Uncovering Valve’s PC Gaming Platform
Valuesoft titles (all $19.99 with 10% off before 5th August):
Are You Smater than a 5th Grader?
Ride! Carnival Tycoon
Midnight Outlaw: 6 Hours to SunUp
Sprint Cars Road to Knoxville
Mahjongg Investigations: Under Suspicion
Hot Dish
Dr. Daisy Pet Vet
Other:
Discovery! A Seek and Find Adventure ($9.99)
Eternity’s Child ($4.99)
Strategy First Collection ($69.99)
The Settlers: Rise Of An Empire, The Settlers: Heritage of Kings and The Settlers Pack all hit Steam today. I wish I could tell you more than that but sadly Ubisoft hate me and anyone out side North America.
Enjoy this clip instead.
We’ve been a bit lax on the old release news this last week, mostly because we were too busy scouring every piece of E3 news trying to find the few tidbits of information relating to Steam.
Anyway, better late than never, here’s a rundown of the releases on Steam over the last week!
First up, the previously mentioned Planet Busters has released a demo. If you were unsure if you wanted to purchase this before, you now have a chance to test it out and see what you think.
Next, we have The Wonderful End of the World. Another casual and independent game, there is both a demo and a trailer for you to check out. From the trailer this certainly looks like an interesting game, and looks like it’s taken influences from Katamari and Da Blob. Pick it up now for $9.99.
Finally, we got Silverfall: Earth Awakening. Another RPG to add to the growing pile on Steam (no bad thing!), this is a standalone expansion to the original Silverfall. You can buy it on your own, or can get the complete package of both games for a very reasonable $35.99.
This week has been a pretty busy one, what with a little expo known as E3 happening, but in between the lack of any Steam news, there have been a few updates and releases on the Steam network.
The releases are a collection of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Games; Warfighter, Desert Siege, Island Thunder, Advanced Warfighter 2 and the original Ghost Recon. These games are all well and good, and definitely worth checking out, however, I for one can’t play them… blame Ubisoft. Come on Ubisoft - please get it sorted!
As for the updates (which thankfully all can get), new fixes have been released for Garry’s Mod, Audiosurf, and Race 07.
First up, we have another new update for Garry’s Mod with the following fixes:
Not just any Elf Bowling, this is Elf Bowling HAWAIIAN VACATION - yeh! Elves that drink pina coladas while bowling on a volcanic island can be yours for $9.99.
If the announcement of Diablo III had you jonesing for some hack and slash action then Diablo clone Sacred might be what you need. Sacred Gold Edition is now on Steam for $9.99.
Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition has survived the mummification process and emerged from the Steam tomb priced at $19.99. It’s a city builder ala Ceaser and Sim City except the pyramid and sphynx count is way up.
RPG-RTS SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars and it’s expansion Dragon Storm are now on Steam for $19.99 each or you can get the pair for $29.99. This gets a metacritic score of 80 so it might be worth checking out.
Gamecock have pushed their first two titles on to Steam and around the world today. Stronghold Crusader Extreme and Insecticide Part 1 are now available for $29.99 and $14.99 respectively. I played Stronghold back in the day and quite enjoyed it and the extreme edition certainly seems to warrant the name after looking at the crazy numbers of units that can be on the screen at one time.
Jack Keane and Planet Busters are now available on Steam for $26.99 and $8.99 respectively. Jack Keane appears to be a traditional style point and click adventure game in the vein of those Lucasarts classics. Planet Busters is a puzzle action game with a scifi theme but best of all it has 9 Steam achievements to collect!
Time for a catch up. These games were released on Steam in the past week.
Pacific Storm ($15.99)
Happy Tree Friends False Alarm ($23.99)
