Thanks. I seem to recall almost purchasing that one several times.
Mirage: Arcane Warfare open beta this weekend. It’s by the people who made Chivalry, it has melee weapon combat with magic to augment it. I’ve been playing the closed beta and it’s pretty fun. I’ll be organizing games tomorrow.
GOG is giving away Eador: Genesis at the moment.
Not sure how far buried the general “deals” thread is but I didn’t see it…
Alan Wake will be on sale tomorrow for 90% off on Steam. Come Monday, it’s being removed from the store due to expiring music licenses. So, if you don’t own it and ever thought you might want to, this is your last chance.
Even once removed, you still keep the game in your library and can re-install it, etc like any other game. It just won’t be available for purchasing.
Are you sure you will be able to keep the music?
If it’s straight up removed from the store, you should. They’re no longer distributing “new” copies of the songs. I believe the GTA scenario was so they could just keep selling the game and was easier than differentiating between old and new copies.
Mafia II went off the store for a while and returned as a new package on Steam with some songs removed but, as far as I know, people who own the old package still have the complete song list.
As of 8 AM EDT, it’s still at $30 on steam.
Steam sales usually start at noon CST so I’d expect it then. Here’s a blurb about it from Engadget:
Edit: According to the embedded Tweet in that article, it does indeed start at 12 CST/10 PST
Alan Wake sale is live now. Be sure you get the Franchise, which includes Alan Wake, American Nightmare, and Collector’s Edition Extra, all for $3.99 total. For some reason, they are also offering AW and AN separately for $2.99 and $3.99 respectively.
That’s exactly what I just did.
American Nightmare isn’t on sale by itself. But I think that the licensing issue doesn’t affect it so it’s not on the block for delisting, hence no separate AN fire sale without buying AW.
My understanding of the situation is that the developers felt the music was too integral to the AW story to strip it out and the game doesn’t sell well enough any longer (it came out in 2012) to justify renewing licenses on the music so they’d rather see it delisted than put out a bastardized version without those tracks.
Mount & Blade is free on GOG this weekend.
And now Steam is giving away Starpoint Gemini 2
Rising Storm GOTY is available for free though Humble Store
Free Fallout 4 weekend at Steam. One must buy the game to continue playing after the weekend but the whole thing (game + season pass) can be had for $50.
Not quite free but Football Manager 2/3 off on Steam.
Outland is free on Steam right now. Not sure if it is any good but it has positive reviews.
Also, Battleborn has a free trial or free-to-play (not sure which) thing going on. I think they are an Overwatch wannabe.
Not really; they’re two distinctly different types of game but they had the misfortune (for BB) of coming out at the same time and with cartoonish characters and everyone assumed and promoted the idea that BB was just a low rent Overwatch.
That said, I’m not claiming that BB is a good game. I haven’t played it but my son owns it and played it for maybe two days before getting bored. Fortunately, I got it for the X1 for $5 on a “Well, hard NOT to get five bucks out of a game” premise.
Anyway, the BB “free to play” is only its multiplayer which won’t do much to dispel comparisons since no one can try its single player story mode.
Mirage: Arcane Warfare is having a free weekend. It’s by the people who made Chivalry - it’s a melee/magic first person game.
It had a weird launch where it got no mention on the steam page or anything and flopped, so they’re getting out an early free weekend to get some publicity.
Anyway, it’s a lot of fun. It has most of the good things about chivalry and fixed a lot of the bad stuff. I definitely recommend giving it a try. I’ll be organizing some games over the weekend so contact me on steam if interested.
I picked up two copies, one for my wife’s Steam account and one for mine. The co-op is online only for some reaso. Zero local co-op. Dumb.
My wife now owns two games. Portal 2 and Outland.