This is the Steam sales report. This is a weekly feature telling you, the reader, how the PC Steam market is doing. So last week Just Cause 2 essentially tripled it’s daily sales with a weekend discount of $25. The trend of crazy weekend deals continues this week, with- what’s that on the top!?
Squeenix(Square Enix) has released new screens for the next installment of the Deus Ex series, Human Revolution, as part of their Japanese marketing campaign. Squeenix plans to release the game in Japan as simply ‘Deus Ex’, since it will be new to most eastern gamers. The screens mostly consist of the game’s protagonist, Adam, doing really awesome things.
The FTC has come to a settlement with Intel Corp., after allegations that the company has used anti-competitive tactics against its competition. The settlement is aimed to help restore the competition in the market that has suffered due to Intel’s actions, while still giving the company freedom to be competitive.
Crysis 2 has had its vague release date of “Fall 2010” pushed back to Q1 2011, Electronic Arts have confirmed. The game, sequel to 2007’s PC exclusive Crysis, is in development by Crytek for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
The original Crysis, also developed by Crytek and published by EA, is infamous for its steep hardware requirements, but legendary for the consequentially stunning results – a genuine killer app.
Earlier this week EA kind of announced Battlefield 3. In response to all the anxious anticipation surrounding the announcement, EA decided it would be a great idea to release a statement via PC Gamer. “Battlefield 3 is one of the most anticipated games in the world
Runic Games just released Torchlight II’s teaser site. Everyones favorite dungeon crawler is back with new features and insight into the world beyond. But wait, there’s more; like co-op play! Features below. Multi-player – Play with your friends over a local area network, or over the Internet. A free matchmaking peer-to-peer service lets you make new friends for exciting co-op play.
The original Fable was released on the Xbox in 2004 and then ported to the PC shortly afterwards. Fable II was released on the Xbox 360 in 2008, but there was no PC port to be found. Which is why it was such a surprise for Fable III to be announced with a simultaneous Xbox 360 and PC release on October 26th of this year.
The mighty and virtuous were summoned to assist Paragon Studios this month with the Beta test of the new City of Heroes expansion pack: Going Rogue, which challenges players to battle for publishing rights to Sarah Palin’s next book. Okay, despite the poor choice of name, Going Rogue actually takes place in a mirror universe that is ruled by an evil tyrant seeking total world domination. No, I’m still not talking about Sarah Palin!
Hello, readers, and welcome to the inaugural Steam Sales Report. This is a weekly feature at Player Affinity that is posted every Friday, where I analyze the top 10 Steam sales, and see why they sold as much as they did. It’s also a bit of a guessing game, as you can guess which games will be on the list next week on Friday at 3:00 PM.
Haden Blackman, Executive Producer and Lead Writer on The Force Unleashed games, has resigned from his position at LucasArts. Blackman has worked at LucasArts for thirteen years, and, as well as both Force Unleashed games, has also contributed to Star Wars Galaxies and Star Wars Force Commander. In a statement, Blackman said; “While the decision to leave LucasArts did not happen overnight or come easily, I really feel that now is the best time for me to move on and explore new creative challenges and I look forward to the next phase of my career.”
