any gamers ?

[jellydonut]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/

Free game from Valve - highly recommended.

Okay, I got the chance to play this game properly today and it is great fun.

If you have a Windows computer I recommend you grab it whether or not your PC is actually any good or not - it's free and it'll run on pretty much anything.

It's best if you have someone else to play it with rather than random people the matchmaker put you together with, though.

[Zendude]

Limbo is really short! Finished it in about four hours of playtime, that's probably to be expected from an arcade title, but it's gonna be hard to have a whole Summer of Arcade if the titles only last a few hours..

I got five of the dozen or so achievements, including the game completion one.

I heard it was going to be short.....but special. I'll get it. It reminds me of Abes Oddyssey and the SNES game called Out of This World (took me a while to remember the name!). Trial and Error baby....Trial and Error!

[StarHalo]

Grabbed the demo for Hydro Thunder a while ago, I think this could be the Mario Kart title the 360 has needed; very easy to pick up right away, lots of action and speed without feeling overwhelmed, etc. Will be a definite crowdpleaser multi-player party game..

[carrot]

I will be buying HTH on Friday. Looking forward to it!!!!

Alan Wake: The Signal DLC came out and it is free for all those who bought Alan Wake new. I'm gonna be playing that this weekend as well. I look forward to using my flashlight to fight baddies again...

[StarHalo]

In the garden we are growin',
many changes will be flowin'.
If you wanna be amazin'
see the flowers we are raisin'!



(if you haven't played Bioshock yet, now's a good time..)

[StarHalo]

New Red Dead Redemption Add-On Pack available today; "Legends and Killers" features a broad array of new multiplayer characters and maps. No new single-player/plot line content, that will be in a later add-on.

[carrot]

StarHalo, ya gonna be playing Monday Night Combat?

I plan on picking it up asap.

[StarHalo]

StarHalo, ya gonna be playing Monday Night Combat?

If it has a decent single-player, sure. Hopefully the demo isn't online-only..

[wyager]

I haven't played anything much in recent days, since I stopped forking over for XBL, and I don't wanna spend a bunch of money building a gaming rig. That said, I love anything by valve. I'm buying portal 2 once it gets here.

[StarHalo]

I haven't played anything much in recent days, since I stopped forking over for XBL, and I don't wanna spend a bunch of money building a gaming rig. That said, I love anything by valve. I'm buying portal 2 once it gets here.

You don't have to pay for the XBox live service to get the demos/games. And L.A. Noire may be out before Portal 2..

[wyager]

I know, but single player gets really boring after a while. Multiplayer FTW.

[carrot]

XBL is what, $35 a year? I spend more on batteries! And XBL offers hours of entertainment and the chance to "hang out" with friends who are separated by long distances.

[StarHalo]

Got the Monday Night Combat demo; definitely a LAN party game, it's almost like being in an old "action" board game, very simple elements and play in an anything-goes arena. Pretty impressive for a quick n' dirty multiplayer..

[Chucula]

Earlier in the summer I was playing Warhammer Dawn of War 2, Stalker: Call of Pripyat, Borderlands, and some Left 4 Dead.

Recently I have been playing some old school games like Freedom Fighters/Max Payne (direct x 8.1 baby!) and Alien Swarm.

[Alaric Darconville]

New Red Dead Redemption Add-On Pack available today; "Legends and Killers" features a broad array of new multiplayer characters and maps. No new single-player/plot line content, that will be in a later add-on.

Rockstar Games' slogan should be "For misogynists, by misogynists".

[wyager]

Anyone seen the new trailer for Bioshock:Infinity? It looks really cool.

[StarHalo]

Anyone seen the new trailer for Bioshock:Infinity? It looks really cool.

It's pretty, but I can only get so excited about a title release that's ~2 years out. I never really got the whole fascination with covering games that are many months away, which is so popular now; those of us who were around when Duke Nukem Forever was announced (in 1997; it still hasn't been released) have taken a "believe it when I see it" stance..

The next big release is next week's Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, that's a time scale I can better work with..

[wyager]

Someone also announced they were actually going to do duke nukem forever just a few days ago... there's still hope!

[Alaric Darconville]

It's pretty, but I can only get so excited about a title release that's ~2 years out. I never really got the whole fascination with covering games that are many months away, which is so popular now; those of us who were around when Duke Nukem Forever was announced (in 1997; it still hasn't been released) have taken a "believe it when I see it" stance..

And in the case of games like "Daikatana", we wish that we HADN'T seen it.

Still, whether "Secret of Vulcan Fury" would have been a good game or not, I'd LOVE for that to actually come out.

Someone also announced they were actually going to do duke nukem forever just a few days ago... there's still hope!

Like StarHalo, I'll believe it when I see it.

[wyager]

http://www.techeye.net/software/duke...-from-the-dead

[Fichtenelch]

Is anyone else playing Singularity here? Recently played a bit AlienSwarm, which is a great game....
And today i received the god of war collection for ps3

[StarHalo]

WOW, I can see why some are saying the new Lara Croft title is the best one yet; they totally did away with the third-person-shooter format and changed it into an overhead-real-time-strategy game (it's so new that they don't call it Tomb Raider..) The game has a much stronger/denser puzzle element, with more combat, now arcade-style, with a slick aim-and-strafe two-stick interface. The free demo is highly recommended even if you don't like the Tomb Raider titles, since this is an entirely new game..

[carrot]

StarHalo, I'm just buying ALL of the Summer of Arcade games... they are all awesome, even Castlevania which is balls-to-the-wall hard.

[StarHalo]

StarHalo, I'm just buying ALL of the Summer of Arcade games... they are all awesome, even Castlevania which is balls-to-the-wall hard.

I still haven't tried that one; sources say the game is really meant as six-player co-op, so the fewer players you have, especially just one, it gets a lot more difficult. I like the idea of making the whole game a big puzzle though..

[carrot]

It's true that it's supremely difficult as one player. But I have a bunch of friends on XBL who need me to set a good example by buying it before they do. Even then, I enjoyed the demo enough that I'd play solo.

All the reviewers who rated it poorly are just whiny babies. Castlevania is hardcore like old-school.

[StarHalo]

It's official; February 9, 2011

[StarHalo]

It's official; February 9, 2011

Turns out it was April 19th; either way I just finished it last night - highly recommended..

[carrot]

Planning on picking up Portal 2 at a later date... a couple friends have been bugging me to do co-op but I have a lot on my plate right now.

Right now working on Fallout: New Vegas and I'm about 40 hours in so far. Great game, but pretty much just like the previous (Fallout 3). Saints Row 2 is probably the next on my list and by then LA Noire should be out. I'm super excited for LA Noire!

[FERRITE]

I still love playing TF2 and L4D2. They need to hurry up and port all of the L4D1 campaigns.

[beerwax]

hi guys .

how much does xboxlive 12 month subscription cost in the states ?

i remember a couple of years back there were rumours of a new more powerful xbox. is that still happening ?


pity me for i am stuck in cod land. cod 5 to be precise. id be prestige whatever by now if it kept going.
barret . blue tiger . boom . gotchya . hah your no match for me and my red dot connection.

cheers