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As part of their Free Weekend promotions, Steam is making 10 of their games free to play for 48 hours over this weekend. They’ll unlock from 10am Pacific Time on Thursday, October 16th. After that you’ll have the option to buy them with the promise of substantial discounts to them.
The list of games is as follows:
Awesomenauts
Blade Symphony
Company of Heroes 2
Don’t Starve
Grid 2
Injustice
Killing Floor
Payday 2
Trine 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
And if you’d prefer to get a game for free entirely, head over to GOG. They’re currently offering a free copy of Alien vs Predator Classic this week if you’re willing to test out the new GOG Galaxy program.
If you’re signed up to the Battlefield Premium program, you can now take part in battles in a slightly different environment than the ones you’ve played in before. Battlefield 4’s next DLC Final Stand is approaching and a beta version is now available to play in the Community Test Environment.
The Battlefield blog elaborates on Final Stand saying that it adds some new ‘near-future elements of a sci-fi nature into the mix, paying some homage to Battlefield 2142. New tech includes the Rorsch rail gun, Target Detectors, DS-3 DECOY gadgets and the HT-95 Levkov flying vehicle to fight, fly and mislead your targets better than ever before.
Some of the new environment will be snowy and thus a snowmobile has also been added to the game, along with the other maps of Operation Whiteout (submarine base), Hangar 21 (military secret filled base) and Giants of Karelia (high-tech weapons factory).
To play you need to be a Premium Member and sign up for the Community Test Environment.
There’s been a lot of recent news of Kickstarters or crowd-funding for new indie games being pulled before they reach the end of the period allotted to them to make their funding up. Seems it’s not all bad news though, because some games are still making their targets and then some.
The Flame in the Flood is a procedurally generated rafting game, being developed by people who have worked on such games as Bioshock, Halo and Guitar Hero. It has only been running for about a week but it has already swum past its goal and now stretch goals are being proposed.
Developers The Molasses Flood have so far revealed 5. The initial goal was $150,000 and at $175k and $225k the game will be available in some extra languages, while $200k will add raft customisation options to the game, $250k will add an ‘endless mode’ for an ongoing river and finally at $300k the game will also be ported over to the Playstation 4.
There might be other stretch goals announced but as of the moment there’s been no indications as to what they might be.
The game has a rough estimate of a release date around July 2015 but the developers have noted that their plan gives them a lot of room for dealing with unforeseen circumstances so that date could move.
If you’d like to pledge the Kickstarter can be found here: [x]
Those of you who enjoy gaming but find yourself limited by either your choice of operating system or possibly due to your mistrust of certain game manager programs like Steam or Desura, rejoice! The latest Humble Bundle is out and all the games included are browser-based and it’s called the Humble Mozilla Bundle.
All you need is either Firefox or Chrome and you’ll have access to all the games purchased. Pay what you want to get Super Hexagon (the music in that game is amazing and it seems strangely addictive), AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome, Osmos, Zen Bound 2 and Dustforce DX. If you pay more than $4.83 you’ll also get Voxatron, FTL and a mystery game and if you pay more than $8 you’ll also get Democracy 3 thrown in there too. Not bad at all.
All the games are available to try by clicking ‘Play’ below their icons on the Humble Bundle site before you buy them. They’re preview versions obviously, but it’s nice to get a taste to know what you’re buying. The money can be split between the game devs, Humble and the charities; The Mozilla Foundation, The Maker Education Initiative and CodeNow.
The bundle will be available for a fortnight from the Humble site here: [x]
