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Let’s be honest here; with such a fertile ground of classic adventure gaming available to mine it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the other Monkey Island titles would be getting the same revamp love as last year’s The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. And that’s just what LucasArts announced this evening!
Indeed, ye scurvy bilge rats! Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge sets sail this summer for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, iPhone/iPod Touch, PC and probably every other platform in the known universe if you just give them time enough. And it’s not just the same old facelift (and… earlift? what would a re-orchestrated soundtrack count as?) that the first release got (though it does have all of those same features again).
Let’s face it: The Saboteur wasn’t on anyone’s immediate radar until creators Pandemic Studios got canned in late 2009. With virtually no hype and no marketing campaign, the circumstances surrounding the game’s final stages of development were more intriguing to most than the notion of actually playing the studio’s last project.
While the Pandemic brand lives on, the majority of its staff rushed to finish The Saboteur on time, only to be laid off days before its release. Some employees even went so far as to place a countdown clock in the building which predicted their job eliminations while others shook one last fist at the company who shook them off. Of course, the ultimate question was whether or not The Saboteur would be the doomed studio’s swan song or yet another of their current-gen disappointments.
Those who have booted up Valve’s Steam service in the last couple of days may have noticed a rather random update for 2007’s masterpiece Portal.
Shacknews has done some substantial digging and their findings may just point to an upcoming announcement to Portal 2. The patch added a new achievement that unlocks when the player places the radio on the red button during the first level of the game. After unlocking the “Transmission Received” achievement, the radio will disperse a stream of Morse code.
While the rest of the gaming populous is focused on the aptly named “ApocalyPS3,” there’s actually some news today.
Last year’s critically acclaimed strategy game, Tropico 3, is getting the expansion pack treatment.
Titled Tropico 3: Absolute Power, the newest installment of the series will add 10 new missions, a new map, and 10 additional islands for sandbox mode along with a plethora of other new tweaks. Details from the press release are under the jump.
Gearbox’s critically acclaimed Borderlands saw the launch of yet another DLC expansion this week. The Secret Armory of General Knoxx dangles a whole new set of carrots in front of players to drag them back to Pandora’s desolate environs: new weapons, new enemies, and that most crucial of all – a level cap upgrade!
Enjoy the launch trailer, assuming you’re not already out there on your platform of choice, blowing up all sorts of hell with Sage’s uncle…
Do you own BioShock 2? Do you plan to own it? Are you hoping for more content now that you’ve completed the single player game and/or have lost most of your evenings in the multiplayer? Well then, as my good friend (read: idol that I like to stalk on the weekends) Professor Hubert Farnsworth is fond of saying: “Good news, everyone!”
The first snippets of 2K Games’ DLC agenda have just been revealed, and I’d be shocked if it didn’t make their fans ecstatic. Their first DLC, titled the “Sinclair Solutions Test Pack”, will be available in March and comes with a plethora of multiplayer additions.
In an interview with Remedy’s Oskari Häkkinen on the 19th, VG247 received a real answer as to why the PC version of Alan Wake was canceled. You know, as opposed to the obvious PR bull of “…best played from the couch…” And it’s a much simpler (and honest, and understandable) answer than you’d think.
It’s seems almost immediately after Commander Shepard and company defeat Saren and put a stop to the Geth attack on the Citadel, a new threat to the galaxy pops up. Thousands of human colonists have been disappearing from settlements throughout the Terminus Systems. The Alliance isn’t doing jack about it either, which forces Shepard to look for help elsewhere. That elsewhere turns out to be Cerberus, the shadowy organization with very questionable ethics which was the source of many of the Commander’s woes throughout first game. But like any galactic savior worth their legendary reputation, Shepard sucks it up, joins forces with an ex-enemy, and sets out to find out the culprit behind this new threat.
Having trouble deciding whether to pick up Command & Conquer 4 or waiting for StarCraft II? Well, Electronic Arts would like to assist you in making your decision by helping you catch up on some of the C&Cyou may have missed over the years. Right now on their site they are offering not one, not two, but three games from the venerable RTS series for free. No strings attached!
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