Saints Row 2 now cheap on Steam

By Adam Englebright | October 15, 2009

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Oh Valve, you cunning people. You’ve perfected the knack of making me want games I didn’t really want before by pricing them so low I can’t afford not to buy them! Ok, that’s a slight exaggeration, but still, Saint’s Row 2, THQ’s GTA clone, which picks up the wacky-slack left by the grit of GTA IV, is only £3.75 ($7.50) on Steam today! There have been THQ deals all this week (which you’ve now missed), but there’s another (unknown) one tomorrow. While I’m going on about Steam deals, there’s also a deal on the complete Civilisation IV collection, knocking it down to £12.49 (If anyone knows the US $, can they post it in the comments) until Friday. Ok, PSA over, now back to your scheduled programming.

Aeropodcast #103: Forgetting the Little Guys Sometimes

By Joe Haygood | October 14, 2009

This week, the Aeropodcast went over a topic that had been a thorn in my side for some time, and that is the idea of purchasing all of these great XBLA, PSN and Steam games that end up just collecting dust on our hard drives. Are we captured by the hype of a game hitting the marketplace, jumping on it, or is the investment of $60 in a full retail title trumping our dedication to these smaller titles.

This week, we ran rather long on the main topic, so we skipped the community corner, but you will be happy to know that this upcoming podcast will feature nothing but community content, so if you have questions, get them in before Friday at 7PM Pacific time. You can email them at tips@aeropause.com, post them in the forum in the Aeropodcast question topic, or phone them in via our voice mail at 206-339-8362.

The podcast was mixed by Stephen Munn, using music from Revolution Void. Look for it at www.revolutionvoid.com.

Download the podcast from here or subscribe to the podcast using one of the services below: Also make sure to review us on iTunes.

New Launch Trailer for DreamKiller

By Joe Haygood | October 13, 2009

Aspyr sent out the word that if you have Steam and a PC, you can finally get your hands on DreamKiller. DreamKiller has Alice as a young lady that can enter dreams, fighting off the evil that haunts and torments the hosts’ mind.

The trailer shows off a montage of people that you will do battle against, with each looking like mixes between childrens toys and demonic beings. I am still a little on the fence with this one, but with a $30 price point, it might not be a bad pickup for a nice diversion. Look for a review here in the near future.

And if you own an Xbox 360, you will see DreamKiller coming to your platform by the end of the month.

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Steam Leaving Gamers Steaming Mad

By Mike Koss | September 18, 2009

So it seems that Steam quietly removed the Half-Life 2 64-bit version support. While for new players this may be a great relief since that version was known to be buggier than a motel in New York City, it has unleashed every gamers worst fear: lost saved games. While this is no great surprise, 64-bit software usually writes things with 64-bits in mind and as such are incompatible w/ 32-bit software, the fact remains that it was clandestinely performed and now the owners are left empty-handed. As a thread popped up on Steam’s forums, Steam’s support stepped in and provided the advice of using a cheat code to return near to the last place they were in the story. I’m sorry but that’s about useful as a publisher advocating the use of a crack to play their game. Now, Blues News has obtained word from Valve that the 64-bit version will return, but no timetable was given to placate the current players who have been stranded. Is it too much to ask for a saved game converter to allow the old saves to be used?

The bigger fear here has come true: digital distribution does not mean you own anything. As a consumer, when you plunk down your paper and coin for a ware, you are purchasing the rights to something and you expect those rights to be maintained for the agreed upon time. The worst nightmare is to find out that all your hard work has been for naught. We all know that online capabilities will probably cease to function at some point in the future, but losing your offline game casts serious doubt on this architecture. What do you think? Should Valve being doing more for the owners mired in this mess? Or, should the players just suck it up that their 4 year old game still plays?

Thursday Is The New Friday With Unreal Tournament III Black On Steam

By Paul Munn | September 17, 2009

ut3_whiteblotchy_330px Valve’s Steam keeps up its reputation as the all singing, all dancing digital distribution system of the world with today’s kickoff of a free weekend of play for Unreal Tournament III Black. It may be Thursday but to Epic and Valve at 4pm EDT (that would be before your eyeballs see this), your weekend of beautiful slaughter has just started. At least on the PC.

Seen on The Escapist.

Jedi Knight Collection now on Steam

By Adam Englebright | September 17, 2009

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Wahay! Lucasarts has finally released the entire Jedi Knight Collection on Steam!

You can buy the set for$19.99 (£14.99), or individually, Star Wars: Dark Forces and Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II are $4.99 (£3.49) each ; Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith for $2.99 (£1.99); and Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy are $9.99 (£6.99) each. Seriously, Steam, what’s with the UK pricing? The exchange rate isn’t that bad, surely?

Street Fighter IV Half-Price!

By Adam Englebright | September 5, 2009

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Stop the presses! This weekend only, Valve’s premier (and only) content delivery service is offering Capcom’s opus Street Fighter IV for half-price : that’s $19.99 in the USA, or £14.99! That’s this weekend only, so if you want to get this game for cheap, go to Steam NOW! That’s all, panic over. Oh, and if you’ve got a spare few hours, I’d recommend going to watch District 9 at your local cinema. Seriously, that film is awesome.

Community Members, Unite and Review!

By Joe Haygood | September 3, 2009

While I have no idea what my topic really means to this post, I figured it would get most people’s attention. Now that you are actually reading this post, I wanted to highlight a community review in the forums. Forum member william745 posted up a review of the PC game, Killing Floor. I loved his idea of Killing Floor being a game that came from the marriage of Left 4 Dead and “shooting fish in a barrel”.

Anyway, my whole point being that all of us at Aeropause would like to see people post up their own user reviews in the forums. This way, you can get multiple views on a game from our gaming community, as well as from the writers on the site. Also, you may want to post up a review to get an honest critique on your writing style, etc. One way or another, we want to be an inviting community for all of our readers, and even for those that might be lurking on the outside, trying to find a way to come into the fold. So, hit up the forums and start posting up your own community reviews in the PC Gaming, Console Gaming or General Gaming forums. If the idea takes off, we might even create a forum specifically for user reviews.

And who knows? We may come back to these to check out people when it comes to bringing on new staff writers in the future. So, agree or disagree with our reviews? Write one up yourself, and you may find it spotlighted on the front page of Aeropause.com.

Mass Effect Pinnacle Station DLC/Avatar Clothing Live

By Joe Haygood | August 25, 2009

ashley-armor Today, Bioware and Electronic Arts pulled a sneaky move out of the bag and released new DLC for Mass Effect on both the PC and the 360.

As had been hinted at via achievements, the Pinnacle Station DLC adds three new achievements, and 2-3 hours of challengeing gameplay. It appears that Pinnacle Station is an Alliance training facility, and the new DLC will have Commander Shepard going through the training exercises. You have to have become a SPECTRE before you can access the DLC, and it will set you back 400 Microsoft points.

Also new to the marketplace to tie into the release of the DLC are new avatar clothing items for Mass Effect. There are uniforms, armor, hats t-shirts and even helmets. Unfortunately, there are no remote controlled Makos, but then again, it would be uncontrollable, and constantly crashing into something. If you are interested in the avatar clothing choices, follow this link.

If you have the PC version of Mass Effect, you do not get the DLC free this time. After a patch is applied, it appears you can install the DLC. However, you have to purchase it from the EA Store and it will set you back $5.34. No word on whether the DLC will be available on the Steam Marketplace, and there are words of mixed results downloading this version and installing it on the Steam client.

Massive Steam deal!

By Adam Englebright | August 9, 2009

Sorry to post this so late – Steam is doing an offer on indie games – save 75% on a pack of 10 :
Blueberry Garden
Braid
Crayon Physics Deluxe
The Path
Gish
Blueberry Garden
Darwinia
Everyday Shooter
Mr Robot
World of Goo

It’s £23.99 (or whatever that is in dollars) rather than £84.16, and with the quality of some of those games…
There’s another deal as well, check it all out here.
Seriously, this is a great deal, and it ends on Monday, so get going!

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