thief-deadly-shadows posts

So how about that Cataclysm CGI trailer? Why Blizzard doesn't expand or spin off its CGI unit to make feature films or even TV commercials is beyond us.

• The Battlefield blog gives more info about one of the new maps in the upcoming Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam expansion pack
• Check out this new Geek and Gamer Girls parody video. Funny but not as good as The Guild's "Be My Avatar."
• What PC games take the most performance advantage of a six processor core PC set up? These do.
• Some folks want the source code for Thief 1 and 2 released to the public.

World Cup? What World Cup? Heck, the US isn't even in the tournament anymore. So how do we deal with the open wound of losing to Ghana? Why spending not a lot of money on Steam one day PC game sales, that's how. And from now until 1 pm Eastern time on Friday these games will have prices that will leave a few cents in your account:

Madballs in Babo:Invasion - $1.99
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom - $2.49
Thief: Deadly Shadows - $2.99
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - $3.74
Titan Quest Gold- $4.99
Star Wars Galaxies - $4.99
BioShock - $4.99
Tropico 3 - $7.49
X3 Gold - $10.19
All Dragon Age Origins games - 40 percent off.

Update: It looks like X3 Gold has now been taken out of the one day sale. Also Titan Quest has been upgraded to Titan Quest Gold (the original game and the expansion) for the same price.

Direct2Drive's 24 Days of Christmas promotion is nearing its end and the PC game download service still has a few one day sales items to promote. Today's one day sales include Eidos' sneaker shooter game Thief: Deadly Shadows and Atari's temporal themed first person shooter Timeshift. Each game is now on sale for one day only for $9.95 each.

Direct2Drive also has a Tomb Raider game bundle deal combining Tomb Raider Legend and Tomb Raider Anniversary in one download package for $22.50. Finally yesterday's Torchlight $9.95 sale that started today will last for just one more day. Runic Games' action-RPG can be bought for that price until 1 pm Eastern time on Thursday.

As they always do every Thursday the PC game download-subscription service GameTap has added a new game to its premimum subscription line up. This time the game is Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword. Released in 2007 it's the second official expansion pack to Firaxis Games' turn based strategy game. It adds 10 new civilizations, 11 new scenarios and lots more features to the original title.

Also, GameTap has put another game in its free subcription program for the next week. This time gamers get to play the full version of Thief: Deadly Shadows for free. the stealth action title from the now defunct developer Ion Storm and publisher Eidos.

Deus Ex, an esteemed classic of the first-person-shooter genre, will join Psychonauts and Thief: Deadly Shadows on GameTap's list of free-to-play games next week. Even though it uses the original Unreal engine, Deus Ex has aged surprisingly well. It stands next to System Shock 2 as one of the deepest and most praised shooters in PC gaming.

GameTap offers a vast library of old to semi-recent games, which can be downloaded and played by members. Most of those games are only available to paid subscribers, but every once in a while a good one is made free for a while to promote the service. It used to offer gaming news and other editorial content, but that division was just shut down.

This week, new games available to subscribers include Ducati World Championship, Tortugo Pirates of the New World, and Brian Lara Cricket 2007. Ah, well; they can't be awesome every week.