tribes-vengence posts

This weekend's out of the blue announcement of a new game in the Tribes series of sci-fi shooters by developer Hi-Rez Studios likely has the attention of some old school gamers who remember where they were when the original game in the franchise was first released. However it's also likely that many people reading this web site have never played, or even worse, never heard of the Tribes series.

So we decided to whip a quick history of the Tribes franchise for those of you who have yet to play any of the games in the series. The franchise was a massive influence of the first person shooter genre, particularly in its multiplayer features. In many ways the first game in the series was years ahead of its time but its successors never achieved the audience that the first game did.

Direct2Drive was originally suppose to offer just one game on sale for just one day during their 24 Days of Christmas promotion. But in the past few days they have gone ahead and put two PC game titles on sale for 24 hours. Today Direct2Drive has increased the amount again with three big PC game titles on sale until 1 pm Eastern time on Monday.

First the download site offers Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II. Relic's RTS game is on sale for just $19.95. Also getting a price cut is the original Bioshock which can be downloaded and purchased for just $9.95. Finally the multiplayer shooter Tribes: Vengeance also has a one-day price of $9.95.