Guys, holy sh*t. The Sum of all Fears is 35% off! This is the best news ever!
Okay, so the real news is Ubisoft's entire catalog is up to 75% off. The sale starts today, and goes on until February 24. Worthwhile titles on discount include Driver: San Francisco, Rayman Origins, Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon , and so much more.
Seriously, there's something for everyone here.
Today is February 20, 2014, otherwise known as the day Plague Inc: Evolved came to Steam Early Access. It's $14.99 in its current "stable and polished" but feature-incomplete state.
Developer Ndemic Creations has explained what's available in-game now and what content is still on the way: "At the moment, you can play all of the core single player game with seven disease types and three cheat modes -- redeveloped from scratch for PC with significant enhancements. In the coming weeks -- we will be releasing regular (free) updates which will add in cooperative and competitive multiplayer, the mind-controlling Neurax Worm, zombie-making Necroa Virus, Speed Runs, Scenarios and the Custom Scenario Creator along with lots of other brand new features."
If that sounds reasonable enough to you, here's the obligatory link to the Steam page. Some people seem none to happy with the price point, as anticipated. Ndemic believes $14.99 to be "a fair price" as Evolved has all of the mobile game's expansions, new stuff like multiplayer and scenario creator, and "loads of new content updates" planned down the line.
Developer Pocketwatch has announced Monaco: What's Yours is Mine crossed half a million sales following recent inclusion in the Humble Indie Bundle. According to the update, it's sitting at about 520k sold, with only half of the HIB sales included.
Well earned. Monaco is absolutely fabulous and I suggest you go pick it up, provided you have friends to play it with (especially locally). Especially because every game in the new Humble Indie Bundle is amazing. The Swapper! Guacamelee!
It seems XBLA sales for Monaco never picked up following early reports that they were disappointing. It apparently sold only 36k on the system.
Young Horses remarked on Twitter that its goal is to release Octodad: Dadliest Catch on PlayStation 4 in April. Some of us were expecting a bit sooner than that, but "There was never a definite date, or delay," according to the studio.
"We'd love to have launched sooner, but it's our first console release ever and we want to do it right." Octodad will run at 1080p "with nice anti-aliasing." That is nice!
The team is also "considering" an Xbox One version, however such a port is not in active development or anything like that. "We are interested in it, but have not decided to do it yet."
I went ahead and bought the game on PC out of a lack of patience and it's exactly what I wanted/expected it to be: fun, funny, and occasionally frustrating. Given the choice, I'd have probably gone for the PlayStation 4 version instead just for the heck of it, really.
Octodad [Twitter]
When I opened the box for the PlayStation Gold Wireless Stereo Headset there was a big, black hair waiting for me. A greasy one.
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Everyone's favorite corgi lover Dale North has in his possession a beautiful, hand-painted Lighting Returns: Final Fantasy XIII PS3 slim, and he wants to give it away to one of you amazing Dtoiders!
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