We all love free games. LEGAL free games. That’s just what Steam is doing with Red Orchestra 2 – only, you can’t play it free forever. Only until tomorrow – Sunday, at 1pm US PDT. It’s also on sale for 85% off – which means… $2.99 USD! MASSIVE SAVINGS. It usually costs $19.99 over here in the United States of America. So, you can play the game FREE until Sunday at 1pm US PDT. It’s a great multiplayer shooter, by the way! You should pick it up for $2.99 USD. It’s good. It’s GOOD good. But, if you want to try it first, then… FREE WEEKEND, HO!

-by Gavin Trutzenbach (Gaveroid)

The new Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 DLC titled Uprising that we talked about in an earlier post has been confirmed. A leaked promo for the downloadable content pack had been making it’s way around the world wide web recently.

Found at this URL (http://investor.activision.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=754373), the following is straight from the Activision press release:

 

“With Uprising, the team has really outdone itself again,”      said Mark Lamia, Treyarch’s Studio Head. “In addition to creating four      amazing new multiplayer maps, the Studio has been hard at work on the      Zombies front to surpass what we accomplished with ‘Call of the Dead.’      What they’ve done this time around is nothing Zombies fans have seen      before — and if you don’t believe me, just wait until you get into      Purgatory.”  

      Following tradition of the original Call of Duty: Black Ops      fan-favorite Zombies mode “Call of the Dead,” Call of Duty:      Black Ops II Uprising‘s wildly creative new “Mob of the Dead”      Zombies experience finds the four prohibition-era mobsters, Billy      Handsome (Liotta), Al “The Weasel” Arlington (Pantoliano), Salvatore      “Sal” DeLuca (Palmentiri), and Michael “Finn” O’Leary (Madsen) serving      time in Alcatraz Prison, only to discover that being behind bars is the      least of their problems. With plans to break out of Alcatraz foiled by      the rise of the undead, the quartet of inmates will have to lean on      their mob-derived skills with firearms, blunt instruments and improvised      weaponry as they battle the zombies infesting and overrunning the      island. In order to survive, players must work their way through the      steel cells and aging concrete buildings while fighting off a multitude      of zombified prisoners and guards trapped on the island with them.      Additionally, if a player becomes an unfortunate victim, “Mob of the      Dead’s” new feature known as “Purgatory” sends players into      the afterlife. This new twist on Zombies gameplay is ripe with its own      set of objectives, and offers fans a truly new and unique experience.  

Uprising also delivers another four new, exotic and      diverse multiplayer maps set around the globe for fans to jump into.      “Magma” is a modern Japanese village with volcanic eruptions carving      multiple paths throughout the town. “Encore” takes place in the      aftermath of a deserted London music festival and leaves numerous      opportunities for run-and-gun, close quarters combat. “Vertigo” is a      futuristic high rise in India housing a high-tech lab featuring dizzying      vistas and multi-tiered pathways. Finally, “Studio” is a contemporary      remake of “Firing Range,” a fan-favorite multiplayer map from the      original Call of Duty®: Black Ops. “Studio” is a Hollywood      movie back lot with a variety of cinematic themes that range from Sci-Fi      to the Old West.

Now, back to the article. In the press release, it talked about the new Zombies map, “Mob of the Dead”. It’s new Purgatory feature sounds cool. Also, the CQB in “Encore” sounds pretty cool, too. I like CQB maps. “Vertigo” sounds like it’s gonna have a science-ey theme. Is that a word? I don’t think so. Oh, well. This one sounds like my favorite – “Vertigo” is supposedly a remake of “Firing Range”, one of my FAVORITE maps in the original Black Ops… I can’t wait to see how it turns out! *girly squeal* NERDGASM ALERT.

If you’d like, drop me a line in the comments to tell me if you’d like to see some footage of the Uprising maps when they come out! I have the Season Pass, so, I get ALL DLC, right when it comes out, as I have it on Xbox, which the DLC comes out on first!

by Gavin Trutzenbach, Owner

Upon it’s closure yesterday, LucasArts has given out the source code of two popular games in the Star Wars franchise. Those games are “Jedi Outcast” and “Jedi Academy”. The source code is being released for free to anyone who wis hes to download it. It can be found here:

Jedi Outcast: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedioutcast/

Jedi Academy: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jediacademy/

The source code has been freely released to the public, but under a GNU GPLv2 license.

Also, in continuation to yesterday’s post, I edited it to say that in the deal was also LucasFilm as a whole. I didn’t realize that at first, and that it was $4B for Lucasfilm and all branches. In addition, LucasArts is not 100% gone forever – just they are gone as a studio. Disney will continue using it, but as a liscence name. If they release a Star Wars game, they would license it as LucasArts. Furthermore on the development of Star Wars 1313, which has recently been cancelled as it was a LucasArts production, a third party person gave their opinion on the future of the game to popular gaming news site Kotaku. The person said that they felt that the chance that the game could be continued on at another company was very small.

Will we ever see anything more of the classic LucasArts games, like another remaster of something? Or, will Disney throw the classic game licenses to the side of the table? I hope not. A Lego Star Wars remastered collection would be nice. Very nice.