. Not cool.
• Do Portal 2's achievments give hints about Half-Life 2 Episode 3?
• Devil May Cry's movie rights have been bought by the same studio that does the Resident Evil film series.

For the next six weeks, PC gamers will experience a flood of new game titles across many genres. The overflow of games begins this week with a WWII RTS game, a long awaited adventure title, a MMO expansion pack and a first person shooter co-developed by two well known FPS game studios.

Bulletstorm - People Can Fly and Epic Games collaborated on this sci-fi pulp themed shooter that has a bunch of ragtag soldiers stranded on a planet filled with enemies both great and small. The game has players perform combos with their weapons called "Skillshots" and is generally very over-the-top in terms of its violence and its sense of humor.

Painkiller Redemption, first announced earlier this month, now has a release date. The fourth game in the first person shooter series will be made available for download on February 25 according to publisher JoWood. The game is due to come out the same week Bulletstorm, developed by Painkiller's original developer People Can Fly, is scheduled for release.

While People Can Fly had nothing to do with the making of Painkiller Redemption, Jowood certainly hopes something of the 2004 original game will rub off on this new single player only entry in the series. This game, which has just six maps but has over 6000 enemies, according to the press release, is priced at just $4.99 according to a pre-order listing at GamersGate.

While publisher JoWood is dealing with some financial problems it's still planning to release some games. Today JoWood announced the latest game in the Painkiller first person shooter franchise. It's called Painkiller Redemption and it's apparently a way for the company to release a stand alone game that started out as a third party mod before JoWood decided to come in and turn the mod into a commercial game.

The game is due out via download in February and features the hero of the first game Daniel Garner teaming up with the half angel-half demo Belial (the lead of the second stand alone game Painkiller Overdose) as they join forces to stop the endless battles between heaven and hell. The game will allow players to control both characters over six large maps, each with over 1000 enemies to blow up with a variety of weapons. There's no word yet on the game's price point.