What better way to start the morning off than with a bunch of shots from Mass Effect 2? Kotaku has a gallery of nine brand spankin’ new shots from the game. If that’s not enough, Bioware recently announced the Collector’s Edition, chock full of awesome stuff, such as:
The Collectors’ Edition of Mass Effect 2 comes in a premium, tin case and includes the full version of the game, a 48-page hardcover “Art of Mass Effect 2” book, Issue 1 of the Mass Effect Redemption comic book, and a bonus DVD with behind-the-scenes and making-of videos. In addition, the Mass Effect 2 Collectors’ Edition will include unique in-game weapons and armor that can only be obtained by purchasing this version.
Still not enough Mass Effect awesome for you? Bioware also released a developer documentary that showcases some of the enemies Sheppard will be up against in the new game.
I guess if you need even more Mass Effect, you can grab the original game on Steam for the low price of ten bones, it’s Steam’s weekend deal. It looks like that with Dragon Age released, Bioware will be ramping up the hype behind Mass Effect 2. Let’s hope there isn’t a Marilyn Manson trailer in the future.
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Valve may have pumped the hype on it’s new upcoming game Left 4 Dead 2. Pre-ordering the game allowed us to play the demo about a week ahead of releasing it to the public. As previously reported, we waited all day on Tuesday for the game to be available. The time kept getting pushed back and people were getting anxious and pissed off. Though outwardly it could be seen as a bad move on Valve’s part, the buzz was going around and people were talking. The delays pretty much fueled the human desire to want it more.
After waiting for over 24 hours Valve finally unlocked the Left 4 Dead 2 demo at around 8:00 pm EST. After restarting Steam and waiting another 20 minutes for the game to decrypt, I was finally able to play. The demo consist of two maps from “The Parish” campaign, set in the New Orleans French Quarter. It was daytime and having been to New Orleans several times, the setting was very realistic. It even had the old corner bar with a jukebox that played Jonathan Coultan – Re-Your brains. It didn’t take long for the zombies to find us and the fun to begin. The regular horde zombies come in a wide variety and when you shoot them, they really blow apart. Lot’s of blood, guts and gore, if you shoot one in the back, you can even see their backbone.
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If you haven’t decided that the PC version of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 will club baby seals whenever you start the game, you might want to take notice that the game is now available for preorder on Steam. Not only will you get all the cool integrated Stream goodies, but it will also ship with 50 Steam Achievements for you increase the size of your digital wang.
I know how you feel already about the game on PC. It eats babies, it’s the destroyer of worlds, and licks Satan’s butthole. I get it, you’re upset. But are you going to pass up a strong Game of the Year contender because they changed up the multiplayer servers? I’m getting the game on Xbox 360 anyway, but I still think it’ll be worth playing.
It’s that time of the year again – the big holiday push of games. On the top of my radar (aside from Dragon Age) is Left 4 Dead 2, and much like last years Left 4 Dead, Valve is giving those who pre-ordered the game early access to the demo on October 27th, at least for PC owners. Xbox Gold members can check the game out on November 3rd, and Silver members on the 10th of November.
The demo shows off the Parish level, the new boss infected, and a number of new weapons – so it should be a decent way to gauge if the new features are worthy of a new numeral slapped on the end of the games name.
Left 4 Dead 2 launches on November 17th on Steam and November 20th in stores – and those two dates can’t come soon enough.
Got three friends and thirty four bucks? I don’t, but right now Steam is having a sale for the PC version of Borderlands – five bucks off the game for pre-purchasing, or get four copies of the game for $134.
Kind of a no-brainer for me, personally. I just need to make some friends, but those PC gamers more socially adept than I would be wise to save a few bones on what is sure to be a great game.
Borderlands is out for PC on October 26th, and for Xbox 360 on the 20th.
Liked the original Left 4 Dead but thought it was missing something? Iconic zombie killing weapons like a fire axe or baseball bat? How about a larger variety in weapons? No? What about a shopping mall?
The final two campaigns of Left 4 Dead 2 have been “leaked” by a Taiwanese site, and if the above poster is any indication, Dead Center takes place in a shopping mall. The other campaign, Hard Rain, looks like it takes place in an industrial complex and there may be some sort of precipitation involved.
At any rate, a mall campaign is exactly what I wanted to play in the original game – is there really anything more awesome than killing zombies in a mall?
Once of my favorite video game series of yesteryear was Oddworld. The series has been fairly stagnant of late, with the last release, Stranger’s Wrath, being released on the original Xbox some four years ago. In an interview with Bitmob, series creator Lorne Lanning announced that the original Abe games will be re-released on the PSN in the near future. Huzzah!
Now, when these games will be released is anyone’s guess, although Lanning did say we’d see them “very soon”. Both Abe’s Exodus and Abe’s Oddysee have already been rated by the ESRB and Lanning made no mention of the Munch games in the series, so only time will tell if we see more Oddworld re-released.
To go along with the PSN releases, PC gamers will be able to get a compilation called The Oddbox on Steam. It’ll include both Abe games as well as Munch’s Oddysee and Stranger’s Wrath. Since I roll with a Mac, these won’t be too high on my radar, but you can bet I’ll be buying the PSN releases as soon as they’re available.
I’ll pretend I’m Cousin Larry Appleton and do the dance of joy with an imaginary Balki Bartokomous.
[via Joystiq]
The wait for Mass Effect 2 is going to be a rather long one, but that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying some fresh content on your old Mass Effect save, should it?
Out of no where, Bioware released a second DLC pack for Mass Effect yesterday, called “Pinnacle Station“. It costs 400 Microsoft moon-dollars or five real dollars, for which you’ll be able to follow Sheppard’s wacky exploits on some remote space station, or something.
If you played Mass Effect on the PC, you can download the DLC through EA’s horrible piece of shit download manager, but a heads up to Steam users – the DLC download won’t recognize the Steam version until Bioware uploads a fixed version sometime today.
Left 4 Dead has become one of my favorite games. It’s funny because when the demo first came out, it scared the crap out of me. I remember falling down into the apartment in No Mercy and standing in a dark room with only a flashlight on the gun and ugly zombies staring me in the face having no idea what I was supposed to do. Let’s just say that I didn’t last 5 minutes before I turned the game off and left. A couple of months later a close friend was interested in playing so I gave it another try and I was hooked. Talking to friends while doing the campaign makes all the difference, at least to me. It raised my brave meter very high. After a month of playing all the campaigns many times, boredom set in as it was getting hard to choose a map, as we had played them all over and over.
Enter the world of L4D mods. At the urging of yet another friend, we downloaded and tried a couple of game map mods and I wanted to share them with you. The first is called Death Aboard. One of the favorite mods going around, this campaign is really good and really long.
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