Today’s the day when the amount of teleporting happening on computers anywhere will start increasing exponentially. Or in the words of Cave Johnson, “You should be designing test chambers, right now and at all times, or by God I will fire you.”
No joke, it really is! It’s called Wrath of the Lamb, and for $US3 you’ll get new chapters, new enemies, new achievements, new bosses, new room types and even a “new final (final) chapter and boss with new endings”.
You may not have heard of Electronic Arts, a boutique publishing label based in Redwood City, Calif. Well, I bet you will be raving about them once you pick up the “EA Indie Bundle” on Steam, the indie-friendly digital marketplace, unlike that Origin bullshit run by that place that screwed up the end of Mass Effect 3.
Man, is it just me or is Bastion always on sale? I’m getting a real sense of déjà vu here — I really feel like I’ve written this story before. Regardless, Bastion is available on Steam for the low, low price of $5.99US. Also — if you’re feeling a bit wacky, you can also pick up The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind for $9.99.
Tech guru and Linux fan Michael Larabel says he was at Valve yesterday. And that while he was there, he was told that the company’s Steam platform is on its way to Linux operating systems.
A user at The Sonic Stadium, a Sonic the Hedgehog, noticed that a beta version of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 was available to download through Steam earlier today. Though the leak has since been plugged its resulted in some additional screenshots of the game and early user impressions.
Valve Software boss Gabe Newell has said kind things before about mega-publisher EA’s upstart rival to Valve’s popular PC gaming service Steam. That may have seemed charitable, given that EA’s new Origin service competes with Steam and even by EA’s own standards may not be as good as Steam for years.
Steam is lovely, but at the end of the day, it’s run by a single company, and sells games from (mostly) other big companies. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what such a platform could look like at the other end of the market?
The wonderfully touching indie game To the Moon will be on Steam soon, creator Kan Gao said on Twitter today. He’s still working out the exact date. [Kan Gao]
