Midway is now going the digital distribution way as the company has launched two online digital stores. MidwayArcade.com will feature Midway’s classic arcade titles while Midway.com will feature the newer titles. Midway’s digital stores are being managed by Digital River. For the time being, the following title are available on Midway.com:

• Unreal Tournament 3 - USD $29.95
• Midway Arcade Treasures - USD $19.99
• Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe - USD $19.99
• Area 51 - USD $14.
• Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy - USD $14.99
• The Suffering - USD $9.99
• The Suffering: Ties That Bind - USD $14.99
• Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War - USD $19.99
• Stranglehold - USD $19.95
• Blacksite: Area 51 - USD $19.95

Midway didn’t reveal anything regarding the DRM method, though.
More info in the press release below: Read the rest of this entry »

EVE Online is celebrating the launch of their 8th free expansion and are offering EVE Online at 10% reduced price for 1 week only.

To celebrate the launch of the eighth free expansion to Eve Online, the popular massively multi-player online game (MMOG) from CCP, the full game is available for 10% off its regular price for one week. The limited-time offer which includes the latest expansion, Empryean Age, is accompanied by the release of an impressive new trailer which is freely available now via Steam.

Spellforce 2 - Shadow Wars and Spellforce 2 - Dragon Storm are the latest titles to ride the Steam train. Both titles are priced at $19.95. You have the option of saving $10 when you buy both them together for $29.99.

Spellforce 2- Shadow Wars: 

The most beautiful, perfect and deadly of the Dark Races, the Dark Elves, in league with the mysterious Shadows are threatening to overrun the realm of men. Lead the Avatar and his band of heroes in forging new alliances to face the invasion and save the world of Eo! But soon the Avatar will discover even more sinister forces at work. Lead your armies in monumental battles and unravel the truth behind this epic story. The burden of ancient blood is heavy; it has fallen on you to carry it…

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For this weekend only, you can grab Episode 1 of SiN: Emergence from Steam for only $4.99 - A 66% pricecut from it’s standard $14.95 price. After episode 1, SiN: Emergence was canceled, so don’t expect Episode 2 anytime soon. (if ever)

You are John Blade, commander of HardCorps, an elite security force dedicated to protecting the people of Freeport City. Four years have passed since your first battle with Elexis Sinclaire, a beautiful, brilliant, and ruthless scientist who is out to remake humanity according to her own twisted vision. The law has failed to bring Elexis and her multi-billion dollar empire, SiNTEK, to justice, so Blade is determined to take matters into his own hands. Joining Blade on his mission are JC - a hacker with a secret to keep - and Jessica Cannon, a fiery rookie who can find her way into any secure facility.

Valve’s ever increase Steam titles library will now feature games from Gamecock Media Group. Valve and Gamecock have tied up to provide games such as Legendary, Insecticide, Stronghold: Crusade on Steam.

Gamecock Media Group and Valve today announced an agreement to launch Gamecock titles on Steam. The first Gamecock titles available on Steam will be Firefly Studios’ Stronghold Crusader Extreme and Insecticide Part 1.

Additional Gamecock titles - including Insecticide Parts 2, Velvet Assassin, and Legendary - will be made available via Steam later this year.

European pre-orders for the downloadable PC version of highly anticipated action survival game Alone in the Dark are open now at www.atari-store.com.

Buy the game for €49.99 and get free bonus content of two music tracks from the game’s official soundtrack composed by Olivier Deriviere, and parts 1 and 2 of the making of documentary feature in which the team at Eden Games reveal the secrets behind this landmark videogame production.

Fans who pre-order will be able to pre-load the game 24 hours before the official release date, and will receive the activation key shortly after midnight on the day of launch making them among the first to be able to play Alone in the Dark.

Featuring a gripping story, design inspired by contemporary TV action dramas, and original gameplay based on real world rules physics, the action survival opus Alone in the Dark will launch across Europe on 20 June for Xbox 360, PC, Wii and PlayStation 2, with the PLAYSTATION 3 version following later in 2008. For more information on Alone in the Dark visit www.CentralDark.com.

Swedish Developer, Lockpick Entertainment’s MMORTS will be hitting interweb on June 18th.

Press Release:  

The waiting is coming to an end and after the physical move of the servers earlier this week the team is ready to release their love child together with the community.

“We’re really happy to release The Reawakening now and I know that it is highly anticipated from the Dreamlords community. Drawing on experience from the development of our previous game Dreamlords but also through feedback and suggestions from our much devoted community, I’m convinced we’ve created the game we initially set out to produce last fall”, said David Rosén CEO and Executive Producer. “The Reawakening is in every perspective a game by gamers – for gamers and now I can only hope the players will have as much fun playing it as we’ve had developing it.” Read the rest of this entry »

2004’s mind-bending third person shooter; PSI Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, is now available for FREE with as an ad-supported game from FilePlanet. Retail version with no advertisements is still available for purchase.

Your most powerful weapon is your mind in Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, an action/adventure game that utilizes extensive Psi (mind) powers combined with traditional weapons combat, providing gamers with unique gameplay attributes that clearly differentiate it from any other title in the action/adventure genre. In order to combat a Psi terrorist movement set to overthrow world order, you, as an elite American Psi-operative soldier, must fight using Telekinesis, Mind Control, Pyrokinesis, Mind Drain, Aura View and Remote Viewing to win a very serious “mind game” against an army of brainwashed terrorist super soldiers and powerful Psi agents.

The game weights 2.5GB and can be downloaded from here.

Either SAGA is doing really bad or the developers are really nice people. Eitherway, FileFront.com is giving away 50,000 retail copies of SAGA (worth $19.95) for free.

For the first time in FileFront history, the Ziff Davis site is offering a full copy of a released game: SAGA, the world’s first collectible MMO RTS. Players have until May 11th to secure one of 50,000 Retail Keys available at http://www.filefront.com. SAGA can normally be purchased for $19.95 from the official SAGA website and at many hobby stores across America.

SAGA uses an innovative collectible revenue model first implemented by the THQ studio Genetic Anomalies in 1997 and now seen in over 120 online collectible games, such as the upcoming EA collectible RTS BattleForge.

SAGA has no subscription fees. Players pay as little or as much as they decide, by purchasing ‘booster packs’ of random troops and spells, which are traded and customized to create the strategic army of choice for each player.

SAGA can be played for free; however, the unregistered free version disables many of the features that players find most attractive in a collectible game. Using the Retail Key from http://www.filefront.com unlocks trading, guilds, espionage and PvP combat.

Gamers who bought the Game-of-the-Year edition of “Two Worlds” were thrilled with the brand new PC multiplayer add-on for the RPG - and now they can download the new adventures in Antaloor from the first of May - for free at www.2-worlds.com.

Players can now go on the hunt for a crazy Necromancer, unsolve the mystery of a massacre in a woodcutters’ camp, deal with a rebel knight (permanently) and lots more. The new add-on doesn’t only give you a new series of Quests - it also opens up the doors to an all-new Business and Training Center! The town of Tharnburg offers you a large traders’ district - and various arenas in which you can try out your newly-learned combat techniques right away. By the way - “Tainted Blood” isn’t the only add-on that will help sweeten your wait for “The Temptation” follow-up… another add-on’s coming soon!