Each year Steam has a summer sale which includes games at either a good discount or a great one. Many people wait for this sale to pick up the games they've wanted but not willing to pay full price - or those sleeper hits.

Based on website volume if you get past the "Sorry - The Steam Store is experiencing some heavy load right now. Please try again later" you'll see that the sale will change daily. Today's top mentions are:
- Total War: Shogun 2 at 75% off or $7.50
- Portal 2 at 75% o... [read more]

via MP1st

Paradox Interactive has opened up beta registration for War of the Roses, a team-based multiplayer melee combat game set in 15th century England. War of the Roses is being developed by Fatshark, and will release in Q3 2012 on PC. You can sign up for the beta on the official site through here.

At the website it states:
"The War of the Roses Beta begins soon. Sign up for a chance to play. When you sign up a unique URL will be given to you. If you get 5 friends to sign up using y... [read more]

Star Wars: The Old Republic got great reviews and was seen by many as a worthy successor to BioWare's beloved Knights of the Old Republic. But it's suffered declining subscriber numbers and had to deal with layoffs. Now they're trying to reverse the trend with free play… up to a point.

If you haven't yet tried the game, you'll now be able to play it up to level 15 completely free and with no time limit. If you tried the game through one of the previous free weekend trials or using a refer... [read more]

We caught up with Dice's Niklas Fegreaus to discuss the new vehicles, maps, modes and experiences that Armored Kill has to offer.
via GameSpot

Battlefield 3’s release last year brought sprawling multiplayer combat to PCs and consoles, earning critical acclaim and commercial success in the process. The class-based shooter sold 8 million copies in its first month and was declared by EA COO Peter Moore to have “successfully captured a slice of the COD market”. The next expansion, Armore... [read more]

Minecraft 1.3: The good, the bad, and the ugly
via Mojang Blog

Minecraft 1.3 consists of a huge number of changes, and some of them are changes to the fundamental game engine. The most dramatic change is that we’ve kicked out single-player, and made it a shell on top of multi-player. There are two major benefits to this: first, it’s required for the modding api if we don’t want to have multiple implementations of every mod, and second, if we fix a bug in single-player, we know the b... [read more]

Far Cry 3 is a highly anticipated but somewhat feared upcoming title from Ubisoft, thanks to the many hits and misses of Far Cry 2 that both pleased and frustrated fans of the series.

Article:http://kotaku.com/5923671/the-wonderful-hidden-message-of-far-cry-3-is-that-your-parents-werent-idiots

Some highlights from the article include comparison points between Far Cry 2 and Far Cry 3. Malaria won't be a factor in Far Cry 3, if you clear out and establish ownership of an area, it won't ... [read more]

The World Is A Vampire
via IGN

Don’t accuse The Elder Scrolls of selling out to the modern-day pop-culture vampire craze. The venerable role-playing series has been in the blood-sucking business for years, and so there’s nothing to forgive when Dawnguard, the first expansion pack for endless epic Skyrim, boasts a vampire-centric premise. In fact, you’ll be thankful Dawnguard went down this road.

That’s primarily because the new campaign – accessed at character level 10 or high... [read more]

A Black Ops favorite gets a futuristic twist.
via IGN

A futuristic version of popular Call of Duty: Black Ops map Nuketown will be offered as a free bonus for customers who pre-order Black Ops II.

IGN reader Archie submitted a picture taken at Irish retailer Xtravision in which the map is shown to be called Nuketown 2025. According to the image, the map has been “re-imagined for the future.”

The image also calls Nuketown 2025 “the biggest incentive in Call of Duty history” an... [read more]

Ubisoft's Ghost Recon: Future Soilder released today for the PC. Also released today is a significant day 1 patch to improve stability for the platform.

PC Version Key Features:

· Support of DirectX 11 allow the addition of stunning visual details through displacement mapping and additional global illumination effects;
· More complex materials through the use of parallax occlusion mapping, gloss maps, and specular maps;
· Improved dynamic lighting;
· Volumetric li... [read more]

The upcoming major update for TF2 that will purportedly add at least one new map with a dark story behind it, as well as new achievements right along with it.



Article:http://tf2.com/post.php?id=8260

Many GameTracker users frequent TF2, even if it's not the game that takes up most of their gaming time, so this update is highly anticipated, along with the great additions to the Pyro storyline, including a video titled, "Meet the Pyro". They stated that it would be released this Wednesda... [read more]