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If you’ve been seeing a few articles about Sanctum pop up here and there on the site but haven’t considered getting the game, you might want to reconsider. Sanctum is currently part of the Midweek Madness sale featuring 5 strategy titles. Each title is $9.99 or more and you’ll save 82% of your money by getting all 5 for just $9.99, the cost of Sanctum normally.

The games included are:

Sanctum
Revenge of the Titans
Sol Survivor
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Defense Grid: The Awakening

All these games have received a score of 70% or over on Metacritic and the bundle certainly packs a ton of value.  Check out the Indie Strategy Bundle today!

Much to my chagrin and surprise, I missed the info about the latest Sanctum updates. Shockingly, Sanctum now supports 4 player co-op gaming. Not content with just adding 2 more players to the game, Coffee Stain Studios had also added these following updates last month as well.
Wave Limited single & multi-player modes
•        Challenge based, where you pick the amount of waves you want to try to beat and the desired difficulty.
Endless Single-Player
•        You can finally play the endless mode even in single-player
Turbo Mode
•        Play with huge amounts of cash! Enemies will scale accordingly so expect some fast and ferocious action!
Updated Server Browser
•        More filter options
•        Ping!
•        Possibility to see full games (no more empty server list)
Bug fixes and performance increase

Starting earlier this week, Sanctum is also available for a cheaper price. It is now available for only $9.99. Also, if you like the music you will be in for a treat. The soundtrack featuring 11 remastered songs and a bonus track is available for only $4.99 via Steam or for a price that you can name yourself at Bandcamp (starting at $0.50, which should be cheap enough).

I just cannot resist posting this video here today. Finally Team Fortress 2‘s medic is no longer delegated to being heavy’s secret lover. Instead he is upgraded to mad scientist. You’ll just have to watch this video, which I think is the best out of all the TF2 Meet The ____ videos. See for yourself.

I am just laughing out loud falling over on my ass with this. Honestly, I think I posted it today just so I could watch it over and over and over and… well you get the idea. Enjoy!

P.S. This comes with a great mention that Team Fortress 2 is now free to play. So if you download it on Steam, be sure to give snorkle256 (me) a friend request so we can rock the medic together!

Fortix 2 released on the 11th over Steam, but since then has included a few updates. Two I made mention of already. The demo was put out on the 17th and Zombie mode was officially announced on the 24th. I hope I didn’t ruin the surprise by including it in the review a day early. Now the announcement has come that Fortix 2 will be available for digital distribution on Desura and Direct2Drive as well.  These will both be available starting Monday May 30th. As a bonus for getting it via these two channels, Fortix 2 will come with the original 15 levels of Fortix. To unlock these, you will have to complete the first area, Greemland. After that, the compass will change into a path leading to these levels. Wow, talk about even more content for your money. If you were thinking about getting it before, this would definitely be the way to go now.

Crossover titles, or even ones that just blur the boundaries of genres, always seem to attract my attention. So when Fortix 2 had info put out describing it as a reverse tower defense game, I knew I had to play it. In my mind I envisioned waltzing through mazes blasting towers with a gun. What I received was something a mite more challenging that Nemesys has created.

Continue reading “Fortix 2 – Review” »

Fable III has been out for several months on the Xbox 360 while the porting team has been working on getting it ready for the PC. Today the US gets their chance to download this from Games for Windows LIVE, but our lovely UK folks have to wait until this Friday. However, this gives a chance for our friends across the pond to read reviews such as this and make up their own minds whether to decide to purchase the game or not. Of course, you could probably read a review of the game done on the 360 and come to the same conclusions, but new material is always nice as well. Continue reading “Fable III – PC Review” »

You should remember Sanctum from the reviews both Dan and I did. I mentioned the fact that future updates were coming. Well folks, here it is. Yesterday’s update brings both a new map, updates, and new features. I am a little shaky on the update/patch part of the game, other than it fixes a few bugs people reported. The new features appear to be mainly geared towards multiplayer, something Coffee Stain Studios said they were trying to work on. Now in the multiplayer tab, you have the ability to see games hosted over Steam and join them. Quite an improvement for us loners with a three person friends list. Also available is a new map titled Glade. I can’t play it yet as my saved games are gone so I have to work hard again to unlock it. However, here are a few screenshots and a wallpaper.

Phantom EFX has spent the last several years becoming one of the top slot machine game developers of the Real Deal series. This explains why several of their regular games grace the shelves of my household. When Battle Slots was released 5 days ahead of schedule, on April 14th, to quell the masses yearning hunger for it; I was more than curious. After a fresh copy arrived in my mailbox, I soon discovered what had people clinging to the game. In fact, I had a hard time weaseling it away from my fiancee who loves slot machine games and owns several of Phantom’s games already. I honestly didn’t think she would like it. After all, it has RPG elements with might and magic at its core. Can adding slots really convert someone? She says yes, but I still had to play it for myself.

Continue reading “Battle Slots Review” »

When one thinks of the phrase “tower defense game”, a few thoughts immediately come to mind.  A drab colored, top down flash game filled with mediocre artwork and no sense of flash is one of those thoughts  On the flip side, when I think of the genre “FPS”, sights of armor clad superheros clashing fist first in a blaze of plasma fury, dance in my head. What I wouldn’t have thought to do is to combine the two.  However, Coffee Stain Studios thought of it and started working on an Unreal Mod to accomplish it.

It eventually became more than a mod, after Coffee Stain Studios became a main contestant in the ‘Make Something Unreal’ by Epic Games in 2009.  Sanctum scored 4th place in both ‘Best FPS Game Mod’ and also in the ‘Education’ category.  The Swedish team has come along way since then, as they have put out Sanctum as a full fledged game on Steam.

Continue reading “Sanctum Review – Matt’s Take” »

Some of you were quick enough to garnish yourselves a pass from us to the closed beta of Battlefield Play4Free.  For the rest of you, your wait is over.  The Battlefield Play4Free Beta has reach open status and will let you in as they work on improving the game and adding content until they can call it a full release.  Of course, if you are like us, this is just enough to tide you over until Battlefield 3 is gold pressed in all its glory.

Finally I can tell you (because they keep putting it out in press releases) how this combines parts of several Battlefield games into one unique system.  It contains the map styles of Battlefield 2, the weapons of Bad Company 2, the experience and coin system of Battlefield Hereos and to me it feels like the playing style of Battlefield: 1943.  Can you say “Mashup?”

If you’re not already enticed enough to join my medic Puzuzu and Mike’s engineer DrNate, then take a look at this trailer and then head over to http://battlefield.play4free.com.